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 #289 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Back to Basics: Elements of Creative Nonfiction Hey! It's Cindy, and I'm returning to yeah write's editorial team this week after a long hiatus. It's been two years since my last editing stint here, when I was in charge of the...
yeah write #289 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Are you scared? In just over a week, a day will arrive that strikes fear in the hearts of so many. No, not Halloween. November 1! Whether it's NaNoWriMo or NaBloPoMo or some other configuration of shortened words to say you're...
Super challenge #2 Round Two Kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Folks, I know we're not supposed to call this the Day the Internet Died but let's be serious, here, there's been a lot of ups and downs. Round Two writers, your group assignments hopefully came by email earlier today, so go ahead and...
yeah write #288 weekend writing showcase
The moonshine grid is open! It has been a long, crazy week for me. Work has been insane, and I barely got in any time for writing. Luckily, that's about to change this weekend. Are you ready for some relaxation? Me too. So bring me your best writing while I fill up a...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #288: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I know it doesn't feel like it, but October's drawing to a close. The end of the month means a lot of things to me. Mostly it means Hallowe'en, my very favorite holiday in the entire universe of potential and actual holidays. Right...
yeah write #288 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #288 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...
Congratulations to the Round 1 winners at yeah write super challenge #2
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Drumroll, please That's right, it's the moment you've all been waiting for: we're about to announce who's moving on to round two of the yeah write super challenge, fiction edition! Before I do that, though, writers, if you don't...
yeah write #288 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
Showing up for the race As the super challenge participants warm up for their next marathon this weekend, I'm cooling down after a frenzied week of reading and commenting on the entries for the first round, a task I would never have thought I'd be doing if you'd asked...
yeah write #288 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Playing to strengths I'm not really good at being a substitute. I never quite know what I'm doing and there really isn't time to figure it out or, more appropriately, stress and build anxiety about it while procrastinating. I just...
yeah write #288 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] 2017 starts now One of the things I'm tasked with at my Day Job is to help with strategy development for 2017. The main goal is easy: do better, get ahead, succeed. It's those micro goals that are at issue, meaning we need to know...