by Nathan James | Jul 30, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Writing Together, Alone Writer friends had invited me to work together in the past, but I never took them up on it. I always thought “My problem with writing is focus. Why would I meet a person for a writing date and add yet another distraction to the...
by Asha Rajan | Jul 23, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
I found my thrills This week I picked up a few copies of an anthology that I have work in. Another anthology, I should say. This isn’t my first, but the thrill of seeing my name in print, especially in a physical copy that I can hold in my hands and turn the...
by Arden Ruth | Jul 16, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
(Co)Work Hard, Play Hard For years, writing almost every day was one of the easiest things for me to do, but before long, life and other things began to get in the way and writing began to mold into yet another chore needing to be completed. Projects gathered dust,...
by Rowan | Jul 9, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
I never metaphor I didn’t like Probably my favorite writing metaphor is working in the garden. Possibly because it’s one of the few times since FEBRUARY OF LAST FREAKIN YEAR that I get to spend quiet time alone with my thoughts and my music. But also...
by Christine Hanolsy | Jul 2, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Unmoored This is the first summer in a long, long time—like, since I was a student—where I don’t have every minute scheduled. It used to be day camps and childcare for the kids, and the regular 9-5 for me. Even after I left my office job to pursue writing, I had...
by Nathan James | Jun 25, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Dah Brees-way Our apartment is unique for Chicago because it is both large and comparably inexpensive. In the back of the line of rooms, like a caboose, there’s a large, covered…well, in Michigan we’d call it a back deck but our landlord in his thick...
