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!
YeahWrite #517 Weekly Writing Challenge
WFHiversary Next week will mark one full year that I have been working from home and self-quarantining. And while mentally, I'm holding up, it's hard not to look back on the past year and wonder what came of it. Or rather, what didn't. It would be so easy to come down...
Congratulations to the Round 1 winners at YeahWrite Super Challenge #19
I suppose you're wondering why I've gathered you all here... Apparently my pandemic binge-watch is going to be every mystery movie and series that I've got access to. Or at least that's what it looks like this month. So in that spirit, allow me to present you with a...
Navigating Prompts: Landscapes and Landmarks
A picture is worth a thousand words It's a nice aphorism, isn't it? But in the case of a photo prompt, this could be a completely literal statement. A single photo—with or without people—can contain a multitude of stories both inside and outside the frame. So how does...
YeahWrite #516 Weekly Writing Challenge
Putting it off I've had this intro open for five hours now and these are the first words I've put in it. A lot of us have felt lately (well, in the past literally a year) that our writing practice has suffered. Like it's the thing we can put off. And in many cases,...
YeahWrite #515 Weekly Writing Challenge
Refresh yourself I was reminded, this week, that sometimes it's worth taking a break. Not necessarily from writing altogether (although I did spend an entire day or two playing Animal Crossing this weekend, don't judge), but from what you're writing. For the last few...
Super Challenge #19 Round 1 is Underway!
Happy New Year! It's the Year of the Ox - a hardworking sign, and we're kicking the year off with some hard, but hopefully pleasant, work for you: a Super Challenge weekend. Over the next 48 hours you'll be crafting an essay using the prompt for your group (you did...
YeahWrite #514 Weekly Writing Challenge
Click click click click I am not really a New Year's resolution kind of person. In fact, I try not to be too strict with myself in general, given I am in the weeds of early-years parenting, with a two- and four- year old. But this year, I made a promise to myself. I...
YeahWrite #513 Weekly Writing Challenge
Lockdown, fires, and editing, oh my! It's Day Two of a (currently) five-day lockdown where I live. It's the middle of Summer, there's a familiar but disconcerting smell of burning eucalyptus in the air, the sky's a deeply worrying shade of orange, and ash is floating...
Navigating Prompts: Hit the road
Take this word and shove it Or rather—don't. As we've mentioned before, judges and editors want to see you incorporate a prompt, not just include it. They want to see where you go with your own story, told in your own unique style and voice, with pieces they give you....
YeahWrite #512 Weekly Writing Challenge
The Reboot The days are getting longer; I can feel my mood improving, even though we had five inches of snow last night. I'm still trying to figure out how to send all the snow to Rowan; there's got to be a way. Snow's pretty though, and I can imagine inspiring for...