by Arden Ruth | Jan 15, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
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...
by Rowan | Jan 8, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
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...
by Rowan | Jan 4, 2021 | Nonfiction, Super Challenge, YeahWrite
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!...
by Christine Hanolsy | Jan 1, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
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...
by Christine Hanolsy | Jan 1, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Navigating Prompts, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
You are here There it is: the perfect prompt. A prompt that appeals to you in every way. A prompt that excites you so much that you can only hope to do it justice. Or maybe it’s the opposite. Maybe you’ve got 24 hours to respond to this prompt and no idea...
by Natalie DeYoung | Dec 25, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Thwack We have the stump of a dead tree in our backyard that has to come out. Its roots extend pretty deeply into our clay soil, and we’ve dug up as much of the earth around it as possible. So last week, I went at the stubborn roots with an axe. Feet hip-width...
