Antonia Forest fans

Nominations for Yuletide, the annual small fandoms exchange (What's that?) open on 9th September. Here's a schedule for Yuletide 2016, and here are the eligibility rules. The Marlows books (the Players books count as a separate fandom in AO3 terms) are all eminently eligible, and there's been some great Yuletide fic in years past.

You can make 3 fandom nominations and nominate 4 characters for each fandom. That means a bit of co-ordination is probably desirable to get a good spread of characters. Please feel free to discuss co-ordinating Forest-related nominations below or at the yuletide nominations post here. Nominating doesn't commit you to signing up, so if you're still undecided, think you might only want to write treats &c. you can make nominations. You will need an AO3 account to make nominations, however.

The Corridor of Uncertainty (3921 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Marlows - Antonia Forest
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Nicola Marlow/Miranda West, Nicola Marlow/Patrick Merrick
Characters: Nicola Marlow, Miranda West
Summary:

Nicola comes to stay with Miranda for their last half term weekend in Upper VI (most likely some time in the Forestian 1970s-80s!)

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The Apology (1324 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Marlows - Antonia Forest
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ginty Marlow/Patrick Merrick
Characters: Ginty Marlow, Patrick Merrick
Summary:

Patrick gets the chance to visit Ginty in Ireland.

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There's still a week left to post your fanworks, or even pick up a new prompt. You'll need an AO3 account to claim prompts: you can get one here (it takes about a day on the current waiting list).

The 2016 Antonia Forest Fanworks collection will remain open until 8pm (UTC) on the 9th September, and shortly after that the authors will be revealed. Looking forward to seeing your work!

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And meanwhile, another fic from the collection:

Tim and Lawrie - the missing scene (475 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Marlows - Antonia Forest
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Lawrie Marlow, Tim Keith


Please do show your appreciation with comments and kudos.

Another industrious writer has posted this delightful fic to the prompt meme:

Rose's Father, Closely Observed. (2758 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Marlows - Antonia Forest
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Edwin Dodd, Rose Dodd, Chas Dodd, Fob Dodd


Please do show your appreciation with kudos and comments!

Sign-ups for this year's challenge will close tomorrow, 27th June, at 8pm UTC. You can sign up here.

The Forest Fanworks Prompt Meme Challenge was a lot of fun last year, so I thought people might like to have another go. The idea is to have a fairly low-pressure form of commitment, but with a structure that will create bit of a sense of occasion. Signed-up creators can browse the available prompts left by other fans and choose ones they'd like to fulfil, rather than (as in a gift exchange) having a recipient assigned to them. But there will be a sign-up period and a deadline, followed by reveal of the collection.

Rules and guidelines:

You must have an AO3 account to participate. You can get an invite code here. The waiting-list is currently short: about 2 days.

For those unfamiliar with AO3 here's the AO3 FAQ dealing with collections and challenges, and here's the specific bit dealing with sign-ups for prompt memes on AO3.

You must specify at least 1 fandom in each of your prompts: you may specify (up to) all three Forest fandoms and 6 characters in each prompt.

You may make up to 6 prompts. They may be as detailed (or not) as you like, but somewhere in the middle hinterland between 'anything at all about anyone at all' and a detailed plot outline for your Ginty/Patrick/Giles crime caper with bonus tentacles tends to get best results. State clearly any non-negotiable Do Not Wants: e.g. underage sexual content.

The default setting is an anonymous prompt: you can de-anonymise your prompt if you wish. Anonymity is not absolute: in a small fandom like this, it is probably a bit compromised from the start.

You may prompt for art or fic. If prompting for art, please use the 'optional tags' section and enter 'fanart'.

Works may be of any length, but must be complete. It's fine to do minor edits (typos, changing a few words or adding a sentence) after posting and before reveals, but please don't post placeholder works.

You may claim as many prompts as you like and feel able to produce work for.

There can and may be multiple claims on the same prompt.

There are no restrictions on content or rating, but obviously, do try to be respectful of your requester's prompt, especially their DNWs. Ratings and Archive Warnings can be helpful, but Choose Not To Warn is sometimes the only possible option too.

Schedule

Nominations: from today, 17th May. The tagset is here.
Promotion: Please feel free to promote the fest in your own journals and on other social media platforms. I'm not on Facebook, so I'd be particularly grateful if someone who is on the Forest community there would promote it.

Sign-up Opens: Fri 27 May 2016, 10:00AM UTC (11:00AM BST) Sign-up form is here, but it's closed at the moment.
Sign-up Closes: Sun 26 Jun 2016, 08:00PM UTC (09:00PM BST)
Assignments Due: Fri 02 Sep 2016, 08:00PM UTC (09:00PM BST)
Works Revealed: Sun 04 Sep 2016, 08:00PM UTC (09:00PM BST)
Authors Revealed: Fri 09 Sep 2016, 08:00PM UTC (09:00PM BST)

Any questions, just comment or PM me!

Yuletide nominations are now open. I haven't nominated the Marlows this year, but I would certainly be interested in offering/requesting both the modern and the Players books if anyone else would like to do the honours. You can nominate 3 fandoms and 4 characters in each. Please do comment here with the characters you've nominated, so if there are multiple nominators you can avoid character duplication. Nominating does not commit you to participation in Yuletide. You will need an AO3 account to nominate, and nominations close at 9am UTC on 3rd October. You can go direct to the nominations page here.