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 weekly writing challenge #280: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I've spent a lot of time this week thinking about deadlines. I've also spent a lot of time this week making a color-coded chart of all the deadlines I have to meet in the next ten days, which may or may not be related. Summer's...
yeah write #280 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #280 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 #280 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
On the edge There's just nothing like standing next to the ocean to make you feel small. In a good way, I mean. I love to imagine the thousands of miles between me and the next person across the ocean that will feel the same breeze on their face. Will they laugh when...
who’s on fourth: yeah write interviews Lana of Superhero Lunchbox
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Welcome to who’s on fourth where we interview one member of the yeah write community and the interview will publish the fourth Monday of each month. Next in the series features Arden Ruth interviewing Lana of Superhero...
yeah write #280 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Kudos to you and you and you... If you took part in the yeah write super challenge (see below), which focused on creative nonfiction for this contest, you have my hearty congratulations. Writing can be scary enough without throwing...
yeah write #280 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] A great big exhalation Surely you know by now about our yeah write super challenge (and if you don't, well, it's over and you missed it). It was months in the making and then when the time finally came to announce it and get...
yeah write #279 weekend writing showcase
It’s the weekend, so the moonshine grid is open TGIF! It's been a long week. Work was insane, we wrapped up the first super challenge (!) and unfortunately I didn't get to write at all. I hope to change that this weekend though. What's the perfect place for it? Right...
Congratulations to the winners of the yeah write super challenge!
It's the moment we've all been waiting for... It's time to announce the winners of the yeah write super challenge. Wow, that was a close one. Our top four essays were separated by only a very few points. We hope everyone had as much fun as we did, and that if you're...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #279: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]My Thursday was not improved by biting into totally raw chicken at the barbecue. So I hope Friday's going to be better as we announce not one but two sets of winners. That's right, today we're not just cooking up the popular vote...
yeah write #279 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #279 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...