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Mar. 8th, 2014
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yuuagoWelcome to the Nordipalooza Fanwork Fest!
What is Nordipalooza?
This fest is designed to encourage people to make fanwork exploring a wide variety of interactions between the Nordic characters. The goal is to provide people the challenge of working within the confines of short prompts featuring two randomly-assigned characters. At the same time, it allows for the freedom and flexibility to be as creative and imaginative as possible.
Fanwork centring on the themes of family, friendship, rivalry, historical, and romantic situations are all equally encouraged!
In this fest, each person is assigned a list of four prompts. Each prompt contains two randomly-assigned Nordic characters, one simple theme, and two completely optional historical time periods to use as extra inspiration. From this list, they then pick two prompts, and for each prompt produce one piece of art or write at least 500 words. There is also the option to respond to only one prompt if you want to make a more complicated fanwork.
New addition: Participants from previous years can submit fanwork based on prompts they received for previous fests, provided they sign up for the current fest as well. You will receive a new list, and can write for either the new one or the old one; it's up to you.
Timeline
Signups open: March 23rd
Last day to sign up: April 12th
Prompts sent out by: April 14th
Posting opens: May 9th
Last day to post: May 18th
Posting closes: May 19th 7 AM EST
( For further information, check here )
What is Nordipalooza?
This fest is designed to encourage people to make fanwork exploring a wide variety of interactions between the Nordic characters. The goal is to provide people the challenge of working within the confines of short prompts featuring two randomly-assigned characters. At the same time, it allows for the freedom and flexibility to be as creative and imaginative as possible.
Fanwork centring on the themes of family, friendship, rivalry, historical, and romantic situations are all equally encouraged!
In this fest, each person is assigned a list of four prompts. Each prompt contains two randomly-assigned Nordic characters, one simple theme, and two completely optional historical time periods to use as extra inspiration. From this list, they then pick two prompts, and for each prompt produce one piece of art or write at least 500 words. There is also the option to respond to only one prompt if you want to make a more complicated fanwork.
New addition: Participants from previous years can submit fanwork based on prompts they received for previous fests, provided they sign up for the current fest as well. You will receive a new list, and can write for either the new one or the old one; it's up to you.
Timeline
Signups open: March 23rd
Last day to sign up: April 12th
Prompts sent out by: April 14th
Posting opens: May 9th
Last day to post: May 18th
Posting closes: May 19th 7 AM EST
( For further information, check here )
Nordipalooza 2014: A few changes
Mar. 8th, 2014 09:37 pmyuuagoThere have been a few changes to the fest this year, which will be explained in this entry.
Returning participants from 2013 and 2012
A new addition to the fest is that those who have participated previously can post submissions from their 2013 and 2012 prompt lists for the 2014 fest. If you started something in a previous year and didn't have time to finish it before posting closed, or you still find the prompts from a previous year inspiring, then you can submit work responding to those prompts to the current fest!
Signing up for the 2014 fest is still required for past participants who will be submitting from past prompt lists. This means that you will receive a list for 2014, and you can respond to that one or to one that you received in a previous year. (Or both, if you want to!)
Language for fanworks
Previously, all submissions have been in English. This year, submissions in other languages are accepted as well! (They would have been accepted in previous years too, but there were no inquiries about it). There is only one additional requirement for entries in languages other than English, and it is that the summary/content notes should be written in English in addition to whichever language the submitter is using.
( More: Singup Form, New submissions option, Schedule change, New maintainer )
Returning participants from 2013 and 2012
A new addition to the fest is that those who have participated previously can post submissions from their 2013 and 2012 prompt lists for the 2014 fest. If you started something in a previous year and didn't have time to finish it before posting closed, or you still find the prompts from a previous year inspiring, then you can submit work responding to those prompts to the current fest!
Signing up for the 2014 fest is still required for past participants who will be submitting from past prompt lists. This means that you will receive a list for 2014, and you can respond to that one or to one that you received in a previous year. (Or both, if you want to!)
Language for fanworks
Previously, all submissions have been in English. This year, submissions in other languages are accepted as well! (They would have been accepted in previous years too, but there were no inquiries about it). There is only one additional requirement for entries in languages other than English, and it is that the summary/content notes should be written in English in addition to whichever language the submitter is using.
( More: Singup Form, New submissions option, Schedule change, New maintainer )