Popular voting for the yeah write #291 weekly writing challenge is now open! Vote by 10pm ET on Thursday for your favorite nonfiction and fiction|poetry entries!

Before you vote

The feedback from the vote is great to have, but without your personal touch, we won’t know what we’re doing right and what areas we can focus on to do better next week. Please take a moment to make a thoughtful comment on each post you read. This is about community. We want to encourage constructive criticism as well as applause. We all want to improve our writing and you can help! Don’t just say “I liked it” – get specific!

How do I vote?

Both nonfiction and fiction|poetry challenges are open below for your voting pleasure. The rules are simple:

1. Everyone gets three votes on each grid.
2. Self-voting is not allowed. That’s cheating. You want an honest win, right?
3. Targeted votes (social media contacts coming in and voting just for you) are not allowed. That’s also cheating. Voters must read all the entries on a grid before voting for their top three.
4. Votes must be based on the quality of writing, not your friendship with the author. If you’re torn between two posts, vote for the one that has better writing. That means grammar, punctuation and spelling as well as sentence structure and concept. The hard work of becoming a better writer structurally is important, and we want you all to feel like you earned every vote!

To vote for a post, scroll down to each grid and click on the heart within the thumbnail. Once you’ve voted for your three favorites, you will be able to view the vote tallies after refreshing the page.

Have fun!