Y’all, we know persuasive essays are nobody’s favorite. They take you right back to college, or high school, writing that paper with a thesis and Ms. Camarillo with her oversprayed hair standing over you… just me? Might be just me, because this was a great batch of essays. Not gonna lie – usually we have at least one writer panic and drop out this round, but you folks stuck it out and should be pretty darn proud of your results. Make sure to check out your feedback – or delete it, screaming that you’re never writing a persuasive essay again. We won’t take it personally!
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.
Before we announce who’ll be moving on, let’s take a moment to chat about the next round of the Super Challenge. Starting Friday, the final round writers will have their choice of a personal or persuasive essay, rooted in a sentence or phrase that we’ll provide. Don’t worry. We won’t give you something in Tolkien High Fantasy Dying Wizard voice (although we’ve been tempted). Feel free to skim back through the Super Challenge archive for some examples of words and sentences we’ve used in the final round. It’ll give you something to do between now and Friday besides bite your nails. If you bite your nails too much it actually hurts to type. Ask me how I know.
Sound fun? Let’s see who made it to the final ten!
Congratulations to Our Advancing Writers
Let’s have a hand for the following writers, in alphabetical order:
Asma Alsalameh
Donna-Louise Bishop
Katie Entner
Joshua Flores
Rebekah Kuschmider
JJ Mikel
Nisha Mody
Jennifer Palmer
Robin Quackenbush
Paige Vest
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 about twelve hours ago.
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. If you post it on your own blog, why not slap our handy Super Challenge sticker on it and link up right here, so that future Super Challenge writers can see what it takes to enter?
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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.
