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 #230 weekly writing challenge kickoff

yeah write #230 weekly writing challenge kickoff

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Off we go! Seven of us are heading to Long Beach Comic Con September 12-13. Are you making the trip? Come find us at our booth and be sure to sit in on our panel, The Future of Digital Storytelling, Sunday at 4:00 PM. Just think,...

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yeah write weekly writing challenge #229: popular vote winners and editors’ picks

yeah write weekly writing challenge #229: popular vote winners and editors’ picks

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]It's finally getting cold and dark where I live, and I couldn't be happier. While I know it'll be plenty warm in Long Beach next week, for now I'm enjoying the crispness of the air. I even had a spiced pumpkin latte...

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yeah write #229 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories

yeah write #229 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 I have a friend who never publishes a first draft. When she bakes cupcakes for work functions, she does a trial run of the recipe the week before. When she sews, she...

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One Myth to Rule Them All

One Myth to Rule Them All

Do you ever feel like you're reading the same story again and again, with just a few elements changed? Chances are, you have been - and that's a good thing. Like that moment when you figure out that every song that's been popular in the past 30 years is just...

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yeah write #229 weekly writing challenge kickoff

yeah write #229 weekly writing challenge kickoff

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Is this thing on? Hello! Just making sure you can hear me. I've got a ton of things to tell you and I don't want you to miss a single thing. September is all about journeys. We'll be talking about the monomyth, or hero's journey,...

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yeah write weekly writing challenge #228: popular vote winners and editors’ picks

yeah write weekly writing challenge #228: popular vote winners and editors’ picks

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]It's been a long, amazing, distracting week. One of my best friends has been in town, after a surprise move from Chicago (where I'd been planning to visit her this fall) to the East Coast. She's one of those people who...

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yeah write #228 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories

yeah write #228 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 I'm the master of the Last Minute. I specialize in 7 minute sonnets, 24 hour thesis papers (j/k it was at least 32 and I was awake for all of them) and...

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