Weekly Writing Challenges: Fiction|Poetry Archive

Welcome to YeahWrite’s fiction and poetry archives, a collection of nearly ten years’ worth of fiction and poetry prompts, responses, and competitions. For 500 weeks we hosted a “weekly grid” which enabled writers to link their self-hosted responses, and to read and vote on each others’ work, as well as commenting. While we no longer host a weekly competition grid, we’re still delivering the prompts you love as well as our Super Challenge and classes. Stop by our latest posts to see this week’s prompt, live every Friday at noon US Eastern Time.
yeah write #236 weekly writing challenge kickoff

yeah write #236 weekly writing challenge kickoff

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] What's the word? And how do you use it? How is it spelled, declined, conjugated? How do you use it in a sentence? How do you punctuate that sentence? All of these things matter. A good story is a good story, but a good story poorly...

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yeah write weekly writing challenge #235: popular vote winners and editors’ picks

yeah write weekly writing challenge #235: popular vote winners and editors’ picks

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Rock the vote One of my jobs here at yeah write is to help monitor the vote. Stacie and I are behind the scenes making sure everyone's following the rules (you know, reading all the pieces before voting, no self-voting, etc.). It's...

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yeah write #235 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories

yeah write #235 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Vote for your favorite nonfiction, fiction and microstories here If you read (and watched) our Long Beach Comic Con recap, you know that one of the things we're really excited about here at yeah write is building communities, and we...

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yeah write #234 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories

yeah write #234 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Vote for your favorite nonfiction, fiction and microstories here Why are you here? No, but really, why are you here? Not in a cosmic sense, but in a personal one. I know why I come down to this little corner of the net every week,...

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yeah write weekly writing challenge #233: popular vote winners and editors’ picks

yeah write weekly writing challenge #233: popular vote winners and editors’ picks

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]I sat down to write this post in a pretty good mood, you know? I was ready to tell you that it's a new month and we've got some new stuff for our focus on fiction, poetry slam, and even a treat for the nonfiction writers...

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Presto, change-o!

Presto, change-o!

Are you tired of the fiction|poetry grid getting all the love? Yeah, me too.  Nonfiction – essays, memoirs, and creative nonfiction of all types – was one of my first loves, and I’ll be clinging to it with my cold, inkstained fingers before I quit writing...

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yeah write #233 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories

yeah write #233 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Vote for your favorite nonfiction, fiction and microstories here NOW THAT I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION: No, really. Do I? I'm in a pretty privileged position, writing the voting and winner's posts every week. It means I write the posts...

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