Conventions » New MLP Convention News Service Launches · 7:55am Nov 15th, 2014
New MLP Convention News Service Launches
We're excited to announce that Everfree Northwest has become the official site blogger for MLP convention news here on FIMFiction. We will be providing regular site blogs aggregating convention news not just for our own convention, but for any and all MLP conventions that wish to participate. Our goal is to be a central hub for fanfiction and writing-related convention news for the FIMFiction community. By extension, we want to help bring a strong fanfiction presence to MLP conventions around the world, and encourage inter-convention cooperation and outreach.
What this means for you, the reader and potential con-goer.
You'll see regular posts from us (as social site blogs) in your normal FIMFiction feed. These posts will aggregate news from MLP conventions near and far, with an emphasis on fanfiction and writing related items. You'll find guest announcements, writing contests, volunteer requests, and all sorts of other related items. We'll also be maintaining a public directory of participating conventions if you want to reach out and ask questions, or get more involved with your local con.
What this means for you, the writing and fanfiction staff at a convention.
We're your contact point on FIMFiction for submitting news items. Our process details and guidelines, as well as registration form, can be found here, but the short version is that we'll be taking news submissions from all conventions and combining them into regular, friendly-and-PG-rated social site blog posts, as well as providing a public directory. We highly encourage all conventions to participate, and to work together to make the global MLP fanfiction community a bigger, better place. Click here to read our guidelines and register.
FAQ
What's a site blog? A site blog (or Social Site Post) is a special type of blog post that shows in the feed of all FIMFiction members who have not explicitly turned off "Social Site Posts" rather than just those following the poster's account.
Isn't this just more spam in my feed? Possibly. If you have no interest in conventions at all, then we apologize. That said, we also understand that polluting your feed with unwanted items is no benefit to anyone. That's why you'll see, at most, one aggregated post from us each week that condenses the information from multiple cons into one post. You can also disable all social site posts in your FIMFiction settings.
As a convention yourself, won't you be a bit biased? We promise to work hard not to be. Our own news will go through the same process as everyone else, and we are taking steps to make it as fair and friendly as we can. More importantly, we believe a stronger fanfiction scene at other conventions benefits us as well, inspiring new ideas and friendly challenges that push us to be better.
I like this plan.
Interesting. I'm certainly not opposed to this idea, but I also wasn't expecting it.
Good idea! I approve.
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Better?
2596178 thank you I fill like kissing you
Excellent. I can get all my PonyconAU 2015 news without having to search for it myself all the time.
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We will be reaching out to a lot of cons to make sure they know about this, but it always helps if you let your favorite cons know as well.
Best of luck to you all. Unfortunately, there's like 0 conventions in North Carolina. I'd set one up, but I don't have the time or the money to organize it. ;-;
Being American on a British site sucks...
As long as you can keep an eye out on any cons opening up in my part of Texas, Austin and surrounding cities, I am fine with this
Now all I need is someone to set up a con in Ontario.
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Nightmare Nights is in Addison Texas I believe, just north of Dallas. That's the only one I know of off of the top of my head.
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I've already failed you. We'll try and keep a list up of those who contact us but there is this list of 2014 conventions that was posted on EQD. It's a complete list, as far as I can tell and you guys might find something you overlooked in the past.
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Wrong side of Dallas for me, and there are ones in San Antonio and Houston. Sadly we did have one in Austin but the organizer decided not to bring it back for 2015
Wow. Everfree Northwest continuing to knock it out of the ballpark in the writing department.
10/10 would blog again
I admit, when I only read the headline, I was a little skeptic about what value this would be adding to the site. But after reading the full post I'm cautiously optimistic. Of the Big Three creative mediums, musicians generally have their big Saturday concert/rave, artists have people paying them in the Artist Alley, and writers maybe organize their own unofficial trip to grab lunch together. But that's been changing recently. I know from personal experience that Bronycon has been knocking it out of the park in terms of organizing writer panels and a dedicated writer-hangout room. I haven't personally made it to EFNW but I've also heard good things about them re: write-off contests and the like.
Basically, I don't think Fimfiction needs a general advertising service for conventions, as there's already a ton of sites that handle that just fine. But if this is a service for promoting cons that are writer-friendly and have special events or panels for writers—and from the description it sounds like that's the idea here—then I definitely dig it.
So remember, your con better keep in good standing with EFNW - or else!
Sweet!
This reminds me of the torture of having to wait another six months for EFNW. Can it be May, yet??
Huh. Maybe I'll end up with enough advance notice to go to a con at some point, now. I like it.
Hopefully this won't become a nuisance or something that everybody posts their own stuff in their blogs to avoid using/supporting.