by Rowan | Oct 5, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Super Challenge, YeahWrite
Microfiction. Microprose. Short-short stories. “Drabbles.” No matter what your term for the shortest fiction out there is, we love it too. And with only a few tiny weeks remaining in 2020 (seriously? the longest year in ever is almost over?), we thought...
by Asha Rajan | Oct 3, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Microprose, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Same but different The last few weeks have felt especially hectic and exhausting to me. Or perhaps it’s just the accumulated weight of watching the world literally and figuratively burn, combined with the weird survivor’s guilt of living in a place where...
by Rowan | Oct 2, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Discrepancies I used to have an entire Tumblr that was just pictures like the one in the header image for this post. Beds, rumpled, white sheets, fluffy duvets. Almost always shades of taupe and light grey. Big windows, no curtains (or just sheers). Sunlight streaming...
by Christine Hanolsy | Oct 1, 2020 | 2020 Hindsight, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Everyone’s a poet Or at least, that’s true this month! At its heart, a poem is often a story using emotion rather than narrative structure to draw the reader in. One of the ways we prove the humanity of our characters – fiction or non- is by helping...
by Rowan | Oct 1, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
I have a pretty good visual memory… for reading. In fact, not only can I tell you what I read, I can tell you where on the page it was. And the shapes of the letters line up in my brain and make sense to me. So much sense that I was the state spelling champion....
by Stacie Dalrymple | Sep 30, 2020 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Windy Mary All three of my patio umbrellas blew over last night during the storm that raced through my neighborhood. I’m not surprised. But also, I find myself worrying about Mary Poppins using this as her primary mode of transportation. Umbrellas don’t...
