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 #381 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Microprose
Once (more) upon a time... Fairy tales hold a special place in my heart. They usually contain tight writing, a clear plot, identifiable and exaggerated characters, and often an important moral. The stories that contain magic, witches, wizards and high drama are my...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #381
By the Time You Read This As I write this, it's Wednesday and I'm sitting at my desk in my office where I always am when I write these. But if you're reading this on Sunday, the day it's published, I'll be somewhere between Illinois and Nebraska. Any later...
Super Challenge #9 Round Two is Underway!
Over and over, we hear "Round Two is the hardest round." Whether that's because it's actually harder, or whether it's because you know you're up against the Round One survivors, we won't guess. But here you are, ready to write, and here we are, ready to give you a...
YeahWrite #380 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: Writing About Writing (Part...
YeahWrite #380 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Action-packed Blockbuster! At least, I think that's what this week has been. Between trying to put to bed a client project with thirty pages of footnotes (yes, thirty. yes, just the notes. yes, send ice cream) and three commissioned projects, I've barely found time to...
YeahWrite #380 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Sugar High I am starting to come up for air after having a large family gathering at my house for the past six days. We always have a great time but of course it's hectic. On top of that I ate a lot of crap. My sister bakes a lot, so all the delicious cookies and pies...
Congratulations to the Round One winners at YeahWrite Super Challenge #9
Hey, folks. You want to know who's advancing to Round Two and I want to stop sweating into my keyboard, so let's get the administrative details out of the way fast, shall we? Once again, anything that went right is entirely due to our admin team's untiring work behind...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #380
My Life in Boxes I'm leaving New Jersey for good (no, for GREAT!) one week from the time I'm writing this. I packed all the mugs last night so it seemed there was no hope for coffee until I found the donation box in the living room that I'd procrastinated...
YeahWrite #379 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: Writing About Writing (Part...
YeahWrite #379 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Interesting Times Remember the old curse, "may you live in interesting times?" Lately it's felt like it goes with the adage "truth is stranger than fiction," amirite? I don't know, folks. I just want to make sure your writing isn't the first casualty of interesting...