Parting is such sweet (registration is already open for super challenge ten) sorrow
The judges’ results are in and tallied and we’re ready to announce the winners of our ninth Super Challenge! Winners, you’ll also get an email confirming your details so that we can send your prizes to you.
Wow. Nine. That means we’ve been doing this for years. When we started the Super Challenge we didn’t know if we’d make it through more than one series, especially for the nonfiction writers. There just aren’t a lot of “flash nonfiction” challenges out there, but we love it and we think it deserves its own special place on the net. 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!
Once again, anything that went right is entirely due to our admin team’s untiring work behind the scenes, and anything you hate is almost certainly my fault.
Okay okay okay but who won?
I’m supposed to write some chirpy intro text here but let’s be real, I could use lorem ipsum and you wouldn’t notice, because you’re scrolling to find out…
First Place
$100
Trish Tuthill
The Cloak of Expectations
Second Place
$75
Jennifer Palmer
This Is Not a Penis Poem
Third Place
$50
Danielle Dayney
Blurred Lines
Honorable Mention:
Donna-Louise Bishop
Paige Vest
Runners-up:
(in alphabetical order)
Penny Devlin
Josh Flores
Leah Gage
Congratulations again to everyone who entered. In many cases, only a few points separated one essay from the next on our final scoresheet. Hopefully you’re finding your feedback useful and relevant!
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.
