by Rowan | Aug 16, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Dying of deadlines It’s the last week of the Super Challenge, and last round’s winners are waiting for their prompt. It’s the last day of this week’s grids, and those winners wanna know, too. In the meantime, all I’ve won is three sets of...
by Stacie Dalrymple | Aug 14, 2019 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Easy Breezy August, the end of summer here in the greater Boston area, is amazing. Sure, it can be hot. But people clear out. It’s so easy to do stuff. No lines at the stores, walking into restaurants without reservations, and much less traffic are just a few of...
by Rowan | Aug 14, 2019 | Nonfiction, Super Challenge, Winners, YeahWrite
Winning – or advancing in – a writing competition should be a matter of skill, not luck. But I’ll be very real with y’all: this time it almost came down to luck. In more than one of our groups, despite our distributed judging method, there were...
by Asha Rajan | Aug 10, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Thunderstruck As I write this, a small dog shivers on my lap, burying her head into the fold between my belly and my thigh. Thunder claps overhead, rattling the windows. It’s Djilba; the fifth of six seasons in the Noongar (or Nyungar, Nyoongar, Nyoongah,...
by Rowan | Aug 9, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Rough re-entry Some people (cough*Nate*cough) take a break from writing and return invigorated. They have new ideas, new energy, new passion for their work. And if that’s you, I’m jealous, because when I take a break from writing it’s like …...
by Stacie Dalrymple | Aug 7, 2019 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Rest in Power “If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.” –Toni Morrison The world lost an amazing, influential writer this week. So many of us are heartbroken by the death of...
