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 #229 weekly writing challenge kickoff

yeah write #229 weekly writing challenge kickoff

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Is this thing on? Hello! Just making sure you can hear me. I've got a ton of things to tell you and I don't want you to miss a single thing. September is all about journeys. We'll be talking about the monomyth, or hero's journey,...

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yeah write weekly writing challenge #228: popular vote winners and editors’ picks

yeah write weekly writing challenge #228: popular vote winners and editors’ picks

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]It's been a long, amazing, distracting week. One of my best friends has been in town, after a surprise move from Chicago (where I'd been planning to visit her this fall) to the East Coast. She's one of those people who...

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yeah write #228 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories

yeah write #228 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'm the master of the Last Minute. I specialize in 7 minute sonnets, 24 hour thesis papers (j/k it was at least 32 and I was awake for all of them) and...

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yeah write weekly writing challenge #227: popular vote winners and editors’ picks

yeah write weekly writing challenge #227: popular vote winners and editors’ picks

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]It's always a little weird to sit down and write the winners' post on a week when I've had a bunch of rejections. You know the ones: you submit a story or poem, wait for just long enough to think "well, if they were going...

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yeah write #227 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories

yeah write #227 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 had my first forkful of kimchi when I was twenty-two. And I hated it. On the surface, kimchi is everything I should like. It's spicy, it's fermented, it's cabbage....

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yeah write #228 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays and mostly true stories

yeah write weekly writing challenge #226: popular vote winners and editors’ picks

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]I know we've been talking about coffee all week, but let's take a break with another liquid, ok? One of my personal favorites: wine. Specifically, let's talk about the phrase in vino veritas. Truth, found in wine. But...

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yeah write #226 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories

yeah write #226 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 It's Thursday, y'all. Or maybe it's Wednesday night for a few more hours where you are. The point is, we've all been trying to figure out why there's no coffee for...

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