by Stacie Dalrymple | Nov 4, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Pins and Needles I think it’s fair to say that nearly everyone is on pins and needles regarding the US election. Being constantly stuck in the news cycle is stressful, vacillating between hope and despair even more so. But we might not know for a couple of days,...
by Christine Hanolsy | Nov 1, 2020 | 2020 Hindsight, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
What if? 2020 has been a rollercoaster of a year, and we’re sure we’re not the only ones wondering if we’ve slipped into an alternative timeline or parallel universe—or maybe wishing we had. “What if” sounds like the stuff of speculative...
by Asha Rajan | Oct 31, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Are you all sugared up on Halloween candy? Are houses in your street all decked out in spider webs and spooky finery? It’s not a big celebration in Australia, and I really miss it. I miss the tiny children who’d come to the door, dressed as a superhero or...
by Rowan | Oct 30, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Hurtling toward… 500. That’s right, it’s been almost 500 consecutive weeks of YeahWrite. OK, it’s been like 38 weeks of lovelinks and a couple hundred of yeah write and then the rest as YeahWrite but our point is, Captain Nitpickersons, that...
by Stacie Dalrymple | Oct 28, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Gimme All The Blanklets It’s been rainy and cold all day here, with more of that tomorrow and maybe even some SNOW on Friday and I just cannot with early snow. In particular, my beef is that I have to go outside anyway because dogs. But what I really want to do...
by Stacie Dalrymple | Oct 24, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Mycelium I used to think mushrooms were whole plants. Now when I see them on my walks in the woods I know what they are: fruiting bodies of a much bigger system. See, the mushroom is more like an apple than a tree. That’s how they can pop up so quickly:...
