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 #366 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Broadway Bound My younger son is on spring break this week. He is my Broadway buddy so we are going to see Dear Evan Hansen tomorrow (Thursday) night. We are those annoying people who have been listening to the soundtrack nonstop in my car for months and will still...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #366
I Haz Sadz We are a pretty close group, the YeahWrite editors. Many of us talk daily and I have regularly scheduled video chats with some, but I almost never see them in person. We're a multinational organization after all! So spending last weekend with...
Super Challenge #8 Round ONE is Underway!
Fictioneers and Friends! Welcome to Round One of the eighth Super Challenge at YeahWrite (that means we've been holding this challenge for two years, if you're counting). I hope you're ready to write, because we've got a two-prompt combo that'll knock your figurative...
YeahWrite #365 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: What’s in the Box? Every time...
YeahWrite #365 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
National Poetry Month It's the first week of Super Challenge 8 and we've spent a good deal of it designing prompts. As Spider Robinson once wrote, God is an Iron. Somewhere on the list of "writing prompts you didn't want life to assign you" is "write a eulogy for...
YeahWrite #365 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Noise Pollution I have been hearing chainsaws and industrial-sized leaf blowers all week. The snow is finally gone and everyone's yard is littered with branches and other debris. I get that the cleanup must happen. I just wish I didn't have to listen to it. Yes, I...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #365
Short and Sweet As I write this, I'm cramming to get four days worth of work done in one while also packing to head out to our first ever YeahWrite Corporate Retreat in Seattle this weekend. For example, I normally write this on Friday, but it's only...
YeahWrite #364 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: What's in the Box? Every time...
YeahWrite #364 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Welcome to our ool. When I was a kid, those signs used to crack me up. You know the one? "Welcome to our ool. Notice there is no "P" in it. Please keep it that way." It was a friendly and humorous way of stating the rules for folks who for some reason didn't know that...
YeahWrite #364 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
The Doctor is Out I just spent two hours at urgent care because my teenage son picked a hangnail, which then became really infected. I have a Ph.D. in biology so sometimes I play doctor (for mild things, obviously) but this particular infection was not having my home...