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!
an announcement from yeah write
Like many of you, the editorial staff has been watching with horror the events that have been unfolding in the United States. We stand in strong opposition to the immigration ban and we support the Constitutional rights of freedom of speech and the press as they are...
yeah write #303 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] January Nonfiction Know-how Round-up Rowan and I were on fire this month, if I do say so myself, giving you nonfiction knowhow lessons at the front and back end of every week’s challenge grid in January. Our goal: To help you write...
yeah write #303 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] When you can't make art This has been a difficult time for many. I find that artists, regardless of the medium they choose, are people who feel things deeply. While this may help fuel their creativity, it can also cause them to be...
super challenge #3 round one kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Writers, start your engines. Who's ready to take a 48-hour enforced break from the news to work on a personal essay for the first round of the yeah write super challenge? That's right: you are. I wish I was joining you. This...
yeah write #302 weekend writing showcase
The weekend writing showcase is open! Yay, it's the weekend! I don't know about you, but this was a very long week for me. I plan to recharge by putting my feet up and binge-watching anything but the news. Seriously. Writing is another great way to recharge. Our...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #302: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Well, that concludes Week One. It was a rough week even for Trump's most avid supporters (schadenfreude behind the link). Lots of folks dipped their toes into activism for the first time a week ago. If you're one of them, are you...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #302 is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #302 weekly writing challenge is now open! Vote by 10pm ET on Thursday for your favorite nonfiction and fiction|poetry entries! Wish there was a competition with no popular vote but all the editorial feedback you can eat? Check out...
yeah write #302 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
What are you afraid of? A while back, a friend posted a Facebook status about irrational fears. He named his irrational fears and asked what everyone else’s were. I have one irrational fear: pool sharks. No, not the kind that fleece you of all your money while sinking...
who’s on fourth: yeah write interviews Hema of Mixed Bag
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Welcome to who’s on fourth where we interview one member of the yeah write community and the interview will publish the fourth Monday of each month. Next in the series features Arden Ruth interviewing Hema of Mixed...
yeah write #302 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Letting Your Readers Do Some Work I’m having so much fun this month playing tag team with Rowan teaching you ways to use your writing to connect with your readers so that your essays allow them to say “me too” after reading. You...