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An annual collection of Sheldon/Amy fanfic made by fans and shippers alike.

What is Qualia?
Signup for Authors
Signup for Artists
Rules and Guidelines
Deadlines
List of participants

Calling all tbbt and shamy fans!

Qualia: Shamy Fan Fiction Fest is an annual celebration which features fan fictions and fanarts focusing on The Big Bang Theory’s on-screen couple, Sheldon and Amy. All submitted works are released in time for the show’s upcoming season premiere during September.

Rules for Written Works:

-Stories are at least 2,500 words

-Could be oneshots or multi-chapter fics

-Stories are focused on the Shamy pairing.

-All genres (and even crosovers) and ratings are acceptable.

-Original characters are acceptable to be included in the story as long as the main pairing is Shamy.

-Any spoilers for upcoming episodes (of TBBT, and the other fandom if it is a crossover) should be marked as such.

-Rough drafts must be at least 2,500 words and must include the genre, rating, appropriate warnings and the summary for the artist.

-Fics to be submitted should not have been posted prior to this.

-You may only submit at most 2 oneshots and 1 oneshot + 1 multi-chapter fic. 

-Deadlines:

—-rough drafts submission is on August 22, 2012.

—-final draft (beta-read versions) submission is on September 19, 2012.

Rules for Fanarts:

-Fanarts could be in any medium as long as it could be posted online. 

-Like the written works, they should also be labeled with the appropriate warnings.

-Artists gets to choose the fan fiction they wanted to make the fanart for two days after the deadline of the rough draft.

-Artists are required to submit a screencap or a picture (if it is a hand drawing) of your current progress.

-Authors who are also making fanarts are not allowed to pick their own stories and will be asked to pick a day after all who signed up to be artists got to chose a fan fiction.

-Deadlines:

—-selection of fanfics is on August 24, 2012 (for non writers) and August 25, 2012 (writers/artists)

—-Check-in is on September 12, 2012

—-submission of fanart is on September 19,2012

Those who are interested to join may sign up here if you are interested to submit a story and here if you are willing to make an accompanying fanart.

Note: Deadline for writer and artist signup is until July 25, 2012 (GMT +8:00).

If there are any questions, feel free to message me or send the Qualia blog a message.

Long live the Shamy!

10 months ago with 14 notes

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