Hello everyone!
First of all, congratulations to everyone who participated in the challenge. Everyone involved from the artists and writers to the readers and reviewers have certainly made it a success. Of the 78 banners created 46 of them were claimed and from that we have had 44 brand new stories shared for the members of our community. That's an amazing turnout and everyone who participated should be congratulated. If you have yet to read any of the challenge fics, and you want to see them all in one place, you can FIND THEM HERE. I tried to shortlist some favourites to recommend, but there are so many wonderful fics it's hard to narrow down just a few. And that's not a bad thing!
For anyone yet to post their fic, the challenge is still open, but the window for selecting the *Click here if your story is part of the Artistic Anniversary Challenge* checkbox is closing very soon. You will have until 11:59pm on Friday, November 11 (site time) to post your first chapter, which is a little under 48 hours to begin posting your challenge response. This does not mean the fic needs to be complete and this goes for existing WIP's in the challenge also.
Now, onto the unclaimed banners. After much discussion, the mods have come to the following decision. With approval from the artists involved (emails are being sent to everyone individually as we speak) any unclaimed banners will be added to the challenges page for the site. They will be displayed as they were for the anniversary challenge, with all of the specifics and also with the accompanying banners. Any artist who wishes to reclaim their banner(s) may do so. Artists who give permission will see their challenge and banner added to the challenge page once approval has been given.
Finally, participation awards will be added to member profiles after Friday when the new deadline (11:59pm on Friday, November 11) has passed.
Thank you again to everyone who participated and helped us celebrate the 10th anniversary of Elysian Fields.
--Amy on November 09, 2016 08:08pm 8 Comments
Thanks for the love Kathleen! *hugs*
Thank you all for the challenge month! Everyone who worked on it, everyone who thought of it, everyone in general. I'm about to have over 150,000 words of new fic that I would never have considered even writing if not for this project. It was a BRILLIANT idea, and good to everyone involved. Thank you!!!!
Thanks so much guys for all of your hard work, it was an amazing challenge and reading the anticipation in the SB as people waited for the fics to be uploaded was infectious, it felt good to be part of such an event.
I haven't even got to read all of the fics yet but I will read every one as I'm sure they are all as amazing as the banners.
You are all awesome! x
It was a great idea for the challenge month. Thank you all for all the work you put in 
It was great fun. Thanks to everyone who worked hard on it - the artists, the authors and betas, and the mods who made it all happen.
I'm assuming you meant November 11th, not October?
*is excited to get her shiny new reviewer award*
Yes, it was meant to say November! Good spotting.
Thank YOU Amy for all you work in coordinating this event and taking the lead throughout. You and Susan bore the brunt of it all and it was spectacular!
I add my thanks to all who have participated: the artists, the writers, the readers/reviews; you have enriched the site beyond the imagination. I've never read such a cluster of GREAT stories, beautifully illustrated. Truly a "golden age" for Spuffy fic and it is all due to those of you who participated. Our fandom not only still lives, it thrives!!
Kathleen