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 #184 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction and poetry

by YeahWrite Editor | Oct 21, 2014 | Fiction|Poetry, Open, the speakeasy, YeahWrite | 4 Comments

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Welcome to the fiction and poetry challenge at yeah write Among the hundreds of books I inherited after my sister died was a well-worn paperback of Lorrie Moore’s first novel, Anagrams, published in 1986. I cracked it open and read...

yeah write #184 weekly writing challenge kickoff: winners’ round-up, editors’ picks and the ultimate question

by Christine Hanolsy | Oct 19, 2014 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, gargleblaster, Kickoff, micro challenge, Microprose, Winners, YeahWrite | 6 Comments

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]Combination #183 writing challenge winners' post and #184 writing challenge kickoff post with ultimate question: when did our elephants leave? It’s been a week of Mondays, and every day was Murphy’s birthday as far as I...

yeah write #183 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction and microstories

by Rowan | Oct 15, 2014 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, gargleblaster, micro challenge, Microprose, the speakeasy, Voting, YeahWrite | 0 Comments

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Vote for your favorite nonfiction, fiction and microstories here That's right! You're not seeing double, our favorite fiction and poetry challenge has moved over to the main yeah write site! Now you can vote on all three challenges...

yeah write #183 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction and poetry

by YeahWrite Editor | Oct 14, 2014 | Fiction|Poetry, Open, the speakeasy, YeahWrite | 0 Comments

Welcome to the fiction and poetry challenge at yeah write I don't get a lot of ideas for stories or poems. They don't come bolting out of the blue like divine inspiration. Most of my ideas are cultivated. They come from "what if?" moments that I nurture from notes...

yeah write #179 weekly writing challenge: previewing the return of fiction and poetry

by YeahWrite Editor | Sep 16, 2014 | Fiction|Poetry, YeahWrite | 0 Comments

On October 14, fiction and poetry will return to yeah write We've had a sister site, called the speakeasy, for a couple of years now, and it's time to bring everyone back home under one roof. If you'd like to hang out at the speakeasy before it closes, I'm sure...

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