WendWriter

WendWriter is a member of the fan community and participates in fandom on LiveJournal. A clerical worker born in Ireland, she lives in England with her English husband, Richard.

Wendy writes fanfiction for Lord of the Rings, Silmarillion and Harry Potter. Her stories are posted on fanfiction.net, where she has a popular forum, Can We Talk?[2] Her stories are hosted on various sites, which are all linked on her webring.

She also has a LiveJournal account and a site of her own, Archives of Excellence[3], an archive for high-quality fanfiction stories of different genres. Every month, fanfiction authors are invited to take part in a monthly writing challenge. The best stories submitted are entered onto the Writing Challenge Stories[4] page on the Archives of Excellence. Winners get a special winner's icon, and there are icons for entrants, too. All icons associated with the writing challenges are displayed with links to the stories in the Winners' Gallery[5].

Wendy's most recent project, The Golden Quill Awards[6], is an annual event to celebrate great fanfiction writing, and is open to writers of every fandom. Nominations for stories of every fandom are entered by genre, and winners are chosen by poll.