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!
Congratulations to the Winners of YeahWrite’s Super Challenge #9
Parting is such sweet (registration is already open for super challenge ten) sorrow The judges' results are in and tallied and we're ready to announce the winners of our ninth Super Challenge! Winners, you'll also get an email confirming your details so that we can...
YeahWrite #384 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Here comes the rain I'm a sucker for words. Precise, delicate words are all winners in my book: petrichor, liminal, coruscate, even diatribe. But this week I think my two favorite words in the English language are marine layer, the cool, blessed wad of damp air that's...
YeahWrite #384 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Where Did Summer Go? My son starts school next Wednesday, which means my summer is nearly over. I don't like that one bit, especially since we didn't really have proper summer weather here in New England. Hopefully the more scheduled structure will make me more...
Super Challenge #10 is OPEN for Registration
WINTER IS COMING. But before it gets here, YeahWrite's 10th (has it really been that many?) Super Challenge will have come and gone. We're taking it back to fiction this time around, with prompted 48-hour stories. Check out the schedule and prompts and sign up here!...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #384
What Time Is It? When YeahWrite was founded, it was decided that everything would operate on US Eastern Time. I lived in that time zone, so naturally, I was happy that I never had to recalculate anything in order to participate. I asked our leader at the...
YeahWrite #383 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: Summaries So you’re fine...
YeahWrite #383 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
You didn't even notice I was gone While I'm out of the Coffeehouse for the duration of the Super Challenge (see you next week!!!), I miss everyone. Mostly I miss being able to spam you with pictures of the vacation I took, in forests and river canyons where there's no...
YeahWrite #383 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Hello, Bunting? After mentioning my quest last week, I'm sure you're all dying to know whether or not I saw Indigo Buntings this week. I DID. But only after I played their song on my phone. It was like magic, them flying out from their hiding places in the trees in...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #383
Movin' On Up I made it from NJ to CA!! To say we are unsettled still is an understatement, but I'm already feeling the inspiration of new surroundings. How many times have you driven somewhere that you always go only to find that when you get there, you...
The Final Round of Super Challenge #9 is Underway!
Well, folks, how does it feel to be one of the last eight standing at the end of Super Challenge #9? It should feel pretty good, frankly. Almost as good as the camping vacation I'll be on when you read this post. You've worked hard to get here, and we've got one last...