Well, Round Two went off with only one miiiiiiinor hitch (it’s days like this that make me glad we no longer try to send out the prompt by email at a specific time and then respond to individual inquiries as they come in), and while I’m sure you’ve found something in your negative feedback to clutch to your heart (it’s easier to internalize that negative than it is to believe the positive, isn’t it?) here’s what I’m hearing from our judges:
“There’s overall a lot of good stuff here.”
“My group had several writers with a clear and appealing voice.”
“Overall this group seemed very comfortable blending personal anecdotes with persuasive techniques.”
All I’m saying is that if folks are telling me positive things instead of demanding an extra Starbucks card for being forced to suffer through your work, you should feel pretty good about that. Judges, that’s not an invitation to come ask for a Starbucks card. Seriously. Nice try.
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 advancing writers will be working with a word or phrase. Each writer will incorporate the prompt into an essay about… well, about wherever that sentence or phrase or single word takes them for inspiration. The essay could be personal or persuasive. The catch is that the prompt shouldn’t stick out or sound unnatural. Words should flow, nuance should be on-point, and our judges shouldn’t be able to tell where your writing ends and our prompt begins.
Sound fun? Let’s see who’ll be taking on that, er, super challenge:
Congratulations to Our Advancing Writers
Last round saw some thrills, chills and spills, but it also saw some great writing. Let’s have a hand for our final eight writers, who will be advancing to the last round of the Super Challenge:
Donna-Louise Bishop
Danielle Dayney
Penny Devlin
Josh Flores
Leah Gage
Jennifer Palmer
Trish Tuthill
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 markets. If you’d like to share your essay with future super challenge writers and you’ve got a blog or site to host it on, why not link it up right here? There’s even a fancy badge to put on it, down at the bottom of the main Super Challenge 9 page!
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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.
