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 #188 challenge winners: week three picks for November contest and crowd favorite

yeah write #188 challenge winners: week three picks for November contest and crowd favorite

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]Holy smokes, you guys. Who's ready for the holiday week next week, with a break from the competition and an unmoderated grid? This editor is, that's for sure. So far this week has had an ice storm, an unplanned truckload...

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yeah write #188 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction and microstories

yeah write #188 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 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, nonfiction or...

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yeah write #188 weekly writing challenge is open for microstories in exactly 42 words

yeah write #188 weekly writing challenge is open for microstories in exactly 42 words

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text] Greetings Earthlings! It's the third week of yeah write's fall writing contest, and you intersteller travelers are flying high. As of right now, there are 27 gargleblaster microstories in the running for our prize...

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yeah write #187 challenge winners: week two picks for November contest and crowd favorite

yeah write #187 challenge winners: week two picks for November contest and crowd favorite

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]Neither rain, nor sleet, nor gloom of night can prevent us from bringing the voting results to you....nor prevent me from wanting to correct the US Postal Service motto every time I hear it. "Neither" means not one or the...

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yeah write #187 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction and microstories

yeah write #187 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 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, nonfiction or...

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yeah write #187 weekly writing challenge is open for microstories in exactly 42 words

yeah write #187 weekly writing challenge is open for microstories in exactly 42 words

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text] Greetings Earthlings! OK, everyone, duck and cover - we've got stars shooting all over the place, and if you're not careful, you might catch one in the eye. I mean: did you read the grid last week? I know you did,...

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yeah write #186 weekly writing challenge: week one picks for the November writing contest and crowd favorite

yeah write #186 weekly writing challenge: week one picks for the November writing contest and crowd favorite

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]Popular voting. Editor voting. Voter voting. If you're in the US of A, you better have voted  at least twice this week, once in your hometown and once here. We're not into Red vs Blue, but we do have voting results today....

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yeah write #186 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction and microstories

yeah write #186 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 That's right! You're not seeing double, our favorite fiction and poetry challenge has moved over to the main yeah write site! Now you can vote on all three challenges...

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