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Giving Thanks
It’s Thanksgiving week here in the U.S., so I’m going to do the most expected thing on the internet: Express my gratitude.
Thank you, dear participants, readers, and lurkers, for supporting us week in and week out. Your enthusiasm keeps me going.
And thank you to my wonderful, amazing, hard working, dedicated teammates. The amount of work they put in to keep everything here going is second to none.
We’re headed into the end of the year frenzy. Yeah write has undergone some changes in the past 6 months and there are more to come. I think you’re going to be excited about them. We’re working to bring the best experience to all of you, to make your time here worthwhile, and to bring you a community-centered writing experience you can be proud to be a part of. I can’t wait to see how this next year plays out. I hope you are, too. On behalf of everyone here at yeah write, thanks for being here.
Yeah write super challenge #2
The results of the third and final round of super challenge #2 were released on Friday! We had a blast reading all your entries, and we hope our participants had fun writing for the challenges. Congrats to the winners!
Did you miss out on registration? Don’t fret! Just sign up for our email blast so you don’t miss out on any announcements regarding the next super challenge.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
The basics
Yeah write gives you two competitive challenge grids — nonfiction and fiction|poetry — both of which are unmoderated. Everyone gets to the voting round on Thursday. (Remember, your post must be dated appropriately, not be offensive to our audience, and cannot be over word count.) Got a question? E-mail us, tweet us, ping us on Facebook, or visit our online community, the yeah write coffeehouse. You can learn more about yeah write in our FAQ. Please make sure you are familiar with our submission guidelines before you enter. We don’t have a lot of rules, but we do enforce them across the board. We’d hate to see anyone get disqualified by a technicality.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
Bring us your personal essays and creative nonfiction!
The nonfiction challenge grid opens on Monday at midnight EST. This is the best place on the ‘net to showcase your best writing. Make us laugh, make us cry, make us think, and above all: make us care.
Nonfiction know-how: boundaries
It’s that time again. Yeah, you guessed it: the season of family holidays. When the biggest thing on your mind is how your family is driving you absolutely freakin’ nuts and you can’t think of anything else to blog about, but you swore that with NaBloPoMo kicking off you’d write at least something every day. Don’t worry. Rowan is here to help you through it.
Is fiction more your thing?
The fiction|poetry grid opens on Tuesday. Grab a mic and join our monthly poetry slam or check out our weekly prompt up!
Prompt up!
Prompt up is our optional weekly writing prompt for the fiction|poetry challenge! Here’s how it works: we choose a sentence prompt from last week’s winning nonfiction post and announce it in the kickoff. It’s your job to use that prompt as the first sentence in your poem or story and then run with it. The prompt is just a springboard, though: feel free to keep it as your first sentence, move it, change it, or float down it to other territories.
This week’s Prompt Up taken from Melony’s essay The Case is: We are haunted by similar stories.
November poetry slam: the echo
The Echo myth might be one of Rowan’s least favorite stories of Greek mythology, but it lends its name to one of her new favorite poetry forms. Unlike Echo, you still get to control your words in this month’s poetry slam. Well, most of them anyway. An echo poem is a poem that doesn’t have terminal rhymes or scansion (thank her later) but it has a strict internal rhyme scheme. Learn more from Rowan here.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
Winners’ round-up
In case you missed them, you can find last week’s yeah write staff picks and crowd favorites all laid out for you on Friday’s winners’ post. Leave the winners some love in the comments. They will love you right back, we guarantee it.
Weekend writing showcase
The weekend’s not over: the moonshine grid is still open. Have something to add? Old posts and new are welcome. No moderation, no voting. It’s a laid-back relaxed kind of place. Just leave your commercial or sponsored posts at home. Drop by, share your work, and while you’re there, visit your fellow yeah writers.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
