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Moderation is back this week
You’ve asked for it and now it’s back – MODERATION!
This week, we’re going to kick it old school and moderate the grid. That means our submissions editor, Rowan, will be reviewing each and every post and selecting which will move on to a voting grid. Stay tuned for more details in the nonfiction and fiction|poetry opening posts coming up on Monday and Tuesday respectively. If your post doesn’t move on, you’ll get one of Rowan’s infamous love letters telling you where you went wrong and what you can do to improve. This is the kind of editing people pay good money for and Rowan is a pro. You’re going to love it; I promise.
The basics
Yeah write gives you two competitive challenge grids — nonfiction and fiction|poetry — both of which are unmoderated. (HA! No they aren’t unmoderated. Go back and read the first paragraph. I’m just too lazy to change this section.) Everyone gets to the voting round on Thursday. (Remember, your post must be dated appropriately, not be offensive to our audience, and cannot be over word count.) Got a question? E-mail us, tweet us, ping us on Facebook, or visit our online community, the yeah write coffeehouse. You can learn more about yeah write in our FAQ. Please make sure you are familiar with our submission guidelines before you enter. We don’t have a lot of rules, but we do enforce them across the board. We’d hate to see anyone get disqualified by a technicality.
Submissions guidelines reminder
It’s been a rough week for many of us here in the US. Please keep the following in mind as you write for us this week:
- Our editorial standards respect the diversity and dignity of our audience. Yeah write does not accept posts which insult or demean any person based on race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, or other traits.
If you want to review our full submission guidelines, you can do so by heading directly to that page.
Yeah write super challenge #2
The third and final round of super challenge #2 is almost complete! Our participants are currently biting their nails in anticipation of the results as our judges turn in their final scores. Wish them good luck in the comments! They deserve it!
Did you miss out on registration? Don’t fret! Just sign up for our email blast so you don’t miss out on any announcements regarding future super challenges.
Bring us your personal essays and creative nonfiction!
The nonfiction challenge grid opens on Monday at midnight EST. This is the best place on the ‘net to showcase your best writing. Make us laugh, make us cry, make us think, and above all: make us care.
Nonfiction know-how: boundaries
It’s that time again. Yeah, you guessed it: the season of family holidays. When the biggest thing on your mind is how your family is driving you absolutely freakin’ nuts and you can’t think of anything else to blog about, but you swore that with NaBloPoMo kicking off you’d write at least something every day. Don’t worry. Rowan is here to help you through it.
Is fiction more your thing?
The fiction|poetry grid opens on Tuesday. Grab a mic and join our monthly poetry slam or check out our weekly prompt up!
Prompt up!
Prompt up is our optional weekly writing prompt for the fiction|poetry challenge! Here’s how it works: we choose a sentence prompt from last week’s winning nonfiction post and announce it in the kickoff. It’s your job to use that prompt as the first sentence in your poem or story and then run with it. The prompt is just a springboard, though: feel free to keep it as your first sentence, move it, change it, or float down it to other territories.
This week Rowan reminded us of the need to get uncomfortable at our Thanksgiving tables this year in her post Good Housekeeping. This week’s prompt up is: That’s just the way old people are, honey.
November poetry slam: the echo
The Echo myth might be one of Rowan’s least favorite stories of Greek mythology, but it lends its name to one of her new favorite poetry forms. Unlike Echo, you still get to control your words in this month’s poetry slam. Well, most of them anyway. An echo poem is a poem that doesn’t have terminal rhymes or scansion (thank her later) but it has a strict internal rhyme scheme. Learn more from Rowan here.
Winners’ round-up
In case you missed them, you can find last week’s yeah write staff picks and crowd favorites all laid out for you on Friday’s winners’ post. Leave the winners some love in the comments. They will love you right back, we guarantee it.
Weekend writing showcase
The weekend’s not over: the moonshine grid is still open. Have something to add? Old posts and new are welcome. No moderation, no voting. It’s a laid-back relaxed kind of place. Just leave your commercial or sponsored posts at home. Drop by, share your work, and while you’re there, visit your fellow yeah writers.