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Writer sign-ups are now closed. Artist, pinch hitter, and beta-reader sign-ups are still open.

If you have signed up as a writer and not received an invite to the Discord server, please contact me.

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The event's mod is experiencing WiFi issues. If you're signing up, it may be a few days before you get an invite to the Discord server.

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The Silt Verses Big Bang: Sign-ups Open!

Everything seems to be set, so I'm opening sign-ups a little early. (The close dates are unchanged.)

Writer Sign-ups

Artist Sign-ups

Beta-reader Sign-ups

Pinch Hitter Sign-ups

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A Note About Schedule and Check Ins

For the big bang I ran last year (which also had a 5000 word minimum), the final word count ranged from 6,124 words to 131,252 words. The big bangs I've run have had a few dozen participants each, but I've participated in big bangs with a far greater number of people. Both the number of words participants choose to write and the number of participants can have a big impact on how long the event actually takes.

I'm a firm believer that fandom events should be fun.

The schedule provides an organizational framework for that fun. I'm making it without knowing in advance the variables mentioned above. It can be modified if needed.

The check ins are so that I know what's going on in the event. That gives me the information I need to know if the schedule does need to be fiddled with.

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2025 Schedule

All dates mentioned are 9:00 A.M. EST (or EDT during daylight savings time).

Sign-ups Open: June 1st, 2025 (You may begin writing as soon as you've signed up.) Note: Sign up separately for different roles. Artist sign-ups close later, and sign-ups for pinch-hitters and beta-readers don't close until the end of the event.

Author Sign-ups Close: June 15th, 2025

500 Word Check In/Summaries/Optional Writing Sample Due: July 6th, 2025

Artist Sign-ups Close: July 6th, 2025

Artist Claims Begin: Somewhere between July 6th, 2025 and July 13th, 2025 (It's contingent upon all writers having their summaries in and me having them organized for artists to choose from.)

Artist Claims Close: July 20th, 2025 (Or earlier if everyone gets their claims in quickly.)

Writer-Artist Matching Out: July 27th, 2025 (Or earlier. The sooner artists make their claims, the sooner I can do the matching.)

Artist & Writers Have Talked to Each Other by this Date: August 6th, 2025

2500 Word (Writers) or Sketch Layer (Artists) Check In: August 31st

Complete (if not final) Draft (Writers) or Mostly Finished Piece (Artists) Check In: September 28th, 2025

Everything Complete Ready to Post/Collection Opens for the Posting Period: October 12th, 2025

Spotlighting Begins: November 9th, 2025

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Does anyone want to play Guinea Pig and help me make sure all the sign up forms and the Discord server are set up correctly?

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Spotlighting

If you've participated in other big bangs, you're probably familiar with the idea of a posting date, which is the day where a team has to upload their entire finished work all at once.

This big bang does things a little differently.

Instead of posting dates, there's a posting period (generally, about a month), during which the teams can all post their fic and art. If they wish, they can do it all at once. Or they can do weekly updates. Or a new chapter every three days. Or whatever. As long as the entire work is finished by time the posting period begins and is entirely updated by the time the posting period ends, it's cool.

In lieu of a posting date, teams will receive a spotlighting date, which is the date that finished works are spotlighted on this blog. The spotlighting dates will take place after the posting period has concluded.

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Writer-Artist Matching

Your humble mod is hard at work setting up the Discord server and sign-up sheets for this event, and there's something atypical about this event that I wanted to provide a bit of an explanation for, since most Big Bangs don't do it.

Writers and artists can sign up as a team.

Now, I want to stress that writers and artists do not have to sign up as a team. Nor is their any expectation that they will. But for those who want to do so, the option exists. The requirement to sign up as a team is that they discuss it beforehand. Then they each fill out their own sign-up.

So what happens if you don't sign up as a team?

Artists will choose fics to do art for based upon anonymous summaries. Teams will be constructed based upon the artist selections.

By the way, the reason the selections are anonymous is to avoid hurt feelings. Basically, think of a scenario where someone's friend doesn't pic their fic to do art for. Keeping everything anonymous avoids that scenario.

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Announcing the 2025 Big Bang for The Silt Verses

There's going to be a Big Bang for The Silt Verses fandom!

Sign-ups open June 1st.

Minimum word count is 5000 words.

Posting and spotlighting will be in October and November.

More details to come. Follow this blog for more information.