by Stacie Dalrymple | May 15, 2019 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Spring Cold I was healthy all winter but now I have a spring cold. The weather’s been terrible though, rainy and dismal, so at least Mother Nature is commiserating with me, I guess. I’ve been popping the zinc cough drops, and I think they might be working?...
by Rowan | May 15, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Super Challenge, Winners, YeahWrite
What a great turnout for Super Challenge 12! The good news is, the math worked out in a way that advances 12, not 10, writers to the final round. Once again, anything that went right is entirely due to our admin team’s untiring work behind the scenes, and...
by Christine Hanolsy | May 10, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Liquid sunshine Hey YeahWriters, Christine here! Rowan is taking a short—but well-deserved—vacation to the rainy midwest while I’ve been enjoying an early summer at home, so I’m covering the winners post this week. It looks like this week’s fiction...
by Stacie Dalrymple | May 8, 2019 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Rain, Rain, Go Away The first winter I lived in the greater Boston area, Mother Nature delivered the most snow in recorded history. Now, we’ve had the wettest month in recorded history. I am really tired of breaking all-time weather records. I just want some...
by Rowan | May 3, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Sumer is icumen in And I’m not ready for it. The quince is flowering, the dogwoods are getting ready to do their thing, and that darn currant is already setting fruit. It’s going to be a good year for blueberries, too. But it’s been a rough spring,...
by Stacie Dalrymple | May 1, 2019 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
O I spy a cuckoo, a cuckoo, a cuckoo It’s the merry month of May, although quite a few folks in the USA and Canada can be forgiven for wondering if they woke up in the wrong hemisphere this week! But where I am (and, I hear, where Rowan and Christine are)...