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 #309 Weekend Writing Showcase
The Weekend Writing Showcase is open! TGIF! Happy Friday, everyone. Have you noticed things look a little different around here? We've been working hard on this new site for a while now, and we hope you can find your way around with a little more ease, but feel...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #309: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
After you read this, this post will self-destruct. No, just kidding, but the site might. Keep your fingers crossed. As part of our sixth birthday celebration (YW #312 is coming up fast!) we're doing a little maintenance today. Hopefully it will be seamless....
yeah write weekly writing challenge #309 is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #309 weekly writing challenge is now open! Vote by 10pm ET on Thursday for your favorite nonfiction and fiction|poetry entries! Before you vote The feedback from the vote is great to have, but without your personal touch, we...
yeah write #309 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
dangly bits In my series of posts on copy editing, I wanted to discuss those grammar mistakes with a sense of humor: dangling participles. Before I go into dangling participles, I need to tell you about participial phrase first. A participial phrase includes a...
yeah write #309 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
Coming Out of Hibernation The sun returned this week and, with it, a renewed urge to document everything around me. For some, the winter months are a time to hunker down and write. For me, the dark season turns my mind sluggish, my thoughts uninspired. But now, as the...
yeah write #309 weekly writing challenge kickoff
The complexity of time Forgive me for giving you another intro based on my geographic location, but this is Daylight Saving Time weekend. At 2:00 AM it magically turns into 3:00 AM, taking away a precious hour. I don't know about you, but I need more hours in my day,...
Congratulations to the winners of yeah write super challenge #3
It's the moment we've all been waiting for... It's time to announce the winners of the yeah write super challenge. To get this far, our writers have shared their personal stories and persuaded us to consider their views. Then they took a chance with their writing...
yeah write #308 weekend writing showcase
The weekend writing showcase is open! TGIF! How has y'all's week been? It's been a long one for me so I'm ready to relax all weekend with your stories. You know the drill. Bring me your best writing this weekend. You got rules, right? What?! It’s the weekend. There...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #308: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
You're all winners. Just kidding. No, I'm not. Because there's a lot of ways to "win" here at yeah write. Whether you're at the top of the crowd vote this week or whether you won our super challenge (winners will be announced at 10pm tonight, folks, so stay tuned),...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #308 is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #308 weekly writing challenge is now open! Vote by 10pm ET on Thursday for your favorite nonfiction and fiction|poetry entries! Before you vote The feedback from the vote is great to have, but without your personal touch, we...