by Rowan | Dec 6, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, YeahWrite
hello? is this thing on? Sometimes I plan my fiction and poetry, and sometimes I just jump in with both eyes closed and both feet forward and hope for the best. That’s what I’m doing this week, standing in for fiction editor Christine while she juggles raw...
by Rowan | Dec 2, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Timing is everything. Or at least it’s a lot. I mean, no sooner did I wrap up talking about how to use editors’ picks and roundups to build your own master class in this month’s nonfiction knowhow post than we ended...
by Rowan | Dec 1, 2016 | Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]What do you remember from learning to write in school? Did you have a particular teacher who made writing interesting? Did you read a story or article and think “oh, I wish I could write like that?” We get so used to the...
by Rowan | Dec 1, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
It’s the little things that matter, as we wind down to the end of the year. Tiny lights on evergreen trees. Tiny candles in their rows. The tiny terminal ‘e’ that differentiates between a ballad and a ballade. That’s right, we’re more or...
by Rowan | Nov 25, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]History feels immediate this week. Whether you’re following the news or fighting with your relatives over a supper table, it’s impossible to ignore that at least here in the U.S. of A. we’re in the middle of stuff...
by Rowan | Nov 18, 2016 | Super Challenge, YeahWrite
It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for… It’s time to announce the winners of the yeah write super challenge. Our judges all agreed: so many of the stories in this round were incredibly high quality and it was so hard to choose between...