Nightwarden's Garden Fanzine

Home of Nightwarden's Garden, a zine dedicated to femslash art and fanfiction about Minthara Baenre of Baldur'sGate 3. Submissions open till May 30th!

[nightwardensgarden]

Submissions are now OPEN! Please read these rules before submitting

- [ ] Original works only

- [ ] Art and written fiction are both accepted!

- [ ] Must be femslash

- [ ] ABSOLUTELY NO AI

- [ ] Word limit is 5,000 words per written entry

- [ ] 18+ is allowed. However, no noncon, excessive gore or underage characters are allowed.

- [ ] Submissions must be focused on Minthara and Minthara femslash ships

- [ ] All submissions are to be sent to this email: [email protected]

Submission deadline: May 30th

[nightwardensgarden]

Hi, hope you're doing well, how's the zine going?

Waiting to hear back on the visual designer, I'll keep you updated my dears <3

[nightwardensgarden]

Are you okay? It's been a while

Hi there, thanks for asking :)

It's a bit crazy on my end with my wedding coming up in less than a month. As far as the zine goes, I need some assistance with graphic design. Otherwise worst case scenario I'll do a google drive link. Unsure of when it'll be done but I'll keep y'all updated.

[nightwardensgarden]

Hi folks!

All submissions have been gathered, so the next step is designing the zine itself and getting ready to share it with y'all. I am imminently moving to another state so that step is being postponed until I'm settled.

Thank y'all for your patience <3

[nightwardensgarden]

Alright folks, that’s a wrap! Submissions are officially closed. Next up is to format the zine and get it ready to send out to y’all.

The zine will be completely free to all. My goal has always been for this to be a treat for Minthara fans, whether we be moots on my main or not.

Thank you to everyone who contributed and shared their amazing work.

I will continue to share updates on the zines progress as I encounter them.

Best,

MVG/MatronMinthara

[nightwardensgarden]

Is it ok to ask how many submissions there are? Looking forward to this zine!

At this time there are five including my own, so we're pretty sparse on apps

[nightwardensgarden]

Submission deadline today 6/30

Today is the LAST DAY to submit your pieces for Nightwarden’s Garden!!! midnight EST is when apps formally close so please get them in today!

[nightwardensgarden]

Hello! I've just heard about the opening for Minthara submissions. I have a short scene I was considering submitting. I'm obsessed with Minthara but my Tav happens to be male. Should I still send it in? (He worships the ground she walks on but I understand that wlw pairings was kind of a main staple of the submissions lol)

Regardless, I'm enjoying myself on the Minthara side of tumblr and wish you and the rest of the submissions the best!

Hi, thanks for the question! This is a femslash zine so an F/M pairing wouldn’t be eligible. Depending on how this goes perhaps I’ll make a more general Minthara zine but we’ll see!

Regardless I’m always happy to find another Minthy enjoyer 💅🏻💖

[nightwardensgarden]

UPDATE: Deadline extension

Hello folks and freaks!

After some careful consideration, I've decided to extend the deadline till midnight on June 30th. I've gotten feedback from some prospective participants who said they hadn't heard about it in time and felt they had no time to complete a submission.

I'm shit at marketing/advertising, so I'm opening it for longer in the interest of fairness for those who want to submit. We also just simply don't have enough submissions to publish rights now, with only three written works (including my own).

Feel free to shoot me an ask for any questions, concerns or just to say hi

[nightwardensgarden]

Super excited for the project and almost ready with my submission!

I was wondering, when can we post our submissions after the zine comes out? And do we have to stay anonymous until then?

Thank you so much for organising this!

Oh no, no one has to be anonymous lol! You can show your face around here I promise.

As to submitting after the zine is out, I think a week after to post it seems good.

[nightwardensgarden]

Update: We are down to 7 days until submissions close!!!

Can’t wait to see what y’all come up with

[nightwardensgarden]

I have a couple of questions if that’s ok!

Can the fics have been posted on AO3 or do they need to be original to this?

Is Minthara/OC accepted or should it only be Minthara/Canon character for femslash submissions?

Thank you :)

Hi there!

Ideally submissions would be original for the fic, but depending on if we get enough originals I may relax that rule.

And yes, OCs are absolutely ok for the zine as long as they’re a Minthara kisser :)

[nightwardensgarden]

ANNOUNCEMENT

I’m increasing the acceptable word count to 5k from 2,500. It seems like 2,500 is too short for a lot of folks and I don’t want to discourage people who want to participate.

The only requirement of art is that it complies with the current rules

[nightwardensgarden]

Hi! Out of curiosity is the word limit of 2500 maximum? If so do you have a minimum?

The maximum would be 2500! I think for an underlimit 250 words would be acceptable.

I'm definitely open to budging on the limits if people would find it more helpful, I just wanted to avoid the headache trying to fit a 100k fic into a zine (never ran a zine before and I want to try not to nuke the project before it happens)

[nightwardensgarden]

Friendly reminder the zine is currently accepting submissions! We haven't received any submissions yet but I'm super stoked to see what y'all come up with

[nightwardensgarden]

UPDATE: I neglected to add a submission cut off date. I added one to the pinned post but I’ll also mention it in this post. The current cut off date is May 30th, unless people think a month is too short.

Is that enough time for you

Yes

No

Voting ended onApr 3, 2025

[nightwardensgarden]

Ok, the people have spoken. 18+ will be allowed and the rules amended. No noncon, underage or excessively gory content will be allowed, but otherwise go off my little Minthara-loving freaks