An exchange for dead people (not the zombie kind)

The collection is now live!

Please remember to leave a comment thanking your author.

(If you have written a story and did not receive a story in exchange, please contact me ASAP.)

I apologise for the delay; I did not have access to the internet yesterday evening.

The last pinch-hit has been picked up and stories will go live as soon as it's in, but no earlier than Wednesday July 20 2000 UTC.

Thank you for your patience.

Assignment deadline has passed. Pinch-hits will go out this time tomorrow.


I will not be able to open the collection on Sunday July 17, for personal reasons. Stories will be revealed 24 hours later, on Monday July 18. Sorry about this.

There are seven days left until assignment deadline. Here is a countdown.

Sign-ups are now closed. Thank you to everyone who signed up.

Matching is currently running. Assignments will go out as soon as possible.

Sign-ups are now open!

68 historical people were nominated. You may find them in the list below or in the tagset.

( Here's the list! )
Thank you again to everyone who provided a link for their nomination!


Sign-ups are now open! They will close roughly this time next week.

Please check the FAQ (either on Dreamwidth or on Archiveofourown) if you are unsure what you're allowed to request. Matching will be done as AND for the requests.

Please don't try to game the system. If you do so, I will ask you to change your requests. If you do not do so by the time sign-ups close, I will either delete your sign-up or change your requests.

Please don't try to game the system. If you do so, I will ask you to change your requests. If you do not do so by the time sign-ups close, I will either delete your sign-up or change your requests.

All requests will be visible here. If you link a letter, please have it unlocked before the end of the sign-up period. If your letter is hosted on tumblr, please don't rename your blog before the exchange ends as that would break the link to your letter. The same goes for any other platform this might be applicable to.

You may link to your letter in the comments of this post in addition to linking to it in your sign-up.

Nominations will close in about 1 hour around 21h30 UTC.

The tagset can be found here. You are allowed to nominate up to five historical people. To have your nomination approved, please link in the comments of this post to an Internet page about each of your nominations.