From rstiegel at rstiegel.yahoo.invalid Thu Jun 1 19:12:20 2006 From: rstiegel at rstiegel.yahoo.invalid (Rachael) Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 19:12:20 -0000 Subject: Snapecast Episode 1 is up! Message-ID: Snapecast is the first and only podcast solely focused on the character of Professor Severus Snape. A diverse cast with representatives from every corner of the Harry Potter fandom delivers an entertaining array of discussion, speculation and plenty of snark. Available for download at http://snapecast.com Rachael From heidi at heiditandy.yahoo.invalid Fri Jun 2 16:48:38 2006 From: heidi at heiditandy.yahoo.invalid (Heidi) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 12:48:38 -0400 Subject: Filkers, Ficcers, Artists & Debaters - Are you attending Lumos? Want to get creative? Message-ID: <5913e6f80606020948k41148412u9553f539180e8048@...> FictionAlley and HPANA are thrilled to announce that sign-ups are now open for The Creativity Booth at Lumos - http://www.fictionalley.org/lumos_creativity. If you're registered to attend Lumos, we'd love to have you take a seat in the Creativity Booth, which will be situation in the Vendor Room; you'll be part of the booth staff for a one-hour time-slot, and your fellow attendees will be able to request a drabble, a sketch, a filk, or a bit of meta/debate from you. We have almost 100 slots available for artists, writers and filkers, so we're hoping that a lot of you are able to take an hour and join in the fun! As some of you remember, we sponsored some of the booths at The Witching Hour, and it was fun for the attendees and the creative people staffing the booths, so we wanted to do it again! (And again, and again, and again!) Any questions about any of the above? Feel free to ask via help at ... or here: http://forums.fictionalley.org/park/showthread.php?s=&threadid=111013 From heidi at heiditandy.yahoo.invalid Tue Jun 6 16:54:44 2006 From: heidi at heiditandy.yahoo.invalid (Heidi) Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 12:54:44 -0400 Subject: FictionAlley Is Seeking a "Radio" Play (or three!) Message-ID: <5913e6f80606060954m6aed213na7db2c2f7f7d129b@...> SPELL-Cast, FictionAlley's podcast program, will be broadcasting live at Lumos 2006 in Las Vegas, NV. Here's a chance for you to be an integral part of it! We seek a script for an original radioplay for approximately 10-12 characters, including at least 3 women and not more than 2-3 men. The play should be no longer than 20 minutes when performed. Please submit your script to fictionalley at ... (put SPELLCAST AT LUMOS in the subject) no later than June 20 so that we can pick a winning play and get ready to cast it at Lumos 2006. We are also, of course, looking for radio plays that we can record later this year. The requirements for that are a little different - a cast of 8-15 people, with no more than five male characters, is ideal, and a length of between approximately 20 and 45 minutes when performed is our goal. Send your script to fictionalley at ... (with SPELLCAST RADIO PLAY in the subject) by July 31. Your script can be an adaptation of a fic you have written or co-written, or an adaptation of a fic written by someone else if the original writer gives you permission to use his or her story. We will only accept submissions that would merit a PG-13 rating (http://www.fictionalley.org/ratings.html). Submitting a script per the above requirements means that you grant FictionAlley and its assigns a perpetual license to modify, record, copy, distribute, and create derivative works from your submission. If you have any questions, feel free to post in Suggestions & Questions or email the help desk at help at .... From heidi at heiditandy.yahoo.invalid Wed Jun 14 01:12:41 2006 From: heidi at heiditandy.yahoo.invalid (Heidi) Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 21:12:41 -0400 Subject: FictionAlley Announces Scholarship Winners Message-ID: <5913e6f80606131812s63b1210ar72d760bfc2efd87c@...> When teenage writer Katie O'Brien lost her battle with leukemia in the spring of 2005, FAWC, the non-profit educational arm of FictionAlley.org and its family of websites, created three scholarships for young writers in her memory. The winners of the 2006-2007 Katie O'Brien Memorial scholarship are: *Ashley Yutzy, of the Maryland Institute College of Art *Michelle A., who will be attending Florida State University this fall *Rachel W. of Colorado's Naropa University The program was open this year to individuals who would be full-time students in the 2006-2007 school year; almost one hundred applications were submitted, and three awards of five hundred dollars - one for art, one for creative writing and one for community service - have been awarded. Heidi Tandy, president of FictionAlley, commended the three winners, and said, "These young women have shown passion, talent and originality, and that is truly the magic of creativity. Perhaps someday, they will be, like J.K. Rowling, able to share their creative magic with the world." Examples of works created by the three winners will be on display in FictionAlley's booth at Lumos, the Harry Potter conference taking place in Las Vegas July 27 - 30, 2006. In addition, FictionAlley is hosting art from Ms Yutzy's portfolio at http://www.fictionalley.org/scholarship/art.html; a selection from Michelle's winning submission for the Community Service scholarship is at http://www.fictionalley.org/scholarship/communityservice.html and a selection from Rachel's winning submission for the Writing scholarship is at http://www.fictionalley.org/scholarship/writing.html. Beginning in 2005, thousands of people around the world purchased CREATIVITY & MAGIC wristbands, and FictionAlley used the proceeds to fund scholarships. There are plans to continue awarding the scholarships through the 2008-1009 school year. Wristbands are still available via http://www.fictionalley.org/wristbands.html, and will be on sale at Lumos, as will two surprises for our 2006 scholarship fundraiser. FictionAlley celebrates its fifth anniversary this summer as the host of the largest collection of Harry Potter fanfiction, fanart and fan-discussion. The site has provided a place for thousands of writers and artists to share their stories and their art, get feedback on their work from other fans, and improve in their craft. ABOUT FICTIONALLEY: FictionAlley.org was founded in the summer of 2001 by a dozen Harry Potter fans - mostly fanfic writers and artists - as an archive for Harry Potter fanfic; the site hosts any story with reasonably good grammar and spelling as long as it does not merit an adults-only rating. Since 2001, the site has grown to include over ten thousand stories and chapters by thousands of writers, as well as thousands of fan-generated artworks, hundreds of fan-films, and now, a beta project of audio recordings of fanfiction, and has been a frequent sponsor of events for Harry Potter fans, including Nimbus - 2003, The Witching Hour, Accio and movie- and book-release parties in dozens of cities from Melbourne, Australia to Los Angeles, California. FAWC also hosts HarryPotterWiki.com, a Wiki about J.K. Rowling, the Harry Potter series and its fandom, and HPInkPot.com, a collection of essays about the series, writing and creativity. In May, 2006, FictionAlley launched Spell-Cast.com, a biweekly podcast by, for and about fans and the things they make, do, create, learn and discuss. FictionAlley has been featured on the front page of the Sunday New York Times, by the BBC, in the Miami Herald, National Public Radio, the Sacramento Bee and BOOK magazine. In April, 2004, FictionAlley was nominated for a WEBBY Award. In the spring of 2005, FictionAlley was nominated for a Prix Ars Electronica award; the Prix Ars is considered the Nobel Prize of web awards. In the summer of 2005, FictionAlley was invited to be part of the MINERVA project at the Library of Congress; the Library now archives all of the contents of FictionAlley for its permanent collection. From rstiegel at rstiegel.yahoo.invalid Thu Jun 15 13:05:32 2006 From: rstiegel at rstiegel.yahoo.invalid (Rachael) Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 13:05:32 -0000 Subject: Snapecast Contest Update Message-ID: Here is an update about the contest Snapecast is having. Only one week left to get your fanfic and fanart entries to severus at ... for Snapecast's Monthly Contest! Prize includes a special selection by Laura of A few new things from FictionAlley: Eisode 2 of Spellcast is finally up on itunes and for direct download on the website! You can, therefore, find it at http://www.spell-cast.com or at itunes via http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=156422019 . Feel free to post and let us know what you think. Hopefully each episode should keep getting better and better until we start doing weekly podcasts and get the hang of it. If you're a big Luna fan, we'd love to have you be part of our round table on the next episode - you can email us at spellcast at ... if you're a Luna fan with a microphpone setup on your computer. Second, we have added an amazing RSS page, where you can see a list of all new fics on FA using an RSS reader like LiveJournal or Google or Yahoo's RSS setups. Our main RSS feed is and by the end of this month, we'll have an RSS feed for every era, genre, character and ship listed on FictionAlley's search page. You can learn more about FA's RSS projects here. We also announced our Katie O'Brien scholarship winners - you can read more about them, and enjoy their submissions, on our scholarship information page - and please keep your eye on that page, because later this month, we're going to introduce our 2006 Fundraising Items - we think you'll really like them! And just a reminder - if you are attending Lumos, and haven't signed up to drabble or create filks or art in the FA/HPANA Creativity Booth yet, please do! Just go to the application page and fill out the form, and we'll add you to the schedule. From comtnlady at CoMtnLady.yahoo.invalid Fri Jun 16 17:38:08 2006 From: comtnlady at CoMtnLady.yahoo.invalid (CoMtnLady) Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 17:38:08 -0000 Subject: Contest at ProjectFerret.org Message-ID: The second and third Rounds of The Game are coming up! Solve a riddle, write a fan fic. There is still time to enter! The Game! http://www.projectferret.org/index.php?showtopic=656 For details of Round One, look here: http://www.projectferret.org/index.php?showtopic=676 Round Two will be similar, but have different specifics, and will be announced Sunday June 18th. 1/3 of the entrants in Round One won a prize. The odds are great that you might. too! www.ProjectFerret.org From elizabeth.lacey at internationalbrandidltd.yahoo.invalid Fri Jun 23 21:05:59 2006 From: elizabeth.lacey at internationalbrandidltd.yahoo.invalid (internationalbrandidltd) Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 21:05:59 -0000 Subject: The Wand Shoppe Org Come vote for your Fav HP Site Message-ID: Come and Vote for your favorite including this site for the Gold Cup Silver, and Bronze Tri Wizard Cups. Please look at out site and then click the small HPANA button to vote for us. Thanks Elisabeth Ps We give awawrds every month which includes free adverts, a teddy and Tee for the months winners. Enter your name to be drawn for a July Bear Got Potter Bear.