Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive

Welcome to YeahWrite’s nonfiction archives, a collection of creative nonfiction 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. 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 #239 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories

yeah write #239 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 I can tell it's November cause the grids are so full! Heads are down and fingers are busy as we all push forward, aided by the extra dark hours. I mean. Who wants to...

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and they’re off! yeah write’s nomo writing challenge 2015

and they’re off! yeah write’s nomo writing challenge 2015

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] November writers have left the gate Over 50 of us have joined the yeah write NoMo challenge to write every single day in November! Today is day 11. For those of you with us, how are you doing? Fun, right? Daily writing is hard, so...

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yeah write weekly writing challenge #238: popular vote winners and editors’ picks

yeah write weekly writing challenge #238: popular vote winners and editors’ picks

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Welcome to the end of the first week of November! Are you already ready to cry "NoMo?" This is when it gets hard, guys. You've pushed through the first week of writing every day. Those little chores you usually do in the time you've...

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yeah write #238 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories

yeah write #238 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 I love this job. I mean. I'd love it more if it paid me a bajillion dollars a week, but what wouldn't be better with a bajillion dollars, right? Only, there sure are a...

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yeah write weekly writing challenge #237: popular vote winners and editors’ picks

yeah write weekly writing challenge #237: popular vote winners and editors’ picks

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]It's probably not a secret how much I love Hallowe'en. Even if it had been, I just announced it to like a bazillion people, so there goes my cover. From the five or six years in a row that I dressed as a cat to the "Sherlock Holmes'...

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yeah write #237 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories

yeah write #237 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 Heavy adj. Old English hefig "heavy, having much weight; important, grave; oppressive; slow, dull," from Proto-Germanic *hafiga "containing something; having weight"...

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