by Michelle Longo | Aug 17, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Time for School! School is back in session here in my little corner of SoCal. I’m proud of myself for resisting the urge to buy a thousand new notebooks and all of the colorful Post-Its. For me, the first day of school is tantamount to January 1. In fact, I...
by Rowan | Aug 16, 2019 | Nonfiction, Super Challenge, YeahWrite
The final round closes in: Day(s) : Hour(s) : Minute(s) : Second(s) Well, here we are. The final round of Lucky Number 13, YeahWrite’s nonfiction Super Challenge. We don’t have 13 writers, of course, but 12, and they’ll be competing for those...
by Rowan | Aug 16, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Dying of deadlines It’s the last week of the Super Challenge, and last round’s winners are waiting for their prompt. It’s the last day of this week’s grids, and those winners wanna know, too. In the meantime, all I’ve won is three sets of...
by Stacie Dalrymple | Aug 14, 2019 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Easy Breezy August, the end of summer here in the greater Boston area, is amazing. Sure, it can be hot. But people clear out. It’s so easy to do stuff. No lines at the stores, walking into restaurants without reservations, and much less traffic are just a few of...
by Rowan | Aug 14, 2019 | Nonfiction, Super Challenge, Winners, YeahWrite
Winning – or advancing in – a writing competition should be a matter of skill, not luck. But I’ll be very real with y’all: this time it almost came down to luck. In more than one of our groups, despite our distributed judging method, there were...
by Asha Rajan | Aug 10, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Thunderstruck As I write this, a small dog shivers on my lap, burying her head into the fold between my belly and my thigh. Thunder claps overhead, rattling the windows. It’s Djilba; the fifth of six seasons in the Noongar (or Nyungar, Nyoongar, Nyoongah,...
