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yeah write #194 weekly writing challenge: challenge winners

by | Jan 2, 2015 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, gargleblaster, micro challenge, microfiction, Microprose, Nonfiction, the speakeasy, Winners, YeahWrite | 3 comments

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]2015.  If the movies are right, this is the year we get hoverboards. And if that isn’t enough, giant mechs will protect the earth from at least one alien invasion. We’ll establish a permanent colony on the Moon, although we might be held back a little by that Simian Flu outbreak. And we’ll undertake a vital oceanographic survey that ends in… well. No spoilers.

Me, I’m just happy to put 2014 in my rearview mirror and keep driving my flying car into the future.

But you don’t have to live in a bad science fiction movie to get something out of 2015. Scroll down and check out the grids for the first popular vote results of the future![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]

Yeah write #194 weekly writing challenge staff picks: non-fiction

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first person possessive by bill

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Moving without being manipulative, Bill’s story is made up of three scenes that reveal the evolution of his relationship with his father. He carefully selects details that show his father’s transition from virility to death. Yet, amid the changes, Bill uses parallel language and structure to keep us grounded in similarities, not differences. My favorite part of this story is how even as an adult Bill calls shotgun to be at the head of his father’s deathbed where he can utter the words that let his dad go.
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Yeah write #194 weekly writing challenge staff picks: fiction|poetry

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blitzkrieg by yeshu

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Cleverness, as well as compactness, counts for a lot in poetry, and this poem packs a wallop of both. Each of the three stanzas, made up of only three lines of five to eight syllables, carefully combines spartan phrasing with potent imagery. These images–particularly the reversal of sound and scent–create a mood of confusion. This, combined with the certainty imbued in the speaker’s assertions, propels the reader to the end and its inevitable question.
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Yeah write #194 weekly writing challenge staff picks: microstories

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silvester by jennifer

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When you only have 42 words, you have to make every one of them count. Sometimes it’s tempting to hyphenate everything into one long word-full-of-meanings-and-nuances (that’s only one word, right?). At first glance, Jennifer’s wordplay seems to be heading that direction, and then you dig deeper and find the nuances: “deadleaf expectations” and running “lightquick” are not clumsy attempts to cram more words in, but cleverly tangled compounds. Once you see it, there’s no going back. Just as there’s no word for schadenfreude but schadenfreude, the words in this piece could not have been more perfect for the job if Jennifer had made them herself. Oh, wait… 
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Congratulations to this week’s winners! If you earned the highest number of votes in either challenge, you are this week’s crowd favorite. If you came in second or third, you get top row honors along with the crowd fave. Grab your winner’s badge from our sidebar!

As a reminder, fiction|poetry, nonfiction and microstories winners collect the same badges.

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

Still recovering from that New Year’s Eve party? Yeah, me too. Natalie’s got a full pitcher of your favorite hangover remedy waiting on the moonshine grid, starting at 6pm. The bar is fully stocked with painkillers and vitamin C, so drop on by with your noncommercial posts and start 2015 off with a (very quiet) bang.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]

Yeah write #194 challenge results and popular vote winners

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3 Comments

  1. inNateJames
    inNateJames on [Fri] 2 Jan 15 at 5:00 pm

    Congrats winners! A really strong showing in all of the contests considering it was an unmoderated week.

  2. Jennifer G. Knoblock
    Jennifer G. Knoblock on [Fri] 2 Jan 15 at 2:34 pm

    Schadenfreude, love that word! Thanks-for-the-editor’s-pick-I’m-happyhonored. 🙂 Congrats, all!

  3. Cyn K
    Cyn K on [Fri] 2 Jan 15 at 12:09 pm

    A great start to the new year. Congratulations to all the winners.

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