My apologies for being a day late again. Once again I lost track of time, even though I've been counting down the days.
GENERAL RULES & INFORMATION1. Please make sure you
join the Small Fandoms Bang community at
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smallfandombang. It will be the Author’s responsibility to watch or track the community to make sure you don’t miss anything.
2. Your fandom must be verified before you sign up. If your fandom wasn’t verified during a previous round (and hasn’t since grown too large to qualify), then you should comment here or at the
What Qualifies as a Small Fandom post at our sister community
smallfandomfest to have it verified. The general rule for this community is that any fandom with less than 2,000 fic qualifies.
(For a list of fandoms that have already been qualified, please check the
Qualifying Fandoms Database; for a list of fandoms that have already been disqualified, please check the
What Qualifies as a Small Fandom post at
smallfandomfest.)
Don’t forget to check the list for fandoms that have been disqualified since the last round.3. When you sign up please include up to three fandoms that you are most likely to write in on the sign-up form. If you decide at a later date to write in a fandom that you did not list you must contact us first so that we may verify that it qualifies and update our spreadsheet accordingly.
3a. Please note that by including three fandoms you are not signing up to write more than one fic; these are just the fandoms in which you’re most likely to choose to write that one fic.
4. Stories must be at least 10,000 words long. There is no maximum length.
5. All ratings, pairings (gen, het, slash, threesomes), and genres (from horror to romance) are welcome here.
6. AUs are allowed. Crossovers between small fandoms are allowed. Fusions between small fandoms are allowed.
New 6a. AI submissions will NOT be allowed. There will be no warnings; if you are caught using AI to create your submission you’ll be banned from participating in the current and any future round.
7. Stories must be fictional person fiction only; this challenge does not include real person fiction unless the real person has been fictionalized. (For example, if you’re writing Alexander the Great based on the movie Alexander, or Napoleon based on the Temeraire series.)
8. Stories must be complete and new – no WIPs or previously posted work will be accepted.
9. Authors may sign-up to write more than one fic, and/or to co-write a fic. Please read the
FAQ before doing so as there are limits to the number of fic you may sign up to write.
10. If you choose to co-write fic, please only sign up once and list both user names in the form.
11. If you choose to sign-up to write more than one fic, please submit a separate sign-up form for each fic.12. Please note that
check-ins are mandatory.
13. Stories must not be posted anywhere on the web prior to your posting date, in part or in whole. You will be able to share snippets of your story at our support comm,
smallfandomcafe.
13a. The only exception is if you’re posting a chaptered fic during the posting period, in which case your fic should be posted in its entirety by your official posting date.
14. Authors may also sign-up to do art, but may not claim their own fic.
15. Authors, please note that you may be called upon to assist your artist with screencaps, character descriptions, etc. Since this is a multi-fandom, small fandom challenge there is a high probability that Artists will be asked to create artwork for fandoms they are unfamiliar with, so your assistance will be necessary.
For more information, please read the
Rules and
FAQ before you sign up.
SCHEDULE FOR ROUND FIFTEEN
| Event |
Date(s) |
| Author Sign-ups: |
September 1 - October 31, 2025 |
| Artist Sign-ups: |
November 1, 2025 - January 31, 2026 |
| Author Check-In No. 1: |
November 1-7, 2025 |
| Author Check-In No. 2: |
December 1-7, 2025 |
| Author Check-In No. 3: |
January 1-7, 2026 |
| Artist Check-In No. 1: |
January 1-7, 2026 |
| Rough Draft Due: |
January 31, 2026 |
| Artist Claiming: |
February 7 - February 13, 2026 |
| Matching Reveal: |
February 14, 2026 |
| Author Check-In No. 4: |
March 8-14, 2026 |
| Artist Check-In No. 2: |
March 8-14, 2026 |
| Final Drafts (Fic & Art) Due: |
March 31, 2026 |
| Posting Date Sign-Ups: |
April 1 - April 4, 2026 |
| Posting Period: |
April 5 - April 30, 2026 |
To sign up, please fill out the Author Sign-Up Form linked below. Please include all the required information. After you have signed up you will receive a notification from Google containing the information with which you signed up. You should save this in a safe place in case you can’t remember which fandoms you signed up with.
You will also receive an e-mail to confirm that we have received your sign-up and an invitation to join our support community,
smallfandomcafe.
Author Sign-Up FormThank you for signing up!
If you have any questions
about the challenge generally that aren’t answered in the
Rules or
on FAQ, please ask them at the FAQ post. If you have a question
specifically about this round you may ask it here.
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