by Rowan | Feb 12, 2021 | Nonfiction, Super Challenge, YeahWrite
Round 1 closes in: Day(s) : Hour(s) : Minute(s) : Second(s) 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...
by Natalie DeYoung | Feb 12, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
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...
by Asha Rajan | Feb 5, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
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...
by Christine Hanolsy | Feb 1, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Navigating Prompts, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
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...
by Stacie Dalrymple | Jan 29, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
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...
by Nathan James | Jan 22, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
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...
