by Arden Ruth | Apr 1, 2022 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
April Fools I loathe April Fool’s Day. Even as a kid, where a harmless whoopee cushion prank would send most into fits, I was the ol’ curmudgeon snarling at anyone who dared try and play a prank on me. Someone must have got me good in a past life. But...
by Rowan | Mar 25, 2022 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
What’s in a name? There’s a kid with the same name as me. Maybe this happens to you all the time. Maybe your name is Christine, or Jessica, or Ram, or Sunita, or Akeyla. But it doesn’t happen to me. And I find myself watching this kid for...
by Christine Hanolsy | Mar 18, 2022 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Person, place, thing I’m reading Fonda Lee’s Jade City right now. It’s a modern second-world urban fantasy, where jade bestows near-magical gifts on its wearers and rival clans jockey for position and power. One of the things I love about this book...
by Nathan James | Mar 11, 2022 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Word Hurdle I guess it’s happened before. Words With Friends was a thing for a while, wasn’t it? And Codewords, maybe. But neither led to my Facebook feed being a never-ending register of game results. I joked that sometime in the future alien beings would...
by Asha Rajan | Mar 4, 2022 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
It’s the (not so) little things The world can feel overwhelming sometimes. The twenty-four-hour news cycle doesn’t do much to assuage that; leaping from one story of disaster and suffering to the next, with only advertisements to buy more, bigger, shinier...
by Arden Ruth | Feb 25, 2022 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Push Through The end of February is usually where I falter, all of those new and shiny goals I made in the new year suddenly feeling impossible to reach. Whether it be imposter syndrome, the cold coupled with laziness, or the burnout of entering Pandemic: Year Three,...
