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Write, draw, and raise money for the Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies during the holiday season!

The Twelvetide Drabbles Challenge is a fourteen-day challenge to raise money for charity by creating works in response to daily prompts and submitting them to a collection hosted at the fanworks site Archive of Our Own. In fandom parlance a “drabble” is a 100-word piece of fiction. For the annual Twelvetide Drabbles Challenge we interpret the idea of a “drabble” very expansively to mean a short, no-pressure work -- whether a piece of written fiction, a piece of art, or an audio-visual composition -- that gives you the opportunity to be expressive in whatever time you have in your day. Participants are welcome to create all fourteen days or only one or two as their schedules allow. Participants are welcome to contribute fanworks or original (non-fandom) works. Each work submitted to the challenge raises funds for this year’s chosen charity -- the Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies.

Here are the two ways to participate:

1) Create and Submit Works. Anyone may create works -- written works, artworks, or audio-visual works -- and submit them to the collection during the challenge period. The Archive of Our Own collection will open for posting submissions between 9:00am EST (UTC -5) on December 24th, 2021 and 9:00pm EST (UTC -5) on January 6th, 2022.

If you have or choose to create an Archive of Our Own account you are able to post works directly to the collection.

If you don’t have or don’t wish to create an Archive of Our Own account you may submit works through this Google form and the challenge coordinator will post on your behalf:

2) Pledge to Donate. You may pledge to donate an amount of money ($0.05, $0.10, $0.50, etc.) per each work created and added to the collection during the challenge period. When the challenge closes at 9:00pm EST (UTC -5) on January 6th, 2022 the works will be counted up and those who pledged will be notified of the amount they are responsible for donating. Donations may be made in a single lump sum or by installments. You may submit your pledge through this Google Form at any time before the challenge closes.

Social Media Hashtags: We encourage people to share their work(s) and share the challenge through their social networks. The hashtags are: #TwelvetideDrabbles and #12td21

TinyLetter: Throughout the challenge a daily newsletter will go out with a prompt reminder, an update about how many works have been posted and funds raised, links to contributed works, and more. Anyone may sign up to receive the updates and/or read past newsletters here.

1. All textual entries should be short (100 words is, strictly speaking, the length of a drabble...you may hold yourself to that or just keep it brief).
2. All art should be a single image.
3. Audiovisual submissions should be a single file; they will need to be uploaded to another platform and embedded in the body of the Ao3 work.
4. You may post multiple prompt fills per prompt; you do not have to post fills for every prompt. Participate at any level that works for you. You also don't need to post your prompt fills on the specific day for each fill (unless you want to hold yourself to that goal). We're flexible!
5. Entries should be in response to / inspired by the day's prompt however directly, loosely, or subversively you wish to draw the connection.
6. In order to count toward the drabble match donation, works must be posted between 9:00am EST (UST -5) on 24 December 2021 and 9:00pm EST (UST -5) on 6 January 2022. The collection at Ao3 will only be open for new works during this window of time.
7. If you choose to publish some or all of your prompt fills as chapters in a single work each chapter will count as an independent submission for the purposes of the match fund.
8. There aren't any other rules -- thanks for joining us!
 
SPOILERS BELOW: If you prefer to wait for the prompts to arrive daily in your Inbox read no further!

Challenge Prompts

This year's theme is locations. The daily newsletters will include prompt-related images and quotations/lyrics as additional creative inspiration for those who desire a bit more structure. Intepret the prompts as loosely or as strictly as you see fit.

December 24: Coffeeshop or Tearoom
December 25: Train
December 26: School or University
December 27: Garden
December 28: Holiday Market
December 29: Forest
December 30: Cabin or Cottage
December 31: Bedroom
January 1: Pub or Bar
January 2: Bookshop
January 3: Beach or Waterfront
January 4: Museum or Gallery
January 5: Street
January 6: Theatre or Stage