Super Challenge #14 Round 1 is Underway!
Friday is the first day of your work week! Fine, that's a horrible sentiment. But like most freelancers, I work weekends too. So just know that while you're working on your story, I'm working on something horrifically boring and academic. Still, I get excited every...
Registration is OPEN for YeahWrite’s 14th Super Challenge
Now that school is in full swing and we're heading straight for the equinox, it's time to gear up for the next Super Challenge! That's right. Registration opens today for YeahWrite's fourteenth Super Challenge! We're taking it back to fiction this time around, with...
Congratulations to the Winners of YeahWrite’s Super Challenge #13
Another Super Challenge is in the bag... And I'm sorry to see it end. But kind of excited to be back in the Coffeehouse, and looking forward to our fall lineup with the next (fiction!) Super Challenge and another exciting surprise or two. Speaking of...
The final round of Super Challenge 13 is underway!
Well, here we are. The final round of Lucky Number 13, YeahWrite's nonfiction Super Challenge. We don't have 13 writers, of course, but 12, and they'll be competing for those sweet cash prizes. This round you're free to write personal or persuasive essays,...
Congratulations to the first round winners at YeahWrite Super Challenge #13
Winning - or advancing in - a writing competition should be a matter of skill, not luck. But I'll be very real with y'all: this time it almost came down to luck. In more than one of our groups, despite our distributed judging method, there were multiple-way ties. So I...
Super Challenge #13 Round One is Underway!
There's a phrase often used in talking about journalism and essays: burying the lede. It means to ramble on and on without giving the reader enough information to tell what the piece is really about. I won't bury this one though: we'll be moving twelve (not ten)...
Registration is OPEN for YeahWrite’s 13th Super Challenge
What goes around, comes around There's nothing like a fast deadline to really get a writer's adrenaline pumping. But why should the fiction writers have all the fun? YeahWrite started eight years ago with creative nonfiction, and we're still committed to the genre. So...
Congratulations to the Winners of YeahWrite’s Super Challenge #12
It's all over now... The judges' results are in and tallied and we're ready to announce the winners of our twelfth Super Challenge! Fun fact: in my hometown there was a street sign that read "twelveth street" so thanks for using spellcheck and not making 5th graders...
The Final Round of Super Challenge 12 is Underway
Welcome to the final round of Yeah Write's Super Challenge 12, shortlisted writers! This is SC 12 and there are 12 of you - coincidence? Who knows. But over the next 48 hours all 12 of you will be combining tropes from two genres to make a blended-genre story. I know...
Congratulations to the shortlisted writers at YeahWrite Super Challenge #12
What a great turnout for Super Challenge 12! The good news is, the math worked out in a way that advances 12, not 10, writers to the final round. Once again, anything that went right is entirely due to our admin team's untiring work behind the scenes, and anything you...
Super Challenge #12 Round 1 is Underway!
Welcome, fictioneers! OK, that was a little cloying. But I get excited every time we kick off a Super Challenge, and I'm incredibly excited about this prompt. I hope you are too. I love reading anthologies built on worlds or stories that are out of print, where...
Super Challenge #12 is OPEN for registration!
Welcome back! We've got some exciting news. 2019 swept in on a polar vortex here in the northern US, bringing changes to YeahWrite and our Super Challenge is no exception. If you participated in our nonfiction challenge this winter, you're already familiar with these...
Congratulations to the Winners of YeahWrite’s Super Challenge 11!
This is the end, my friend The judges' results are in and tallied and we're ready to announce the winners of our ELEVENTH (whoa) Super Challenge! Winners, you'll also get an email confirming your details so that we can send your prizes to you. Everyone else: remember...
Welcome to the Final Round of Super Challenge 11!
Welcome back, shortlisted writers! The twelve of you are already the best-of-the-best of a very good field, and our judges are looking forward to seeing what you do with this round's prompt. This final round is for either personal or persuasive essays. Personal...
Congratulations to the Round 1 winners at YeahWrite Super Challenge #11
Math is hard; you reap the benefits One of the things we pride ourselves on at YeahWrite is the quality and consistency of our judging. To give you the best and fairest results, we don't scatter your group's stories among a bunch of judges; each judge reads, scores,...