Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
Super Challenge #19 Round 1 is Underway!
Happy New Year! It's the Year of the Ox - a hardworking sign, and we're kicking the year off with some hard, but hopefully pleasant, work for you: a Super Challenge weekend. Over the next 48 hours you'll be crafting an essay using the prompt for your group (you did...
YeahWrite #514 Weekly Writing Challenge
Click click click click I am not really a New Year's resolution kind of person. In fact, I try not to be too strict with myself in general, given I am in the weeds of early-years parenting, with a two- and four- year old. But this year, I made a promise to myself. I...
YeahWrite #513 Weekly Writing Challenge
Lockdown, fires, and editing, oh my! It's Day Two of a (currently) five-day lockdown where I live. It's the middle of Summer, there's a familiar but disconcerting smell of burning eucalyptus in the air, the sky's a deeply worrying shade of orange, and ash is floating...
Navigating Prompts: Hit the road
Take this word and shove it Or rather—don't. As we've mentioned before, judges and editors want to see you incorporate a prompt, not just include it. They want to see where you go with your own story, told in your own unique style and voice, with pieces they give you....
YeahWrite #512 Weekly Writing Challenge
The Reboot The days are getting longer; I can feel my mood improving, even though we had five inches of snow last night. I'm still trying to figure out how to send all the snow to Rowan; there's got to be a way. Snow's pretty though, and I can imagine inspiring for...
YeahWrite #511 Weekly Writing Challenge
Nothing New Under the Sun As a fan of history, I've been reading up on the effects of the 1918 "Spanish" flu epidemic on society. The flu hit right when World War I was gearing up and several political and social upheavals (the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the...
YeahWrite #510 Weekly Writing Challenge
POP! I'm having one of those weeks where I'm simply trying to keep my head above water. Between multiple professional and personal deadlines, a 24-hour doom, I mean, news cycle, and a frustrating inability to ask for help, my brain feels like it could at any time...
YeahWrite #509 Weekly Writing Challenge
Here, lizard, lizard... Some phrases just stick with you. That headline? That's from an ad that you had to be in sort of a specific age at a specific time to remember. But if I say it out loud, my whole cohort will join in. Those are the kind of lines we love to...
Registration is OPEN for Super Challenge #19!
It's a new year, and we're ready to dive right into our next competition. With everything that happened in 2020 (murder hornets, anyone? That should be fiction, not non-), we're sure you've got lots of stories to tell, and we want to hear them! Registration opens...
YeahWrite #508 Weekly Writing Challenge
Out with the old Well, look at that. I'm the lucky duck who gets to kick the old year to the curb and welcome in the new one. There's no guarantee, of course, that 2021 will treat us any more kindly than 2020 did, but I'm generally an optimist, and I like beginnings,...
