Yuletide fic festival nominations starting!

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Official how-to-nominate tutorial

Yuletide is a brilliant end-of-year fic exchange built around rare fandoms. Nominate the fandoms you love, request stories you’d love to read, make someone else’s request come true by writing for them - and then read all the other stories in a huge collection of amazing rare fandoms.

Step 1 (optional): Nominate - pick 3 rare fandoms and up to 4 characters per fandom. Rare fandoms basically means that there’s less than 1000 completed stories that are over 1000 words and in English. Rare fandoms don’t have to be things like books, video games, or TV series - they can also be things like architecture, historical figures, advertising campaigns, and music videos.

Step 2: Sign up - after nominations end, sign up to participate. Out of all the nominated fandoms from everyone, select the ones you want to write, and the ones you’ll request stories from. Even if you didn’t nominate you can still sign up.

Step 3: Write your story. You’ll be matched with someone who requested at least 1 fandom you volunteered to write. Someone else will also receive your request and write you one of the ideas you asked for. Some people also write extra stories, which are called treats.

Step 4: Posting and reading! On December 25 or so, Yuletide goes live. Your recipient gets the story you wrote for them, and you receive a story from a mysterious author written for you. Every author is anonymous until January 1, and there’s plenty of reading and reviewing to do for thousands and thousands of fandoms and stories.