Fanfiction

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

This is a slightly random question, but do all PoC writers have to be published, or does fanfiction count?

I'm quite happy with it not counting, but as I've been spending most of this morning entranced by some really quite nice X-Men fanfiction, written by a Native American writer, I thought I should really ask.

Comments

[lizw.livejournal.com]

The community FAQ says e-books count, and so do "other booklike things", so I think it would make sense to count book-length fanfic. Also, AIUI, one part of the purpose of this community is to counter the tendency for POC voices to go unheard, and given that part of that tendency is that publishers are often less willing to take on POC writers, it seems consistent with that purpose for unpublished works to count.