by Asha Rajan | Jul 21, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Rain, hail or industrial action It’s wild wet weather outdoors around here, and equally tempestuous in my internal world. Winter is the time of year when my thoughts gallop wildly and untamed and I struggle to marshal them into anything coherent. The...
by Arden Ruth | Jul 14, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Set It & Forget It I’m going to keep this short and sweet. You should be writing. Hear that a lot? I do, and my usual response is ‘Easier said than done, bruh. I’ve got stuff to do.’ But this morning, I told myself that stuff can wait. I...
by Rowan | Jul 7, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Comfort food, anyone? I have a friend who got married at the end of May. I’d promised to make her chuppah, out of cloth that her other friends had sent. Cue me cutting out 128 hexagons (and then there’s the partial hexes) and sewing for… well. A...
by Christine Hanolsy | Jun 30, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Right Here, Right Now So I recently went to an amusement park with my kids. Now, I’m not a roller coaster person, but I love my kids and they have remarkable puppy dog eyes when they want me to do something, so roller coasters it was. As I sat there waiting for...
by Asha Rajan | Jun 23, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Now is the Winter of my discontent Anyone who knows me even passingly knows how much I dislike the cold, grey days of Winter. In this hemisphere of the world, Winter is just setting in, and while the days are (mercifully) getting longer, the weather is still...
by Arden Ruth | Jun 16, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Summer Time (and the living is decidedly not easy) As summer creeps ever closer, I can’t help but be jealous of kids being released out of school for a few months of freedom from responsibility and homework. As a kid, I couldn’t wait to grow up, and now I...
