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

yeah write #206 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Vote for your favorite nonfiction, fiction and microstories here Coffee. Sweet elixir of life. I don't care if you drink black coffee, lattes, chicory or butter coffee. Even the ritual of coffee is a comforting presence in our...

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yeah write #204 weekly writing challenge: challenge winners

yeah write #204 weekly writing challenge: challenge winners

The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort. Those aren't the first words in Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, but they're the first ones I read, and they caught me immediately. This, I thought, is how you tell stories. In fifteen...

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yeah write #204 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories

yeah write #204 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Vote for your favorite nonfiction, fiction and microstories here. Also, Rowan swears in this post. [editor's note: this rant has been sitting in my drafts folder for several months. I reached critical mass this week but that doesn't...

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yeah write weekly writing challenge #203 popular vote winners and editors’ picks

yeah write weekly writing challenge #203 popular vote winners and editors’ picks

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]Now that I have your attention. Let's talk a little bit about intent versus impact. This is a topic you've probably seen a lot about recently in the news as it relates to racism, sexism, and generally getting called out...

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yeah write #203 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories

yeah write #203 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Vote for your favorite nonfiction, fiction and microstories here... after you read the post. Hi. I've noticed a disturbing trend, y'all. Is this the only post you read all week? Do you skim the opening posts? Skip through the...

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yeah write #203 weekly writing challenge is open for microstories in exactly 42 words

yeah write #203 weekly writing challenge is open for microstories in exactly 42 words

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text] Greetings Earthlings! I've been seeing a lot of new faces lately, and so I wanted to take a minute to welcome everyone to the yeah write microstory challenge. As the oldtimers can tell you, it's a pretty crazy ride, with...

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