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 #375 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Growing Season Summer has finally hit the Pacific Northwest - just in time for the solstice. WINTER IS COMING, Y'ALL. As usual, I can hardly wait. Still, we've got, I guess, our whole summer ahead of us, which will hopefully be long enough to grow all the things I...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #375
Penny for Your Thoughts? You know how we roll around here, so before we embark on more changes, let me ask you this: What do you love about the YeahWrite posts? I'm talking kickoff, voting, winners, weekend - all of them! What could you do without? Send...
YeahWrite #374 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 #374 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Finished! I've been rebuilding an old scooter all summer (or at least that's what it feels like, although summer hasn't technically started yet). First it was just a matter of siphoning out the old gas and adding new. Then it was replacing the battery. By the time I...
YeahWrite #374 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
The Little Bandit that Could Did you hear about the little raccoon that scaled one of the tallest buildings in Minnesota, presumably to look for a pigeon dinner? After surmounting this improbable climb, it was captured by animal control, who stated they'd release it...
Deconstructing Prompts – Complete
Prompts. Love 'em or hate 'em, they're at the center of most flash fiction writing. Whether you're dealing with a genre (or two), character, object, image, or something else entirely, the competition or anthology you're submitting to expects you to...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #374
Are You a Member? Just over a week ago, we unveiled our new membership program. Did you see it? If not, it's right here. We think this is a great chance to not only be a part of something fun and exciting at YeahWrite, but your membership also helps us be...
YeahWrite #373 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 #373 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Losing is just a statistic I was at the gym yesterday doing a timed workout with a small class. We had to do a certain amount of work on the stationary bikes, and then a set of movements with dumbbells, three times. One guy was struggling a little, and the class was...
YeahWrite #373 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Nate the Great I was in Chicago earlier this week and I got to meet Nathan James in real life! We've been working together for a long time now, so of course we already know each other. Still, it was so much fun! Later he messaged me that the Palmer House in Chicago...