Archives of Excellence

The Archives of Excellence is a rec archive for high quality fanfiction stories of different fandoms. It is owned and run by WendWriter, and celebrates great fanfiction by giving featured authors a profile page on which a list of links to their stories, which are usually hosted elsewhere. Some authors have a gallery in which to display artwork or videos they have made. Fandoms that the featured authors write for include the Tolkien legendarium, Harry Potter and Narnia.
Every month, fanfiction authors are invited to take part in a writing challenge for the site, which is run from Wendy's Fanfiction.net account and her LiveJournal blog, and the best stories submitted are linked on the Writing Challenge Stories page. 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.
All content on the Archives is slash-free and family-friendly, though some of the authors have written stories of an adult nature.
The Archives is affiliated to the Golden Quill Awards, an annual multi-fandom awards program.
Recently, facilities Facilities for discussion, entering the monthly writing challenges and uploading stories have been added. These are Archives of Excellence on LiveJournal, Archives of Excellence Fanfiction Library, and Writers Rendezvous. Writers Rendezvous is for original fiction, which is accepted on the Archives of Excellence Fanfiction Library.
WendWriter's Websites
Archives of Excellence
Golden Quill Awards