Y’all, it’s a Monday night, I’m trying to watch a movie, the dog is Making That Noise, and you really just want to know who’s moving on, right? 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.

Buuuut, while the dog is chewing on a bone for the next MERCIFUL 45 seconds or so, let’s chat about the next round of the Super Challenge. Advancing writers will receive their group assignment via email on Friday morning (our time).

This round, our writers will be working with an image and an event. A few tips and pointers about this round:

• The image prompt is NOT the plot of your story. Or at least, it doesn’t have to be if you don’t want it to. It could provide a character in the story, something that happens, or a setting, or even a memory that a character has. You’re not off the hook for descriptions, though: a reader who sees the picture after completing your story should be able to immediately identify that moment in the story.
• The event doesn’t need to be a scene or setting in your story. It could even take place before your story starts. Or it could be the entire plot. It’s up to you!
• HOWEVER: Both prompts must be important enough that your story couldn’t happen in their absence. If you could just substitute in literally any other event or memory or object or person and have the story come out the same way? You haven’t integrated that prompt fully. That’s the hard part, right? Not just checking a box, but making a story out of these weird moving parts we give you. Of course, you’re pretty good at that already, because you made it past Round One. Play to your strengths, and don’t worry about writing a story that’s different from everyone else’s. Just write it the way only you can.

There are no genre or setting restrictions in this round.

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 the following writers, who will be advancing to the next round of the Super Challenge:

Rebecca Lovell
Yeshasvi Mahadev
Jolan Marchese
Oonagh McBride
JJ Mikel
Cayce Osborne
Trish Tuthill
Gail A. Webber
Jennifer Worrell

Wait, wait, there’s more!

First of all, we heard from more than one judge, about more than one story, “this writer should be getting this ready to submit to anthologies.” So, consider integrating your feedback, polishing your story, and doing just that. Even if you didn’t move on. You don’t know how tight the pack was in your group; you might have missed moving on by only a couple points. 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 do want to post your work on your blog or personal website, there’s a handy badge on the main Super Challenge 10 page that will link back to that page so your readers can see what a challenge you took on. You’re also welcome to link it up by clicking this handy blue button so that future Super Challenge writers can read your work!

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About the author:

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.

rowan@yeahwrite.me