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Let’s hear it for community spirit!
What makes yeah write such a great place, and truly what has always made it a great place, is the community spirit here. When you submit your work here, rest assured you’ll be read by the editors responsible for that grid, as well as others. In addition, the other participants are reading and, hopefully, commenting or sharing. We have a whole host of lurkers who don’t participate, but stand by each week to read what our writers have to say.
There’s the other side of that coin to consider though. If you’re here with a submission, we hope you’re reading the others and commenting and sharing when you can or when you’re particularly taken with something. I know it’s not always easy and sometimes life gets in the way. But we do hope you’ll make it a priority to stop by the other posts. After all, it’s the only way to vote fairly, right?
And speaking of community spirit, yeah write participants cleaned up at BlogHer’s VOTYs this year. If you missed yesterday’s announcement, check it out here!
First time here?
Check out yesterday’s kickoff post to learn everything you need to know about all of yeah write. Make sure you’re signed up for our email blasts so you never miss one again!
If you’re new to yeah write or just new to the nonfiction challenge, please pop over to read our submission guidelines. The rules are a little different for each of our challenges and we’d hate to have to send back great writing on a technicality.
If you found us because you suddenly saw yeah write in your stats, do not be alarmed! Sometimes when community members spot excellent writing out in the wild, they send the post over to us. We hope you don’t mind, but more than that, we hope you’ll take a look around and hang out for a while.
Have questions you can’t find the answer to by poking around the site? Email us or find us on Facebook or Twitter and we’ll happily help you out.
Just the basics
Today the grid opens for our nonfiction writing challenge. There is a limit of 1,000 words, no exceptions. The nonfiction challenge closes Wednesday at 9:59 p.m. US Eastern. Voting opens one hour later for both our readers and our editorial staff. On Friday, we will publish editorial picks and announce the popular vote winners.
The ultimate question: how fast were you going?
Each week our microstories challenge, which opens on Wednesday, gives you an ultimate question to answer in exactly 42 words. Here on nonfiction, we like to offer that question up as an optional prompt. Use it or don’t, it’s all up to you!
Still need a bit of inspiration to get you going this week? Stop by the coffeehouse for a shot of espresso. Every week Nate discusses a technique used in one of last week’s winning posts, and gives two suggestions for how you can incorporate it into your own writing! Check it out!
The yeah write #210 weekly writing challenge is open for nonfiction: personal essays, creative opinion, mostly true stories based on actual events. You can check out the submission guidelines and join us with your essay using the link below.
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