Welcome, virgins!

It was a week of firsts for almost half the grid with virgin yeah writers linking up ELEVEN of the 21 posts. Thanks for trying out yeah write! You’ll find a welcoming writers’ community that’s the perfect place to read and be read. Come back next week for another great challenge.

 Crowd favorite

“Freedom is Bought With” by Diana Odasso at A Southward Tide

Yeah write virgin Diana at A Southward Tide takes crowd favorite this week for her post “Freedom is Bought With.” It’s a deceptively simple piece that begs to be read more than once, so one can capture its nuances and delve into its emotional layers. Using short sentences and everyday language, the author pares down her prose so that every word counts. With lines like “I was thousands of miles from the last memory of me,” the loneliness and anguish of a coming of age in the Australian bush is laid bare. Congratulations, Diana! There’s a badge waiting for you in the sidebar to display on your blog. 

 Congratulations also to Stacie and Alisa, who round out our top row three! Grab your top row badges!

The kiwi of the week is…

“Questions” by Erin Michelle Threlfall at This Life

When we hit 30 entries on the challenge grid, the yeah write editors open up a curated invitational grid, adding their top reads to compete for our jury prize.  In weeks when there is no jury prize competition, we award the submissions editor kiwi to the post that most impressed Obed M, who moderates the yeah write challenge grid.  This week, the kiwi goes to Erin at This Life for her post “Questions.” Congratulations, Erin! You can grab your snazzy kiwi badge over in the sidebar. 

Did Comment Bob fall in love with you?

Bob loves the yeah write community spirit, and cheers on anyone who shows it to each post published on the challenge grid. See him over there in the sidebar waving his pompoms? Go grab a Comment Bob badge if you truly supported the yeah write community this week. Did you comment on the posts on the grid? Or maybe you hit the social media share buttons? On voting day, did you campaign fairly for the best posts on the grid, feeling inspired by — instead of threatened by — your competition? If so, Bob loves you so much, and he wants to visit your blog’s sidebar. Congratulations, you’ve won your own Bob.

Weekend moonshine grid opens today at 6 p.m. eastern time

It’s the weekend, and Natalie D is setting up her moonshine grid and bathtub gin just for you. The moonshine grid is the flip side of our weekly challenges: a no-stress link-up where we accept anything except commercial or sponsored posts. You can catch up with Natalie starting at 6 p.m. eastern time today. Closing time is midnight on Monday.

Win-win

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