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 #394 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Boo! Happy Halloween to all who are Halloweening! Trick-or-treating will be winding down for me a couple of hours before this post goes live but other time zones will be in full swing. I love seeing all the costumes. And because I have a well-earned reputation as the...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #394
Yay November! As far as I'm concerned, October is over. When I rule the world, all months will start on Monday and the month will be 28 days long so everything is always even and neat. Don't give me that earth/sun/moon nonsense either. My way or the...
The Final Round of Super Challenge 10 is UNDERWAYYYYY
Well, we've arrived. Here's Round Three, the final round, the big one, the why-did-i-not-throw-round-two-i-have-to-sew-three-costumes-this-weekend round. Congratulations, before we begin, to our top ten writers. You should all be fantastically proud of yourselves for...
YeahWrite #393 Weekend Writing Showcase
The Weekend Writing Showcase is open! TGIF, YeahWriters! Let’s make this place your home for all the stories that didn’t make it to the YeahWrite competitive grids this week. As a refresher, here’s what we had going on! Technique Toolbox: The Joyride Bored? Tired?...
YeahWrite #393 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Are you ready? It's almost Halloween - you can see that we've got our costumes on at YeahWrite (bonus points if you can name the movies and pick out the theme) - but we've got one last weekend between us and the Best Holiday Of The Year [ed's note - I know...
YeahWrite #393 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Adulting Like a Boss This morning, I got my flu shot. After that, I voted in the U.S. midterms, since my state has early voting. Go me! The U.S. election isn't the only vote happening right now though. It's time to vote on the grids! Popular voting for the YeahWrite...
Congratulations to the Round 2 winners at YeahWrite Super Challenge #10
What a round! The prompt was a little bit of a departure for us, and we hope you enjoyed writing to it as much as we enjoyed reading your stories. Once again, anything that went right is entirely due to our admin team's untiring work behind the scenes (I know, it's a...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #393
One Wish If you had one wish for your writing, what would it be? Time to do what you love? Money to sustain your household while you pursue your dream? Confidence to share your work with the world? I think often we feel like if that One Thing was in place,...
YeahWrite #392 Weekend Writing Showcase
The Weekend Writing Showcase is open! TGIF, YeahWriters! Let’s make this place your home for all the stories that didn’t make it to the YeahWrite competitive grids this week. As a refresher, here’s what we had going on! Technique Toolbox: The Joyride Bored? Tired?...
YeahWrite #392 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Community I've been thinking a lot about community this week. How we build it, who's in it, who holds us up when we stumble and who brings us together when it looks like we're drifting apart. Community is who you reach out to when you need a hand picking...