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 #276 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
Gears grinding If you were in the coffeehouse this past weekend, you might have read about all of the writing competitions that were (and are still) happening. There was round 2 of the yeah write super challenge, of course, and a few of us are participating in a...
who’s on fourth: yeah write interviews Sanch of Sanch Writes
[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 Sanch of Sanch...
yeah write #276 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Convince me If you've been following along with or participating in the yeah write super challenge, you know that the remaining 16 competitors had to submit a persuasive essay last night for round two. A persuasive essay does just...
yeah write #276 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Whys and hows. I'm working on a book proposal. I've been giving much consideration to why I'm writing a memoir and what makes me different from anyone else with a similar story. Without that specific end goal, the book risks...
yeah write #275 weekend writing showcase
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] It’s the weekend, so the moonshine grid is open Hey all, it's going to be a wild weekend, so buckle up and get ready. I've got some classic tunes on vinyl all queued up and stiff drinks at the bar...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #275: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
Look, I never thought I'd quote Tom Cruise outside the bounds of irony, but I was looking for some words on "winning" to start today's post and I just.... nah. Not even for the sake of coming up with a post idea, ok? Still, it's been a great week for winning here at...
yeah write #275 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting
Popular voting for the yeah write #275 weekly writing challenge is now open! Vote by 10pm EDT 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 won’t know what...
Congratulations to the Round 1 winners at the yeah write super challenge
[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, nonfiction edition! Before I do that, though, writers, if you don't...
yeah write #275 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
Truth or dare We all take inspiration from the world around us. I write mainly speculative fiction: what-ifs, could-bes, if-onlys. I love a good dystopian tale, and lately I'm getting some good fodder from the here-and-now. So what do you do when faced with truth that...
yeah write #275 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays & mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Flow Merriam-Webster defines an "essay" as "a short piece of writing that tells a person's thoughts or opinions about a subject." Here at yeah write, we view the essay as this and more: it is a story that is mostly true, focused on...