by Stacie Dalrymple | Dec 21, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
A Little Peace and Quiet I just got back from a silent meditation retreat and boy are my words tired. We’re accustomed to a constant flow of information – both in and out – but it turns out that sometimes we can use all that information to hide from...
by Rowan | Dec 20, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Gimme a Break My biggest annual project for my biggest client just happens to fall right at the time of the year that everyone wants to hang out because they have… a break. I’m not sure what that is, actually, at this point, at the end of like my 20th...
by Christine Hanolsy | Dec 18, 2019 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Indomitable So in August, my kids and I started taking Taekwon-do together. It’s pretty physically intense, but before we were even allowed to start learning forms, attacks, and blocks, we had to memorize the five tenets of Taekwon-do: Courtesy, Integrity,...
by Nathan James | Dec 14, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Wandering Into the Cornfields Yeah, I wasn’t even close to making my 2019 writing goals, but that’s okay. I made them before I knew what the year had in store for me and sometimes health, career, and relationships need to take precedence. I’m...
by Rowan | Dec 13, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Always Winter, and Never Christmas The first book I remember analyzing was The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, after my mother took it out of my hands — I must have been all of nine, I think — and said scornfully “You know Aslan is just Jesus,...
by Christine Hanolsy | Dec 11, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Cutting through the fog Between the weather, school commitments, and the inevitable blur of the holiday season, my brain is feeling particularly foggy right now. Every time I sit down to write, it feels like walking blindly into the mist, and I’m too worried...
