2020 Schedule

[longficmod]

The 2020 round of Fandom5K will begin in a little over a month!

Because we want to give our post-deadline pinch hitters a little more time to work, we have added a week between the assignment deadline and reveals. That period is now nearly three weeks. We've also added a few days to the anonymous reading period, so you'll have closer to two full weekends to read and comment before author reveals.

2020 schedule:

Nominations: 18-27 March
Signups: 28 March-11 April
Assignments out by: 14 April
Default deadline: 8 May
Mandatory check-in: 9-16 May
Stories due: 6 June
Stories revealed: 26 June
Authors revealed: 5 July

If you failed to check in for our previous rounds or defaulted after the no-fault deadlines either of those years, but you want to participate this year, you'll need to fulfill your original assignment before signups start on 28 March. Please drop us an email at fandom5kmod AT gmail when you do. If you're not sure whether this applies to you, please email us to ask.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Is "AU - Modern" supposed to also mean "mundane"? For example, Spider-Man is already 'modern' setting, but would a story where he's just a regular high-schooler instead of a superhero count for this? Similarly, what tag would be used for a mundane AU where the canon keeps its period setting but loses its fantastical traits? Would you consider a "AU - Modern or Mundane" tag?

FWIW, I am not on the banned list, but I also think it would be nice if participants had another way of becoming re-eligible. Completing multiple pinch hits or doing something else that contributes to the overall health of the exchange. People really do fall out of fandoms and find themselves unable to muster up the excitement to write 5k a year later. Additionally, it isn't that easy to find another ship in an assignment to write. What if the other fandoms are all horror and you are too much of a fraidy cat to consume them? Or the other ships are noncon ship and you aren't a noncon writer? Assuming that you can just pick up one of the other requests gives unfairly random advantage to people whose recipients happened to like all the same kind of thing (ex. the same m/f dynamic played across various Regency novels). It makes it tough for people who were assigned recipients with wide-ranging taste, and therefore, little overlap in the things they and their writer enjoy.

[longficmod]

Re: the tag--yes, Mundane or Modern is the intent! Thank you for bringing it up. I'll run the clarification by my comod.

Re: the unbanning process, our philosophy remains that participants should have enough time to decide if their assignment isn't right for them by the default deadline. If they have to drop out after that point, they still have the opportunity to fulfill their commitment, but on their own schedule. If that schedule means they're less excited than they originally were, we may be asking a lot of them, but we're also asking a lot of our pinch hitters.

As always, if participants have specific concerns about their own assignment, we hope they'll contact us directly so we can work with them on a solution.

The mods have reviewed this requirement together more than once since this exchange started, and we hope we've communicated our decision clearly.

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for the explanation. It was still worth asking.

And thank you for considering to clarify that tag!