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 November 2014 writing contest winners: winning writers and their referrals

yeah write November 2014 writing contest winners: winning writers and their referrals

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]Thank you for your patience waiting for the announcement of our November contest winners. We had more than 150 entries, and we didn't anticipate how good each of them were going to be, so we just needed some extra time....

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yeah write #191 weekly writing challenge: challenge winners

yeah write #191 weekly writing challenge: challenge winners

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]Tis the season... of cold and dark and more cold and more dark and if you're lucky enough snow to close school, right? RIGHT? Our editors are excited for the winter holidays. Which holidays, you ask? Well, it's National...

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yeah write #191 weekly writing challenge is open for microstories in exactly 42 words

yeah write #191 weekly writing challenge is open for microstories in exactly 42 words

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text] Greetings Earthlings! It looks like we've picked up some new hitchhikers over the last month or so. Welcome, everyone, to the gargleblaster microstory challenge! We're thrilled to have you on board. It may not look it,...

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yeah write #190 challenge winners: final week picks for November contest and crowd favorite

yeah write #190 challenge winners: final week picks for November contest and crowd favorite

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]All good things must come to an end, or so they say. Who are "they" anyway, and why can't I come up with anything original to write this week? Anyway. So it is with our November writing competition. We've loved having you...

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yeah write #190 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction and microstories; Final week of November competition

yeah write #190 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction and microstories; Final week of November competition

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Vote for your favorite nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories here That's right! You're not seeing triple, you can vote on all three yeah write challenges at the same time, in the same place, every Thursday. Fiction|poetry,...

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yeah write #189 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction and microstories

yeah write #189 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction and microstories

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Vote for your favorite nonfiction, fiction and microstories here It's Thanksgiving here in the USA, and I for one am thankful for... the unmoderated grids that you guys filled up this week. I hope you're enjoying your week off from...

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