FK Fic Fest

Welcome to our 2025 fkficfest Forever Knight game!

This is our 16^th annual game. We're marking the 33^rd anniversary of FK's premiere, the 29^th of its cancellation, and our continued regard for it and each other!

We're playing challenge style this year.

• We've elected 5 prompts as a common pool. Each story must use at least 1 of:
   
  • found among the second-hand books
     
  • I'm going to tell you something that you don't want to hear.
     
  • keeping secrets
     
  • The antique hairbrush still held tangles of fine golden hair.
     
  • a lucky break, a chance meeting, and a friend in need
     
• All fest fanworks should ideally be in queue on our AO3 collection or DW community by the end of Saturday, May 24, to be sorted and scheduled on Sunday, May 25, and then released throughout that week, starting Monday, May 26, US Memorial Day. (All Pacific Time.)

Thank you very much for playing! Yay, us! Yay, Forever Knight!

Welcome to our 2023 fkficfest Forever Knight game!

This is our 14^th annual game. We're marking the 31^st anniversary of FK's premiere, the 27^th of its cancellation, and our continued regard for it and each other!

We're playing challenge style this year.

• We've elected 4 prompts as a common pool. Each story must use at least 1 of:
  • (Urban) Legend
  • The first week.
  • This experiment went horribly wrong
  • "Evil is a point of view."—Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
• All fest fanworks should ideally be in queue on the AO3 by the end of Saturday, June 24, to be sorted and scheduled on Sunday, June 25, and then released throughout that week, starting Monday, June 26. (All Pacific Time.)
• Optional: If you'd like to potentially write or receive a gift story within the challenge, visit our Reader-request post.

Thank you very much for playing! Yay, us! Yay, Forever Knight!

Welcome to our 2021 fkficfest Forever Knight game!

This is our 12^th annual game. We're marking the 29^th anniversary of FK's premiere, the 25^th of its cancellation, and our continued regard for it and each other!

We're playing challenge style this year.

• We've elected 3 prompts as a common pool. Each story must use at least 1 of:
  • It's not what you are, it's what you do with it.
  • interrupted by a disaster
  • a moment of truth
• All fest fanworks should be in queue on the AO3 by Saturday, May 15, at noon Pacific Time, to be released throughout that week.
• Optional: If you'd like to write or receive a gift story within the challenge, visit our Reader-request post.

Thank you very much for playing! Yay, us! Yay, Forever Knight!

Welcome to our 2019 fkficfest Forever Knight game!

This is our 10^th annual game. We're marking the 27^th anniversary of FK's premiere, the 23^rd of its cancellation, and our ongoing affection for it and each other!

For the first time, we're playing challenge style. So we have no sign-ups, no matching, no assignments, no defaults, and no exchange! Instead, we have a shared prompt for all to address in common. We have a deadline so that we can have reveals. And we have a "wishing post" for those who like specific story requests. (Rules from past games apply. Stories must be at least 1K words, with other media equivalent.)

• Our common prompt is "ten years" (or "ten" & "years"), celebrating our game's anniversary.
• All fest fanworks must be in queue on the AO3 by Sunday, July 14, at noon Pacific Time, to be released throughout that week.
• Check out the "wishing post" to leave or find specific story requests, if that's your cup o' Ribena.

Thank you very much for playing! Yay, us! Yay, Forever Knight!

Reminder: Back at our 5^th game, we declared a jubilee and wiped out all past penalties. No one is suspended!

Sign-ups are now open for our 2017 fkficfest Forever Knight exchange ficathon game! Welcome!

This is our 8^th annual game. Here in this year of the 25^th anniversary of FK's premiere, let's celebrate our beloved show and the friends we've made through it!

• Sign-up with a comment on this post by Friday, March 24, at 11:59 PM Pacific Time.
• Promote the game to your friends and followers! Share! Invite! Cajole and persuade!
• Comments are screened. I'll unscreen and answer questions. Sign-ups will stay screened.

What's new for 2017? We'll play mostly as we did in 2016! Only earlier in the year, and we won't fuss with a challenge-style contingency. We will explicitly expect recipients to acknowledge their writers.

Sign-ups for our 2015 fkficfest/fkficfest exchange ficathon are now open! This is our 6^th annual game. Let's celebrate Forever Knight and each other!

Please read the rules and ponder your prompts. Then sign-up for the exchange with a comment on this post by Sunday, June 14 at noon Pacific Time. Please do promote the game to your friends and followers — new FK fans and old, in every faction, fraction and shade! Let's all revel together in our diversity, in the best FK way! Whom have you brought across? ;-)

Comments are screened. I'll unscreen questions and answer them for all to see. Sign-ups will stay screened, so please ask questions separately from your sign-up.

What’s new for 2015? We'll play mostly as we did in 2014! We've developed one new enhancement and one new contingency:

• Enhancement: The crossover slots may list up to 10 other fandoms (up from 3). It's still just 1 prompt across all crossover possibilities, but if you have 10 fandoms that you'd love to cross with FK, list them all!
• Contingency: In the (hopefully unlikely!) event of 8 or fewer players signing up for the exchange game, making good exchange matches prohibitively difficult in dearly fractious FK, we'll roll over to a good old FKFic-L challenge-style game.

Thank you very much for playing! It'll be a blast. Yay, Forever Knight! Yay, us! This is our "next 800 years together," you know. :-)

Crossposted on LJ

This May brings the twenty-first anniversary of "Dark Knight," Forever Knight's premiere, and also the seventeenth anniversary of “Last Knight,” its finale. We're still here, sharing our well-loved vampire-homicide-cop show with one another. Let's celebrate!

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Sign-ups for the 2013 fkficfest/fkficfest ficathon are now open! Let’s revel in some neat new Forever Knight fanfiction and fun! Please read the rules in this post and ponder your prompts. To sign-up, comment on this post (on LJ or DW) by Friday, May 17 (11:59 PM Pacific Time). Once you post your prompt slate, it's final; please don't edit it. Please do promote the game to your friends!

Comments are screened. I'll unscreen any questions and answer them for all to see. Sign-ups will remain screened. Please ask any questions separately from your sign-up.

What’s new for 2013? The writing stage of the game is longer, getting the prompts out before US Memorial Day so that players may write over the holiday weekend if desired. Otherwise, game play is the same as last year! (However, door-prize drabbles/party-favors are discontinued.)

Thanks so very much for playing! It'll be fun!

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Don't forget to join the community journal(s), and to watch the admin posts! All reminders will be posted on LJ and DW.

Crossposted on LJ