by Christine Hanolsy | Feb 19, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Refresh yourself I was reminded, this week, that sometimes it’s worth taking a break. Not necessarily from writing altogether (although I did spend an entire day or two playing Animal Crossing this weekend, don’t judge), but from what you’re writing....
by Natalie DeYoung | Feb 12, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Click click click click I am not really a New Year’s resolution kind of person. In fact, I try not to be too strict with myself in general, given I am in the weeds of early-years parenting, with a two- and four- year old. But this year, I made a promise to...
by Asha Rajan | Feb 5, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Lockdown, fires, and editing, oh my! It’s Day Two of a (currently) five-day lockdown where I live. It’s the middle of Summer, there’s a familiar but disconcerting smell of burning eucalyptus in the air, the sky’s a deeply worrying shade of...
by Stacie Dalrymple | Jan 29, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
The Reboot The days are getting longer; I can feel my mood improving, even though we had five inches of snow last night. I’m still trying to figure out how to send all the snow to Rowan; there’s got to be a way. Snow’s pretty though, and I can...
by Nathan James | Jan 22, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Nothing New Under the Sun As a fan of history, I’ve been reading up on the effects of the 1918 “Spanish” flu epidemic on society. The flu hit right when World War I was gearing up and several political and social upheavals (the fall of the Ottoman...
by Arden Ruth | Jan 15, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
POP! I’m having one of those weeks where I’m simply trying to keep my head above water. Between multiple professional and personal deadlines, a 24-hour doom, I mean, news cycle, and a frustrating inability to ask for help, my brain feels like it could at...
