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 #287 weekend writing showcase
The moonshine grid is open! After surviving through Hurricane Matthew in Charleston, it's been a very long week of cleanup and catch up. Friday could not get here fast enough! Please bring me your best writing while I'm filling up a big glass of red wine and...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #287: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Sometimes things don't go as we planned. I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that most of us are not full-time, living-wage-earning writers. Most of us have day jobs (or night jobs), families, friends, other...
yeah write #287 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #287 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 #287 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
Deadlines Chris Baty, founder of National Novel Writing Month, put forward that the only tool a person needs to write a novel is a deadline. I am a firm believer in this theory, as evidenced by the fact that I am currently under a great deal of pressure to get this...
yeah write #287 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Hey, what's Michelle doing here? Hi there, it's Michelle, editor-in-chief here at yeah write. You may recognize me from such posts as "kickoff" or "nonfiction of the past" or, if you've been hanging around long enough "moonshine."...
yeah write #287 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Things are heating up Here in the northeastern US, we're starting to lose our grip on warm air and sunshine. Usually this gets me down as I truly hate the cold weather, but things are heating up so much here at yeah write that it's...
yeah write super challenge #2 round one kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Drum roll, please! It's 10:00, my pencil is sharp, and I'm ready to kick off the first round of the yeah write super challenge! We've been waiting for weeks and weeks to reveal this round's exciting prompt pairings. We've taken a...
yeah write #286 weekend writing showcase
It’s the weekend, so the moonshine grid is open My son is a student in Miami so he was hunkered down all day yesterday and the early hours of today as Hurricane Matthew approached. Fortunately for Miami, Matthew stayed offshore and the damage was minimal. Not everyone...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #286: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]My calendar has been covered in different-colored pen marks all week. Sure, I use a variety of calendar apps, but when your schedule's as busy as mine is right now, sometimes there's just no substitute for being able to see it all at...
yeah write #286 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting
Announcements first: This is the LAST DAY to sign up for our super challenge, so what are you waiting for? Check out our announcements page if you missed it for special news about our celebrity guest judges. In the meantime.... Popular voting for the yeah write #286...