by Christine Hanolsy | Jun 12, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
School’s out (for the summer) It’s my kids’ last day of school before summer break, and for the first time in, well, ever, I don’t have a nine-to-five job. They won’t be home all day every day, but I’m looking forward to some long...
by Rowan | Jun 8, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Is it summer yet? It’s June, but the weather isn’t cooperating. One day it’ll be in the 80’s (around 30C) and the next it’s 20 degrees colder and raining. The rain soothes my sunburn, though, so I guess I can’t complain. Besides, it...
by Rowan | Jun 7, 2019 | Nonfiction, Super Challenge, YeahWrite
What goes around, comes around There’s nothing like a fast deadline to really get a writer’s adrenaline pumping. But why should the fiction writers have all the fun? YeahWrite started eight years ago with creative nonfiction, and we’re still...
by Christine Hanolsy | Jun 7, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
That was easy. You might or might not have seen that commercial. The office supplies one? The one where at the end a character hits a big red button and a voice booms THAT WAS EASY. That’s how I feel about some conversations we’ve been having lately in our...
by Christine Hanolsy | Jun 5, 2019 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
All together now I went to my second grader’s school play today. It wasn’t much in terms of length—only five minutes—but it told the story of an old man who grew an enormous turnip, a turnip so big that he couldn’t pull it out on his own. So the old...
by Christine Hanolsy | Jun 5, 2019 | Challenge, Microprose, Open, YeahWrite
Welcome to the jungle I may live in the city now, but I grew up steps away from the woods. Our backyard was full of all sorts of charismatic critters—and a bunch of less charismatic ones, too. (Don’t ask about the night I mistook a skunk for our black...
