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!
This is the end, my only friend, the end
It's the little things that matter, as we wind down to the end of the year. Tiny lights on evergreen trees. Tiny candles in their rows. The tiny terminal 'e' that differentiates between a ballad and a ballade. That's right, we're more or less obsessed with endings...
yeah write #294 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #294 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 #294 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
watch your tone How would you describe the rain in the picture? Well, it all depends on what that woman is doing, doesn't it? If she's meeting up with her married lover, Jean-Jacques, the raindrops slipping between her collar and her neck may be reminding her of their...
who’s on fourth: yeah write interviews Donna-Louise of Newshound to Novelist
[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 Donna-Louise of Newshound to...
yeah write #294 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Start When Your Story Starts. In her roundup last Friday, yeah write’s submissions editor Rowan made an important point that merits follow-up: Begin at the beginning. Too often as personal essayists we begin before the beginning....
yeah write #294 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] What can I do for you? As editor-in-chief of yeah write, my job is to make yeah write grow and flourish. We've been around for over 5 years, so we must be doing something right, but I believe we can always do better. We have some...
yeah write #293 weekend writing showcase
The weekend writing showcase is open! Happy Friday, everyone! If you're like me, you are currently recovering from the glutton-fest that was yesterday here in the United States. If you're also like me, you're eating a leftover turkey sandwich anyway because that's...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #293: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]History feels immediate this week. Whether you're following the news or fighting with your relatives over a supper table, it's impossible to ignore that at least here in the U.S. of A. we're in the middle of stuff that's going to end...
yeah write #293 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting
Whether you are in the US in a turkey-induced coma or somewhere else going about your business, popular voting for the yeah write #293 weekly writing challenge is now open! Vote by 10pm ET on Thursday for your favorite nonfiction and fiction|poetry entries! Before you...
yeah write #293 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
no caption necessary Frazzled? Is that a good word to describe the world right now? After a few weeks of avoidance and preoccupation I'm coming back into writing regularly again. I've taken to journaling. Somehow I'd forgotten from back in my junior high days...