by Rowan | Mar 31, 2023 | Nonfiction, Super Challenge, Winners, YeahWrite
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,...
by Rowan | Mar 10, 2023 | Nonfiction, Super Challenge, YeahWrite
Round 2 Closes in: Day(s) : Hour(s) : Minute(s) : Second(s) 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...
by Rowan | Mar 8, 2023 | Nonfiction, Super Challenge, Winners, YeahWrite
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...
by Rowan | Feb 10, 2023 | Nonfiction, Super Challenge, YeahWrite
Round 1 closes in: Day(s) : Hour(s) : Minute(s) : Second(s) 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....
by Christine Hanolsy | Jan 6, 2023 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Super Challenge, YeahWrite
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...
by Rowan | Dec 23, 2022 | Fiction|Poetry, Super Challenge, Winners, YeahWrite
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...