Parting is such sweet sorrow
The judges’ results are in and tallied and we’re ready to announce the winners of our sixth Super Challenge! 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’s always a challenge to come up with ideas flexible enough to give you the room to express yourself creatively but tight enough to challenge and inspire you. Let us know how we’re doing! (No, really, we want to hear from you. The superchallenge email is always open for your comments and concerns.)
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.
Hurry up and get to the point
You’re here to find out who the winners are. So with no further ado, here we go:
First Place
$250
Laura Duerr
The Rescue of Radiant Station
Second Place
$125
Christina Grant
Do Little, Say Less
Third Place
$75
Gail Webber
Call Me
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. Remember that each judge is an individual, and that all judges were asked for positive and negative commentary on your work. This means that even if a judge adored your work, they’re going to give you some suggestions for improvement, and that not all judges will love the same things in your work. Here are some thoughts we have about how to handle receiving critiques – like critiques, take our thoughts with a grain of salt and know that some will be more useful to you than others.
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.
