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 #260 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays and mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Five trips around the sun Five years. That's how long yeah write has been spinning tales. All this time, we've been floating in space, tethered to the sun, one part poetry and one part physics. The year I was born, 1960, a man...
yeah write #260 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Can you believe it? Yeah write turns five this week! Five years ago Erica M set out to create a space where writers could settle in and learn from each other; where we could share examples of the best writing on the 'net; where we...
yeah write #259 weekend writing showcase
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] It’s the weekend, so the moonshine grid is open Who's ready for the best day of the week? I sure am. I've got my fancy party dress all ready, the one with plenty of tulle, and a pile of sparklers and poppers to add to the...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #259: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Gentle reminder: humiliation isn't funny. Remember high school? OK, that's my "April Fools" announcement out of the way. In other news, my new mouse has a scroll wheel again (YAY), it was Forearm Friday at the gym, and I have the...
Let’s go to the bop!
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Poetry is basically history, amirite? It's not, though. As tempting as it is to think that all the poetic forms were invented ages ago by dead people, poetry is very much alive and changing. Last month's poetry slam here at yeah...
yeah write #259 weekly writing challenge is open for popular voting: nonfiction, fiction|poetry and microstories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Vote for your favorite nonfiction, fiction and microstories here So many things in my life are so close to done. My book (well, half-mine). My contract job (boo. I like money). My patience with my dog. It's nice to start something,...
yeah write #259 weekly writing challenge is open for microstories in exactly 42 words
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Greetings Earthlings! Are you writing a novel? A memoir or poetry collection? Maybe you're just having fun with your blog. Whatever it is, you want to feel like you're doing it well, right? Well, sometimes the key to success...
yeah write #259 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] To-read I have a massive to-read list. It stretches on for 269 books, and each year it keeps growing. Sometimes I think I'll never get to the end of that list, especially after the year I've had. Though I used to average about a...
who’s on fourth: yeah write interviews Seraphina of Modern Day Dirae
[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 Seraphina of Modern Day...
yeah write #259 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays and mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The extraordinary in the ordinary I grew up in the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio. I have a writer friend who is very accomplished, published several books through big-name publishing houses, and he urges me to write about my childhood,...
