It’s a new day
So, new look, new schedule, and even a few new guidelines. How’s it working for you? All this change didn’t cramp your style any, judging by last week’s grids. Did you miss the winners? Check out our all-new combined winners post to see them all.
New schedule: non-fiction challenge opens Mondays, gargleblaster micro challenge opens Wednesdays
- Sunday: New challenge week kicks off.
- Monday: Non-fiction challenge grid opens
- Tuesday: Speakeasy fiction challenge grid opens (over at the speakeasy until October 14)
- Wednesday: Gargleblaster micro challenge grid opens
- Thursday: All grids close, and voting opens.
- Friday: Winners announced by noon, and the moonshine grid opens
- Saturday: Moonshine grid open until 11:59 pm
Get all the details in the yeah write #179 kickoff post.
New guidelines: moderated grids
All three challenge grids — non-fiction, fiction and micro — are now moderated. Though the focus of each challenge grid is different, there are a couple of things that we are looking for across the board: compelling stories with a strong “so what” that are free from grammatical errors and that demonstrate exceptional attention to structure and language. Let us take a second here to remind you about our love letters – a feature that sets us apart from many other writing sites.
We call them “love letters” for a reason. In other words:
You will never get a form rejection letter from yeah write. That’s why I’m here, after all. If you don’t make it onto the grid one week, you will get a personal letter explaining how your post fell short or didn’t fit, so you know exactly what you need to work on for next week! Sometimes that will be as simple as “hey, this has way too many words.” Other times it will be a more complex “I’m really struggling to connect your story about the baby ducks with the story about the mailbox. Are you sure this shouldn’t be two posts? Can you tie it together better?” Either way, you’ll know what more we’re looking for from you.
– Rowan G., submissions editor
If you need a second pair of eyes to look your piece over, we encourage you to visit the yeah write coffeehouse to find a writing partner.
Fall season writing contest coming October 19
To celebrate our fourth fall season and the return of our fiction/poetry challenge to yeah write, we will be hosting a four-week writing challenge on each grid: non-fiction, fiction/poetry and microfiction. The winners of the challenge can win $100 cash. If you invite a friend to the challenge and your friend wins instead of you? You each get $100: your friend for winning and you for referring the winner to yeah write. At this writing, there will be one winner across all three challenges, and you can enter all three throughout the four-week period. What I would do, though, is concentrate on entering 2-4 really solid pieces during that time (as opposed to 12) and bringing in as many writer friends as possible. Either you will win outright, earning the winner’s 100 bucks or one of your referrals will win, earning you 100 bucks.
Right now, we have $200 in prizes, but hopefully by the time the contest kicks off, we’ll have more to award the best writers on each grid. If the winner arrives at yeah write without a referral (or has been around so long, we are the referrer), we’ll keep that money for another writing contest. Spread the word.
This week’s ultimate question: what did she tell you?
Answer this question in exactly 42 words for the gargleblaster micro challenge, or use it to inspire your submission to the non-fiction challenge grid.
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