by Rowan | Nov 13, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
In the end I’ve put off writing this until the last minute. I know. It turns out nobody, including me, writes better like that. But in a way, as long as I put off writing this post, the last grid didn’t close for me. And for more than half a decade,...
by Rowan | Nov 6, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
That breathless moment The stage is set. The theater is full. The curtain is still drawn and the lights haven’t–quite–dimmed. Are you ready for what’s coming? Find out tonight in the kickoff for YeahWrite’s 500th week. To kill time while...
by Rowan | Oct 30, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Hurtling toward… 500. That’s right, it’s been almost 500 consecutive weeks of YeahWrite. OK, it’s been like 38 weeks of lovelinks and a couple hundred of yeah write and then the rest as YeahWrite but our point is, Captain Nitpickersons, that...
by Rowan | Oct 23, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Can’t can Or, rather, I can can, and I’m so tired of canning that the five back to back 12-hour days I just worked felt like a respite. I have apple butter, plum butter, sauerkraut (that’s not canned, if you’re keeping score; it’s...
by Rowan | Oct 16, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Falling for… fall. It’s finally here: weather that makes me want tomato soup with rosemary in it, and grilled cheese cut into soldiers for dipping. Nutmeg in everything (yes, in my coffee this morning) and cardamom and ginger and thick socks and piles of...
by Rowan | Oct 9, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
It’s Octobruary Mayly? Jugumber? Whatever month of 2020 it is, it must be the first weekend, because there’s a micro grid on this post. If that wasn’t enough micro for you, though, you can totally sign up for our first micro Super Challenge before it...