RETURNING EVENT!!
Hello Folks!
Instead of hosting Trope Week this year, we are bringing back a classic fest with some new twists! We will host the return of Scratch-That-Niche Fest, this time the *Trope Edition*.
For those who are newer, Scratch-That-Niche or STN for short, is one of our earlier popular events (running in 2021/2022), and it was an adjudicated competition focused on rare pairs in the background of SSHG.
You can check out the collections for those fests at these links -
2021: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/Scratch_that_niche21
2022: https://archiveofourown.org/collect.../Scratch_That_Niche_22
We are making some changes to the format this time around.
First, we are shifting focus from rare pairs to rare tropes in SSHG.
Secondly, it's not judged as it was before (on a points based rubric), rather this year we will be running a number of polls.
Thirdly, we aren't providing prompts, rather a list of rare tropes we polled off of several writing groups, but, you can still use any of the prompts we've had for any previous events (a list is being curated so you can have access to them), or your own prompts.
Event Details; It will go from May 1st to May 31st, with the last submissions being accepted to the collection on June 1st, 7:00pm EST.
Polling will be from June 1 -June 15th with awards presented shortly after on the 16th-17th depending on how much math I have to do.
Rules, Submission Guidelines, and Tropes can be found in the collection.
LINK: https://archiveofourown.org/.../Scratch_That.../profile
We look forward to the submission for this event and cheering your creations along!