by Rowan | Aug 25, 2017 | Nonfiction, Super Challenge, Winners, YeahWrite
This is the end, my friend The judges’ results are in and tallied and we’re ready to announce the winners of our fifth Super Challenge! That means it’s time to stop comparing your feedback and trying to guess what it means about your score. (Hint:...
by Rowan | Aug 16, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Super Challenge, YeahWrite
If money grew on trees, would it fall into my hands in the autumn? Money doesn’t, tragically (or actually when you consider how inflation works, that’s probably a good idea), grow on trees. But it does grow with each additional registration in the...
by Rowan | Aug 11, 2017 | Nonfiction, Super Challenge, YeahWrite
Congratulations on making it to the final round of the YeahWrite Super Challenge! This round you’ll have a new kind of prompt: a sentence. Each writer will incorporate that sentence into an essay about… well, about wherever that sentence takes them for...
by Rowan | Aug 9, 2017 | Nonfiction, Super Challenge, YeahWrite
Whew. That’s over. If personal essays are a creative nonfictioneer’s meat and milk, it’s still important to know how to persuade your audience. That’s what Round Two tested. If you, like many of our writers, felt a little out of your depth,...
by Rowan | Jul 28, 2017 | Nonfiction, Super Challenge, YeahWrite
There are 48 Ptolemaic constellations. There are also 48 hours remaining in which our Round Two writers will produce a work of nonfiction. Coincidence? Yes. Entirely. In Round Two, we’ll be looking for persuasive essays. A persuasive essay utilizes logic and...
by Rowan | Jul 26, 2017 | Nonfiction, Super Challenge, Winners, YeahWrite
Returning Super Challengeers, you probably noticed that Round One was handled a little differently from past Super Challenges. Instead of waiting around for that 10:00 pm email, you got your group assignment early and picked up your own prompt at 10:00. How’d...
