Weekly Writing Challenges: Microprose Archive

Welcome to YeahWrite’s microprose challenge archives, a collection of microfiction prompts, responses, and competitions. For 500 weeks YeahWrite hosted “weekly grids” which enabled writers to link their self-hosted responses, and to read and vote on each others’ work, as well as commenting. From 2014-2016 this challenge ran as a weekly prompted 42-word story and poetry challenge. From 2017-2020, the challenge featured prose only with unique prompts and word counts and ran once per month. While we no longer host competition grids, we’re still delivering the prompts you love as well as our Super Challenge and classes. Stop by our latest posts to see this week’s prompt, live every Friday at noon US Eastern Time.

yeah write #210 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories

by Rowan | Apr 22, 2015 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, gargleblaster, micro challenge, microfiction, Microprose, Nonfiction, the speakeasy, Voting, YeahWrite | 6 Comments

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Vote for your favorite nonfiction, fiction and microstories here Guys, I know this may seem unusual, but I don't have a rant this week. I'm not gonna flip my lid, blow my top, or any other weird steampunky metaphor. I'm just gonna...

yeah write #210 weekly writing challenge is open for microstories in exactly 42 words

by Christine Hanolsy | Apr 22, 2015 | gargleblaster, micro challenge, microfiction, Microprose, Open, YeahWrite | 1 Comment

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text] Greetings Earthlings! Speed is relative. Sometimes it feels like the more time I have, the slower I write. Time just stands still. But the closer I get to a deadline, the faster I get. Chris Baty, founder of the National...

yeah write weekly writing challenge #209: popular vote winners and editors’ picks

by Rowan | Apr 17, 2015 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, gargleblaster, micro challenge, microfiction, Microprose, Nonfiction, the speakeasy, Winners, YeahWrite | 5 Comments

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]No matter what hemisphere you're in, you're trapped midway between summer and winter. These days have some of my favorite weather: warm enough to run around in comfortable t-shirts but cold enough to sleep under blankets...

yeah write #209 weekly writing challenge is open for microstories in exactly 42 words

by Christine Hanolsy | Apr 15, 2015 | gargleblaster, micro challenge, microfiction, Microprose, Open, YeahWrite | 0 Comments

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text] Greetings Earthlings! Do you have kids? A spouse? Roommates? Pets? Even if you live alone, you can probably appreciate why this week's ultimate question is both the most common and the most difficult one we've ever...

yeah write weekly writing challenge #208: popular vote winners and editors’ picks

by Rowan | Apr 10, 2015 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, gargleblaster, micro challenge, microfiction, Microprose, Nonfiction, the speakeasy, Winners, YeahWrite | 5 Comments

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]208 two-oh-eight two hundred eight Fun fact: two hundred and eight, in US standard usage, means there's a decimal in there. 200.8 But without the decimal, you have the number of consecutive weeks yeah write has been an...

yeah write #208 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories

by Rowan | Apr 8, 2015 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, gargleblaster, micro challenge, microfiction, Microprose, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite | 0 Comments

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Vote for your favorite nonfiction, fiction and microstories here You say it's your birthday? It's our birthday too, yeah! It's also the birthday of Charles Baudelaire, Rahul Sankrityayan, Lev Kopelev, Carl Amery, and a host of...

yeah write #208 weekly writing challenge is open for microstories in exactly 42 words

by Christine Hanolsy | Apr 8, 2015 | gargleblaster, micro challenge, microfiction, Microprose, Open, ultimate question, YeahWrite | 0 Comments

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text] Greetings Earthlings! Did you hear? It's our birthday, which means there's cake for everyone in the galley! Not only did we just celebrate a year of microstories, but yeah write turned four years old this week. You may...

yeah write weekly writing challenge #207: popular vote winners and editors’ picks

by Rowan | Apr 3, 2015 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, gargleblaster, micro challenge, microfiction, Microprose, Nonfiction, the speakeasy, Winners, YeahWrite | 4 Comments

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text] submit No, this isn't some 50 Shades of Ohmygod Can We Talk About How This Series Is Only "Romantic" Because It's Fiction and How Creepy Would It Be If A Guy Did That To You In Real Life pun. It's writing advice. I love...

yeah write #207 weekly writing challenge is open for microstories in exactly 42 words

by Christine Hanolsy | Apr 1, 2015 | gargleblaster, micro challenge, microfiction, Microprose, Open, YeahWrite | 2 Comments

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text] Ready, set, go! One year ago, um, yesterday, those were the first words of the first post in the first-ever gargleblaster microstories challenge. We're gearing up for some great birthday goodies on all the grids next...

yeah write weekly writing challenge #206: popular vote winners and editors’ picks

by Rowan | Mar 27, 2015 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, gargleblaster, micro challenge, microfiction, Microprose, Nonfiction, the speakeasy, Winners, YeahWrite | 1 Comment

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]So, now you've had your coffee, and your vote, and you're all wide awake and ready to hear some Very Good Advice, right? Right? Quit while you're ahead. I know, right? When was the last time you heard me say "quit" when...

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