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 #364 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Microprose
How time flies Can you believe we're seven this week? I sure can't. I started at YeahWrite four years ago, when the micro challenge - formerly known as the Gargleblaster - was brand-spanking new. Microprose may be YeahWrite's youngest challenge, but it's built on the...
Well what do you know?
WHAT'S IN THE BOX?!?! With YeahWrite's seventh (!!!?!!?) birthday happening this month, editor Michelle and I spent some time sitting around brainstorming seven-themed ideas for tips and tricks. This quickly devolved into the two of us yelling WHAT'S IN...
Seventh Line’s the Charm
In honor of YeahWrite's seventh birthday this month, our poetry slam's focused on sevens too: the seven lines of a rime royal. Or rhyme royal. Rhyme royale. Look, spelling wasn't standardized yet when this form was developed. In fact, it's a form so old...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #364
We're 7!!! Can you believe it? I hardly can, and yet I feel like I barely remember life before YeahWrite! Rather than get all nostalgic on you, I'll jump right into all the special stuff we have planned to celebrate our birthday. We came up with too many...
YeahWrite #363 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: Pitch and Submit Got a great...
YeahWrite #363 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
ARE YOU READY? I know I'm supposed to talk about this week's winners, and I'll get to that in a second, but y'all, I am SO excited for our birthday. Birthmonth. We're making it a whole month, what the heck. Keep an eye on Sunday's kickoff each week for special news,...
YeahWrite #363 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Talking Turkey A turkey walked beside me in the parking lot as I was heading to my yoga class this morning. He was singing a muted, pleasant song, and I wondered why he was alone. Typically, turkeys travel in rafters. Perhaps he was searching for his friends. Or maybe...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #363
How to Write Finishing stuff is hard. I have lots of great ideas and plenty of terrific starts, but I'm terrible at finishing. The reason is simple: Hard work is, well, a lot of hard work. Ideas and starts are fun and exciting and successes and finishes...
YeahWrite #362 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: Pitch and Submit Got a great...
YeahWrite #362 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Cantstopwontstop Our birthday week is creeping up on us. Can you believe it's been seven years since the first YeahWrite post? We've seen a lot of changes in that time: who remembers the brief period in history when we were called "lovelinks?" We've added grids: first...