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!
Shoutouts Without Fallout
New Year's Evolutions Like an inspiration-type Pokemon, YeahWrite occasionally evolves. This year, that means the Nonfiction Know-how is retiring in favor of its evolved form: the Technique Toolbox. "TnT" is a more dynamite acronym than NfKn anyway. That's...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #351
Happy New Year! Well, here we are - the last day of 2017. I love the new year because it gives me a chance for a fresh start. I have big plans and high hopes for 2018. How about you? Do you love to make resolutions and goals or does December flow into...
YeahWrite #350 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! Nonfiction Know-How: How I Spent 2017 It’s been...
YeahWrite #350 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Miaou? Y'all, if this post isn't totally coherent, forgive me. My spouse wanted a kitten for Christmas, and we'd been talking about it for a while, and well, now we've got a 9-week-old bundle of fluff and starlight in our house but it doesn't sleep oh my gosh when...
YeahWrite #350 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Busy Break With no school this week and a husband at home too, I thought I'd be on staycation reading a ton of books. In reality, I haven't picked up any book since a few days before Christmas. I've been so so busy. Grrr. I AM excited to see so many people on the...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #350
Exciting News! I love exciting news, don't you? Well, I've got some for you! Because community is super important to us, we're always looking for more ways to do it right. To that end, we've brought on Lisa Shaw as our Community Engagement Specialist. You...
YeahWrite #349 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! Nonfiction Know-How: How I Spent 2017 It’s been...
YeahWrite #349 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Pause. The word solstice is derived from the Latin sol ("sun") and sistere ("to stand still"). Whether it's the longest or shortest night of the year where you are, this is the moment when the sun's declination pauses before reversing itself. Take your own pause today...
YeahWrite #349 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Roar See that lion up there? That's been me for the past week. My car has been in the shop four times because of a recurring battery problem that comes back every time they "fix" it and send me home. This is literally the worst time of year for something like this to...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #349
Holy Smokes You all brought it last week! I'm super impressed! Nothing makes me happier than to see lots of participation, commenting, and community spirit. When I was first starting out at YeahWrite as a participant, it struck me how the group of people I...