Next Gen Winter Fest

We are so sorry for the mistakes in posting that happened today and in wrapping up the fest prematurely. There was an error when copying names over to the posting schedule and list of completed submissions and we missed it. As a result we accidentally missed posting two of the submissions when we were supposed to. Please believe us when we say that we are incredibly sorry for the mix up and that we certainly didn't mean to exclude anyone's work from the fest.

An updated master list will be posted shortly.

Thank you for your understanding,

The Mods

You have an hour to get your fics/art in. :)

However, your mods are tired and are going to bed. We'll respond to your submissions and emails in the morning, so don't panic if you don't hear from us right away. We'll get back to everyone tomorrow and those of you who haven't submitted anything to us by morning will be contacted to ensure no one's been trampled by elephants. 

Suddenly it's only two weeks until deadline - where did the time go? 

It's been a bit quiet here this time around as your mods have been and still are both super busy (and attempting nanowrimo on top of everything). We thought we'd pop in to say we're still alive and kicking and we already have a bunch of wonderful submissions sitting in our inbox, all shiny and pretty and can't wait to see what else will roll in. :D 

A friendly reminder that if you need to drop out or ask for an extension, or if you need us for other modly things, our email address is nextgenmas [at] gmail.com. 

As we have already received our first submission, we thought it prudent to remind everyone that the submission guidelines can be found in this post. Submission headers are to be found also in that post or below. 

We will be setting up a beta-sign up post within the next few weeks.

Happy creating! :D 

Sidenote: If no one has received a confirmation email for the prompt they've claimed, please check your spambox. Either way, if you claimed something, you've likely gotten it as no two people asked for the same prompt as their first priority. :)

( Submission headers )

Due to a number of excuses (and mostly because we'd like more claims wink wink), we have decided to extend the claiming period until Sunday, midnight GMT. So if you haven't yet made up your mind about which prompt you want, you don't have to rush it as you have more time to think about it. (Your mods haven't even decided yet which prompts to claim...good rolemodels, us.)

ALSO, something we forgot to say when we made the claiming post (go us): last year's prompts are exempted from the 'don't claim your own prompt' rule. So if you prompted something last year and would like to write/art it this year, go ahead! 

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NB! CLAIMING EXTENDED UNTIL SUNDAY 30TH SEPTEMBER, MIDNIGHT GMT.


Please familiarise yourselves with the rules if you haven’t already and then claim away.

We have gotten over 160 amazing prompts and the list can be found in its entirety over on our website as the post was too large to post here, but all comments should be made to this post. The unclaimed prompts from last year are also up for grabs. All prompts can be claimed twice, once for fiction and once for art. Any prompts that have been claimed once will be coloured red (and next to it will be stated what it has been claimed for) and any that have been claimed twice will be crossed out.

All prompts are numbered in the order they came in. Some prompts appear in several categories but will have the same number. These prompts can also only be claimed twice; if a gen prompt which appears also in the slash and het categories is claimed for fic, it will be coloured red in all categories.
Last year's prompts are numbered differently (starting in the #200s), so there is no need to indicate in your claiming form which list it came from.

Podficcers can choose to claim one of the fics on offer or they can sign up with a fic of their own choice. Please remember to indicate in the sign up form whether you wish to be anonymous during posting. If not, your podfic will not be posted anonymously. (You can of course change your mind about this later, but remember to let us know.)

Complete prompts list

Slash prompts

Het prompts

Gen prompts

Any genre prompts (as in, free for all :D)

Fic offers for podficcing

The 2011 prompts list

When you have chosen your favourite prompt(s) please fill out the following form to claim it so that we can edit the post to reflect what is still available to people. As soon as you get a confirmation email (which promises to be a faster response than Pottermore) that you have got your prompt, feel free to begin working on it. Please remember that this is an anonymous fest so keep which prompt you have to yourself and discuss it with as few people as possible, i.e only your beta. For this reason, comments are screened.
We are asking for your top three prompts just in case your first choice is claimed in the time it takes for us to edit the post to reflect any changes.

Fic/Art claiming form:
<br /><b>Username:</b><br /><b>Email address:</b><br /><b>Claiming for:</b> fic/art etc<br /><b>Prompt choice #1:</b><br /><b>Prompt choice #2:</b><br /><b>Prompt choice #3:</b><br />

Podfic sign up form:
<br /><b>Podficcer username:</b> <br /><b>Email address:</b> <br /><b>Author username:</b> <br /><b>Fic title:</b> <br /><b>Link to fic:</b> <br /><b>I wish to be anonymous during posting:</b> yes/no<br />

Once you have submitted your entry for the fest you can claim another prompt if you should feel like it. All works are due no later than November 26th.

(got here a bit late? annoyed that you didn't find this fest sooner? late prompt claiming at the mods' discretion. comment to this post or email us at nextgenmas [at] gmail dot com and we'll get back to you asap.)

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- You can prompt ANY pairing you like as long as it is next-gen or cross-gen
- You can also prompt something that is not romance at all; we also accept gen prompts
- Your prompt can be anything (a quote, a song, a movie, a picture - though if you want to use a picture or a youtube video etc. please link to it instead of embedding it. Remember to add a warning if it's NSWF.)
- Even though this is a christmas/winter fest, it does not mean your prompt absolutely has to have something to do with the season, but why not keep it festive? ;D
- Your prompt can be for a specific pairing/characters or not, please state clearly in the prompt which is the case.
- Submit as many prompts as you like!
- Submitting a prompt does not mean you have to claim one later. ;D
- if you do not have an LJ username, please put your ao3/dreamwidth/tumblr/whatever username instead.
- if you edit your comment to include more prompts, please mark where the new prompts begin. We add the prompts to the prompt sheet as they come in and this way it's easier for us to see what's new and what isn't.
- Lastly, please use the following template for your prompt submission:

<b>Username:</b> <lj user="_____" ></lj><br /><b>Pairing(s)/Character(s):</b><br /><b>Is it: Gen / het / femmeslash / slash:</b><br /><b>Prompt:</b>

ETA: Anyone who wishes to offer their (winter/holiday themed next-gen/cross-gen) fics for podficcing for this fest, can use this template:

<br /><b>Author</b>: <br /><b>Pairing/Characters</b>:<br /><b>Is it</b>:Gen / het / slash / femmeslash<br /><b>Word count</b>: <br /><b>Rating</b>:<br /><b>Link to fic</b>: (please put the raw link here)<br />
Please bear in mind that podficcers aren't required to choose one of your fics, or indeed any of the fics offered, and can choose to read something else. By offering up your fics for podficcing you are simply helping with pooling together appropriately themed fics for them. :)
Please only offer up your own fics and do not offer fics on behalf of someone else, even if that person has a Blanket Permission statement in their profile.

In just a few days prompting for this year's nextgen_mas will open! Further information (including a few changes - to the better ;D) as well as this year's timeline will be up at the same time.

Stay tuned. :)