All public_call entries for this year have been revealed, and the collection has now been closed for new entries. If you still have some catching up to do on your reading, all 15 of this year's stories can be found here:

Public Call 2019 works

Please remember to thank the person who wrote for you, if you haven't already!

Participants are now free to repost their stories wherever they like.

Many thanks to everyone who participated, and we hope you all had fun with the fest. Happy holidays! :)

Title: Reveal Who You Are
Author: navaan
Recipient: ginger_timelady
Relationship(s): Rose Tyler & Ninth Doctor
Rating: General Audiences
Word count: 1506 words
Warnings: none
Summary: Rose learns a little more about the Doctor every day as she makes her home in the Tardis and in this new adventurous life.

Reveal Who You Are

Title: Bright (Like Your Laugh)
Author: Trobadora
Recipient: JehanetteProuvaire
Relationship(s): Thirteenth Doctor/Jack Harkness
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Word count: 1904 words
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Summary: And that was how Yaz found the Doctor, several minutes later: sitting cross-legged on the ground beside a corpse, tenderly wiping dirt from his face.


Bright (Like Your Laugh)

Title: The Warriors Return From War
Author: Navaan
Recipient: Prix
Relationship(s): Jack Harkness & Martha Jones
Rating: General Audiences
Word count: 1144
Warnings: none
Summary: Life goes on after the year that never was.

The Warriors Return From War

Title: To Thine Own Self Be True
Author: HotaruMuraki
Recipient: regenderate
Relationship(s): Jenny Flint/Madame Vastra
Rating: None
Word count: 2148
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Summary: In another timeline, things might have happened differently. However, in each one of them, there was a Jenny Flint and a Madam Vastra.
In most of them, those two ended up together, often even that kind of happily ever after you might find in fairytales.
Well, let's see how this one turns out, shall we?

To Thine Own Self Be True

Title: Eyebrows, Rainbows, and Hares, Oh My!
Author: Karios
Recipient: paynesgrey
Relationship(s): Thirteenth Doctor & Bill Potts, Twelfth Doctor & Nardole & Bill Potts
Rating: General Audiences
Word count: 2485
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Summary: Bill drew in a breath, so her voice would carry. “Doctor!”

“Yes?” the woman smiled. “I’m right here, Bill. There’s no need to shout. Unless you were looking for the grey-haired Scotsman. If so, he’s wherever you left him. Have you tried his office? I spent a lot of time there.”


Eyebrows, Rainbows, and Hares, Oh My!

Title: Groove On Out
Author: monkiainen
Recipient: Trobadora
Relationship(s): Fifth Doctor/Jack Harkness/Missy
Rating: General Audiences
Word count: 1102
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Summary: Jack finds himself in a bit of a trouble in the 1980s London. Help comes from a very unexpected source.


Groove On Out

Title: Plus One
Author: ginger_timelady
Recipient: mm8
Relationship(s): Fourth Doctor/Sarah Jane Smith, Harry Sullivan/Original Character(s)
Rating: General Audiences
Word count: 1507
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply
Summary: Sarah Jane is back in London after the events of The Hand of Fear. How does she cope? And is all hope lost that the Doctor will return?

Plus One

Title: A Girl Like Her
Author: Merfilly
Recipient: HotaruMuraki
Relationship(s): Ace McShane & Rose Tyler
Rating: General Audiences
Word count: 1125
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Summary: Ace meets a blonde. Not just any blonde...

A Girl Like Her

Title: One Day
Author: Prix
Recipient: navaan
Relationship(s): Jack Harkness & Martha Jones, Jack Harkness & Martha Jones & Mickey Smith, Martha Jones/Thomas Milligan (mentioned)
Rating: General Audiences
Word count: 2375
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Summary: Martha decides that joining Torchwood Three is inevitable.
[Canon-divergent scene tag from the end of Journey's End.]

One Day

Title: Never Let You Go
Author: paynesgrey
Recipient: ANGSWIN
Relationship(s): Ninth Doctor/Rose Tyler
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Word count: 1473
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Summary: Rose loved the Doctor and only loved him more as they went on more adventures. She reflects on her relationship with him and how he feels about her.

Never Let You Go

Title: Only the Lonely
Author: weakinteraction
Recipient: Karios
Relationship(s): Sky Silvestry/Sky Silvestry's Ex
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Word count: 1085
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Summary: Sky's POV during Midnight.

Only the Lonely

Title: i shall take the heart
Author: mm8
Recipient: monkiainen
Relationship(s): Eleventh Doctor/Jack Harkness
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Word count: 3757
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Summary: The Doctor was a simple, yet eccentric book shop owner who so happened to work for UNIT. Then Jack Harkness, a Torchwood agent, walked into his shop and shook up his world.

i shall take the heart

Title: Excavation
Author: regenderate
Recipient: chamilet
Relationship(s): Thirteenth Doctor/River Song
Rating: General Audiences
Word count: 2365
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Summary: The Doctor gets a message on her psychic paper. On a faraway planet, an old friend is hurt. The Doctor does what she can to help.

Excavation

Title: The Calm After the Storm
Author: JehanetteProuvaire
Recipient: AuroraCloud
Relationship(s): Ben Jackson/Polly Wright
Rating: General Audiences
Word count: 1979
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Summary: After escaping the Daleks on Vulcan, Polly seeks a quiet moment.
Set immediately after The Power of the Daleks.

The Calm After the Storm

December is here, and posting is starting at public_call! Here is the first story:

Title: A Complicated Existence
Author: ANGSWIN
Recipient: Merfilly
Relationship(s): Sarah Jane Smith & Rose Tyler, (Past) Metacrisis Tenth Doctor/Rose Tyler
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Word count: 4588
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Summary: Sarah Jane gets a surprise visit from an old friend.

A Complicated Existence

Assignments are due one and a half hours from now, at 8pm GMT. (When is that for me?)

If you can't finish your entry by the deadline but think you'll be able to finish with a few days extra, please contact your mods at publiccall.exchange@gmail.com, send in your unfinished draft and ask for an extension. (Please understand that we can't grant extensions without a draft.)

The Deadline is around the corner! You have roughly two days to get your stories in!

The deadline is Sunday, November 24th, 8pm GMT. (When is that for me?)

Thank you to everyone who has already submitted their entries! For everyone else, here is a quick guide for how to upload your work to AO3 - just substitute this year's collection, which is Public Call - Doctor Who fic exchange 2019.

Best of luck to everyone!

Getting closer! Only one week left now.

The deadline is Sunday, November 24th, 8pm GMT. (When is that for me?)

Thank you to everyone who has already submitted their entries! For everyone else, here is a quick guide for how to upload your work to AO3 - just substitute this year's collection, which is Public Call - Doctor Who fic exchange 2019.

Good luck! :)

Just a little heads-up: This year's deadline is Sunday, November 24th, 8pm GMT. (When is that for me?)

Which means you have two weeks until assignments are due. (Here is a quick guide for how to upload your work to AO3 - just substitute this year's collection, which is Public Call - Doctor Who fic exchange 2019.)

The first stories are already in, and we hope writing is going well for everybody else. Good luck, everyone! :)