Santa's Queer As Folk Workshop

IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR...YOU KNOW THE ONE...THE GIVING TIME

Welcome to the 2014 GIFT EXCHANGE!!!!!

This notice is coming out early SUPER so you'll have plenty of time to write, draw, photoshop, vid, or whatever other medium you work best in.

~ The sign up post will be posted on or before October 7th (before I leave for my NYC adventures)

~ Sign ups will remain open until OCTOBER 30, 2014 11:59pm Eastern

~ Assignments will be sent out by November 4, 2014. I will make assignments and pair you up with your gift recipient. I wanted to get them out earlier in case anyone is doing a November writing challenge.

~ All gifts must be submitted to me at qafgiftxchnge @ gmail.com with the subject line: 2014 GIFT by 11:59pm Eastern December 29th, 2013. (this will give everyone a little extra time around the holidays)

~ Gifts will be posted December 30, 2013 to January 5, 2014
**If entries are received early, I'll start posting on the 26th of December
***if you end up giving multiple gifts, we'll sort out a delayed submission.

~Fic gifts do not need to be epic multi chaptered sagas. Drabbles are welcome.

I hope many of you will participate. Last year there was about 32 gifts given, so come out, come out wherever you are, old fans and new! Let's make this year even bigger!

Like previous years, this exchange will be held on Livejournal and Insanejournal. You can sign up where you want, I will mix up all participants and then post all the gifts on LJ and IJ. That way everyone should be able to play. I'll also be spreading the word on Tumblr, so hopefully that will add even more participants into the mix.

RULES

• Please don't sign up if you may not be able to fulfill your gift. IF an emergency happens and you can't participate, please let me know as soon as possible so I can beg someone to stand in so that no one goes giftless.




• Please, NO Brian/Michael, no MPREG, no RPS. Everything else is fine.




• Gifts cannot be posted in your own LJ, IJ or elsewhere until one week after they are revealed here.




• All submissions have to be new and complete, everything else would be just plain rude. Find more rules about submitting your works( HERE )


• All submissions must be stand alone pieces created specifically for this fest. You may not submit a part of a work-in-progress as your submission, nor can you include fic/art/graphics that you've already posted elsewhere.

Submitting Your Work

All submissions should emailed to qafgiftxchnge @ gmail.com by the due date (Dec 29th).

In the subject line of your email, please include your screen name, gift for: [name], and title. This makes it so much easier for us to find and organize your work.

Please remember to copy, paste, and fill this out to include in your email along with your submission:

<b>TO:</b> <b>FROM:</b> <b>TITLE:</b> <b>GIFT REQUEST:</b> <b>NOTE:</b>
Adapt this to fit your needs, such as word count/length.


When submitting a fic:

• Please be sure that it's been saved as an ".rtf", ".doc", or ".docx" format. Also, please include all html coding (bold, italic, underline) in your finished fic. If you're not familiar with html or don't know what the code is for a specific one, check it out here. I WILL be sending back fics that are not html coded as there have been some nightmares trying to break up posts for fics with giant character counts.



• There is no maximum or minimum for the gift exchange, but the mods ask that you keep your plot bunnies in control. 100,000 word fics will probably make us cry because we scan each fic for glaring spelling/punctuation errors. If you exceed 8,000-9,000 words, the mods will have to break your fic into parts due to LJ character restrictions, and we will need to know where you want those breaks to occur.



• Multi-chaptered fics will still be accepted, but nothing will be posted until the fic in its entirety is received. So please don't get in over your head if you're not going to be able to finish it by the due date.



• Please make sure that you spell all character names and places according to their canon spellings. Just ask if you're uncertain.



• While having your fic beta read is not a requirement, it is always encouraged.



• The mods reserve the right to ask you to correct any spelling, punctuation, or grammar issues before your fic is posted.



• If you are using Word to prepare your manuscript, please make sure to turn off smart quotes! Tools >> AutoCorrect >> AutoFormat As You Type >> Uncheck "straight quotes with smart quotes"



• Please ensure automatic spaces before and after paragraphs are not a part of the document. These spaces should be put in by you manually. This helps when the doc is pasted into the LJ/IL html editor.
  
  When submitting a fanart/graphics:


• Please include your art/graphic as an attachment in the email. OR the links to where you're hosting them.



When submitting a fanmix:

• Please include a link to your fanmix in the email.



• Please include any information (artists, titles, featured lyrics) that you'd like to be included with your download link in the body of the email or in a text document.



When submitting a fanvid:

• Please include a link to your fanmix in the email.



• Please include any information (artists, titles, featured lyrics) that you'd like to be included with your download link in the body of the email or in a text document.




***If these formatting guidelines are not followed, you will be contacted and requested to make required changes.***


I will make every effort to match requests with talent. I will also make every effort to fulfill each request. However, if for some reason, your request cannot be fulfilled, I would hope that whatever is substituted will be accepted with gratitude and dignity and with the spirit in which is was intended.

Please feel free to pimp away...and beg all fans to come and participate. Questions? Ask away!

If you're a non-writer and non-graphic maker, stay tuned to this space as I've got an idea in the works especially for you.