Creators revealed for 2024/2025 round & Feedback Post

[tavina]

And with that, creators are revealed for the 2024-2025 round of AU5k! Thank you all for a tremendously fun inaugural round of AU5k. We made so much stuff and none of this could’ve been possible without you guys!

I’m hoping to run this exchange again next year, with about the same schedule as this year - mid-November to mid-March, but I’ll update once the year’s schedule becomes clearer! (I will likely know much more about my Fall/Winter schedule for 2025/2026 by August.)

In reviewing my notes for next year, there are a few items I would like some feedback on that I am leaning towards implementing for next year:

1. I think I’ll rename the default deadline (not actually a default deadline with any penalties this year) to something more like “One Week Til Deadline Reminder” with similar penalties of a one year ban if this leads to a no show default at deadline or extension deadline. I think this will clear up some of the confusion surrounding this particular part of the schedule that cropped up a few times this year. Do we have ideas for a better name for this on the schedule/suggest dropping it off of the schedule entirely/etc?
2. I’m leaning towards an automatic two week period between works due and works revealed to give our valiant post deadline pinch hitters some more time to work, and for all of us to have a more relaxed editing period. We did coincide with several other large minimum exchanges this year such as Five Figure Fanwork Exchange and High Adrenaline Exchange, so that may have been a contributing stress factor, but I think even if we didn’t, having a longer editing period might be really beneficial. How do we feel about this?
3. It’s been brought up a couple times that our Friday deadline(s) have been somewhat stressful, and the two day extension to Sunday night has been really helpful - do we want to move the deadlines to Sunday night in the coming rounds (with two day extensions to Tuesday night) instead?
4. I would like some feedback also on the nominations phase (if we have clear memories of the nominations phase of this event haha): was the documentation for how to nominate clear? Confusing? Are there places where this documentation can be updated to be more clear?

Any other general comments, concerns, questions, and feedback for the next round will also be helpful! Feel free to either comment them down below or email the modmail at TavinaFanfiction@gmail.com to communicate them to me for what you’d like to see in the next round!