SeverusSighs Grand Challenge Sign-Up and Rules Post!
The Grand Challenge Team of SeverusSighs would like to extend a challenge to all who love Severus Snape!
Perhaps there's a novel length story you let fall to the wayside or a slave fic you never had the guts to write? Or are you an artist who's always wanted to try a different medium?
Are you a die-hard Snarry writer who would perhaps like to add Remus into the mix or maybe try your hand at a Snape-Luna friendship fic? Is there a smutty sex scene hiding inside you that you're dying to portray?
The Grand Challenge is a fic and art fest, calling out to all fans of the bravest bastard ever written. Sign-ups begin today and end April 22nd.
Welcome to the Severus Sighs Grand Challenge of 2010!
Sign-up information and Challenge rules are as follows:
A. All participants must be 18 years of age by the posting date, July 19, 2010.
B. All entries must include Severus Snape as a major character, whether alone or paired with another character (in friendship, love, enmity or other association). Each participant must choose one (1) of the three themes and one (1) of the ten prompts upon which to base their entry. It is up to each writer/artist as to how to interpret and portray their chosen theme and prompt. All genres and pairings (or lack of one) are welcome: : het, slash, mentor, friendship, romance, angst, etc.
Themes:
1. Quest
2. Overcoming Adversity
3. Love and Courtship
Prompts:
1. What’s love got to do with it
2. A throw of the dice
3. The night falls on the shadows
4. Bump in the night
5. Over the rainbow
6. Death be not proud
7. Let slip the dogs of war
8. If this be real
9. Always a woman to me
10. Reaping what you sow
C. All ratings (G through NC-17) are acceptable.
D. Warnings will be required for death or infidelity of a central character, non-con/rape and torture. All other warnings will be left to the creator's discretion. Warnings in headers will be 'cloaked' so that they will be invisible unless a reader/viewer chooses to highlight them.
E. Underage characters: For the purposes of the Grand Challenge, any character under the age of 17 cannot be depicted in a graphic or sexually explicit relationship with an adult character. Underage characters, however, can be depicted with other underage characters in sexually explicit scenarios.
For example:
--Adult Severus Snape in a sexually explicit scenario with a 15 year old Hermione Granger: not allowable.
--Adult Severus Snape in a sexually explicit scenario with a 17 year old Draco Malfoy: allowable
--Teenaged (under age 17) Severus Snape in a sexually explicit scenario with an underage Sirius Black, James Potter, Lily Evans, etc: allowable
F. Dates
1. Sign-ups: March 22 through April 22
2. Due date: June 28
3. Posting: Begins July 19.
G. How/where to submit: All submissions will be posted by the Mods to the severus_sighs Community. Completed entries should be emailed to grandchallengeteam at gmail dot com by midnight EST on June 28. Please place your IJ/LJ username in the subject line of the email. Do not post your story or art anywhere else until the Challenge has been concluded. Headers for both stories and art will be posted at a later date.
H. Rules for writers
1. Stories must be at least 2000 words in length (excluding header). There is no maximum word count limit.
2. All stories must be proofed by a competent beta reader. The Mods will be reading each submission as they are received, and if a story contains too many errors (in particular, typos, punctuation and grammar mistakes), the story will be returned to the author for further beta reading and revision.
3. No images/fanart will be accepted in story submissions.
4. Stories should be html coded for bold, italics, underlining, and centering, if necessary. Please test the coding before submitting.
5. Submissions of stories must be in text or Word format. No rtf or docx, please. Any writer wishing to use a different format should email the Mods at grandchallengeteam at gmail dot com
I. Rules for Artists
1. Content Requirements for Art: Artwork submitted should be of an equivalent effort as a 2,000 word fic. What is that, you might ask? Well, certainly more than a drawble. Make something well planned and executed with care, and perhaps even reviewed by an art beta. Consider what Severus himself might expect from you. Of course, Severus needs to be featured significantly; although the choice of which Snapely qualities to depict is up to you.
2. Media: We will accept original art or craft in any media, but not photo-manips from the HP or other movies, actors, works of famous art or copyrighted images. If your work involves manipulating photos, they should be your own. This is not to say you shouldn't derive inspiration from the films and their actors, famous art, stock photos, etcetera, but that the work you create should be original. If in doubt, please email the Mods at grandchallengeteam at gmail dot com
3. Technical Requirements for Art: Save your artwork in .jpg file format. Name your file with title and your name, or abbreviations thereof. Please scale art no larger than 800 pixels in width, 72 dpi.
4. Inclusion of written text with art: No more than 100 words of text to accompany art entries (excluding author's notes and text in comic form art).
J. Extensions: Requests for extensions will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please contact the Mods at grandchallengeteam at gmail dot com as soon as you become aware that you might need an extension.
K. Posting: Posting by the Mods of submitted entries will begin on July 19. Posting frequency will be determined by the number of participants. This is not an anonymous challenge; all stories and art will be posted with the creator's name and beta/other credits visible to the viewing public. Entries will be posted in our Insane Journal Community.
L. Sign-ups: Using the template below, please sign up by commenting to this post. Sign-ups will be open until midnight EST on April 22. You can revise your sign-up post until that date by adding a 'reply' to your original sign-up comment. Please make certain to use your IJ/LJ user name in your signup post. After sign-ups have closed, the Mods will be posting a master list of participants.
Please address any comments or questions to the mods at grandchallengeteam at gmail dot com
The Harry Potter universe is the property of J.K. Rowling and her book and film companies. Neither the Moderators nor the participants will profit from any content created as a result of this challenge.