First of all, are you kidding me? Twenty Super Challenges? We’ve been doing this for five years? Kids that weren’t even born for Super Challenge One can read now? Well. I guess that’s another generation of writers. Here’s hoping we’ll still be writing these “here’s another Super Challenge” posts by the time they get around to telling their own stories. In the meantime, it’s still your turn!
That’s right. Registration opens today for YeahWrite’s TWENTIETH(!!) Super Challenge. We’re taking it back to fiction this time around, with prompted 48-hour stories. Here are a few things you can expect:
- Unique, anthology-style prompts.
- Personalized feedback on every entry from professional editors and writers.
- Guaranteed minimum cash prizes: $150 for first place, $100 for second, and $50 for third – but the prizes go up the more entrants we get.
- A wonderful and supportive community of writers on Facebook and Discord!
Super Challenge? What’s that?
All of the editors at YeahWrite are writers too. That’s why when we sat down and started brainstorming ideas for how to run a writing competition that we’d want to pay to enter we ended up with three bullet points: cash prizes, high-quality feedback, and getting that feedback in time to learn from it.
Every writer in our Super Challenge gets substantive feedback on their story from every judge who reads their work before the next round of the competition starts. That means you’ll have a pretty good idea what you need to work on before going into the next round. It also means that nobody walks away with nothing. We know nothing’s worse as a writer than a blank rejection, a “your work didn’t make the cut” with no idea why.
As much as we do love feedback, we also love cash prizes. And writers. We love writers. So what better way to combine the two than to say more writers means more money? Once registration closes and we count up the entry fees, we split the pot: half of the fees we receive go directly into the prize pot. That means the more friends you convince to sign up with you, the bigger the prizes you could win!
What are you waiting for? Check out our prompts, schedule, and more at Super Challenge #20!
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.
