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!
yeah write #302 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Hi there! Y'all. Are you a writer? Are you still calling yourself an aspiring writer or telling people you want to be a writer? Stop it. Right now. Write stuff. BE A WRITER. Have you been lurking? Submit something this week. Do you...
yeah write #301 weekend writing showcase
The weekend writing showcase is open! TGIF! Cheers to the weekend, everyone! I'm gearing up for my first trip to NYC next week (any suggestions?) so I'm prepared to kick back and relax this weekend before I hit the mad rush of the big city. You know the drill. Bring...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #301: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Before we talk about writing this week, I want to talk about silencing. I'm writing this post on the 19th of January, 2017. Tomorrow, Donald Trump is scheduled to take office as the 45th President of the United States. Regardless of...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #301 is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #301 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 #301 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
the beast in your writing Did you know somewhere inside that gorgeous poem or story you just finished lurks a seething, unpredictable animal? Yes, grammar is an intimidating monster. I blame English textbooks. The instruction I received made it seem like all grammar...
yeah write #301 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Art of the Single Scene Story A great way to better understand what we’re looking for in editor’s picks here at yeah write is to closely read the essays we select for that honor, together with our comments. Last week, in the...
yeah write #301 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] You Are What You Read What I'm about to say may sound like the opposite, so let me make this royal proclamation right upfront: I do not dislike bloggers. I started writing for public consumption as a blogger, and I get paid to be a...
yeah write #300 weekend writing showcase
The weekend writing showcase is open! TGIF! Cheers to the weekend, everyone! I thought this day might never come. Work weeks before a long weekend always seem to drag and being sick on top of all that is never a good time. So cheer me up, yeah writers, as I sink back...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #300: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Nonfictioneers! That's not a word, but whatever. If you've been playing along this month, check out the roundup to see the next piece of our January class. Honestly you should do that anyway. I don't know how many times and in how...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #300 is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #300 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...