by Rowan | Mar 4, 2016 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Thursdays can be rough here in the yeah write secret moon base. We editors read, reread and discuss (and hopefully comment; Nate is the best and I am the worst about this) every piece on every grid. The hardest Thursdays, though, are...
by Rowan | Mar 2, 2016 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Vote for your favorite nonfiction, fiction and microstories here Hullo from the coffeeshop across the street from my house, where there is power and internet and all sorts of lovely convenient things. Unlike my house, which is...
by Meg | Feb 29, 2016 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Why we’re here Spring is just a few weeks away, and the sleepy snowdrops in my garden are lifting their heads to the sky. Rowan hates spring. I can’t remember why, but that I know this at all speaks for our online...
by Rowan | Feb 26, 2016 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Yesterday, roses; today, lilies. More specifically, a charming little phrase that has fallen somewhat out of vogue in recent times: “Don’t gild the lily.” What does it mean, to gild the lily? Well. Here’s the...
by Meg | Feb 22, 2016 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Practice. I read Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers: The Story of Success with the anticipation that I would learn the secret password that takes an ordinary person and makes them extraordinary. Naturally, I was disappointed to...
by Rowan | Feb 19, 2016 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I don’t often post-mortem the grids. Not publicly, I mean. It’s not fair, right? I have access to all the inside information. J/K there’s no inside information- the editors read every piece with an eye to skill,...
