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...
Congratulations to the Winners of YeahWrite’s Super Challenge #25
The Big Bang We often refer to microprose as the tiniest stories with the biggest bang. But you have to work for the bang. Micros don't have to pack less of a punch than a full-length short story or even a novella, but to get that emotional payload in, every word has...
Congratulations to the YeahWrite Super Challenge #25 Shortlist!
Short and sweet It's okay - we know you're really here for the results, so we won't keep you waiting long. But before we get to the shortlist, let's take a look at some of the trends we saw across the board. Creative takes on the prompts! While we don't truly...
Super Challenge #25 is Underway!
Big stories, little spaces Hi, and welcome to YeahWrite's second official microfiction challenge. We used to run micros all the time on our free grids - folks seemed to get a kick of telling big stories with a very limited number of words. And so here we are again,...
Registration is OPEN for YeahWrite’s 25th Super Challenge
Micro what now? We love stories of all shapes and sizes. Flash fiction and creative nonfiction - stories and essays under 1000 words - have been our mainstay for over seven years. But sometimes we like to shake things up a little, and this summer seems like a great...
Congratulations to the Winners of YeahWrite’s Super Challenge #24
Onomatopoeia Look, it's a better header than "carnival noises, ding ding ding" but that's what's going through our heads this week as we cheer for our Super Challenge winners! This turned out to be one of our harder prompts, with many writers struggling to interpret...
The final round of Super Challenge #24 is underway!
Everything old is new again When you've read quite a few things, you start to notice patterns. Stories that are told over and over again, plus or minus a few tweaks. Hamlet and the Lion King, for example. If you're as enamored of yourself as Joseph Campbell was, you...
Congratulations to the Round 1 winners at YeahWrite Super Challenge #24
I HATE EVERYTHING I'VE EVER WRITTEN AND I SHOULD STOP FOREVER It's hard not to to feel like that sometimes, right? Especially when you get your feedback. And especially when it looks like you got a lot more negative than positive. But think about it: to write good...
Super Challenge #24 Round 1 is Underway!
Read the whole post Subtle, aren't we? But no. We do mean it. Read the whole post. One of the things we pride ourselves on as we kick off the TWENTY FOURTH Super Challenge is that we never hide the ball. We're not here to trick you or give you impossible prompts. We...
Registration is OPEN for YeahWrite’s 24th Super Challenge
Not your average writing competition Seven years ago, a few of the YeahWrite editors put their heads together to design a writing competition that would be as much fun to run as it would be to enter. It took a little tweaking here and there, but we think we've really...
Congratulations to the Winners of YeahWrite’s Super Challenge #23
I got an ulcer waiting for this post! People have asked us why we release feedback the way we do. It's because we want you to sit with it. That's the short answer. The long answer is that both positive and negative feedback lands more gently if you don't know yet if...
The final round of Super Challenge #23 is underway!
Did you miss us? The final round of YeahWrite's 23d Super Challenge starts, well, now. Our judges are waiting with bated (not baited, ew, check those homophones) breath for your essays. I have a hunch it's going to be a close one, based on the great essays in the...