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 #293 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Eliminating Thought Verbs In the past month, my marriage ended and two-thirds of my dogs died. So that’s what I wrote about for the grid – nearly real-time stories about navigating grief. Sometimes we need tragedy plus time to best...
yeah write #293 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Giving Thanks It's Thanksgiving week here in the U.S., so I'm going to do the most expected thing on the internet: Express my gratitude. Thank you, dear participants, readers, and lurkers, for supporting us week in and week out....
Congratulations to the winners of yeah write super challenge #2!
It's the moment we've all been waiting for... It's time to announce the winners of the yeah write super challenge. Our judges all agreed: so many of the stories in this round were incredibly high quality and it was so hard to choose between them. Often just a couple...
yeah write #292 weekend writing showcase
The weekend writing showcase is open! We made it! TGIF, y'all. It was another tough one, but I'm looking ahead to the gluttonfest that will be happening in less than a week so that's keeping me going for the time being. Are you ready for some relaxation? Me too. Bring...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #292: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Winning isn't everything. On the other hand, today is all about the winners. The winners of our popular vote here on the main challenge grids, and the winners of our super challenge, announced tonight at 10pm EST. I know it's been a...
yeah write #292 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #292 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 #292 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
Spread a little love It's been a rough week for a lot of us. Politics aside, I think we're all exhausted. We can hole up, or we can open up. Let's do more of the latter for a while, okay? This week, write something meaningful to you. Tell people what you really...
yeah write #292 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Changing Your Point of View As essayists and bloggers, most of us here at yeah write share our stories in the first person. And there is a ton of power in those eyewitness accounts, particularly when they amplify the experiences of...
yeah write #292 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Moderation is back this week You've asked for it and now it's back - MODERATION! This week, we're going to kick it old school and moderate the grid. That means our submissions editor, Rowan, will be reviewing each and every post and...
yeah write #291 weekend writing showcase
The weekend writing showcase is open! Well - we made it to Friday. Sort of. It's been a tough week for a lot of people. I'm sure I don't have to tell you why. So can I be selfish for a bit? Could you try cheering me up? Bring me your best writing to put a smile on my...