Just wanted to remind everyone about the challenge....


In this challenge, we have MANY pieces of fanart to inspire your writing and your job is to write a drabble or ficlet to accompany the piece. Here are the details:

• Pick a piece of art from the selection below.
• Write a piece of fanfic between 100 and 750 words based upon the art. No art is NC-17 but fic ratings can be any rating.
• Submit the fic to thecaptains@thequidditchpitch.org by July 30th.
• Read and review the drabbles and ficlets when they are posted on July 31st.

Excited, huh, huh?

Well then what are you waiting for? Go shopping for that inspirational piece of Harry Potter fanart and get writing!

THANK YOU to the wonderful artists! LeelaStarsky, DianaWeasley, LillyWMW, GlockGal, LizardSpots, Mudblood428, Odella, ElspethElf and Reallycorking.

Links to art....

Draco/Hermione---Draco/Ginny---Draco/Pansy---Gen Art---Gen Harry---Harry/Draco---Harry/Ginny---Harry/Hermione---Harry/Luna
Femme Slash---Ron/Hermione---Harry/Ron---Harry/Snape---James/Lily---James/Sirius---Lucius/Narcissa---Neville/Ginny---Remus/Tonks
Ron/Draco---Snape/Hermione---Sirius/Remus---Trio---Snape/Remus---Snape/James---Snape/Lucius---Sirius/Snape---Bill/Draco---Bill/Fleur

When submitting your drabble to the Captains, please include the following information:

Author (TQP Penname):
Piece of art used:
Rating:
Pairing:
Summary:

Please remember that drabbles are due to the Captains by July 30th.

If you have any questions, please contact Captain DeenaS at deenas@thequidditchpitch.org.

Announcing The Quidditch Pitch's....


In this challenge, we have MANY pieces of fanart to inspire your writing and your job is to write a drabble or ficlet to accompany the piece. Here are the details:

• Pick a piece of art from the selection below.
• Write a piece of fanfic between 100 and 750 words based upon the art. No art is NC-17 but fic ratings can be any rating.
• Submit the fic to thecaptains@thequidditchpitch.org by July 30th.
• Read and review the drabbles and ficlets when they are posted on July 31st.

Excited, huh, huh?

Well then what are you waiting for? Go shopping for that inspirational piece of Harry Potter fanart and get writing!

THANK YOU to the wonderful artists! LeelaStarsky, DianaWeasley, LillyWMW, GlockGal, LizardSpots, Mudblood428, Odella, ElspethElf and Reallycorking.

Links to art....

Draco/Hermione---Draco/Ginny---Draco/Pansy---Gen Art---Gen Harry---Harry/Draco---Harry/Ginny---Harry/Hermione---Harry/Luna
Femme Slash---Ron/Hermione---Harry/Ron---Harry/Snape---James/Lily---James/Sirius---Lucius/Narcissa---Neville/Ginny---Remus/Tonks
Ron/Draco---Snape/Hermione---Sirius/Remus---Trio---Snape/Remus---Snape/James---Snape/Lucius---Sirius/Snape---Bill/Draco---Bill/Fleur

When submitting your drabble to the Captains, please include the following information:

Author (TQP Penname):
Piece of art used:
Rating:
Pairing:
Summary:

Please remember that drabbles are due to the Captains by July 30th.

If you have any questions, please contact Captain DeenaS at deenas@thequidditchpitch.org.

To All Members and Authors:
If you have submitted a multi-chaptered story in the past few months and have not been contacted by a Quidditch Assistant (Aka) Beta Reader. Please take a moment and resubmit your story or contact thecaptains@thequidditchpitch.org.


Due to a technical glitch in our beta queue several multi-chapter stories have vanished. We strongly feel this is either the work of Voldemort or Bellatrix but can't be sure.

Thanks!

The Captains

Hi All-As we said before we are doing something slightly different this year for featured stories. We are doing them quarterly instead of each month. In addition normally there will be a poll for everyone to vote but this month we decided to allow the entire Quidditch Pitch Staff to pick their featured story.

So congratulations and the featured stories are under the cut.


( Featured Stories )

Did you know that The Quidditch Pitch has, at its core, four Captains who run the site day-to-day? There are two Auxiliary Captains, two Captain's Assistants, 7 Quidditch Coordinators and 20 Quidditch Assistants as well, but just four who run it day in, day out.

In the past year, those four Captains have attended school, lost three jobs, gained two jobs, and moved four times. There has been turnover in the QA staff, and a smaller turnover in the QC staff. Our Gallery broke. Our forums were hacked. Our podcasts have disappeared. And that's just for starters. 2008 was not a good year.

Despite this, and with the extraordinary assistance of our staff, we've made it work with as little inconvenience to you, the members, as possible. It has meant long nights for some of the Captains (including lots of drinking), but we've done it.

However, the Captains have looked ahead to 2009 and foresee many changes again, the least of which are major moves for three of the Captains, and one who will be finishing school. Because of these things, and after many long discussions, we have decided we're going to scale back the scope of our operations for The Quidditch Pitch in 2009.

We are not closing. Let us say that again: we are not closing.

We will not, however, be scheduling podcasts for this year, or regular polls, as in years past. Featured Stories and Challenges will become quarterly through the remainder of 2009. We will continue to respond to emails from staff and members. We will continue to keep the site running. We will continue with the digest, though it may be as infrequent as once a month or as frequent as weekly.

However, we want your input! Are there things you’d like to see us drop completely? Do we need to be more visible in fandom so that you know we’re still out there, still Harry Potter fans, and still active members of this wonderful community?

We are hopeful that, in 2010, we will be able to ramp operations up once again, to bring back some of the features we've had to put on hold. We would love to be back full force to attend the convention in Orlando that will coincide with the new Harry Potter Theme Park opening.

Sincerely,
The Captains of The Quidditch Pitch
- Captain Annie, the Captain who thinks Ron looks hot in Quidditch Gear.
- Captain Deena, the Stable Captain in charge of the Betas and Stable Boys
- Captain Minnie, the Crazy College-student-again Captain
- Captain Trisha, the Captain most trying to emulate Hermione
- Captain Mel, Auxiliary Captain
- Captain Kerry, Auxiliary Captain

Digest for 08 March 2009 through 21 March 2009

Announcements:

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Affiliate Hermione Big Bang is a community fest running a 6-month event during which authors write novella- and novel-length stories of any type centered on Hermione Granger, and artists illustrate them with art, graphics, videos, and/or music. The archive will go live on September 19, 2009, to celebrate Hermione's birthday. Two of the Captains are participating and we would love to see everyone who writes Hermione participate. You don't have to have a Live Journal to participate. Check it out and, if you have questions, don't hesitate to ask the mods! They are great and really supportive. There are loads of cheerleader openings, too, so if you aren't a writer, why don't you come cheerlead?

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New fics:
( Bad Moon Rising )

( Hallowed Halls )

( Remains of the Day )

( Dark Tales )

( The Broomshed )

( Crossovers )

( Non-Fiction )
 

As those of you who follow any of the Harry Potter news sites have learned that Matthew Lewis has a Twitter account.

He and his mate Cuzzy are apparently very, very competitive and their first challenge was a bit unfair to Cuzzy.

The challenge is:

"Hello and welcome to the first ever Lewis vs. Cuzzy challenge. Beginning on Sunday 15.03.09. The challenge is as follows:

Who can get the most followers on Twitter (www.twitter.com) by Sunday the 22.03.09. We both have exactly one week to get as many followers as possible by any means necessary.

Matt’s Twitter http://twitter.com/Mattdavelewis
Cuzzy’s Twitter http://twitter.com/chriscuzzy

Pick a side and let the games begin..!"

That's a direct quote from the The Lewis Vs Cuzzy Blog

The Captains do love the underdog--well, except for Voldemort--okay, we liked Voldemort a little bit...no, we're not comparing Matt Lewis to Voldemort! Matt's much nicer and has a sense of humor...although Voldemort had a twisted sense of humor and we liked that--but that's not the point! It's not that we don't love Matt Lewis--we just feel that Cuzzy could use TQP's support.

So, we would love for you to join us in following Cuzzy on Twitter!

The bonus in this is that there are going to be videos! We don't know what the loser of the first challenge has to do--it may be videotaped and who doesn't like to watch videos? Voldemort wouldn't enjoy videos but we believe that Bellatrix might. (That is so not the point, Annie!)

As a side note, you can also follow the Captains on Twitter if you'd like!
simons_flower: You didn't give them our Twitter info, Annie. | tqpannie: Our members are smart, they'll figure it out. | madam_minnie: You think Voldemort would Twitter? "Lucius: Atck Potter. Pick up dry clng. AK Bella." | almond_joyz: I disclaim all knowledge of all of you.

Hermione Big Bang is a community fest running a 6-month event during which authors write novella- and novel-length stories of any type centered on Hermione Granger, and artists illustrate them with art, graphics, videos, and/or music. The archive will go live on September 19, 2009, to celebrate Hermione's birthday.

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Two of the Captains are participating and we would love to see everyone who writes Hermione participate. You don't have to have a Live Journal to participate. Check it out and, if you have questions, don't hesitate to ask the mods! They are great and really supportive.

There are loads of cheerleader openings, too, so if you aren't a writer, why don't you come cheerlead?

Digest for 01 February 2009 through 07 March 2009

Announcements:

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Upcoming at The Quidditch Pitch Look for announcements in the coming weeks from The Captains.  We're working on a couple things, but having a hard time getting ourselves together.  We'll have the text together soon enough.  Thank you to all our members for being patient with us.

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New fics:
( Bad Moon Rising )

( Hallowed Halls )

( Remains of the Day )

( Dark Tales )

( The Broomshed )

( Crossovers )

( Non-Fiction )