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