Submission Guidelines

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The submission guidelines below the cut are for the stories and art that were claimed as part of the official claiming process.

For submitting story/art for our bonus content, please see this post.


Requirements

• Story/art must be new and not posted anywhere else
• All stories must be 1,000 to 10,000 words
• Art must be completely finished, preferably colorized, but black and white is good, too
• All stories must be beta’d before submitting (check out biggerandbeta* on tumblr)
• All stories must be formatted properly with HTML for italics, bolds, etc before submitting (Guide for Basic HTML Formatting*)
• While it is ok to make up some of your own spells and what not, potterwords* is a great source for correct names and words from the HP books
• All stories/art must have a proper rating on it, if there is nudity at all or non-graphic sex it needs to be an R, for any thing showing genitals and or sexual acts it needs to be rated NC-17. - Please note that these type of submissions will be marked with the Adult content warning.
• * Please note that the websites mentioned above are in no way affiliated with this fest. They are merely listed as references. Any guidelines listed on them are not required for this fest. The only requirements for this fest are listed here on fortheloveofhp. Feel free to ask a question on our FAQs post if you need clarification on something.

File Types

• For Stories/Headers - please save your file as a .txt or .doc/.docx file with the correct HTML codes, also make sure you have a blank line between paragraphs. For people submitting .docx files, please make sure you disable the default spacing settings on your files. Instructions for Word 2007 or Word 2010.

Example

First paragraph of your story.

Second paragraph of your story.

• For Art - please keep your files under 1MB. The images will be stored on photobucket (unless someone has a better suggestion as to where we should store the art images for this fest).

Headers

• All stories must have the correct header at the top of the file they are submitting
• All art must have the correct header in a secondary attachment

Story Header

Username:
Pairing:
Type: (ie Het, Slash, Femslash, Threesome/Moresome, Gen)
Prompt #:
Rating:
Word Count:
Warnings/content: (ie abuse, graphic sex, etc)
Summary:
Notes:
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters/references are property of JK Rowling and associates. No copyright infringement is intended.

Art Header

Username:
Pairing:
Type: (ie Het, Slash, Femslash, Threesome/Moresome, Gen)
Prompt #:
Rating:
Art Medium:
Warnings/content: (ie abuse, graphic sex, etc)
Notes:
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters/references are property of JK Rowling and associates. No copyright infringement is intended.

How To Submit

• Attach your file(s) to an email with the subject (your username) - prompt # and email it to fortheloveofhp @ gmail . com.