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!
Congratulations to the Round 1 winners at yeah write super challenge #3
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Drumroll, please That's right, it's the moment you've all been waiting for: we're about to announce who's moving on to round two of the yeah write super challenge! Oh, and what the prizes will be. You probably want to know that,...
yeah write #304 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] On the importance of finishing a story It's the middle of summer and there's a Fringe Festival happening in my city: a festival of comedy, music, burlesque and more. I was excited to go to a comedy show last Sunday. This was...
yeah write #304 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Developmental Editing: Finding your Story You should be editing your work. Yes, I know you’ve gotten great comments and even been published and hell, maybe you’ve even won awards for essays that you dashed off, skimmed once, and hit...
yeah write #304 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Death by 4th grade biography project My kid has to write a report about Nelson Mandela and then make an absurd poster where he will cut out holes for his face and arms and then "become" Mr. Mandela to present his report. My kid does...
yeah write #303 weekend writing showcase
The weekend writing showcase is open! TGIF! Cheers to the weekend, everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful week, no matter what it entailed. I'm looking forward to a couple of days of relaxation and football. What are you up to? Hopefully, it involves bringing us...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #303: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]February. Amirite? The month of Valentine's Day, that Hallmark holiday on which we celebrate love by honoring, um, either the Roman babymaking feast of Lupercalia (which was traditionally celebrated by killing a goat and a dog) or...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #303 is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #303 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...
A couple couplets
Now that everyone's familiar with the couplet, let's take February's post to the next level. For this month's poetry slam we'll be taking everything we learned about writing in tight spaces and applying it to the four-line memoriam stanza. Before I dive in, y'all, I'm...
It’s not over ’til it’s over
This month's nonfiction knowhow is a little bit of a throwback. We've spent a lot of time lately talking about how to get writing that appeals to your audience onto the page; for Valentine's Day we're gonna remind you how to show your writing a little additional love....
yeah write #303 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
to comma(,?) or not to comma I gotta tell you: when I first started working as a professional editor I was so confused about commas. It seemed like between high school and college I'd been told a lot of conflicting things about those nasty buggers and when to use...