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

yeah write #215 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 You know what's awesome? Unmoderated weeks. We've got a few more of em coming up, too, not just our usual holiday week. If submitting makes you nervous, or you're just...

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yeah write weekly writing challenge #214: popular vote winners and editors’ picks

yeah write weekly writing challenge #214: popular vote winners and editors’ picks

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]So how'd your writing - I mean, reading -  homework go yesterday? That good, huh? It's hard to be a critical reader, but it's definitely a skill worth working on! Well, I've got some good news: we're headed for summer...

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yeah write #214 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories

yeah write #214 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 What would you say if I told you there are only two things you can do to become a better writer, and you're already doing both of them? Yeah, I love you too. Okay. No,...

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yeah write weekly writing challenge #213: popular vote winners and editors’ picks

yeah write weekly writing challenge #213: popular vote winners and editors’ picks

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]Welcome to the 213th winners' post here at yeah write. Before we talk about the good writing this week, can I interrupt for a minute (j/k you don't have any options, I write the posts) to talk about bad writing? Let's...

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yeah write #213 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories

yeah write #213 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 Hey you. Yeah, you. What's your worst typo ever? Did you accidentally type pubic when you meant public or, um, well, let's just say that you were trying to count your...

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yeah write weekly writing challenge #212: popular vote winners and editors’ picks

yeah write weekly writing challenge #212: popular vote winners and editors’ picks

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]Focus. You know how sometimes you're taking a picture with your phone, but the little focus box absolutely refuses to stay on the thing you're actually trying to take a picture of? Yeah, uh, me neither. Never happens to...

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yeah write #212 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories

yeah write #212 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 Whoa. Canada. What just happened there? In case anyone was wondering if voting is important? I think we all just had our answer. Speaking of voting, though, it's time...

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