HP Fest News Round-up: December 20, 2024

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2025 HP Fest Masterlists (LJ) is ready to go. If you know of any HP fests happening in 2025 that aren't listed on there, leave a comment and I'll add them.

Happy holidays and best of wishes to everyone!

News and Announcement

• corrupt-a-wish-fest: Announced Corrupt a Wish Fest.
• lilyfesthp: Announced LilyFest.
• fiourish-and-blotts: Announced Harmony Valentine Soulmate Fest.
• hp_bunintheoven: Announced HP Bun In The Oven Pregnancy Fest 2025.
• hptriadfest: Announced fest schedule.
• wizardingwirelessnetwork: Announced fest cancelled.
• trulymadlydeeplyfest: Announced TrulyMadlyDeeply Fest 2025.
• moonwaterbigbang: Announced Remus/Regulus Moonwater Big Bang.
• maraudersgirlsprompts: Announced Marauders Girls Prompts challenge.
• Knightly Revels Death Eater Discord: Announced Myths and Legends Fest.
• snowflake_challenge: Looking for new admins and volunteers. (Multi-fandom)
• inkingitout: Announced year-long 75k writing challenge 2025 Inkingitout Sign Ups. (Multi-fandom)
• genprompt_bingo: Announced Gen Prompt Bingo Round 27. (Multi-fandom)
• rarefemslashexchange: Announced Rare Femslash Exchange sign-up. (Multi-fandom)
• goals_on_dw: Announced Goals on DW. (Multi-fandom)
• problematicfemslash: Announced Problematic Femslash Age Gap January. (Multi-fandom)
• genuary-fic-event: Announced gen fic fest Genuary 2025. (Multi-fandom)
• Purimgifts Discord: Announced podfic exchange Purimgifts 2025. (Multi-fandom)



Mini-fests, Seasonal Prompt Challenges and Other Events

• slythindor100 | slythindor100 25 Days of Draco and Harry 2024: Ends on December 31.
• wlstcomfortfest Wolfstar ComfortFest 2024: Ends on December 31.
• hp-yuletide-bliss: Ends on December 31 (Prompts).
• hprecfest | hprecs Harry Potter Rec Fest 2024: Ends on December 31 (Prompts).
• deadindecemberfest (dead dove): Ends on December 31 (Prompts).
• dracoharry100 The Drarry100 Christmas Challenge 2024: Ends on December 31 (Prompts).
• 2024starchaserweek (James/Regulus): Ends on January 16 (Prompts). *NEW*
• lilyfesthp: Begins on January 30 (Prompts). *NEW*

Open for Prompting

• Myths and Legends Fest: Prompting ends on December 31. *NEW*
• trulymadlydeeplyfest: Prompting ends on January 5? *NEW*
• hptriadfest: Prompting ends on January 16. *NEW*

Open for Claiming and Sign-up

• a-fem-tomarrymort-fest: Sign-up ends on December 31.
• hpinfidelity (AO3, infidelity): Sign-up ends on January 5.
• jr-bigbang J/R Big Bang 2025 (James/Regulus): Artist sign-up ends on January 12.
• hpknotfest: Claiming ends on January 15.
• hansy_fest (AO3, Harry/Pansy): Claiming ends on January 30.
• corrupt-a-wish-fest: Sign-up ends on January 31. *NEW*
• Harmony Valentine Soulmate Fest (Harry/Hermione): Sign-up ends on February 1. *NEW*
• Matters of the Heart (Draco/Ginny): Claiming ends on February 4.
• dronarryfest (Draco, Ron, Harry): Claiming ends on February 7.
• Baby Shower Bingo: Sign-up ends on March 1.
• HP on Broadway Fest 2024: Claiming ends on March 10. *NEW*
• ronarryfest (Ron/Harry): Claiming ends on March 12. *NEW*
• newts-fest N.E.W.T.s Fest (Severus/Hermione): Sign-up ends on August 31?

Submission Deadline

• Drarry Discord Doodle & Drabble Exchange: Works due on December 28.
• Draco's Den Denopoly24 (Slytherins): Works due on December 31.
• into-the-jeggyverse Jegulus Bingo: Works due on December 31.
• jegbigbang Jeg Big Bang 2024 (James/Regulus): Arts due on January 15.
• Comfort Zone Fest 2025: Works due on January 19.
• The Dramione Valentine's Collab Collection 2025: Works due on February 14.
• jr-bigbang J/R Big Bang 2025 (James/Regulus): Fics due on March 1.
• jegreversebang Jegulus Reverse Bang: Works due on April 10.

Currently Posting

• into-the-jeggyverse Jegulus Bingo: AO3
• Baby Shower Bingo: AO3
• wlstcomfortfest Wolfstar ComfortFest: AO3
• hd-erised H/D Erised 2024: AO3
• hssrarepairs HP Secret Santa Rare Pairs 2024: AO3
• hd_owlpost | hdowlpost H/D Owlpost 2024: AO3
• slythindor100 | slythindor100 25 Days of Draco and Harry 2024: AO3
• hp-yuletide-bliss HP Yuletide Bliss 2024: AO3
• deadindecemberfest Dead in December: A HP Dead Dove Writing Fest: AO3
• dracoharry100 The Drarry100 Christmas Challenge 2024: Dreamwidth | Livejournal
• 2024 Yuletide & Mulled Wine: Rare Pair Edition: AO3 *NEW*
• hpfestofstars | Bluesky HP Festival of Stars 2024: AO3 *NEW*
• 2024starchaserweek Starchaser Week 2024: Tumblr *NEW*

Latest Masterlists & Reveals (December 5 - December 20)

• slitherinfest Slither In Fest 2024 (bottom Tom|Voldemort): AO3 | Masterlist
• rsbigbang R/S Big Bang 2024: AO3
• hpdaddyknowsbest A Very Merry Daddy Knows Best 2024: AO3
• marauderssecretsanta Marauders Secret Santa 2024: AO3
• marauders-taylor-fiending Taylor Swift Jukebox Fest (Marauders' Version): AO3
• HPEmoFest | Bluesky HP Emo's Not Dead Fest: AO3
• festserver No-men-ber Fest 2024 (sapphic): AO3

For past masterlists, see the HP Fest Masterlists for 2024. For a list of HP fests by category, see here.

Daily, Biweekly & Monthly Prompt Communities (as of December 20)

• hp_bunintheoven: Posted December Prompt.
• hp_nextgen100: Posted Prompt 316. *NEW*
• dracoharry100: Posted Prompt 827.
• harry100: Posted Prompt 507. *NEW*
• draco100: Posted Prompt 176.
• neville100: Posted Prompt 554. *NEW*
• dove_drabbles: Posted December Prompt 134. (Multi-fandom)
• emotion100: Posted December Prompt. (Multi-fandom)
• ficlet_zone: Posted Challenge 82. (Multi-fandom) *NEW*
• marauders-rarepair-fics: Posted December Prompts.
• maraudersgirlsprompts: Posted January Prompts. *NEW*
• pandalilymicrofics (Pandora/Lily): Posted November Prompts.
• prongsfoot-microfic: Posted September Prompts.
• regulily-microfic (Regulus/Lily): Posted December Prompts.
• rosekillermicrofic: Posted December Prompts.
• snarrymicrofics: Posted October Prompts.
• stag-microfic (James): Posted December Prompts.
• wolfstarmicrofic: Posted December Prompts.

For more prompt challenge communities and alternate links, please see HP only and multi-fandom. Many of these communities, including the ones that no longer post new prompts, let you use older prompts.

Challenges Open Indefinitely

• Flourish & Blott's All Hallows' Eve Fest: Open all year around.
• hprecipe-recfest: Welcomes late submissions.
• potterkinkmeme: Fills are open indefinitely.
• themaraudersfest: Request a prompt open indefinitely.
• LVDM Week: Voldemort/Draco. AO3 collection open indefinitely.
• hptragedieschallenge: Tragedy adaptations and original tragedy (Prompts).
• Ron's Chessboard Bingo: Sign-up & posting open indefinitely.
• starflowerbingo: Star name/flower name ships (Rules & Links).
• billbangsbingo Bill Bangs Bingo: Bill-centric kink bingo (Sign-up).
• HMS Harmony 2023 Milestones Bingo: Harry/Hermione centric.

Posting Soon

• marauderspolyamfest Marauders Polyam Fest: December 22
• tmrhpgiftexchange Tomarry Gift Exchange: December 24
• hp-soulmates-secret-santa HP Soulmates Secret Santa: December 26

Coming Soon

• moonwaterbigbang Moonwater Big Bang 2025: Sign-up opens on January 1.
• hp_bunintheoven HP Bun In The Oven Pregnancy Fest 2025: Prompting opens on January 4.
• Tomarrymort Necro Fest: Prompting opends on January 5.
• quantumquilltomarrymort Quantum Quill: A Tomarrymort Fest: Prompting opens on January 15.
• snape_potter Snarry-a-Thon 2025: January 2025
• hilfest Harry in Lingerie Fest: Prompting opens on February 1.
• moonyfest Moony's Midlife Crisis Fest 2025 (Remus over 30): Prompting opens on March 10.
• hd-collab H/D Collab Fest 2025: Sign-up begins on April 1.
• weasleyfest Weasley Fest: TBA
• dracotops-harry Draco Tops Harry Fest 2025: TBA

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Let me know if there are any mistakes. If you want to know which fests are happening on a specific date, see HP Fest Schedule (organised by dates). If you want to know the timeline of a particular fest, see HP Fest Spreadsheet (organised by characters & ships).

You can submit your fest news, general comments, suggestions, questions, etc., to the suggestion box.

You are always welcome to promote any HP fests and communities on potterfests or potterfests. See here for posting rules. Multi-fandom prompt challenges and communities are also welcome.

If you have a DW account, you can promote your fests and challenges on fandomcalendar or fandom_on_dw. You can also submit your fest announcement to hpfests or thebigbangblogproject (multi-fandom) on Tumblr.