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 #283 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #283 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 #283 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
Challenge yourself! Do you write flash fiction or short stories? Do you yearn for constructive feedback? Do you love prizes? If you answered yes to any of the above, I can guarantee that we've got exactly the right challenge for you. Registration for the yeah write...
yeah write #283 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] In this moment Sometimes, if you just sit and listen, you'll hear something magical. At this moment, I'm sitting on the couch, laptop at the ready, trying to write this week's intro. I've just realized my husband, who is practicing...
yeah write #283 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] What's your excuse? I was talking to a friend recently and he mentioned he'd been stalling on a project because he was waiting to speak to someone on a particular detail. Sounds reasonable, but then he noted the truth was he didn't...
yeah write #282 weekend writing showcase
It’s the weekend, so the moonshine grid is open Hey all, I'm back! While I've been gone I had a baby, so what that means is I'm typing this one-handed. That's not the only thing that's changed. Chief among the differences in life is the lack of sleep, which I'm told...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #282: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
It's a big week at yeah write, and our fictioneers are the real winners - all of them. We opened the week with a special microstories challenge, and a lot of you took us up on it! Then we gave you a sneak preview of the fiction super challenge that's coming up....
yeah write #282 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #282 weekly writing challenge is now open! Vote by 10pm ET on Thursday for your favorite nonfiction and fiction|poetry entries! NOTE: This week, you get three votes on fiction and one vote on nonfiction. We adjust the number of votes...
yeah write super challenge #2 kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Can I get a fanfare? Yeah write's first super challenge is over, leaving our essayists tired but triumphant in its wake, and our fictioneers saying... what about me? Well, fiction folk, yeah write's super challenge #2 is just for...
yeah write #282 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
Labor Day micro challenge Here in the U.S., it's Labor Day week (September 5, 2016), and we thought we'd take advantage of the holiday to mix it up a little with a micro challenge. Let's call it Throwback Tuesday, to early 2016. If you’re looking for something new to...
yeah write #282 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Open a door Last week, I wrote about paying attention, seeing the world afresh, and how that helps heighten your creativity. Today, I'm thinking about ways to inspire our writing more concretely but in keeping with this exercise in...