Did you miss the Sunday kickoff post giving you all the introductory information you need about the 2014 summer series here at yeah write?

Then click here for Christine’s weekly kickoff post. There are guidelines to read and lounges to join and classes to register for. It’s our third summer series, and we are excited to have you here.

A quick primer on how the weekly challenge grids will work over the summer

Normally, there are three separate challenge grids—the gargleblaster for microfiction or micro creative nonfiction, the traditional challenge grid for personal essays, and the speakeasy for prompted fiction and poetry—but over the summer, we will become one big family squeezed onto one massive grid. Kind of like the family reunion that year when your sister forgot to book the lodge and everyone ended up at some random dude’s lake house made from a kit. We are going to make the best of it!

Gargleblasters!

The summer supergrid will host all genres, including the gargleblasters answering in 42 words this week’s ultimate question: where have all the flowers gone? Same format, different day. The supergrid will open Tuesday for your gargleblaster. Extra day to get it just right!

Challenge grid!

Do you want to use that as an optional prompt for your personal essay? Where have all the flowers gone? Go for it. Five hundred words plus 100 words grace. You can find your so what in this week’s bronze lounge.

The speakeasy!

So, are you used to writing to a prompt for the speakeasy, and now you’re walking in circles mumbling to yourself about first sentences and picture prompts? Fine. Start your speakeasy story or poem with “where have all the flowers gone?” then submit your 750-word (maximum) entry to the summer supergrid.

Writing forums!

Do you have a piece you would like read more closely by a few close friends and your favorite yeah write editors? Our free bronze lounge is the place for you

You’ll have to register first, and you can do that right here. Then introduce yourself in the forum, telling us about your writing project, your writing life, whatever you need to say to provide context over the next six weeks we’ll be spending together. It doesn’t matter how old the piece is. Everyone has something rattling around in a junk drawer, right? Pull it out, upload it into the forum, and let us help you get Joshua out the bathtub he’s been in for the past 10 years waiting for his girlfriend to come back from the store.

The supergrid is for browsing; the bronze, silver and gold lounges are for personal attention

When it opens on Tuesday, you can add your gargleblaster, challenge or speakeasy entry to the supergrid just like usual. Readers will come by and say hi and Comment Bob all over the place. Just like usual. The difference being it’s a combined supergrid of all three challenges.

If you want specific feedback and criticism, you’ll need to make your way to a lounge.

Bronze lounge: free

• Post your work-in-progress to our peer-to-peer critique forum and ask for your fellow yeah writers to give it a review
• Find a writing partner
• Start your own workshopping group
• The bronze level lounge is laid-back, free and open to all yeah write subscribers

 

Silver lounge: $25/week

• Attend small group online weekly writing workshops
• Sign up for one week or more, and come with your A-game
• Dig a little deeper into your writing
• Receive valuable feedback that will help you bump your writing up a notch
• Bundle available for $60

 

Gold lounge: $50/week

• One-on-one critiques
• Specific feedback
• Led by speakeasy editors Suzanne Purkis and Natalie DeYoung
• Bundle pricing TBA

Are you new here? Brand new to the whole thing?

Welcome! We’re glad our writers and readers are spreading the word about our humble little community. If you need any help navigating what’s unfolding, please feel free to contact us. One of our editors will reply right away. We never sleep.

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