by Rowan | Mar 24, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
In like a lion and out like another whole lion with a chip on its shoulder, apparently March! It’s Spring (or Fall) officially! The days are longer (or shorter) than the nights already! (This is, by the way, some !@#$#@$@#@, especially with DST already here.)...
by Christine Hanolsy | Mar 17, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Saving the day As a parent, I often feel like I’m not quite living up to the standards society has set for parenting. Do I pack a healthy three-course lunch for my kid every day? No. Do I shuttle my kids to seventeen different activities every week? Nope; just...
by Nathan James | Mar 10, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Nothing. Nowhere. Once In a While. That whole “write what you know” trope we were taught in school is some bullshit. If everyone had followed that advice, we’d never have sci-fi or most, hopefully, horror novels. We’d never have Everything, Everywhere, All At Once....
by Asha Rajan | Mar 3, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
I smell a rat This morning, I found a rat in my garden. It was dead. I spotted it when I went out to water, before I took my (supposed rat catcher) dogs for a walk. I live in an area that’s often plagued by rats and mice and I have a fairly productive...
by Arden Ruth | Feb 24, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Rut Roh I’m in a rut, what feels like a fairly substantial one. Lately it seems like any progress I make in any part of my life, the universe comes for me, shoving me backward. Two steps forward, fourteen steps back. Focusing on my writing, time is my issue. My...
by Rowan | Feb 17, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Talk to the duckie For some reason, when I went to law school, people were bewildered. “Why wouldn’t you do something with computers, you’re always on the computer,” they said. Aside from the fact that just because you might be good at...