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Who’s ready for the super challenge final round?
We are, and we hope our ten finalists are, because it kicks off this Friday!
Round 2 writers, if you don’t have your feedback, please send us an email at superchallenge@yeahwrite.me, ’cause that email should have reached you about twelve hours ago.
Once again, anything that went right is entirely due to Arden, Christine and Stacie’s untiring work behind the scenes (while Stacie was on vacation, even, y’all), and anything you hate is all me.
After our first super challenge, the editors had a pretty serious talk about changing the round two parameters. It seemed like people were really struggling with the idea of a persuasive essay, we’d had a hard time coming up with the questions, and in general it wasn’t a whole lot of fun. On the other hand, we hated the idea of being like every other writing competition any of us had entered, where writers just do the same thing over and over again (that’s why the rounds for our fiction super challenge are so different, too!). As with our weekly free challenge grids, we want to select for well-rounded writers who are skilled in every aspect of their craft and who can stretch their boundaries a little in terms of structure, voice and technique.
It paid off.
Overall, the judges commented that they’d scored practically every essay in the top third of their possible range – and trust me, we do use the full scoring range. The most negative comment I heard was “predictable, but I also don’t know how else you’d make that argument so [shrug emoji].” Y’all should be pretty pleased with yourselves even if you didn’t advance this round.
One quick technical note before I release the winners’ names: We know the rules seem fiddly for the super challenge (especially as compared to the weekly grids) but they’re necessary so that our judges can receive packets on time and with complete anonymity for the writers. That gives judges the best chance to read your work slowly and carefully and on its own merits, and to give you the best scores and feedback possible. Thanks for understanding that judges are human, too![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
Enough, already, is my name in this thing or not?
The top 10 writers will be moving on to our final round. We’ll release the prompt on Friday, but here’s a sneak peek: we’re taking a page out of our Prompt Up book and giving you a phrase or sentence to incorporate in your essays. Get ready to find your inspiration and flex your voice a little to make that sentence flow naturally!
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Annmarie Lockhart
Nancy Lowell
Tamara Oliver
Amy Palen
Robin Quackenbush
Lisa Shaw
Genna Shelnutt
Karen Vernon
Leah Vidal
Jan Wilberg
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Wait, wait, there’s more!
First of all, writers, congratulations and keep your eyes peeled for that email Friday at 10pm US Eastern time with your prompt assignments.
Second, all writers are now free to share their round two stories any way they like. Just to make it easy, we’ve made a round two grid. If you want to put your story on your blog (or anywhere on the ‘net) and link it up here, we’re sharing this grid on this post and the main page for the super challenge. Just click the submission link below and enter the URL where you’ve posted your work. Please use the same email you used for the super challenge so we know it’s you, and don’t worry if you don’t see your post right away: we’re moderating entries to make sure only our round two writers link up to this grid.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
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