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 #257 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 First off, it's dark when I wake up again and I hate it. HATE IT. 'K, there's my allcaps rant about Daylight Saving Time knocked out for another year. It doesn't help...
yeah write #257 weekly writing challenge is open for microstories in exactly 42 words
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Greetings Earthlings! Time's a-flying. Would you believe it's been nearly two years since we started the microstory challenge at yeah write? That's right: the very first microstory challenge--originally called the...
yeah write #257 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The art of persuasion We've been studying the art of persuasion in one of my classes. Persuasion involves using rhetoric in a skilled manner; word choice, style, and structure all contribute to an argument's overall effect. But...
yeah write #257 weekly writing challenge is open for personal essays and mostly true stories
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Spring forward I hate losing an hour to Daylight Saving Time but if that's the exchange that is needed to move from winter to spring, I'll take it. Of course, I'm writing this from the flat center of Ohio where winter is slushy and...
yeah write #257 weekly writing challenge kickoff
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Is it Sunday again? I swear, the weeks get shorter and shorter. And suddenly, here we are getting ready for another round of challenges and creativity. Are you in? Welcome! We've seen a number of new faces around here the last...
yeah write #256 weekend writing showcase
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] It’s the weekend, so the moonshine grid is open Where I live in California, we definitely have spring in full bloom all up in here. My yard looks like purple flowers exploded all over it, and my little fig tree has defied the odds...
yeah write weekly writing challenge #256: popular vote winners and editors’ picks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Some idiot is building four houses across the road from me. In March, in Oregon. Yeah it's been raining into those houses since they dug the foundation. I have no idea how or why they would think that's not a recipe for a moldy...
yeah write #256 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 Guys, I know I usually start these posts off with a little bit of advice based on some trend I saw during the week at yeah write, but my dude and his buddies took...
yeah write #256 weekly writing challenge is open for microstories in exactly 42 words
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Greetings Earthlings! A long time ago in a galaxy... You know the rest. But I'm not here to talk about Star Wars; I'm here to talk about The Only Living Boy. Remember how a long time ago (September) when yeah write took the galaxy...
yeah write #256 weekly writing challenge is open for fiction|poetry
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Rule the world Every once in a while, I get a reminder of the power of words. Lately they've been as easy to find as a certain chain coffeeshop. They've been slipped under my door: my alderman's up for re-election and his campaign...
