This is the end, my friend
The judges’ results are in and tallied and we’re ready to announce the winners of our fifth Super Challenge! That means it’s time to stop comparing your feedback and trying to guess what it means about your score. (Hint: not that much, stop giving yourself an ulcer over it and just treat it like feedback instead of trying to rewrite The DaVinci Code.) Winners, you’ll also get an email confirming your details so that we can send your prizes to you.
We hope you’ve had as much fun writing as we had coming up with the prompts. It turns out there are a lot of flash fiction competitions out there to borrow ideas from, but not so many nonfiction. We try to give you the kind of prompts we’d enjoy writing for, in the hopes that you do too. Let us know how we’re doing!
Once again, anything that went right is entirely due to our admin team’s untiring work behind the scenes, and anything you hate is probably my fault. Especially if it happened in Round Two.
Just tell me who won
Okay! It was a tight field out there, with only a point or two separating most essays. One of the judges referred to our top ten as ‘basically my dream team’ and I can’t say I disagree. Even if you didn’t squeak your way into a top three spot, you should consider taking your feedback to heart, touching up your essay, and finding a way to share it with the world. Even if that’s just linking it up to our final round grid so the next group of nonfiction writers can see what they’re up against.
Oh, right. You’re here to find out who won. Here you go:
First Place
$100
Laura Neill
I Never Chose Geoffrey Mullet
Second Place
$60
Trish Tuthill
The Abyss
Third Place
$35
Sarah Grey
Between the Lines
Runners-up:
Jennifer Chase
Laura Lucas
Eleni Sakka
Margaret Shafer
Paige Vest
Gail Webber
Krystina Whitten
Congratulations again to everyone who entered. It’s fun to come up with great prompts, but even more fun to see what directions a talented group of writers can take them.
Wait, wait, there’s more!
Writers, if you don’t have your feedback, please send us an email at superchallenge@yeahwrite.me, ’cause that email should have reached you on Wednesday.
Now that this round of the competition is over, you’re free to post your work anywhere on the Internet you like, or take our judges’ suggestions and rework your submission to send on to other venues. We’ve also made this special grid for you to link your work to if you like:
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Rowan submitted exactly one piece of microfiction to YeahWrite before being consumed by the editorial darkside. She spent some time working hard as our Submissions Editor before becoming YeahWrite’s Managing Editor in 2016. She was a BlogHer Voice of the Year in 2017 for her work on intersectional feminism, but she suggests you find and follow WOC instead. In real life she’s been at various times an attorney, aerialist, professional knitter, artist, graphic designer (yes, they’re different things), editor, secretary, tailor, and martial artist. It bothers her vaguely that the preceding list isn’t alphabetized, but the Oxford comma makes up for it. She lives in Portlandia with a menagerie which includes at least one other human. She tells lies at textwall and uncomfortable truths at CrossKnit.
