Registration is OPEN for YeahWrite’s FINAL Super Challenge for Flash Fiction
L'esprit de l'escalier It's a French colloquialism for coming up with the perfect response to something well after the moment to say it has passed. We're here to save you from that feeling, but don't let our moment pass you by. After seven years, YeahWrite is hosting...
Congratulations to the Winners of YeahWrite’s Super Challenge #28
Unraveling As we mentioned in our guide to genre prompts a while back (cue the "it's been 84 years" meme) there are some genres that are checklists of things to be included, and some that ask you to change your style or narrative voice. Both kinds, however, ask you to...
The final round of Super Challenge #28 is underway!
So you've got 48 hours... to finish a story. From plot to pinnacle. That's not a lot of time. So while you're mulling over our mixed-genre prompt and trying to find your way into the story you'll submit, take a few minutes and make yourself a little housekeeping...
Congratulations to the Round 1 winners at YeahWrite Super Challenge #28
Think positive! By now, all of our writers have been gnashing their teeth over their feedback for a few hours. It's easy to focus on the negatives, but remember: the judges are specifically asked to point out what they see as the strong points as well as the weak...
Super Challenge #28 Round 1 is Underway!
Let's do this! Are you ready for 48 hours of frantically writing and then just as frantically second-guessing your idea? Before you go grab your prompt and start doing that, we'd like a word. Specifically, we need to talk to you about AI. Against the backdrop of the...
Congratulations to the Winners of YeahWrite’s Super Challenge #27
Dear diary (don't) The trick to writing good memoir - and personal essays are a form of memoir - is making sure you don't tell the reader more about yourself than you intended. What you thought was a funny story might end up being, well, unintentionally revealing. And...
The final round of Super Challenge #27 is underway!
Time, time, time SPECIAL NOTE: This weekend, the US marks the beginning of Daylight Saving Time, which means we lose an hour. Because we don't want to penalize our writers, we will close submissions at 11:00 pm US Eastern Time on Sunday, March 12 (instead of 10:00...
Congratulations to the Round 1 winners at YeahWrite Super Challenge #27
Write here, write now. Creative nonfiction is uncomfortable. It's vulnerable. And it's amazing. Congratulations to ALL our writers. The judges worked hard to give you the valuable feedback that could take your essays to the next level (if you're not on our Discord...
Super Challenge #27 Round 1 is Underway!
You're on your own Just kidding. While by the time you see this post I'll have fled the country (just to Canada, don't worry), you're never really on your own as a writer at YeahWrite. Don't believe me? Head over to the Super Challenge Discord channel and find...
Registration is OPEN for YeahWrite’s 27th AND 28th Super Challenges
Enticing? It's a new year, and we're enthused. We hope you're as enraptured as we are by the news that YeahWrite is putting together our first ever anthology, and that you're... you know what, I designed this whole paragraph around a bunch of "en" words and now I'm...
Congratulations to the Winners of YeahWrite’s Super Challenge #26
A few of my favorite things No, it's not raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens. OK the kittens thing maybe. I don't have a cat problem, and I'm not a cat lady, I swear. But besides kittens, what I love is feedback from our judges that goes like this: Every story...
The final round of Super Challenge #26 is underway!
Put a bow on it We're wrapping up the year (see what I did there) with our last Super Challenge round of 2022. We apologize in advance for making you go through pretty much any holiday you might be celebrating this month while waiting to see who won, and...
Congratulations to the Round 1 winners at YeahWrite Super Challenge #26
Why we're all here I'm going to keep this short and sweet - we all know you're really here for the results! As YeahWrite's Editor-in-Chief, I don't usually get the chance to comment on the Super Challenge stories. But I do make a point to read as many as I can, during...
Super Challenge #26 Round 1 is Underway!
This is not a long recipe post If you've met the Internet, you've met someone on it complaining that they had to read a 5,000 word blog post to get to a recipe. Leaving aside the underlying questions of recipe copyright (they're not) and anecdotes about grandmothers...
Registration is OPEN for YeahWrite’s 26th Super Challenge
Jumpstart, kickstart, push start Sometimes writing feels like a smooth machine, well-oiled gears turning and pistons churning to spill words onto the page. Sometimes it... doesn't. And that's when it's time to haul out the jumper cables, stomp on the lever, or roll...