A Word From The Captains
Here you'll find links to polls, interviews, news, featured stories, and editor's choice. Now let's get out to The Pitch and ogle a few good Quidditch Players!

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Digest: 04 Jan 2009

Digest for 21 December 2009 through 03 January 2009

Announcements:
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TQP Queue
The Queue is now reopened, but please give us a day or two to process the stories currently within the queue.  If your story has not been processed by Wednesday, please let The Captains know.  Additionally, if a story of yours has languished in the beta queue, please let us know.  We're doing our best to keep on top of things, but the holidays, illness, and job changes among the Captains have really distracted our attention.

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Year End Polls
We had hoped to announce the winner, but have encountered technical difficulties with the polls.  We are trying to decide how to resolve them and hope to made a decision tomorrow night.  Please stay tuned and thank you for your patience.

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New fics:
Bad Moon Rising )

Hallowed Halls )

Remains of the Day )

Dark Tales )

The Broomshed )

Crossovers )

Non-Fiction )
 
mood:: cold
music:: Doctor Who


Digest: 06 Jul 2008

Digest for 29 June 2008 through 05 July 2008

Announcements:
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Monthly Challenge Poll

June 2008 Monthly Challenge Poll
Please click the banner to vote for the winner of June's Challenge.
Voting ends Wednesday, 9 July 2008 @ 11:59 p.m. EDT.

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Featured Stories of the Month

Featured Stories for July 2008
Click the banner for links to all the stories.
Congratulations!

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Editor's Choice

Editor's Choice for July 2008
Click the banner to read the fic.
Congratulations!

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New fics:
Bad Moon Rising )

Hallowed Halls )

Remains of the Day )

Dark Tales )

The Broomshed )

Crossovers )

Non-Fiction )
 
mood:: tired


Digest: 29 Jun 2008

Digest for 15 June 2008 through 28 June 2008

Announcements:
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Monhtly Challenge

Gluttony: the June 2008 Monthly Challenge

Gluttony. You've heard of the seven Potters and this month we challenge you to write about one of the seven sins: Gluttony.

We challenge you to use food to seduce, food to bribe, food to well--heck even a sit down dinner would work.

Rules for stories:

  • Must be at least 500 words
  • Must be prebetad
  • Must comply with our terms of service
  • Must be centered around the challenge theme
Art:
  • Must be willing to let us host the artwork in our gallery for June
  • The focal point should be the Gluttony theme
  • You would submit all artwork via email to thecaptains@thequidditchpitch.org
  • Your email should contain:
    • Your penname
    • Your email address
    • Rating
    • Summary
    • Title
Challenge ends on June 30th! Good luck and Happy writing :)</p>
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New fics:
Bad Moon Rising )

Hallowed Halls )

Remains of the Day )

Dark Tales )

The Broomshed )

Crossovers )

Non-Fiction )
 
mood:: exhausted


Digest: 01 Jun 2008

Digest for 25 May 2008 through 31 May 2008

Announcements:
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Monhtly Challenge

Gluttony: the June 2008 Monthly Challenge

Gluttony. You've heard of the seven Potters and this month we challenge you to write about one of the seven sins: Gluttony.

We challenge you to use food to seduce, food to bribe, food to well--heck even a sit down dinner would work.

Rules for stories:

  • Must be at least 500 words
  • Must be prebetad
  • Must comply with our terms of service
  • Must be centered around the challenge theme
Art:
  • Must be willing to let us host the artwork in our gallery for June
  • The focal point should be the Gluttony theme
  • You would submit all artwork via email to thecaptains@thequidditchpitch.org
  • Your email should contain:
    • Your penname
    • Your email address
    • Rating
    • Summary
    • Title
Challenge ends on June 30th! Good luck and Happy writing :)</p>
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Featured Stories of the Month

Featured Stories for June 2008

Click the banner to for links to the stories.  Congratulations!

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Editor's Choice

The Five People You Meet in the After Life by tjwritter

Congratulations!

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Galleries
Our galleries are currently offline while we rebuild them.  We have every intention of having them back by the end of the month soon -- it's taking much longer than expected to re-upload all the art -- at which time we'll announce the Featured Artist for May and June.  Thank you for your patience.

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New fics:
Bad Moon Rising )

Hallowed Halls )

Remains of the Day )

Dark Tales )

The Broomshed )

Crossovers )

Non-Fiction )
 


Digest: 27 Jan 2008

Digest for 16 December 2007 through 26 January 2007

Before I begin, I'd like to beg your forgiveness for the delay in digests.  My cross-country move has not gone as smoothly as I'd hoped, to put it mildly.
Announcements:
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Featured Story and Artist of the Month Polls
You have until 18:59 EST to vote, so go do it!

Featured Story of the Month - February 2008 and Featured Artist of the Month - February 2008

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Donate
As the Quidditch Pitch has grown so have our expenses and with all the cost associated with running an archive we are in need of our members to help keep us online.  So you'll see a Donate button both here and on-site.


We appreciate all your support in the past and in the future!

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Featured Stories, Artist and Editor's Choice of the Year 2007
You made your choices and congratulations to all those authors and artists chosen!

All stories and artists can be viewed here.

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Quaffle Talk
Quaffle Talk, Episode 10: Spellcasting with Quaffle Talk in Poufwania was released January 8.  Details and download available from LibSyn and iTunes.

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Editor's Choice
Congratulations to Samayel for her story "Redeem Me" for being chosen Editor's Choice January 2008!

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The Quidditch Pitch Is Hiring
The Quidditch Pitch is looking for enthusiastic volunteers to help run our ever-growing site.  We have positions open in a number of areas.  Take a look at the job descriptions and apply today!

We are desperately in need of staff for the following positions:

Assistant Technical Programming and Design Captain: This Assistant Captain reports directly to Dream_wia_Dream.  You will assist with the technical aspects of the site.  Including page creation, bug fixes, installation/upgrades to site & helping members, authors and staff with technical questions.

Assistant Admin Captain: This Assistant Captain reports directly to Annie.  They assist in all administrative aspects of the site such as, but not limited to, managing Quidditch Coordinators, making announcements, coordinating conference materials, making arrangements with affiliates, The Quidditch Pitch, and the Captains Pitch, Google Group, and fielding questions from authors, members, and outside sources.  This Assistant Captain assists in managing and maintaining Zazzle Store, moderating our podcast in Simons Flower's and Auntee Mame's absence, helping bring more members into the site and informing news letters of current happenings.

Quidditch Coordinators:  Quidditch Coordinators help run the story queue and moderate in our Forums.  Quidditch Coordinators are assigned one day a week to read stories submitted to The Quidditch Pitch.  Based on our rules for submission, they approve or decline the submitted stories, sending ones that need beta work to the Beta Queue.  Coordinators will also help moderate our forums one day per week.

Networking Staff:  Our Networking Staff actively seeks out new affiliates, works with Annie and her assistant to organize challenges with affiliates, interview affiliates, keep affiliate page up to date on our site, and help affiliates with graphics requests.

Staff Artist:  Our Staff Artist will create artwork for our podcast, logos, skins, our Zazzle Store, and other various special features we offer.  They will also help maintain and moderate our art gallery.

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Story Categories
We are revising our story categories!  Based upon feedback from our survey, we will be simplifying them as requested by our members and authors.  Stay tuned for more information!

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Monthly Challenge - January 2008
With the ending of Deathly Hallows we have a whole new generation to incorporate into the Harry Potter World.  In honor of the newest additions to fan-fiction and art we are challenging you to write/draw about them!  We are not putting a limit on the ages of the Next Generation...but they do have to be born already!  So lets get to work writing and drawing the Next Generation!

Rules for stories:

  • Must be 500 words
  • Must be prebetaed
  • Must comply with our Terms of Service
  • Must include the Next Generation as focal points
  • Challenge ends on January 30th at 11:59 pm EST.
Art:
  • Must be willing to let us host the artwork in our gallery for January and February
  • Must contain the Next Generation
  • You would submit all artwork via email to thecaptains@thequidditchpitch.org
  • Your email should contain:
    1. Your penname
    2. Your email address
    3. Rating
    4. Summary
    5. Title
  • Focal point should be the Next Generation
Full details can be found at The Quidditch Pitch.

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Secret Elves
Secret Elves were revealed just after Christmas.  Thanks to all who participated!

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Check Your Characters
We've discovered that a few characters changed their identities in the upgrade to eFiction 3.3.  If Severus Snape, Nymphadora Tonks, Parvati Patil or Pansy Parkinson are characters in any of your fics, please double-check and verify they haven't decided to change personas.  Snape has become Augustus Rookwood, Tonks has become Professor Sinistra, Parvati has become Abraxas Malfoy, and Pansy has become Ernie Macmillian.  If you have any difficulties, please don't hesitate to contact The Captains.

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New fics:
Bad Moon Rising )

Hallowed Halls )

Remains of the Day )

Dark Tales )

The Broomshed )

Crossovers )

Non-Fiction )
 
mood:: hungry


Digest: 11 Nov 2007

Digest for 04 November 2007 through 10 November 2007

Announcements:
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Weekly Features
+ The winner for last week's challenge has been announced here.  Our graphics monkeys will have a banner for rospberry soon.
+ This week's challenge details can be found here.

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Check Your Characters
We've discovered that a few characters changed their identities in the upgrade to eFiction 3.3.  If Severus Snape, Nymphadora Tonks, Parvati Patil or Pansy Parkinson are characters in any of your fics, please double-check and verify they haven't decided to change personas.  Snape has become Augustus Rookwood, Tonks has become Professor Sinistra, Parvati has become Abraxas Malfoy, and Pansy has become Ernie Macmillian.  If you have any difficulties, please don't hesitate to contact The Captains.

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Quaffle Talk
We need you for our next podcast!  We're looking for Snape lovers everywhere to unite and tell us just what makes Snape so Snapealicious.

You can record something and mail it to us.  You can write something and mail it to us.  You can also post it in our forums.

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Donate
As the Quidditch Pitch has grown so have our expenses and with all the cost associated with running an archive we are in need of our members to help keep us online.  So you'll see a Donate button both here and on-site.


We appreciate all your support in the past and in the future!

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New fics:
Bad Moon Rising )

Hallowed Halls )

Remains of the Day )

Dark Tales )

The Broomshed )

Crossovers )

Non-Fiction )

Hot topics:
= Why is Snape so Snapealicious?
= Drabble Challenge Winners
= This week's drabble challenge


New authors/registration:
New authors/registration )
 


Digest: 07 Oct 2007

Digest for 30 September 2007 through 06 October 2007

Announcements:
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Hiring
We're hiring!!! We've now reached the 10,000 plus memebership and we need to expand our staff. If you're interested please take a look at our Applications Page!

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Donate
As the Quidditch Pitch has grown so have our expense and with all the cost associated with running an archive we are in need of our members to help keep us online. So you'll see a Donate button both here and on-site.


We appreciate all your support in the past and in the future!

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Challenge for September
All stories/artwork must be submitted by 10 October 2007.  Voting will commence on the chosen stories on 15 October 2007.  Voting will close on 18 October 2007 at 23:59:59 USA EDT.  Winners to be declared on 19 October 2007.

There are prizes from both the Quidditch Pitch and Fiction Alley for this contest so we'd love to get more of our members participating.

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Site Anniversary
We'd love to hear your thoughts about the site and its history over the last two years.  Please feel free to email us your memories and we'll create a pensieve for everyone's viewing. Please indicate in the email if the you don't want your name to be used. Please email us at The Captains.

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New Affiliates
 

 

 

 

 

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Editor's Choice for October


You can read our interview with deenas right here.

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Featured Stories for October


Click the banner for links to all the stories.

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New fics:
Bad Moon Rising )

Hallowed Halls )

Remains of the Day )

Dark Tales )

The Broomshed )

Crossovers )

Non-Fiction )

Hot topics:
= Owls From the Captains
= Featured Stories
= Editor's Choice


New authors/registration:
New authors/registration )
 


Digest: 16 Sep 2007

Digest for 09 September 2007 through 15 September 2007

Announcements:
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Monthly Challenge


The Quidditch Pitch and Fiction Alley are teaming up to bring you a Back to School challenge!

Please click the banner to see all entry and eligibility guidelines.  We hope to have great participation!

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Editor's Choice


Editor's Choice for September 2007 is "Can't Take the Sky" by Cluegirl.  Please take a moment to read and review.

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New fics:
Bad Moon Rising )

Hallowed Halls )

Remains of the Day )

Dark Tales )

The Broomshed )

Crossovers )

Non-Fiction )

New authors/registration:
New authors/registration )