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 #358 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
One-Upped! Stacie may have her actual photo of a purple gallinule, but I have this stock photo of an American Coot, which is basically the same if you ignore that it's an entirely different genus and also kind of goth. But they're both nicknamed "Moorhen" SO WHO'S...
YeahWrite #358 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Finally, 45 Years Later I've been a bird nerd since I was a little girl. I guess I should say "geek" meaning someone with a specific focus, but "bird nerd" rhymes so we'll go with it. I used to study my bird book and wish really hard that I could see all the birds....
Registration is OPEN for YeahWrite Super Challenge 8
Got a touch of cabin fever after this long winter? How about we get your creative ideas springing forth (see what I did there) with some juried flash fiction with cash prizes! That's right. Registration opens today for YeahWrite's eighth Super Challenge! We're taking...
Congratulations to the Round 2 winners at YeahWrite Super Challenge #7
Y'all, we know persuasive essays are nobody's favorite. They take you right back to college, or high school, writing that paper with a thesis and Ms. Camarillo with her oversprayed hair standing over you... just me? Might be just me, because this was a great batch of...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #358
Speaking of Dialogue... The Write Life is a great resource for all things writing. I get their emails so I often have some words of wisdom waiting for me when I finally get around to cleaning up my email. They recently sent out some information about...
YeahWrite #357 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: Design There’s no point in...
YeahWrite #357 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Go ahead. Ask me anything. We get a lot of questions around here. How long does your post have to be? (750 words or fewer) OK, so what's the lower limit? (There isn't one, but finish what you have to say) Does it have to be grammatically perfect? (That's a trickier...
YeahWrite #357 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Leaving on a Jet Plane My brain is already in South Florida even though I don't leave until Friday. Normally, when we vacation during Presidents' week, we are escaping the bitter bitter cold for shorts weather. This year, New England's February has been relatively...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #357
The First Book Like many writers, I grew up reading. My mom loved to read and she later worked in a library where I got to spend many afternoons just reading. I think I took out How to Be Funny, a book I cannot find proof of on the internet so you'll have...
Super Challenge #7 Round 2 is Underway!
Ok, folks. Warm up your keyboards and stretch your mousing muscles. Let's Do The Thing. What we consistently hear back is that this is the Scary Round of the Super Challenge. And we get it! Most folks haven't written what they think is a formal, persuasive essay since...