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: 08 Mar 2009

Digest for 01 February 2009 through 07 March 2009

Announcements:
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Upcoming at The Quidditch Pitch
Look for announcements in the coming weeks from The Captains.  We're working on a couple things, but having a hard time getting ourselves together.  We'll have the text together soon enough.  Thank you to all our members for being patient with us.

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New fics:
Bad Moon Rising )

Hallowed Halls )

Remains of the Day )

Dark Tales )

The Broomshed )

Crossovers )

Non-Fiction )
 
mood:: busy
where: home
music:: Ace of Cakes


Digest: 01 Feb 2009

Digest for 04 January 2009 through 31 January 2009

Announcements:
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Featured Artist of the Year
Congratulations to ericahpfa!

ericahpfa

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Featured Stories of the Year
Congratulations to all our winners!

Within These Walls by Solstice

Memories as a Teacup by wook77


Something Missing at the End by mapleandmahogany


Translation of Light by Matroushka

After King's Cross by oldenuf2nobetter

Five Times Luna Acted Wildly Inappropriate and Dean Loved Her For It by Attila

Seven Courses by Solstice


Clever Strategy by magicofisis

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New fics:
Bad Moon Rising )

Hallowed Halls )

Remains of the Day )

Dark Tales )

The Broomshed )

Crossovers )

Non-Fiction )
 
mood:: sleepy
where: home
music:: Car Talk on NPR podcast


Digest: 07 Dec 2008

Digest for 16 November 2008 through 06 December 2008

Announcements:
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Editor's Choice


Congratulations to kerryblaze!  Click the banner to read her story.

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Year-End at The Quidditch Pitch
+ Our year-end polls should be up soon... hopefully before the end of the year.

+ The assignments for our Secret Elf Holiday Ficlet Exchange should be going out soon.  Sorry for the delay!

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New fics:
Bad Moon Rising )

Hallowed Halls )

Remains of the Day )

Dark Tales )

The Broomshed )

Crossovers )

Non-Fiction )
 
music:: Doctor Who, Season 1


Digest: 16 Nov 2008

Digest for 02 November 2008 through 15 November 2008

Announcements:
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Featured of the Year
Our Featured Artist of the Year and Featured Story of the Year polls should be up soon.  Keep an eye out for them and vote!

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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: 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: 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: 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: 30 Sep 2007

Digest for 16 September 2007 through 29 September 2007

Announcements:
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Quaffle Talk


Episode 8 contains a discussion by The Captains about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, predictions by five of our Miniature Captains and our sometimes serious, mostly silly Captain's Corner segment, What Else Could Have Been a Horcrux?

Download:  LibSyn | Podcast Alley | iTunes subscription | Podcast homepage (18.3 MB, 1:15:34)

Details at Quaffle Talk.

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Featured Stories Poll
Our Featured Stories poll is ready for your vote. Please click the banner to participate!

Vote for the October 2007 Featured Stories at The Quidditch Pitch

Polls will be open until Tuesday, 2 October 2007 @ 1159 EDT.

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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, or Parvati Patil 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 and Parvati has become Abraxas Malfoy.  Ernie Macmillian has been turning up more frequently than usual lately, but The Captains aren't sure who he's impersonating.  If you have any difficulties, please don't hesitate to contact The Captains.

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10,000
We hit 10,000 members this week, a month shy of our second birthday!  Thank you to everyone for being part of this site.

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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 )
 


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 )