Rosemary Sutcliff Fanwork Exchange

It's time to start brushing up on your lyrical descriptions of the British countryside and pondering new hound metaphors because sutcliff_swap will be running again this year! Signups open on February 29th. For the full schedule, see this post. 

I'm very excited to be modding the exchange again with isis . If you are new to the swap or need a refresher on the rules and FAQs, you can view them on AO3 here. The basics are that fic needs to be at least 1,000 words, art needs to be a finished piece, and that works must be set in canon or canon-AU only. No modern AUs, space-age AUs, etc. Also note that the 2011 movie Eagle of the Ninth is not eligible, although the book definitely is. 


This year, we're going to be doing signups through AO3 and are creating a tagset for the various canons. We will only be pre-seeding tags for the canons, not characters, as there are too many to make that feasible, particularly as minor characters often get requested. We'll still be hand-matching as well. We've already put in many of the canons that usually get requested for the Swap. But to ensure that we capture all the canons that people think they might like to request, please go take a look at the current tagset here. If there is a work missing that you would like added, let us know in a comment to this post. Note that we are not trying to make it a comprehensive list of every Sutcliff work, but rather a list of the works that people want to request for the exchange. 

We'll do a pimping post with banners soon, but don't hesitate to publicize the exchange. We'd love to attract as many people as possible! 

Ask any questions in comments to this post, and again, take a look at the tags. 

sutcliff_swap  is back this year!! Signups open March 18. You can see the full schedule here.

As a reminder, or for those who have never participated, Sutcliff Swap is a multifandom exchange for fanfiction and fanart based on the childrens' and adult novels and short stories of British historical fiction author Rosemary Sutcliff. While perhaps best known for her novels of Roman Britain, Sutcliff's works spanned settings from c. 2000-1000 BCE to the 19th century Ottoman Empire.

(We do not permit fanworks based on the 2011 movie The Eagle, or on the Eagle of the Ninth radioplay or BBC series, the BBC Blood Feud series, or any other adaptations for this exchange. However, works based on the books Eagle of the Ninth and Blood Feud are extremely welcome.)

This exchange is also for stories set during the canonical era of the source--which means AU from canon events is fine, but please save the modern and science fiction AUs for other venues.

If you do not feel you can sign up for the exchange this year, you can still sign up as a potential pinch hitter, beta someone's art or story, or create treats.

Your mods this year will be riventhorn and isis 

As a reminder, we are no longer running a mirror of the exchange on the LJ comm, although a few announcements may be posted there.

We hope to see some familiar faces participating and also welcome new people as well!! Please feel free to spread the word!