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 Suzanne (who will be leaving the speakeasy this week) and Natalie—taking over until we find her a co-editor—will be happy to have you. Click here to slip in through the side door.
We are also inviting our readers to apply for the position of co-editor of the new fiction and poetry challenge opening here next month. If you have about 10-15 hours each month to dedicate to your already established passion for flash fiction, please tell us about it in this short application. Hang tight; we’ll take about four weeks to make a very careful decision.
Fall season writing contest coming October 19
To celebrate our fourth fall season and the return of our fiction|poetry challenge to yeah write, we will be hosting a four-week writing challenge on each grid: non-fiction, fiction|poetry and microfiction. The winners of the challenge can win $100 cash. If you invite a friend to the challenge and your friend wins instead of you? You each get the $100 cash: your friend for winning and you for referring the winner to yeah write. At this writing, there will be one winner across all three challenges, and you can enter all three throughout the four-week period. What I would do, though, is concentrate on entering 2-4 really solid pieces during that time (as opposed to 12) and bringing in as many writer friends as possible. Either you will win outright, earning the winner’s 100 bucks or one of your referrals will win, earning you 100 bucks.
Right now, we have $200 in prizes, but hopefully by the time the contest kicks off, we’ll have more to award the best writers on each grid. If the winner arrives at yeah write without a referral (or has been around so long, we are the referrer), we’ll keep that money for another writing contest. Spread the word. More details and explanations coming by yeah write #180, including news of loosening up someone else’s wallet. Spirits are generous around good writing.
Will the relaunch of the fiction|poetry challenge have prompts? Or a word limit?
Yes and yes. The writing prompt will be optional and the optional prompt will be the ultimate question borrowed from our micro-writing challenge which opens on Wednesdays. For example, this week’s ultimate question is “why do you keep doing this to us?” The micro-writing entries must answer that question in exactly 42 words. If you were to choose to use it as a fiction or poetry writing prompt, you’d have 500 words plus 100 words grace. And just like in our traditional non-fiction challenge, you must tell a compelling story. If we get bored or can’t figure out what’s going on, you’ll get a nicely detailed note from our submissions editor explaining where we fell off. You can rewrite it, rework it and workshop it. We’ll be happy to read it again in a few weeks.
The non-fiction challenge is open for submissions
The yeah write #179 weekly writing challenge is open for non-fiction: personal essays, creative opinion, mostly true stories based on actual events. It will close on Wednesday at 11:59 p.m. eastern time. Submit yours using the link below.
