by Rowan | Jan 10, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Attitude is key Kidding. I hate that crap. Attitude won’t improve your pay scale (except perhaps, assuming your workplace is committed to fairness and not at all affected by systemic misogyny or racism even unconsciously), your access to healthcare, or your odds...
by Stacie Dalrymple | Jan 8, 2020 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Brrrrr My heater broke. For three days, no heat. It’s winter here in New England. Needless to say, this development was not much fun. But I’m happy to report that as of this morning, all is well and the house is slowly warming up, one degree at a time, so...
by Michelle Longo | Jan 4, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Microprose, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
What Are You Going to Do? I’m going to be blunt: What are you going to do with your 2020? When I ask you at the end of the year what you’re most proud of and what you want to brag about (assuming I remember to ask), what do you want to say? Knowing what...
by Rowan | Jan 3, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
I need a break to recover from my break This can be a rough time of year to be a writer, what with the apocalyptic fires and the assassinations. What, you thought I meant the holidays? Those are over. But the world keeps tumbling on, and one of my jobs is to stay...
by Stacie Dalrymple | Jan 1, 2020 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Happy 2020! They (those people) say that hindsight is 2020. Well, I have a lot of hindsight into 2019 now, and I’m so glad to be ringing in the new year. I wish you all a happy and healthy year, one also full of writing and reading! Popular voting for the...
by Rowan | Jan 1, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Welcome to 2020 We’ve been running the poetry slam for, oh my gosh, five years now? That’s five times twelve, minus the critique post, carry the haiku… um… at least fifty different types of poetry. And it occurred to us that we’d spent so...
