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Submission guidelines

These rules keep the archive readable and honest. They are adapted from the house rules of larger fiction archives and writing communities, trimmed for a small group that works with AI tools in the open.

1. Label the machine

Every submission carries one of three labels, and we take them seriously:

• Human-written. No generative tools beyond spelling and grammar checks.
• AI-assisted. You used a model for drafting, brainstorming, dialogue passes or translation, then rewrote the text yourself. This is most of what we publish.
• AI-drafted. The model wrote the first full draft from your outline and you edited it. Allowed in the workshop, rarely featured.

If you are not sure which label fits, pick the one with more machine in it. Nobody has ever been removed for over-disclosing.

2. No raw output

Paste-and-post is the one thing that will get a submission rejected without comment. A story here has to have been read, cut and argued with by a person. Editors can tell, and so can readers.

3. Fan fiction

• Name the source universe in the first line of your submission note.
• Transform, do not transcribe. New characters, new situations, new endings are welcome; copying scenes or long passages from the original work is not.
• No commercial use of characters you do not own. Stories here are free to read and always will be.

4. Length and format

• Short fiction between 1,500 and 15,000 words. Serials are welcome in the workshop but are featured one complete part at a time.
• English only for now. Translations from other languages are fine if you say so.
• Plain text or a .docx file. No embedded images, no unusual fonts.

5. Ratings and warnings

Use the usual scale: General, Teen, Mature. Mark graphic violence, war and character death in the tags. Explicit sexual content is not accepted on the front page.

6. Workshop etiquette

• Critique the story, not the author and not the tool they used.
• Two comments given for every story you post to the workshop.
• Do not feed other members' unpublished drafts into public AI services without their permission.

7. How to submit

Submissions open on the first Monday of each month in the pinned thread of our Facebook group. Editors reply within two weeks. Selected stories go up on the front page with the author's chosen pen name; everything else stays in the members' archive.

Last updated: September 2026.