by Rowan | Sep 16, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners
Everything is on my last @#$#@#$ nerve this morning. My spouse is sick, which means a lot of dramatic coughing but also talking for two solid hours about nothing at all (just kidding! it was the same thing over and over again!) like an exhausted toddler. The dog wants...
by Rowan | Sep 9, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
It’s a big week at yeah write, and our fictioneers are the real winners – all of them. We opened the week with a special microstories challenge, and a lot of you took us up on it! Then we gave you a sneak preview of the fiction super challenge that’s...
by Rowan | Sep 7, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Super Challenge, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Can I get a fanfare? Yeah write’s first super challenge is over, leaving our essayists tired but triumphant in its wake, and our fictioneers saying… what about me? Well, fiction folk, yeah write’s super challenge...
by Rowan | Sep 2, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]They say the devil’s in the details. Sometimes that’s details like the textiles depicted in a Safavid manuscript (why did I take this commission, this might be the fiddliest piece of reproduction I’ve ever fiddled...
by Rowan | Sep 1, 2016 | Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]For this month’s nonfiction knowhow we’re going to focus on two conflicting aphorisms. The first is “winners never quit; quitters never win” and the second is “quit while you’re ahead.”...
by Rowan | Sep 1, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
I know it doesn’t feel like it today, when the Real Feel Index says that I’m sitting in a room that’s literally halfway to the boiling point of water, but summer is winding down and coming to an end. Kids are headed back to school, and for some of us...