by Stacie Dalrymple | Aug 1, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Microprose, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Stop Bee-ing A Jerk, 2020 Earlier this week, I landed in the emergency room with anaphylaxis. I’ve had fairly severe local reactions to bee and wasp venom my entire life, so I knew this was a possibility at some point, but 2020 is really trying to go down in...
by Christine Hanolsy | Aug 1, 2020 | 2020 Hindsight, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Tap tap, is this thing on? Think about this: you’re at a party. You’re telling your favorite anecdote about the time you hid a bunch of frogs under a basket in the garage, and what happened when they got loose (spoilers: they scared your mom half to death...
by Rowan | Aug 1, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
It all hangs together When I was a kid, my dad would take us down to the river, or the lake, and he’d go fishing. In the days when I was still too little to hold even my own downsized pole (the one that sits in a corner here now, in case my niece is ever...
by Christine Hanolsy | Jul 31, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Just? It’s probably my least favorite word in the English language, honestly: JUST. Not only because right now “just” and “justice” are super-fraught words, but because they’re weaponized in other ways. “Just write,”...
by Stacie Dalrymple | Jul 29, 2020 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Kissing Chicken Today is both National Chicken Wing Day AND National Lipstick Day. Does this mean chickens have lips? I didn’t think so. But you don’t need to kiss a chicken on the lips to read and vote on the grids! Or to comment – don’t...
by Nathan James | Jul 25, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Vacationing from the pandemic Yeah, it’s weird, but it’s happening. I take a break every year around now to hang out with my family and friends in northern Michigan. There’s usually about 30 of us in assorted cabins around a lake, but this year...
