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!
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #487
Who knew Did you ever write a story that won't leave you alone, proof it, give it to beta readers, and then weeks or months (lolsob) later, after you've submitted it to a bunch of places and received rejections, you notice that there's a huge structural inconsistency?...
Super Challenge #17 Round 1 is Underway!
Don't stress yourself out. Look, we know that's big advice right now, but hear me out: don't stress yourself out. There's plenty of stuff stressing you out right now without your help. We know. We're stressed too! The judges are stressed! My cat is stressed! My large,...
YeahWrite #486 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Dona Nobis Pacem It took a long time to write this post. Not because 2020 is still out there 2020'ing, although you're forgiven if you thought that because it is a totally reasonable thing to think, but because I started picking out a header image and got absolutely...
YeahWrite #486 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
[Ed's note- The YeahWrite editors extend our sympathies to those affected by the catastrophe in Beirut. It is our urgent hope that the injured heal and that the missing are returned alive to their loved ones. You are in our hearts this week and we grieve with you for...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #486
Stop Bee-ing A Jerk, 2020 Earlier this week, I landed in the emergency room with anaphylaxis. I've had fairly severe local reactions to bee and wasp venom my entire life, so I knew this was a possibility at some point, but 2020 is really trying to go down in history...
20/20 Hindsight – Seventh Variation
Tap tap, is this thing on? Think about this: you're at a party. You're telling your favorite anecdote about the time you hid a bunch of frogs under a basket in the garage, and what happened when they got loose (spoilers: they scared your mom half to death and you got...
Pros and Consonance
It all hangs together When I was a kid, my dad would take us down to the river, or the lake, and he'd go fishing. In the days when I was still too little to hold even my own downsized pole (the one that sits in a corner here now, in case my niece is ever...
YeahWrite #485 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Just? It's probably my least favorite word in the English language, honestly: JUST. Not only because right now "just" and "justice" are super-fraught words, but because they're weaponized in other ways. "Just write," says Neil Gaiman, who has two assistants and no...
YeahWrite #485 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Kissing Chicken Today is both National Chicken Wing Day AND National Lipstick Day. Does this mean chickens have lips? I didn't think so. But you don't need to kiss a chicken on the lips to read and vote on the grids! Or to comment - don't forget, even if you didn't...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #485
Vacationing from the pandemic Yeah, it's weird, but it's happening. I take a break every year around now to hang out with my family and friends in northern Michigan. There's usually about 30 of us in assorted cabins around a lake, but this year it's just me and a...