2026 Schedule & Info (Last Round!)

[longficmod]

Welcome to Fandom 5K! 2026 will be our tenth and final year.

This is a multi-fandom gift exchange for fic with a 5,000-word minimum and comics with a 5-page minimum. The challenge can be found here on AO3.

Before signing up, please read the rules! You can also see the 2026 FAQ for some common questions

Other questions to the mods can be posted to the community or emailed to fandom5kmod@gmail.com. Please contact us privately for any concerns about your assignment or your gift.

Quick links for 2026 TBA:

• Challenge profile
• Rules
• FAQ
• Tag set
• Requests on the app
• Mod email: fandom5kmod@gmail.com

2026 schedule:

• Nominations: 22 March - 1 April
• Signups: 3 April - 11 April
• Assignments out by: 14 April
• Mandatory check-in: 8-15 May
• Default deadline: 15 May
• Works due: 5 June
• Works revealed: 26 June
• Creators revealed: 11 July

All deadlines are at 10:59 PM EDT on the date listed, unless otherwise indicated. (This is an hour earlier than last year. Your mod is getting older and fonder of sleep.)

As a reminder, for the final round, I am issuing an amnesty to anyone who defaulted late in 2025 or previous years, as long as that default occurred before the works due deadline.

 

That is, if you forgot to contact me during check-in week, or you checked in but then hit the default button before the deadline because something came up, you no longer need to create a make-up assignment to participate in the final round.

 

If you didn't default before the works due deadline--maybe you simply didn't show up on that date and never turned a work in, or you defaulted with an extension--I will still ask you to turn in a makeup assignment before signing up next year. This also may apply if you turned in a placeholder or your gift otherwise didn't fulfill our rules.

 

If you have any questions about how this amnesty applies to you, please email me!

Comments

[flowing_river]

Hello, thank you for the response! I was actually asking about the sign-up rules of the exchange.

In the rules you state “You have to request stories or comics in at least 3 unique fandoms.” and for offers “You have to offer stories or comics in at least 4 unique fandoms.” I was just wondering how “unique fandoms” is defined for this exchange (i.e. do the requested fandoms have to have unique lore to be counted as an unique fandom or does every fandom in the tagset count as a unique fandom)?

[longficmod]

Ah, I see! Yes, every fandom in the tagset counts as a unique fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you!