by Rowan | Jul 10, 2015 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, gargleblaster, micro challenge, microfiction, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]”It’s a fine essay, but you buried the lede,” I told my mentee earlier this week. What does that mean, buried the lede? It means the heart of your story or essay is so far removed from the...
by Rowan | Jul 8, 2015 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, gargleblaster, micro challenge, microfiction, Microprose, Nonfiction, the speakeasy, Voting, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Vote for your favorite nonfiction, fiction and microstories here Do you ever worry that your browser history has you on so many secret watch lists that you can’t go to the corner grocery without a Man in Black following...
by Erica Mullenix | Jul 6, 2015 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] Distraction-free writing: is there such a thing? I close my bedroom door. I plug in my earbuds. I listen to, on loop, music so familiar, it’s like spooning the cuddliest dog in the world. Yet,...
by Rowan | Jul 3, 2015 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, gargleblaster, micro challenge, microfiction, Microprose, Nonfiction, the speakeasy, Winners, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Canada Day. The Fourth of July. Heck, even Bastille Day. There’s just something vaguely revolutionary and patriotic about this month in the Western half of the world. For example, did you know that on...
by Rowan | Jul 1, 2015 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, gargleblaster, micro challenge, microfiction, Microprose, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Vote for your favorite nonfiction, fiction and microstories here But first, a brief announcement: WINTER IS COMING. That’s right. My summer vacation is over, the Solstice has passed, and here in the Northern Hemisphere the...
by Nathan James | Jun 29, 2015 | Challenge, Nonfiction, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] Reading in my brain. How long has it been since you’ve read a book you just can’t put down? You know, that one book in thirty that makes you stay up all night to find out the next earth-shattering...