by Rowan | May 17, 2024 | Fiction|Poetry, Super Challenge, Winners, YeahWrite
You’ve made it! Here we are, at the end not just of this challenge, but of the YeahWrite Super Challenge. We’ve come a long way together, folks, and I appreciate that you’re impatient to take that last step. And hey, if you scroll down to see who the...
by Rowan | Apr 24, 2024 | Fiction|Poetry, Super Challenge, Winners, YeahWrite
You made it! Well, you’ve survived the first round of the last Super Challenge – and you hopefully didn’t develop an ulcer while waiting for these results. As usual, anything that went right this round is entirely due to our admin team’s untiring...
by Rowan | Jun 23, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Super Challenge, Winners, YeahWrite
Unraveling As we mentioned in our guide to genre prompts a while back (cue the “it’s been 84 years” meme) there are some genres that are checklists of things to be included, and some that ask you to change your style or narrative voice. Both kinds,...
by Rowan | May 31, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Super Challenge, Winners, YeahWrite
Think positive! By now, all of our writers have been gnashing their teeth over their feedback for a few hours. It’s easy to focus on the negatives, but remember: the judges are specifically asked to point out what they see as the strong points as well as the...
by Rowan | Mar 31, 2023 | Nonfiction, Super Challenge, Winners, YeahWrite
Dear diary (don’t) The trick to writing good memoir – and personal essays are a form of memoir – is making sure you don’t tell the reader more about yourself than you intended. What you thought was a funny story might end up being, well,...
by Rowan | Mar 8, 2023 | Nonfiction, Super Challenge, Winners, YeahWrite
Write here, write now. Creative nonfiction is uncomfortable. It’s vulnerable. And it’s amazing. Congratulations to ALL our writers. The judges worked hard to give you the valuable feedback that could take your essays to the next level (if you’re not...
