Snarry Holidays

Happy November 16th! Your assignments are due today - if we haven't heard from you yet, we need to do so ASAP.

We are always happy to grant extensions, but if you need an extension, you need to ask us for an extension - your mods, contrary to popular belief, are not psychic, and do not know what you need unless you e-mail them.

snarryholiday@gmail.com for all assignment submissions and extension requests - and please include your user name (the one you used when you originally signed up, unless you've notified us of a user name change) so that we don't have to spend hours trying to figure out who snarryluver4ever@yahoo.com is.

Thanks for all the hard work you've put into making this a great fest - now all we have to do is get ready to enjoy all the wonderful Snarry! :)

This is a friendly reminder that all gifts are due to us Monday, November 16, unless you are pinch-hitting or have already requested an extension. If you need an extension or think you might, please email us at snarryholiday [at] gmail [dot] com.

We are here to answer any questions you might have!

First, a gentle reminder to all participants ... There are just over three weeks until submissions are due!

Second, we still need pinch-hitters ... please sign up here if you are willing and able to pinch hit for us this year!

Hi everyone! In a month and a little under a week (Nov 16!) your assignments are due.

When submitting your fic or art, please include this header with the document.

Fic:
<b>Title:</b> <b>Author:</b> <b>Giftee:</b> <b>Word Count:</b> <b>Rating:</b> <b>Pairing:</b> <b>Warnings:</b> <b>Disclaimer:</b> All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended. <b>Summary:</b> <b>Author's Notes:</b>

Art:
<b>Title:</b> <b>Artist:</b> <b>Giftee:</b> <b>Media/Medium:</b> <b>Rating:</b> <b>Pairing:</b> <b>Warnings:</b> <b>Disclaimer:</b> All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended. <b>Summary:</b> <b>Artist's Notes:</b>

If you have any questions about the templates or about your assignment, email us at snarryholiday [at] gmail [dot] com or comment below.

We are extending sign-ups for snarry_holidays for two more days. Sign-ups will now close on Friday, August 28 at 9PM EST.

Sign-ups are here!

Hello everyone!

Thank you so much for your participation in this winter's round of snarry_holidays! All the gifts have now been posted, and now is your chance to catch-up and leave feedback for all the lovely work that has been produced.

We will be posting the masterlist Monday, December 15.

Until then, please enjoy! Please email us at snarryholiday at gmail dot com if you have concerns or questions.

snarry_holidays weekly wrap-up: week 3!

( Art and fics posted during week 3 )

A quick update on our server - it's still down, but the lovely femmequixotic has jumped to the rescue and given us space on her server. We'll be uploading files and fixing links, and hope to have everything fixed by tonight or tomorrow at the latest.

Thanks for your patience! We'll have everything in working order as soon as possible!

Whoops - we appear to have overloaded our server! For those of you who are trying to read the stories hosted off-site or view the art hosted to our website, our apologies ... they'll be unavailable for a while as we try to sort things out.

We are aware of the problem and trying to fix it ... in the meantime, why not read one of the shorter stories hosted to IJ/LJ? Our morning post will be coming up in just a few minutes!

snarry_holidays weekly wrap-up – week two!

( Second week wrap-up )

snarry_holidays Weekly Wrap-up! - First Week

( First Week Wrap-up )

Can you believe it? Little under a month left before assignments are due (Oct. 10th)! Already we've started to see submissions coming in, so we felt it time to post submission guidelines!

When submitting your fic or art piece please include this header with the document.

Fic:
<b>Title:</b> <b>Author:</b> <b>Giftee:</b> <b>Word Count:</b> <b>Rating:</b> <b>Pairing:</b> <b>Warnings:</b> <b>Disclaimer:</b> All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended. <b>Summary:</b> <b>Author's Notes:</b>

Art:
<b>Title:</b> <b>Artist:</b> <b>Giftee:</b> <b>Media/Medium:</b> <b>Rating:</b> <b>Pairing:</b> <b>Warnings:</b> <b>Disclaimer:</b> All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended. <b>Summary:</b> <b>Artist's Notes:</b>

If you have any questions, email us at snarryholiday@gmail.com or comment below.

Your assignments are due on October 10th, one month from today! If you are going to need an extension, or if you have any questions for your recipient or need help with anything else, please contact us at snarryholiday@gmail.com

In the meantime, please remember that your work must be betaed - no exceptions!

If you are a beta and would like to volunteer your services for our lovely participants, this is the place to do it - please fill out the following form to indicate your availability and what you are willing to beta. If you're a participant in search of a beta, please pay attention to the betas' specifications and choose one appropriate for your work - and give them plenty of notice, too!

Name: E-mail: Willing to help with: (plot, characterization, SPAG, canon, Brit-pick?) Squicks: (chan, incest, non-con, bestiality, whatever you don't want to have to read/view) Availability: (when will you be out of town, busy, desperately working on an important project, etc.?) Other notes: (preferred format for fics, anything else an author/artist should know)

All assignments have now been sent! Please check your e-mail accounts, if you have not done so already, and if you have not received an e-mail from us, please let us know so that we can resend it. If you have already received your assignment and are willing to accept it, please reply to the e-mail and let us know.

If you have any questions about your assignment or about the fest in general, feel free to e-mail us at snarryholiday@gmail.com (or check out our Rules and FAQ first).

In a few weeks, we'll be posting the header templates for your submissions, and will also make a beta post, for those who wish to offer their services as betas and those who are in need of betas ... so stay tuned for those. In the meantime, have fun with your assignments!

Sign-ups are coming soon! We'll be running them from August 5th through August 12th (or until we reach our participant cap, which will be 80 this year), so it's time to get ready! Here's the sign-up template so that you can start thinking about your sign-ups, and pleaseremember that your work will be due October 10th. Refer to the Rules and FAQs or e-mail us at snarryholiday@gmail.com if you have any questions!


<b>Name:</b> <b>E-mail:</b> <b>Age statement:</b> <b>Have you participated in Snarry Holidays before?</b> <b>If so, who was your recipient?</b> <u>For the gift that you will <b>receive</b></u> <b>Slash, pre-slash or gen:</b> <b>Genres, kinks, requests:</b> <b>Squicks, dislikes, cautions:</b> <b>Optional Prompt/s (up to three):</b> <b>Maximum rating:</b> <b>Other info:</b> <u>For the gift that you will <b>give</b></u> <b>Slash, pre-slash, or gen:</b> <b>Strengths:</b> <b>Squicks:</b> <b>Maximum rating:</b>

To help you out, here are a few examples. If you need any other help - again, don't hesitate to e-mail us!

( Examples of sign-ups )

This is NOT the sign-up post. We'll open sign-ups at midnight EST on August 5th!

As promised, here are the rules and FAQs for our next round. Please read them carefully - by signing up, you're agreeing to follow them. :)

Just one quick announcement - we've started a mirror comm on LJ, here, so feel free to join and/or watch that comm if you prefer to follow Snarry Holidays on LJ. We haven't got the layout sorted yet, but we'll have it up and running by the time we start!

Remember, we're starting sign-ups on August 5th, and we're capping the participants at 80 this year ... so sign up early! :)

Then without any further ado, let us present ...

The Rules and FAQs for Snarry Holidays 2008:

Rules

1. Fic must be at least 2000 words in length; for art, there is no limit but please spend an comparable amount of time, giving thought to what your recipient wants - i.e. a quick doodle will not be sufficient.

2. To receive a gift, you must submit a gift. If you drop out, your gift will be reassigned and (barring any extenuating circumstances) you will not be allowed to participate in future Snarry Holidays fests.

If you must drop out, please notify us as soon as possible. We need to know in order to arrange for pinch hitters.

If you dropped out last year, please contact us regarding your eligibility. Contact us if you are unsure of your eligibility.

3. All submissions must be beta-read -- NO EXCEPTIONS. We reserve the right to return your work to you for further editing if there are spelling and grammar errors.

4. Your submission must include all HTML formatting: bold, italics, and so on. The mods cannot go through and fix your HTML tags for you - if the formatting is incorrect, your submission will be returned to you for corrections. If you are unfamiliar with HTML tags, the mods would be happy to answer questions.

For fic longer than 10,000 words, we will be hosting your submission on our own site. Please make sure that your work appears exactly as you want it WITHOUT HTML formatting, and send it to us so that we can upload it.

5. This is an anonymous fest - you may not prematurely reveal your identity! Your work cannot be part of a pre-existing series, and cannot be posted elsewhere until after the fest is over and the masterlist is posted.

6. All submissions are due October 10, 2008. In order to receive a two-week extension on the deadline, you must let us know that you need one and send in proof of progress at the time of asking for an extension. Further extensions cannot be guaranteed - depending on the amount of submissions received and the amount of time needed to finish a submission, additional time may be granted.

7. Your gift must fit your recipient's request, within reason. It is not always possible to include every element in a request, but this is a gift exchange: if your recipient does not wish to receive x, y or z, then do not include them in the gift. The mods reserve the right to return submissions for revisions if they do not fulfill the request.

If for whatever reason, you find yourself unable to complete the assignment that you are given, you MUST let the mods know within 24 hours in order to be receive a different assignment.

If you ask to switch assignments for spurious reasons, or because you did not submit a clear and complete sign-up form specifying what you are willing to write, your request for a different assignment is highly likely to be denied.

( and please read the FAQs, for more information )

Let us know if you have any further questions about our next round, by commenting here or e-mailing us at snarryholiday@gmail.com. Other than that ... start getting ready for a very Snarry Holiday this year! We hope that you're just as excited as we are. :)

Hey guys! We're thrilled to announce that the second round of the Snarry Holidays anonymous gift exchange will be starting soon ... we had a great time last year, and we're looking forward to another holiday filled with great art and fic!

To minimize fest burn-out this year, we're going to try to keep it short and sweet! We're going to have a participant cap of 80 this year, and keep the posting down to just a little over a month. Hopefully that will be a happy medium - enough Snarry to satisfy us all, but not so much that we go crazy from all the holiday fests. :)

Without any further ado, here is the schedule. We'll be back in a week or so to post the official rules and give you more details!

Schedule for Snarry Holidays Round Two:

Sign-ups: Aug 5 - Aug 12
Assignments out: Aug 15
Assignments due: Oct 10
Posting: Nov 1 - Dec 7

Before Lyv went on her trip to Europe I AM NOT JEALOUS! I'M NOT! we were sitting down, trying to figure out what to do with the next round of Snarry Holidays. We both plan to have the fest run again (and much better this year, we actually made a list of things we HAVE to do at the end of the fest in order to make this years so much better) but our biggest sticking point was when to hold it.

As everyone knows, December is a huge months for pretty much all fests of any size, shape and flavor to be posting. 3/4 of my personal flist was solely devoted to fests and I maybe, personally, ended up reading 4 fics that weren't from my fest. It was mildly disheartening, but I, like most others, experienced fic burnout.

Now, the question comes, well why are you sharing that with us? The reason for that is Lyv and I wish to move the posting to an earlier month. As the fest stands right now, we barely finished posting before Snarry Smut Swap started. That's just not on. Not on at all. I like our fest, Lyv loves our fest, and we both loved everyone who participated and enjoyed themselves, but as you can see, two Snarry fests back to back just won't fly.

So guys, here's what we need from you. We need a better month. I do believe when we last talked we said we were going to post from the middle of October to mid-November, but that would conflict with all you lovelies who like to do NaNo. That's what we need though. A new month to spread our fest over.

Any suggestions for a better month?

~faynia

Thank you to everyone who participated. We'd like to hear your thoughts on how to make this fest run smoother next time, and what we can do to encourage more participation in commenting.

So, here, as promised, is our ( Masterlist )

We posted the last entry for the fest yesterday, and now we'll be giving you about a week to catch up with everything before we post the masterlist. All of the authors and artists involved in the fest worked very hard on their submissions, so please take the time to leave comments on the fic and art that you enjoyed.

We want to thank you all for participating with us in Snarry Holidays - watchers and participants alike. Special thanks go to bewarethesmirk, who helped us out with posting, and to all of our pinch hitters, who made the completion of this fest possible ... we couldn't have done it without all of you! Due to all of your help and hard work, there's been a lot of Snarry love this season ... and that makes the holidays merrier!