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 #195 weekly writing challenge: challenge winners

yeah write #195 weekly writing challenge: challenge winners

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]Of all the writing challenges in all the corners of this internet, you had to walk into mine. And then you stayed, and you voted, and now you want to know the results, right? Me too. So, just like every Friday, I'm going...

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yeah write #194 weekly writing challenge: challenge winners

yeah write #194 weekly writing challenge: challenge winners

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]2015.  If the movies are right, this is the year we get hoverboards. And if that isn't enough, giant mechs will protect the earth from at least one alien invasion. We'll establish a permanent colony on the Moon, although...

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yeah write #194 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories

yeah write #194 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 If you're in one of the US time zones, this is your last chance to vote in 2014. To everyone else, Happy New Year. And if your 2014 was anything like mine, good...

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yeah write #194 weekly writing challenge is open for microstories in exactly 42 words

yeah write #194 weekly writing challenge is open for microstories in exactly 42 words

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text] Greetings Earthlings! Welcome to my little corner of the galaxy! I don't know about you, but I've been trapped in the slo-time envelope for the last ten days or so. Around here, they call it "winter break," but we all...

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yeah write #193 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories

yeah write #193 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 Looking for something to do while you're hiding from your family in the bathroom, flipping frantically through your phone for outside comfort? Why not spend a few...

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yeah write #193 weekly writing challenge is open for microstories in exactly 42 words

yeah write #193 weekly writing challenge is open for microstories in exactly 42 words

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text] Greetings Earthlings! I'm going to keep this short and sweet because even space wanderers have things to do during the holidays. The lights are lit, the presents are wrapped, and the entire ship smells like nutmeg and...

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yeah write #192 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories

yeah write #192 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|poetry and microstories here I had to leave my house not once but twice in the course of writing this post. It's not my favorite thing to do. In fact, probably the only thing I hate more...

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