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: 14 Dec 2008

Digest for 07 December 2008 through 13 December 2008

Announcements:
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Queue Closure
Beginning Saturday 13 December 2008 through Saturday 3 January 2009, our submission queue will be closed for the holidays.  This is to allow our entire staff to finish their current stories and prepare for the holidays with their families and friends.  The staff of the Quidditch Pitch will returned energized after the holiday to fulfill all your fanfiction needs.

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Featured Stories and Featured Artist of the Year




Click on the banners above to vote. Polls will remain open through 21 December 2008 at 11:59 pm EST.

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Secret Elf Challenge



Submission deadline for the Secret Elf Exchange is 22 December 2008.  Though the queue is closed, we will post submissions to the Exchange.

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Happy Holidays
Happy Holidays from the staff of The Quidditch Pitch!

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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:: Graham Norton


Digest: 05 Oct 2008

Digest for 20 September 2008 through 04 October 2008

Announcements:
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Editor's Choice for September 2008


Click the banner to read [info]inell's story. Our interview with her is here.
Congratulations!

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Monthly Challenge Poll


Voting for our September challenge runs through 8 October 2008 @ 11:59 EDT.

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New fics:
Bad Moon Rising )

Hallowed Halls )

Remains of the Day )

Dark Tales )

The Broomshed )

Crossovers )

Non-Fiction )
 
mood:: tired
music:: "The Incredibles" - no capes!


Digest: 15 Jun 2008

Digest for 08 June 2008 through 14 June 2008

Announcements:
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Policy Change for Processing Submissions and Posting Betaed Fics
To the authors and members of The Quidditch Pitch,

Due to changes in our staffing levels, we are implementing a change to the submission and upload process, effective 5 June 2008.

  1. You may submit stories at any time.
  2. Submissions will be processed Saturday through Wednesday.  All approvals or rejections will happen only during that time period.
  3. Stories edited by our beta staff will be uploaded Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.
We hope this will not be a long-term change since we are actively hiring for Quidditch Coordinators to work the submission queue.&nbp; If you are interested in applying for the position, please apply here.  You must be 18 to apply for the job of Quidditch Coordinator.

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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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Quidditch Trading Cards
Our galleries, Quidditch Trading Cards, are finally reopened!  After several weeks of work reconstructing them after a hacker destroyed them, the galleries are now back up.  Please note the new location and change any bookmarks you may have.  Additionally, new registrations are closed at this time, and the adult albums are correspondingly closed.  We're attempting to cross our main site registrations with the gallery and our technical guru, Captain Mel, is working out the bugs.

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New fics:
Bad Moon Rising )

Hallowed Halls )

Remains of the Day )

Dark Tales )

The Broomshed )

Crossovers )

Non-Fiction )
 


Digest: 18 May 2008

Digest for 11 May 2008 through 17 May 2008

Announcements:
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Featured Artist and Stories

Vote for June 2008's Featured Stories
Poll will close Tuesday, 27 May 2008 @ 11:59 p.m. EDT

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February 2008 Editor's Choice

The Knight of the Rose by SophiaMaria
Congratulations!  You can read our interview with her here.  Click the banner to read the fic.

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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, 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 )
 
mood:: hot
music:: Saturday Night Live


Digest: 11 May 2008

Happy Mother's Day!
Digest for 04 May 2008 through 10 May 2008

Announcements:
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Featured Stories of the Month


Please click the banner for the links to all the May 2008 stories.  Congratulations to all the authors!

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Editor's Choice


Click the banner to read the April 2008 Editor's Choice.  You can read our interview with her here.  Congratulations!

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Now Hiring
The Quidditch Pitch is in desperate need of Quidditch Assistants.  With our recent explosion in membership, we now have an average of one beta per 1000+ members.  If you're interested, please complete the application here.  As an added bonus, you would get to work with the amazing [info]deena_s!

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New fics:
Bad Moon Rising )

Hallowed Halls )

Remains of the Day )

Dark Tales )

The Broomshed )

Crossovers )

Non-Fiction )
 


Digest: 04 May 2008

Digest for 27 April 2008 through 03 May 2008

Announcements:
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Monthly Challenge Poll

Rebirth - April 2008 challenge

The poll will remain open until Thursday, 8 May 2008 @ 11:59 p.m. EDT

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In the Upcoming Week
In the next week, we'll be announcing May's challenge, May's Featured Stories and May's Featured Artist.

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Now Hiring
The Quidditch Pitch is in desperate need of Quidditch Assistants.  With our recent explosion in membership, we now have an average of one beta per 1000+ members.  If you're interested, please complete the application here.  As an added bonus, you would get to work with the amazing [info]deena_s!

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New fics:
Bad Moon Rising )

Hallowed Halls )

Remains of the Day )

Dark Tales )

The Broomshed )

Crossovers )

Non-Fiction )

Hot topics:
= yesclabby is looking for people to talk to
= thanfiction is looking for Nekkid Quidditch
= Deathly Hallows discussion
= Looking for Luna/Dean shippers

 
mood:: hungry
music:: "The 40-Year-Old Virgin"


Digest: 27 Apr 2008

Digest for 20 April 2008 through 26 April 2008

Announcements:
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Monthly Challenge


The Quidditch Pitch is pleased to bring you our April challenge:  "Rebirth".  The Wizarding World is entering a post-Voldemort era of rebirth.  We want your stories/art of spring, things blooming, winter fading, allergies exploding--okay no allergies exploding.  Is there a post-Voldie baby boom?  Does the Phoenix really rise again?  These are questions we need answered!

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 May.
  • The focal point should be the rebirth 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 April 30th!  Good luck and happy writing :)

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Featured Artist and Stories

Vote for May 2008's Featured Stories


Vote for May 2008's Featured Artist


Poll will close Wednesday, 30 April 2008 @ 11:59 p.m. EDT

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New fics:
Bad Moon Rising )

Hallowed Halls )

Remains of the Day )

Dark Tales )

The Broomshed )

Crossovers )

Non-Fiction )
 
mood:: busy
music:: The Wallflowers || One Headlight


Digest: 20 Apr 2008

Digest for 13 April 2008 through 19 April 2008

Announcements:
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Quaffle Talk, Episode 11: The One With The Fabulous Pick-Up Lines
In this episode, the Captains discuss Albus Dumbledore and go places reasonable people just wouldn't go. From there, they move onto a discussion of Naughty Lines From Our Favorite Characters... and continue to move into scary places. We end with site news, a closing word and, for the first time, gag reel!

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Monthly Challenge


The Quidditch Pitch is pleased to bring you our April challenge:  "Rebirth".  The Wizarding World is entering a post-Voldemort era of rebirth.  We want your stories/art of spring, things blooming, winter fading, allergies exploding--okay no allergies exploding.  Is there a post-Voldie baby boom?  Does the Phoenix really rise again?  These are questions we need answered!

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 May.
  • The focal point should be the rebirth 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 April 30th!  Good luck and happy writing :)

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Site Down Time
We did have some down time this weekend due to hackers.  Please note that if anyone finds these hackers, let The Captains know so that we may feed them to the penguins that took over the Pitch a few weeks ago.  Those penguins are becoming very restless and the noise is really driving making The Captains more crazy -- which is not a good thing.

If you're still having any difficulties accessing the site, please 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:: sleepy


Digest: 04 Nov 2007

Digest for 28 October 2007 through 03 November 2007

Announcements:
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Monthly Features


November's Featured Story winners.


Congratulations to [info]mrsquizzical!


Congratulations to [info]artisticentropy!


Our November monthly challenge.


Congratulations to Da BeST Team for winning the September/October joint challenge.

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Weekly Features
We have a new feature:  a weekly drabble challenge.  Details for our current challenge can be found in our forums.

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Site Anniversary
We're two years old!  To celebrate, we have a new skin for the site.  You can read up on our site history here.

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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?
= Our Weekly Challenge
= Writing the Perfect Sex Scene
= Our Site Anniversary


New authors/registration:
New authors/registration )
 
mood:: busy
music:: NPR's Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me podast


Digest: 26 Aug 2007

Digest for 19 August 2007 through 25 August 2007

Announcements:
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Site Upgrades
Please continue to be patient with us as we continue to
work out the bugs discovered in the upgrade to eFiction
3.3. 
Please report any errors you encounter as you browse the site.

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Site Survey
Due to the explosion in membership since we last posted our
survey (nearly 800 members in the last month alone),
we're putting it up again.

We'd like to get as many new members giving us feedback as possible.

Thank you to everyone participating this time around and to everyone
who participated the first time (we haven't forgotten you).












The surveys will be open until August 31.

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New fics:
Bad Moon Rising )

Hallowed Halls )

Remains of the Day )

Dark Tales )

The Broomshed )

Crossovers )

Non-Fiction )

Hot topics:
= Quaffle Talk: Flying with the Canon
= Quaffle Talk: Captain's Corner
= Quaffle Talk: Interviews
= Quaffle Talk: Site News
= Storytime


New authors/registration:
New authors/registration )