The 2026 FKFicFest Plan Post

[brightknightie]

FK Fic Fest 2026

fkficfest is on for 2026! As usual, we're playing challenge-style, minimum 500 words, minimum 51% FK for crossovers, 2 months to write, etc. But we're experimenting with a new prompting scheme: every FKFicFest community member may submit one (1) prompt, anonymously, for writers to use, combine, or ignore as they please. No claiming (multiple people may use the same prompt). And no reveals (the prompts stay anonymous).

Schedule:

• May 3-16: Prompts nominated (one per person)
• May 17 (Sunday): Prompts finalized and posted
• July 18 (Saturday): Stories due in queue on AO3
• July 20 (Monday): Stories begin releasing

About prompts:

• Definition: For our game, a prompt is a word, set of words, phrase, sentence, question, stanza, lyric, canon reference, etc. meant to inspire an FK story.
• Success: We'll likely get the most from prompts that can flex across different interpretations, while also being specific enough to spark reactions.
• Limits: One (1) nomination per community member (any Dreamwidth account may join the community). 1-30 words. If a prompt is a quotation, include a citation (not part of the word count). No exact re-run prompts from previous years, but paraphrases of unused past nominations (yours or others) are fine. And, of course, please, no vulgarity, incivility, that kind of thing.

Questions? Advice? Please share! Again, every community member may submit one (1) anonymous prompt this year; prompting is not a pledge to write or read. Thank you very much for your generous support of this community and for sharing in our enjoyment of Forever Knight!

Comments

[thefruitbat]

YAY! :)

Thanks! Here's hoping...

[brightknightie]

Thank you for sharing your approbation! :-D Here's hoping that everything goes well with the new nominations experiment, and that the timeline works well for as many people as possible.

(In the future, I think the poll should not allow multiple votes for due dates per person on one single question, but should instead ask for the best date and second-best date as two separate questions...)