Weekly Writing Challenges Archive
Welcome to YeahWrite’s archives. Below, you’ll find all of our posts. We kick off each writing week on Friday (what?) with a new prompt for you. For 500 weeks YeahWrite hosted “weekly grids” which enabled writers to link their self-hosted responses, and to read and vote on each others’ work, as well as commenting. Check out our creative nonfiction, fiction|poetry, and microprose archives for a closer look at our nearly ten years of weekly writing competitions. While we no longer host weekly competition grids, we’re still delivering the prompts you love as well as our Super Challenge and classes. We also feature monthly instructional or challenge posts, which you’ll find collected here as well as in our writing help archive!
YeahWrite #334 Weekend Writing Showcase
The Weekend Writing Showcase is open! TGIF, YeahWriters! Did your life get in the way this week and not allow you to get on a grid? Did you get on but not use the prompts? Have another idea stowed away in that brain of yours? Then it's time to share it...
YeahWrite #334 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
I don't mean to sound alarmist, but I'm pretty sure this is the actual apocalypse. Everything that isn't on fire is underwater, and everything else is having earthquakes. Take care of yourselves and your families out there, people. You mean something. One...
YeahWrite #334 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Not Again Hurricane Irma, the strongest storm in the recorded history of the Atlantic Ocean, is currently decimating islands in the Caribbean and on track to hit Miami, where my son is a student. My heart goes out to everyone already suffering and those in Irma's...
YeahWrite #334 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Microprose
Everybody needs a little time away You may or may not have noticed, but I took a little vacation this summer, handing the microprose challenge over to my friend and colleague, Asha. The break let me focus on my own writing and editing projects for a bit and was just...
Summaries for Pitch and Page – Complete
Hey, gang. If you’ve been around a while, you’ve watched us grow from a small group of bloggers who wanted to take their writing to the next level, to a thriving community of writers engaged in a little friendly competition to grow their skills, to our...
YeahWrite #334 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Fiction|Poetry
Springing Into Action Spring is doing its very best to stage an appearance in the southern hemisphere. The days are getting longer and warmer, wildflowers are blooming, and my legs are finally emerging from the jeans that have been my winter uniform. It's also the...
YeahWrite #334 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Personal Essays & Mostly True Stories
Show Me Some Love As Michelle mentioned last week, she coerced me into helping out around here in the land of mostly true stories. Not really; I'm happy to lend a hand, even if she's trying to undermine my popularity. Under no circumstances should you listen to...
YeahWrite #334 Weekly Writing Challenge Kickoff
It's Way Too Early for This As I write this, it's Wednesday. It's only 2-cups-of-coffee-so-far o'clock, which means barely 7am. This post won't go live for about 89 hours and, if the way things have been going is any indication, literally anything can happen in the...
YeahWrite #333 Weekend Writing Showcase
The Weekend Writing Showcase is open! Happy Friday, YeahWriters! I don't think I've ever been so excited for a long weekend in my life, and I plan on devoting the majority of it to writing and editing. Nothing could be better, right? I find editing has...
YeahWrite #333 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Ch-ch-ch-changes! While our antipodean contingent heads into spring and the US and Canada burn to the ground everywhere there's not 5 feet of standing water ease into autumn, change is on everyone's minds. So it shouldn't be a surprise to see the September...