exouniversity

Welcome to your second semester! Now that you've gotten a peek at the coming year's schedule, it's time to choose your classes and make sure you have all the required reading material! Below you'll find all of your resources for the coming semester. We wish you luck in all of your endeavors (let your advisors know if you need any help in your selections, or need a tutor along the way)!


Claiming Guidelines

• We are operating under Korean Standard Time (KST). Claiming opens on July 13th at 9am.
  
• Claiming is first come, first serve; and is open from July 13th to August 26th.
• You are allowed to claim more than one prompt! We only ask that you complete and submit your first prompt before you claim another. Writers who finish early, please email us so we can send you the early submission guidelines.
• Any questions concerning your chosen prompt (or a prompt that you're interested in) can be directed towards the mods, who will contact the prompter with your question. 
• Keep in mind that when you sign up to claim a prompt, you are signing up for a commitment. Please be sure that you want to and will try your best to complete your claim! That being said, mods understand things happen in life; and we are more than willing to work with you if needed.
• Lastly, please have fun with the claiming, there are tons of prompts to choose from and we hope you like at least one of them <3

Prompting starts - June 18th

Prompting ends - July 9th

Previews open - July 12th

Claiming starts - July 13th

1st check in - August 4th (min. 500 words)

Claiming ends - August 26th

2nd check in - September 4th (min. 1500 words)

Final Submission - October 2nd (min. 2000 words)

Posting starts - October 16th

Guess Who - TBA

Reveals - TBA

~ Welcome to 2nd Semester ~

First off, I’d like to say welcome to everyone who is either interested or looking forward in joining us for our second round! There’s going to be quite a few changes come this year, but Mod C and I are really happy to share them with you! The first change, or addition, really, is the addition of Mod C to the team! Mod R isn’t available come this round to help out, but we were lucky to bring Mod C along to help with everything! I want to say thank you to all those that applied for the mod position, and I’m sorry that I couldn’t choose all of you. I hope that you’ll all cheer both of us on as we come into this new semester, and hope that you’re all as excited as we are to start!

Second of all, like with any fest, we do need to set some ground rules. And though there aren’t very many rules, they still need to be said just so we have some guidelines to go by when everyone is submitting prompts and then later on, sending in their claims! I’ll try to make it brief, so please bear with me:

Student Handbook

• Exo University is a fest dedicated to college/university AUs. These are the only AUs that we will accept - as long as the main theme/plot of your prompt includes someone going to college, graduating from college, or going into college (prompts can include high school seniors getting ready for their freshman year) then your prompt will be accepted!
• Mods have the right to decline any prompts that don’t fit with our theme.
• We will not accept prompts that have the following themes/triggers: dub/noncon, pedophilia, incest.
• Age gap prompts will be accepted, as long as both characters are over the age of 18.
• At least one of the members of EXO (past and/or present) have to be part of the main pairing. Other group members are allowed (such as SHINee, SUJU, Got7, BTS, etc) just so long as half of the main pairing is an EXO member!
• The pairings don’t have to be m/m prompts either! You can submit genderbent prompts, or prompts that include one of the EXO members with a member from a girl group (ex: Chen/Amber)

New Changes

• This round will be held on both AO3 and Dreamwidth! Unlike last round, which was held on LJ and AO3, we will be posting all fics on AO3, and then linking them on DW. This will not be until posting though, so if you have any questions or concerns, we're certainly open for feedback!
  
• As for prompting, we will have a google form available. You do not need an AO3, LJ, DW to participate in prompting. It is open to everyone, and you also do not need to commit to writing a fic if you submit a prompt. You can submit a prompt without writing and write without submitting a prompt (or you could do both!)
  
• There will be a beta sign up and archive available once prompting is over and claiming has begun!
  
• You do not need an AO3 to participate in the fest! Though we highly encourage it so we can link back to you after reveals, you could have a LJ, DW, AO3, AFF, Wattpad, Tumblr, etc to sign up. So long as you have something we can link back to come reveals (unless you would like to stay anonymous) 

 

Round 2 Schedule

Prompting starts - June 18th

Prompting ends - July 9th

Previews open - July 12th

Claiming starts - July 13th

1st check in - August 4th (500 words)

Claiming ends - August 26th

2nd check in - September 4th (1500 words)

Final Submission - October 2nd (2000 words)

Posting starts - October 16th

Guess Who - TBA

Reveals - TBA



Contact Information

Please feel free to contact Mod A and C on any of the below if you have any questions about the fest, or would just like to chat! 

email - exouniversity00@gmail.com
twitter - @exouniversity00
askfm - @exouniversity00
AO3 - @exouniversity

Hi everyone! And welcome to Exo University's Guess Who post! We hope that you've all enjoyed our first round, and we want to thank all of our lovely student writers for joining our fest and making this happen! Without further ado, here are our writers, please be sure to make your guesses in the comments below:

• carpesoo


• changdeol (AFF)


• squishymidget


• lovingminho


• olympianlove (AFF)


• teatimetaemint


• shiho_star


• jellybaeby


• canadaphile


• thatsilentlove


• iheart_chanyeol


• 0wlbeast


• akaikawa


• xiu_laces


• ad_rianna


• cwtchbunny


• merui021


• kumjongin


• messedreveries


• domighters


• 11351160


• light-kira1


• twinkyixing (AO3)


• whisper-lucifer


• kojafras


• babygunsho


• sunsethue


• hateulipseu


• xinfanfan

• Prompting starts on May 21st and ends on June 11th
  
• Our prompt archive will be open to students for viewing on June 12th
  
• Claiming starts on June 13th and ends on June 27th
  
• First informal Check In (500 words) is on July 22nd
  
• Last Day to Drop Out is on August 18th
  
• Second Formal Check In (1000 words) is on August 20th


• Final Check In/Submissions (1500 words) are on September 15th
  
• Posting is TBD
  
• Guess Who is TBD
  
• Reveals is TBD
  

1. Just a few updates and more information here: We've decided to extend final submissions until the 15th of September! That gives everyone 5 more days to write your fics (if you had asked for an extension between the 10th and 15th, no need to worry about it anymore, unless you still need more time).
   
2. Everyone that has failed to send in 2nd Check In is, unfortunately, marked as banned from future events. We are sorry to have to do this, but we want writers that can be upfront and honest with us, rather than ignore us when deadlines come and go. Thank you to those that emailed/messaged that you needed more time, or just spoke to us in general. We greatly appreciate it!
   
3. Those in need of betas for this final submission please DM us on twitter - Mod R will be happy to help everyone out with any last minute issues!
   
4. Posting will be delayed to when the majority of fics have been sent into the mods and when the mods have read through all of those submitted. We want this fest and posting to go seamlessly and so posting is TBD at the moment (We will definitely start posting before the end of September, though).
   
5. That's it for updates! Now onto the formatting!
   

1. All emails should be sent with the subject line as follows: Final [Username] [Prompt #]
   
2. In the body of your email please write the following:
   Prompt #:
   Title:
   Rating:
   Pairing:
   Summary:
   Word Count:
   Warnings:
   Author Note(s):
   
3. At the top of your document, please be sure to include the same information above but with the html code so that the previous information is in italics. (If you need help with the html, one of the mods will be sure to help you with it).
   
4. The same goes for all bolded or italicized words/phrases within your fic. The mods will be reading through the fics for grammatical/spelling errors, but will leave bolding/italics alone.
   
5. Please be sure that your document is already formatted to fit LJ standards. If this is your first time joining a fest and you're not sure what that means, please be sure to ask one of the mods and we'll show/tell you how to format correctly.
   

• Prompting starts on May 21st and ends on June 11th
  
• Our prompt archive will be open to students for viewing on June 12th
  
• Claiming starts on June 13th and ends on June 27th
  
• First informal Check In (500 words) is on July 22nd
  
• Last Day to Drop Out is on August 18th
  
• Second Formal Check In (1000 words) is on August 20th
  
• Final Check In/Submissions (1500 words) are on September 10th
  
• Posting starts on September 25th
  
• Guess Who is TBD
  
• Reveals is TBD
  

1. Claiming opens June 13th at 12pm noon EST (if you need us to convert that for your time, please let us know).
   
2. Fill out the form below to claim a prompt.
   
3. We're using a different form than we used for prompting, so if you are confused on how to submit your claiming, Mod A can walk you through it (just send a message to either our email or our twitter and she will reply as fast as she can).
   
4. You are allowed to submit more than one claiming, as long as you finish your first fic and send it to us before claiming a second prompt (if you have finished, please send us an email and we will send you the format for sending in your fic early).
   
5. If you have questions concerning your chosen prompt, or questions that you would like to ask the prompter, please let us know and we will answer any and all questions.
   
6. Claiming ends June 27th and First Check In with 500 words is on July 22nd. More information on check in will be coming up when claiming closes.
   
7. If you have any further questions, please feel free to message us on twitter, ask.fm, LJ, or shoot us an email. We are here to help you, and though this is our first round, we're well equipped to help you with all of your questions!
   
8. Lastly, thank you for claiming <3