Drop the Not! Submissions Now Open

Hey all, submissions for Drop the Not! ARE NOW OPEN! You will have three weeks (until 4 April) to submit your not!fics, but authors can start claiming them in one week (21 March), so if you've got them ready be sure to submit them early.

For those of you who are new or aren't familiar with the challenge, Drop the Not! is a multi-fandom fanwork challenge where authors create written fanworks that are prompted or inspired by oral not!fic. An oral not!fic is a type of podfic not based on existing text, such as a fic. It is often improvisational or conversational in tone. This challenge follows the idea of reverse big bangs and prompt communities, but puts a unique spin on things. Here's how it works:

Not!fic can be as detailed or general as the creator likes, but we do ask that writers clearly honour the spirit of the not!fic to the best of their ability. This means that things like fandom, characters, and setting should be similar. We don't have a say in how writers are inspired or how they take the prompt, and the work an author produces may be very similar or radically different from the podfic they received. That’s part of the joy!

If you want to know more about the fest, you can see our intro and rules post here!

Submissions happen on our AO3 collection here!

Any fandom. Any pairing. As much or as little detail as you want. All you have to do is come up with the idea or prompt, record it however you want (I record mine on my phone, so it can be super informal!) then post and see who claims it! We're super excited to see what you all create! Please reblog and spread this around so we can get a great set of oral not!fics created this year!

Go forth and submit your not!fics!

Reminder: oral not!fic submisssions close this coming Monday, 4 April 2022! Get them in while you can!

Drop the Not! Submissions Now Open

Hey all, submissions for Drop the Not! ARE NOW OPEN! You will have three weeks (until 4 April) to submit your not!fics, but authors can start claiming them in one week (21 March), so if you've got them ready be sure to submit them early.

For those of you who are new or aren't familiar with the challenge, Drop the Not! is a multi-fandom fanwork challenge where authors create written fanworks that are prompted or inspired by oral not!fic. An oral not!fic is a type of podfic not based on existing text, such as a fic. It is often improvisational or conversational in tone. This challenge follows the idea of reverse big bangs and prompt communities, but puts a unique spin on things. Here's how it works:

Not!fic can be as detailed or general as the creator likes, but we do ask that writers clearly honour the spirit of the not!fic to the best of their ability. This means that things like fandom, characters, and setting should be similar. We don't have a say in how writers are inspired or how they take the prompt, and the work an author produces may be very similar or radically different from the podfic they received. That’s part of the joy!

If you want to know more about the fest, you can see our intro and rules post here!

Submissions happen on our AO3 collection here!

Any fandom. Any pairing. As much or as little detail as you want. All you have to do is come up with the idea or prompt, record it however you want (I record mine on my phone, so it can be super informal!) then post and see who claims it! We're super excited to see what you all create! Please reblog and spread this around so we can get a great set of oral not!fics created this year!

Go forth and submit your not!fics!

Announcing Drop the Not! 2022

Hi again not!fic enthusiasts! After a moderately successful and highly fun round 1 of Drop the Not in 2021, we're back with another round for 2022. For those of you who are new or aren't familiar with the challenge, Drop the Not! is a multi-fandom fanwork challenge where authors create written fanworks that are prompted or inspired by oral not!fic. An oral not!fic is a type of podfic not based on existing text, such as a fic. It is often improvisational or conversational in tone. This challenge follows the idea of reverse big bangs and prompt communities, but puts a unique spin on things. Here's how it works:

Not!fic can be as detailed or general as the creator likes, but we do ask that writers clearly honour the spirit of the not!fic to the best of their ability. This means that things like fandom, characters, and setting should be similar. We don't have a say in how writers are inspired or how they take the prompt, and the work an author produces may be very similar or radically different from the podfic they received. That’s part of the joy! New for 2022! One of our goals is to create new fanworks, both oral not!fics and written fics, so this year we're strongly encouraging participants to submit new works that have never been posted anywhere publicly for this challenge. This isn't an official rule (yet), but we ask that you make every effort to honour this and create new content everyone can enjoy! This challenge was inspired by the remixapod challenge. We sincerely thank the Remixapod mods for their encouragement and advice! For inspiration or to see what this is all about, check out our AO3 collection here! Authors: Your mods have created an example if you’d like to see one. We’re in no way holding you to the same style or level of detail, but wanted to provide this if needed. Feel free to put your own interpretation and spin on the challenge. We're so excited to see what you all create!

Challenge Timeline:

Rules are largely the same as last year, with a few adjustments, so please review the rules below before before signing up. Note that we have added an author check-in at 2.5 weeks into the fic writing period. We will be contacting you with the contact information in your AO3 profiles, so please either fill those out (don't forget to add your transformative works statements!) or send us an email at [email protected] with that info. Rules:

For more, see our FAQ post here!

Hey all, signups open TOMORROW, 14 March, at 10am US Central Daylight time. You will have three weeks (until 4 April) to submit your not!fics, but authors can start claiming them in one week (21 March), so if you've got them ready be sure to submit them early.

Submissions happen on our AO3 collection here!

Any fandom. Any pairing. As much or as little detail as you want. All you have to do is come up with the idea or prompt, record it however you want (I record mine on my phone, so it can be super informal!) then post and see who claims it! We're super excited to see what you all create! Please reblog and spread this around so we can get a great set of oral not!fics created this year!

Announcing Drop the Not! 2022

Hi again not!fic enthusiasts! After a moderately successful and highly fun round 1 of Drop the Not in 2021, we're back with another round for 2022. For those of you who are new or aren't familiar with the challenge, Drop the Not! is a multi-fandom fanwork challenge where authors create written fanworks that are prompted or inspired by oral not!fic. An oral not!fic is a type of podfic not based on existing text, such as a fic. It is often improvisational or conversational in tone. This challenge follows the idea of reverse big bangs and prompt communities, but puts a unique spin on things. Here's how it works:

Not!fic can be as detailed or general as the creator likes, but we do ask that writers clearly honour the spirit of the not!fic to the best of their ability. This means that things like fandom, characters, and setting should be similar. We don't have a say in how writers are inspired or how they take the prompt, and the work an author produces may be very similar or radically different from the podfic they received. That’s part of the joy! New for 2022! One of our goals is to create new fanworks, both oral not!fics and written fics, so this year we're strongly encouraging participants to submit new works that have never been posted anywhere publicly for this challenge. This isn't an official rule (yet), but we ask that you make every effort to honour this and create new content everyone can enjoy! This challenge was inspired by the remixapod challenge. We sincerely thank the Remixapod mods for their encouragement and advice! For inspiration or to see what this is all about, check out our AO3 collection here! Authors: Your mods have created an example if you’d like to see one. We’re in no way holding you to the same style or level of detail, but wanted to provide this if needed. Feel free to put your own interpretation and spin on the challenge. We're so excited to see what you all create!

Challenge Timeline:

Rules are largely the same as last year, with a few adjustments, so please review the rules below before before signing up. Note that we have added an author check-in at 2.5 weeks into the fic writing period. We will be contacting you with the contact information in your AO3 profiles, so please either fill those out (don't forget to add your transformative works statements!) or send us an email at [email protected] with that info. Rules:

For more, see our FAQ post here!

Hi all! Just a reminder that you can start submitting your oral not!fics to the collection in ONE WEEK! Start getting them ready, get excited, and spread the word!