by Rowan | Aug 18, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
I’m back, did you miss me? Did you even notice I was gone? I just spent a week in the mountains with no internet but lots of storytelling (and bears there were bears real live bears they were right next to us). My dad and I still go backpacking together when we...
by Michelle Longo | Aug 11, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
There’s a First Time for Everything I’m fairly certain that this is the first winners’ post I’ve ever written. But Rowan went and left the building* and now I’m here writing a winners’ post. My calendar tells me she’ll be back...
by Rowan | Aug 4, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners
It was the best of weeks, it was the worst of weeks Phew. Microprose, amirite? I’m not kidding when I say it’s our hardest challenge, both from the writer’s end and ours. Like every week, we keep an eye on the grid. We read (yes, even when we...
by Rowan | Jul 28, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Bear with me It’s a pun, get it? Sorry, my sense of humor isn’t what it might be: I’m coming off a three-day migraine punctuated by texts from my dad asking if I’ve finished the bear bells for our camping trip yet. See, bear bells are…...
by Rowan | Jul 26, 2017 | Nonfiction, Super Challenge, Winners, YeahWrite
Returning Super Challengeers, you probably noticed that Round One was handled a little differently from past Super Challenges. Instead of waiting around for that 10:00 pm email, you got your group assignment early and picked up your own prompt at 10:00. How’d...
by Rowan | Jul 21, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners
Making the grade Most teachers get at least part of the summer off (supposedly; I see you, teachers, working on your syllabi on unpaid time, and I want to thank you for it). But here at YeahWrite we’ve been busy all week “grading” Super Challenge...
