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 #285 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
Getting to the top of the grid If you've been participating in yeah write and still find the top row an elusive place to be in the weekly vote, you might want to look more closely at whether you're giving readers a reason to care about your nonfiction piece. It's what...
yeah write #285 weekly writing challenge kickoff
Ready for another challenge? We are less than two weeks away from kicking off the first ever fiction-based super challenge. We had so much fun with our first one and cannot wait to see what stories you bring us this time. If you're interested in signing up (and come...
yeah write #284 weekend writing showcase
It’s the weekend, so the moonshine grid is open Lately I've been fantasizing about the idea of buying an espresso machine. I have been wanting one for years, and as the weather cools off, morning cappuccinos start sounding heavenly. Why can't I just go to a local...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #284: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
Read between the lines. You’ve heard about that, right? It’s the way you can find out more about the writer by reading their writing than maybe they intended you to know. It helps you develop your critical reading skills, too. For example, you can often find...
yeah write #284 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #284 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 #284 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
Stage fright First a reminder: Registration for the yeah write super challenge is open, this time with 100% more fiction! Early registration closes soon. Don't wait! Now for some nonfiction: I sang solo for the first time ever last weekend.* It was at a karaoke bar,...
yeah write #284 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
We tell stories here Creative nonfiction or narrative nonfiction, whatever you want to call it, goes beyond reporting an event or expressing an opinion. "Between the newspaper on your doorstep and the novel on your nightstand lies narrative nonfiction," said Pulitzer...
yeah write #284 weekly writing challenge kickoff
Reimagine yourself Last week was my final week at a college for which I had been working nearly 15 years. I start my new job soon. I will meet new colleagues, make new friends, write grants for a different college—the same work but dressed up in a whole new wardrobe....
yeah write #283 weekend writing showcase
It’s the weekend, so the moonshine grid is open Fall weather has hit my neck of the woods, and I couldn't be happier. There's a breeze going on, it's a bit darker a bit earlier, and leaves on select species of trees have turned lovely shades of red and yellow. I've...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #283: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
Everything is on my last @#$#@#$ nerve this morning. My spouse is sick, which means a lot of dramatic coughing but also talking for two solid hours about nothing at all (just kidding! it was the same thing over and over again!) like an exhausted toddler. The dog wants...