by Rowan | Jun 7, 2019 | Nonfiction, Super Challenge, YeahWrite
What goes around, comes around There’s nothing like a fast deadline to really get a writer’s adrenaline pumping. But why should the fiction writers have all the fun? YeahWrite started eight years ago with creative nonfiction, and we’re still...
by Christine Hanolsy | Jun 7, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
That was easy. You might or might not have seen that commercial. The office supplies one? The one where at the end a character hits a big red button and a voice booms THAT WAS EASY. That’s how I feel about some conversations we’ve been having lately in our...
by Christine Hanolsy | Jun 5, 2019 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
All together now I went to my second grader’s school play today. It wasn’t much in terms of length—only five minutes—but it told the story of an old man who grew an enormous turnip, a turnip so big that he couldn’t pull it out on his own. So the old...
by Nathan James | Jun 1, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Microprose, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
The Answer is Iowa For at least a decade now, I’ve been trying to figure out who one of my 2nd great-grandfather’s parents are. Long story short: No one in my family could ever find a paper trail on where he came from. So I’ve been digging and...
by Christine Hanolsy | Jun 1, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite, Year of Fearless Writing
Welcome to the Year of Fearless Writing! You write. I mean, that's why you're here. But how often do you say "I'm a writer?" And what's the difference between "I write" and "I'm a writer" anyway? Over the last five years, YeahWrite--besides being a great place to...
by Rowan | May 31, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Not ready yet This picture is my protest against the summer that is happening to me against my will. I refuse. Don’t wanna. I’ve had the AC on for a week and it’s not even June (although at least we’re past Memorial Day). Just let me hang onto...
