by Rowan | Mar 25, 2022 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
What’s in a name? There’s a kid with the same name as me. Maybe this happens to you all the time. Maybe your name is Christine, or Jessica, or Ram, or Sunita, or Akeyla. But it doesn’t happen to me. And I find myself watching this kid for...
by Christine Hanolsy | Mar 18, 2022 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Person, place, thing I’m reading Fonda Lee’s Jade City right now. It’s a modern second-world urban fantasy, where jade bestows near-magical gifts on its wearers and rival clans jockey for position and power. One of the things I love about this book...
by Nathan James | Mar 11, 2022 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Word Hurdle I guess it’s happened before. Words With Friends was a thing for a while, wasn’t it? And Codewords, maybe. But neither led to my Facebook feed being a never-ending register of game results. I joked that sometime in the future alien beings would...
by Rowan | Mar 4, 2022 | Nonfiction, Super Challenge, YeahWrite
Round 2 Closes in: Day(s) : Hour(s) : Minute(s) : Second(s) Did you miss us? The final round of YeahWrite’s 23d Super Challenge starts, well, now. Our judges are waiting with bated (not baited, ew, check those homophones) breath for your essays. I have a hunch...
by Asha Rajan | Mar 4, 2022 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
It’s the (not so) little things The world can feel overwhelming sometimes. The twenty-four-hour news cycle doesn’t do much to assuage that; leaping from one story of disaster and suffering to the next, with only advertisements to buy more, bigger, shinier...
by Rowan | Mar 2, 2022 | Nonfiction, Super Challenge, Winners, YeahWrite
Crunch time Forty-eight hours is not a lot of time to write a well-crafted essay – as we all know! – but that’s part of the challenge, isn’t it? The pressure of a deadline can be a huge motivating factor, and sometimes it comes right down to...
