by Christine Hanolsy | Dec 18, 2019 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Indomitable So in August, my kids and I started taking Taekwon-do together. It’s pretty physically intense, but before we were even allowed to start learning forms, attacks, and blocks, we had to memorize the five tenets of Taekwon-do: Courtesy, Integrity,...
by Nathan James | Dec 14, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Wandering Into the Cornfields Yeah, I wasn’t even close to making my 2019 writing goals, but that’s okay. I made them before I knew what the year had in store for me and sometimes health, career, and relationships need to take precedence. I’m...
by Rowan | Dec 13, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Always Winter, and Never Christmas The first book I remember analyzing was The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, after my mother took it out of my hands — I must have been all of nine, I think — and said scornfully “You know Aslan is just Jesus,...
by Christine Hanolsy | Dec 11, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Cutting through the fog Between the weather, school commitments, and the inevitable blur of the holiday season, my brain is feeling particularly foggy right now. Every time I sit down to write, it feels like walking blindly into the mist, and I’m too worried...
by Michelle Longo | Dec 7, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Just Write Sometimes you want to write something and it’s based on real events and to use what actually happened in your writing will have an adverse effect. Maybe it’s a nonfiction essay where you can’t directly call someone out because of...
by Christine Hanolsy | Dec 6, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Glitter Season Sure, everyone has a favorite season. Pumpkin Spice season (hint: it’s not spiced pumpkin)? Beach season? Me, I like Glitter Season. It starts at Halloween (or Diwali in years when Diwali comes first) and ends right around the Lunar New Year. In...
