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 #468 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Mine? Who's an old school (see what I did there) Yeah Writer, from back in the days of the cute typewriter badge and the birds? Remember Kevin the Kiwi, who used to deliver our editor's pick? But most importantly... do you remember COMMENT BOB? Comment Bob was a...
13 Ways of Looking at National Poetry Month
I remembered! Y'all, I have forgotten National Poetry month for like... mumble of the mumblemumble years I've worked with YeahWrite. You have no idea how excited I am that I remembered this year. I thought about making this month a poetry free-for-all but then I...
YeahWrite #468 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Find Small Joys I don't even know how to feel anymore. Everything is so surreal, only it's not. It's real, real. I had an extremely rough year, even before this pandemic. [Ed's note: you might not think that two months is a long enough time to have a rough year but in...
20/20 Hindsight – Third Variation
Talk to me Did you make it through March? April's requirements are more relaxed. Well, sort of. We're taking away all your expositional dialogue and you're going to show, not tell, us your story.Ready? April's assignment is: rewrite your story in only...
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April Fools! No, kidding. April slam. April poetry slam. It's purely a coincidence that this slam went live on the last day you have to get something on the fiction|poetry grid for the first day of April. ANYWAY. For 2020 our poetry slams are exploring technique,...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #468
Happy Birthday to Us! As recently as last month, I was saying how it's hard to believe YeahWrite is 9 years old. I've been hanging around for about 8 of those years and I can barely remember what life was like before. So many great friendships, a memoir draft, and a...
YeahWrite #467 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Coping skills A coping saw has a tiny blade and is used to make intricate cuts. I mention this because "coping" these days can feel like dealing with the thousand tiny parts of ourselves that are being cut away, the good with the bad. I don't miss a commute. But I...
YeahWrite #467 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Less News is Good News How is everyone doing with their social distancing? WAIT. I'm gonna let Stacie finish in a second, but first I have some REALLY important news for you. It's our BIRTHDAY next week, and we're unveiling a SECRET NEW BADGE. So if you've been...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #467
Silver linings At a time when the news is largely bleak, I've been noticing a trend amongst creative friends and family and strangers. People are turning to craft, to making things, to art, to music. More and more people are picking up new-to-them pursuits, or dusting...
Congratulations to the Winners of YeahWrite’s Super Challenge #15
It's a long road There's a lot that goes into making a Super Challenge. There's finding judges who meet our standards: editors, authors, educators, and professionals who really know what they're talking about when they read your work and give you feedback. There's...