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 #373 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Microprose
Tricks or treats Hi everyone, it's Asha. I'm hosting the Microprose Challenge this month. Grab a canapé and a beverage of your choice and come on in! Microprose is one of the most challenging forms to write. You have a short word limit to capture your reader's...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #373
Shout Out to the Best Team Ever Around 3am I woke up thinking, "Oh darn*, I forgot to write the intro!" (*It wasn't really "darn.") I am chronically overscheduled, I work too much and only remember to do things that I write down and that's only when I...
YeahWrite #372 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 #372 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Lucky Seven I'm drafting what will be the seventh post or page we publish today. That's our June poetry slam, the new Technique Toolbox (don't miss this one), registration for our ninth (!!) Super Challenge, the post reminding you that you want to register for our...
Ae Freislighe Pressed
The Form of the Irish With the world's eyes on Ireland and #repealthe8th lately, it seemed timely to explore an Irish poerty form for this month's slam. Of course, when you're working with a poetic form not originally intended for English, the syllable and...
Writing About Writing – Part II
Ready, set.... read. Last month, we added some basic writer's vocabulary to our Technique Toolbox. You know that as you read a story or essay you've been asked to critique, you should be prepared to ask the three big questions: What was the writer trying...
Re-Member When?
YeahWrite has been a community, first and foremost, since its inception. It's been a place in one little corner of the internet where new and emerging writers could gather to read and be read, give and receive feedback, learn and grow. More established...
Registration is open for YeahWrite’s 9th Super Challenge!
Summertime Blues? We've got you covered. Does your summer vacation always look more like "this will make a great essay" than "I'm having too much fun to even write about this?" Your loss might also be your gain, at the YeahWrite Super Challenge. That's right....
YeahWrite #372 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Dreaming of Quiet The next door neighbors are having a birthday party and kids are running around in the yard, screaming. The across the street neighbors are putting in a new driveway so trucks and rollers and such are making all kinds of noise. My dogs won't stop...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #372
Membership Has Its Perks! In just a few short days, we'll be unveiling our membership program. We'll be offering a nice package of perks that we think you'll like. It's tricky in a lean organization like ours to bring you everything you've asked for in a...