Archive of Our Own

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Ateliers is a friendly fanfiction (and original fiction, and other media) project/challenge that grew out of the random thought of writing stories/poems/etc. or creating art/podfics/etc. inspired by visual art and/or prose/poetry/play/film/short film/animation/historical event, such as Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring, Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, Ginberg's Howl, Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, Dalí and Buñuel's Un chien andalou, Disney and Dalí's Destino, or the burning of the library of Alexandria. Any fandom (or original fiction), prose, play, poetry, podfic, art, song. It's all about art.

Important Dates:
Prompting begins: 28 October 2016
Prompting ends: 4 November 2016
Final submissions due: 5 November 2016 (500 words minimum, poems less, fanart n/a)
Collection is revealed: 6 November 2016

Contact us
Please contact us with any questions/concerns via [email protected].

Ateliers is not anonymous. As soon as works are revealed, the author will also be revealed.

Adapted from kabedon challenge.

On Prompting

For round one, there was no prompting and everyone just wrote their own prompt. You can still do this! However, some people expressed interest in joining but weren't sure what inspiration to use, so for round 2 we're bringing in optional prompting!

To prompt, just click the sign up button in the top right area of the screen, and follow the instructions. You'll need a link to the source, be it a wiki article about a book, a link to a painting, a poem, etc. as well as the title and type of medium which you'll enter into the description box as prompted. Prompts are in no way fandom specific and should not include any text beyond a basic description of the medium if warranted. If you're not sure, feel free to look at what's already been prompted! Prompts should also be anonymous so make sure not to uncheck the anonymous box.

Prompting ends 4 November 2016.

On Claiming

As stated above, you do NOT have to claim a prompt to write; you may bring your own prompt. However, if you would like to claim a prompt, click the claim button on the prompt you’d like to claim. (It’s easy to drop your claim as well, merely click “drop claim”.

To write/create for ateliers 2016, you must ALSO fill out the form below, whether you claim a prompt or not.

Please fill out this form. If you make a mistake, don’t worry, just submit it again.

Note: a single prompt may be claimed by more than one person as results will be exceptionally varied, especially across different fandoms/original creations.

On Posting

I'm done with my fic/art! How do I submit it?

If you claimed a prompt

(Adapted from Night on Fic Mountain)

Go to your Claims page on AO3, which you can find under the "Claims" link on your Profile page, or on the ateliers 2016 collection page in the left navigation bar as My Claims. You should see two buttons at the bottom of your assignment: "Fulfil", and "Drop Claim".

Click "Fulfil", and you'll be taken to a posting form. This will automatically post your work into the current year's collection. It also has your claim already filled in. All you need to do is fill in the rest of the form, preview it to make sure it looks okay, and post.

AO3 also has a "rich text" option in the upper right corner above the main work entry area that might prove useful to you, especially if your work isn't textual. Visual example.

If you didn't claim a prompt

Go to the ateliers 2016 collection page and click on Post to Collection. This will automatically post your work into the current year's collection. All you need to do is fill in the rest of the form, preview it to make sure it looks okay, and post. Please make sure to include whatever work(s) your story was inspired by.

Note: you may submit your fic/art as soon as you finish. Simply follow the instructions above to Fulfil a claim.

How reveals will work

Starting on 9 October, one or more works will be revealed per day and tweeted on @projectAteliers as well as being added to the masterlist which will be on ateliers. (Round 1's masterlist, as an example.) Headers will also be posted to the ateliers community (for an example please see round 1 headers). You do not need to send us a separate header as we will be assembling it from the header information provided with your ao3 work including the top notes section. However, if you wish to request a modification or ask that a link to a non-ao3 copy of the work also be included (LiveJournal, Tumblr, etc.) please contact us (see below).

On 6 November 2016, the collection will be revealed, along with an “anthology” type website in lieu of a masterlist. (View the website here.) The anthology site will be tweeted on @projectAteliers and there will be an annoucement post made on the ateliers community as well as Tumblr. After some reflection and self-examination, we realized that the ateliers project has always been more of an anthology and we made this posting change in order to highlight this.

If you have any concerns, please don't hesitate to contact the mods!

1. There is no word count minimum (but we're probably aiming for at least 500 words for prose, less for poetry is fine, and of course this does not apply to art)
2. This is open fandom/multi-fandom including original: anything is excellent. The focus is the art.
3. Any kind of art/prose/poem/play/film/short film/animation/historical event or combination goes if it was created/occurred before 1969 inclusive. After that, in terms of written text, specifically prose, we were originally thinking of books like the Booker, Pulitzer and the Nobel Prize in Literature longlists, or conversely the Hugo, Nebula, Newbery etc. but it's up to you! It would be fun though to focus on things that don't get as much mainstream bestseller attention. Any language is great!