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 #424
Quit Procrastinating Now (or don't) I was chatting with another YeahWrite editor the other day about how hard it can be to find the time to write. I said I needed a wealthy benefactor so I didn't have to work and she added that I'd also need a nanny, housekeeper,...
YeahWrite #423 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Shambling towards.... Stacie wasn't wrong when she picked the turtle for this week's vote picture. I've felt like I was dragging all day today. Well. It'll be "yesterday" by the time you read this, but you get the picture. It's one of those days when even my bone...
YeahWrite #423 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Talking Turtle I have an "if animals could talk" calendar. Yes, the old-fashioned paper kind. And apparently May 23 is World Turtle Day! Who else is excited? Just me and all the turtles of the world? Well, hopefully for the nonturtle folk, reading and voting on the...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #423
Democracy sausages As this kickoff post goes live, the majority of votes in Australia's federal election will have been counted. We may have a new leadership; fresh-faced, enthusiastic, exuding that new government smell of hope and change. After six years of socially...
The Final Round of Super Challenge 12 is Underway
Welcome to the final round of Yeah Write's Super Challenge 12, shortlisted writers! This is SC 12 and there are 12 of you - coincidence? Who knows. But over the next 48 hours all 12 of you will be combining tropes from two genres to make a blended-genre story. I know...
YeahWrite #422 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Whither the weather? I have no idea what season it is anymore. My dogwoods are sunburnt and they haven't even bloomed yet. Last week I was sweating to death and today I'm in a sweater. Still, I'm not unhappy about a few more days where hot tea and hot soup sound like...
YeahWrite #422 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Spring Cold I was healthy all winter but now I have a spring cold. The weather's been terrible though, rainy and dismal, so at least Mother Nature is commiserating with me, I guess. I've been popping the zinc cough drops, and I think they might be working? My head...
Congratulations to the shortlisted writers at YeahWrite Super Challenge #12
What a great turnout for Super Challenge 12! The good news is, the math worked out in a way that advances 12, not 10, writers to the final round. Once again, anything that went right is entirely due to our admin team's untiring work behind the scenes, and anything you...
YeahWrite #421 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Liquid sunshine Hey YeahWriters, Christine here! Rowan is taking a short—but well-deserved—vacation to the rainy midwest while I've been enjoying an early summer at home, so I'm covering the winners post this week. It looks like this week's fiction prompt in...
YeahWrite #421 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Rain, Rain, Go Away The first winter I lived in the greater Boston area, Mother Nature delivered the most snow in recorded history. Now, we've had the wettest month in recorded history. I am really tired of breaking all-time weather records. I just want some sun! I...