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 weekly writing challenge #211: popular vote winners and editors’ picks

yeah write weekly writing challenge #211: popular vote winners and editors’ picks

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]They never let me write the kickoff posts. NEVER. Probably because I can't be trusted. But anyway. You know what I get to kick off? THE ENTIRE MONTH OF MAY. TAKE THAT! Uh. It's possible I drank a whole lot of energy drink...

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yeah write #211 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories

yeah write #211 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 Well, it's the last week of April. The last day of April, if you want to be precise, which means it's the last day of our April fiction jam and poetry slam. Of course,...

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yeah write weekly writing challenge #210: popular vote winners and editors’ picks

yeah write weekly writing challenge #210: popular vote winners and editors’ picks

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]Hey, y'all. Time for another edition of Rowan Talks Srs Writer Stuff(tm). Suffer through it, and I'll get you to the vote results. I haven't been ready, for a variety of reasons, to talk about the mess that is this year's...

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yeah write #210 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories

yeah write #210 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 Guys, I know this may seem unusual, but I don't have a rant this week. I'm not gonna flip my lid, blow my top, or any other weird steampunky metaphor. I'm just gonna...

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yeah write weekly writing challenge #209: popular vote winners and editors’ picks

yeah write weekly writing challenge #209: popular vote winners and editors’ picks

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]No matter what hemisphere you're in, you're trapped midway between summer and winter. These days have some of my favorite weather: warm enough to run around in comfortable t-shirts but cold enough to sleep under blankets...

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yeah write weekly writing challenge #208: popular vote winners and editors’ picks

yeah write weekly writing challenge #208: popular vote winners and editors’ picks

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]208 two-oh-eight two hundred eight Fun fact: two hundred and eight, in US standard usage, means there's a decimal in there. 200.8 But without the decimal, you have the number of consecutive weeks yeah write has been an...

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