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!
Reach out and touch someone
There's nothing like reading through the grid (or your articles feed, or...) and coming across an essay that makes you say "Ugh, another navelgazing pile of word vomit."And yet, there are also personal essays you'll read that change the way you frame your life, make...
yeah write #299 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Gratitude If you had told me back in 2012, back when I was thinking about submitting something to yeah write, that someday I'd be the editor in chief here, I'd have never believed you. And if you'd told me that the people I'd meet...
yeah write #298 weekend writing showcase
The weekend writing showcase is open! TGIF! With 2017 fast approaching, I bet most of us are happy to say goodbye to 2016 with a particular middle finger. However, we can end the year with a bang by showcasing our best stories here at yeah write's weekend writing...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #298: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]2016 is drawing to a close (don't let the door hit ya where the Good Lord split ya, as my Southern grandmother used to say) and most of us are thinking about time, and how it runs out. Time ran out for a lot of our heroes this year....
yeah write weekly writing challenge #298 is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #298 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 #298 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
Opinions Neil Gaiman said: "When (beta readers) tell you something is wrong or doesn't work for them (in your writing), they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong." Yikes. Right? To be clear,...
who’s on fourth: yeah write interviews executive editor Stacie Dalrymple
[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 Stacie of Snapshots &...
yeah write #298 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Essential Reading for Nonfiction Writers So you got an Amazon gift card for the holidays. Lucky you! You know what you should do? Beef up your writer’s library with these five essentials—my favorite books on writing for nonfiction...
yeah write #298 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] How Not to Goal I have a stack of papers under my desk and on top is a sticky note that says, simply, "Edit." This is quite possibly one of the least useful notes I've ever written myself. The stack is my manuscript, sitting tall at...
yeah write #297 weekend writing showcase
The weekend writing showcase is open! TGIF! With the holidays in full swing, sometimes it's near impossible to get yourself in front of a computer. If that's the case, don't fret! This is the place to bring us your best writing, old or new. Have a wonderful weekend,...