by Stacie Dalrymple | Aug 5, 2020 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
[Ed’s note- The YeahWrite editors extend our sympathies to those affected by the catastrophe in Beirut. It is our urgent hope that the injured heal and that the missing are returned alive to their loved ones. You are in our hearts this week and we grieve with...
by Stacie Dalrymple | Aug 1, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Microprose, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Stop Bee-ing A Jerk, 2020 Earlier this week, I landed in the emergency room with anaphylaxis. I’ve had fairly severe local reactions to bee and wasp venom my entire life, so I knew this was a possibility at some point, but 2020 is really trying to go down in...
by Christine Hanolsy | Aug 1, 2020 | 2020 Hindsight, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Tap tap, is this thing on? Think about this: you’re at a party. You’re telling your favorite anecdote about the time you hid a bunch of frogs under a basket in the garage, and what happened when they got loose (spoilers: they scared your mom half to death...
by Rowan | Aug 1, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
It all hangs together When I was a kid, my dad would take us down to the river, or the lake, and he’d go fishing. In the days when I was still too little to hold even my own downsized pole (the one that sits in a corner here now, in case my niece is ever...
by Christine Hanolsy | Jul 31, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Just? It’s probably my least favorite word in the English language, honestly: JUST. Not only because right now “just” and “justice” are super-fraught words, but because they’re weaponized in other ways. “Just write,”...
by Stacie Dalrymple | Jul 29, 2020 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Kissing Chicken Today is both National Chicken Wing Day AND National Lipstick Day. Does this mean chickens have lips? I didn’t think so. But you don’t need to kiss a chicken on the lips to read and vote on the grids! Or to comment – don’t...
