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 #455 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
I need a break to recover from my break This can be a rough time of year to be a writer, what with the apocalyptic fires and the assassinations. What, you thought I meant the holidays? Those are over. But the world keeps tumbling on, and one of my jobs is to stay...
Registration is open for Super Challenge #15!
Ready to get a head start on your New Year's resolutions? Was one of them "write more?" Then have we got a deal for you! Writing, reading, and... winning cash prizes? Sounds good to me. Registration opens today for YeahWrite's 15th Super Challenge. We're taking it...
YeahWrite #455 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Happy 2020! They (those people) say that hindsight is 2020. Well, I have a lot of hindsight into 2019 now, and I'm so glad to be ringing in the new year. I wish you all a happy and healthy year, one also full of writing and reading! Popular voting for the YeahWrite...
20/20 Hindsight
Stay awhile, and listen. That's a line from a character in one of my most-played (I have no idea if it's my favorite but WOW did I play it a lot) (that's a pun, shoutout to the five people who got it) video games. Besides being a scratchy little soundbite from ages...
If it ain’t broken…
Welcome to 2020 We've been running the poetry slam for, oh my gosh, five years now? That's five times twelve, minus the critique post, carry the haiku... um... at least fifty different types of poetry. And it occurred to us that we'd spent so much time on "how to...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #455
The last person on Earth This is my favourite time of year to walk the dogs. Not because of the absurd 27ºC/81ºF temperatures by 7 am, not because the sun is up at 4 am and so am I. No, it's my favourite time because when I take the dogs out in the morning, the...
YeahWrite #454 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Habari gani? Kujichagulia It's the second day of Kwanzaa, where I am. Depending on your time zone and country, it might be something else for you. I'm sitting here writing the last winners' post of the year and thinking about the ways we celebrate each other right...
YeahWrite #454 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Nothing Says Holiday Like a Fake Fire Merry Christmas to all who celebrate and Happy Holidays, whichever you celebrate, to the rest of you! I hope you are enjoying time off from work and school! We have a habit of watching the Yule Log on Christmas Day, because it's...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #454
A Little Peace and Quiet I just got back from a silent meditation retreat and boy are my words tired. We're accustomed to a constant flow of information - both in and out - but it turns out that sometimes we can use all that information to hide from things we're...
YeahWrite #453 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Gimme a Break My biggest annual project for my biggest client just happens to fall right at the time of the year that everyone wants to hang out because they have... a break. I'm not sure what that is, actually, at this point, at the end of like my 20th consecutive...