Potterfests

Fest Name: H/D Career Fair 2025
Links: Tumblr | Discord | AO3 & Rules | Prompting
Type of Challenge: Anonymous prompt fest
Description: A Harry/Draco fest focusing on wizarding occupations. Please see the rules for a list of careers not allowed for this year's fest. Prompting is open till July 4.
Ratings Restrictions: All ratings allowed
Length Restrictions:
Fic: Minimum 1500 words; no maximum
Art: Can be in the form of a comic, an animated fanvid or other forms of traditionally or digitally drawn works. Should be more than a quick sketch and show time and effort invested in the piece
Podfic: Must fit the theme; any length is acceptable
Timeline:
Prompting: June 22 – July 4
Claiming: July 5
Submissions due: September 30
Posting starts: October
Big Reveal: November

Fest Name: H/D Muggle Fair 2024
Origin: H/D Fan Fair (Livejournal | Dreamwidth | Tumblr | Discord)
Links: AO3 & Rules | Prompting Post
Type of Challenge: Anonymous prompt fest
Description: A Draco/Harry prompt fest. This year's theme is muggle. The fanwork should feature muggle-related occupation, muggle-related hobby/event/destination and/or muggle-related tropes. Prompting is open till June 30. If you want to self-prompt, submit your self-prompt during the prompting period and indicate it's a self-prompt in the prompting form.
Ratings Restrictions: All ratings allowed
Length Restrictions:
Fic: Minimum 1,500 words; no maximum
Art: Should show effort and time invested in the piece. It can be in the form of a comic, an animated fanvid or other forms of traditionally or digitally drawn works.
Podfic: Any length is acceptable
Timeline:
Prompting: June 16 – June 30
Claiming: July 1
Submissions due: September 30
Posting starts: October
Big Reveal: November

Fest Name: H/D Career Fair 2023
Links: Dreamwidth | Livejournal | Tumblr | AO3 | Rules | Prompting Post (Tumblr)
Type of Challenge: Anonymous prompt fest
Description: A Harry/Draco prompt fest featuring creative occupations. Prompting is open till June 30.
Ratings Restrictions: All ratings allowed
Length Restrictions:
Fic: Minimum 1,500 words. No maximum.
Art: Can be in the form of a comic, an animated fanvid or other forms of traditionally or digitally drawn works.
Podfic: Podfics of any length are acceptable.
Timeline:
Prompting: June 16 – June 30
Claiming begins: July 1 8PM EDT
Submissions due: September 30
Posting starts: October
Big Reveal: November

Fest Name: H/D Food Fair 2022
Origin: H/D Fan Fair (DW | LJ | Tumblr | AO3)
Link: Fest Rules | Prompting Info (also on LJ)
Type of challenge: Anonymous prompt-and-claim fest
Description: A Harry/Draco prompt fest revolving around food and a travel element.
Ratings restrictions: All ratings allowed
Length restrictions:
Fic: Minimum word count is 1500 words. No maximum.
Art: Can be in the form of a comic, an animated fanvid or other forms of traditionally or digitally drawn works.
Podfic: Any length is acceptable as long as it fits the fest theme.
Timeline:
Prompting: June 5 – June 20
Claiming: June 23
Submissions due: September 18
Posting starts: October 1
Big Reveal: November

You may submit one to five prompts per day.

Self-prompting is allowed. Please submit your self-prompts during the prompting period and claim your self-prompt during the claiming period.

To submit a prompt: Prompting Form | Prompt List (Airtable)

hd_fan_fair | hd_fan_fair | hd-fan-fair has announced that due to the number of claims they have received for this year's H/D Career Fair (89 as of their announcement), claiming for fic and podfic will be capped early.

To sum:
• Fic and podfic claims will be capped when the number of claims reaches 100.
• 5 of those 100 spots will be reserved for returning participants who had submitted a fic or a podfic to the fest in previous years. If any of those 5 spots are not claimed by July 7, the spots will be open to everyone for fic or podfic claims.
• Art claiming will remain open until July 31.
• If the drop out rate is high this year, they will consider reopening claiming after July 31.

For more information, please see the official announcement: LJ | DW | Tumblr

hd_fan_fair | hd_fan_fair | hd-fan-fair has closed prompting early for H/D Career Fair 2021, and the claiming guide has been posted. The fest timeline has also been revised.

The claiming form will go live on June 19 at 7 pm EDT. (Please check World Clock for your time zone.)

There are 350 prompts to choose from this year. You are allowed to claim your own prompt. Each prompt can be claimed once for fic and once for art. Sign-up for podficcers will happen when claiming begins.

For the claiming guide, please see here: Dreamwidth | Livejournal | Tumblr

For the rules of the fest, please see here: AO3

Revised Timeline
Prompting: June 5 (Draco’s birthday) – June 15 *changed*
Claiming: June 19 (7PM EDT) *changed*
Submissions due: September 18
Posting starts: October 1
Big Reveal: November

Fest Name: H/D Career Fair 2021
Origin: hd_fan_fair | hd_fan_fair | hd-fan-fair
Link: Rules & Guidelines
Type of challenge: Anonymous prompt-based fest
Description: A fest celebrating Harry/Draco and their unusual careers.
Medium: Fic, Art, Podfic
Ratings restrictions: All ratings allowed
Length restrictions:
Fic: Minimum 1500 words.
Art: Can be in any form of a comic, an animated fanvid or other forms of traditionally or digitally drawn works. Art should be more than a quick sketch.
Podfic: Any length is acceptable.
Timeline:
Prompting: June 5 (Draco's birthday) – June 20
Claiming: June 23
Submissions due: September 18
Posting starts: October 1
Big Reveal: November

Prompting is open from June 5 to June 20.

For this year's H/D Career Fair, you can submit prompts and create fanworks featuring any magical or Muggle career except for the following:

Harry: Auror, Professor, Quidditch Player, Sex-Related Careers
Draco: Auror, Professor, Potions Master, Sex-Related Careers

Similar careers are acceptable, however. Please see the prompting post for more detail.

To submit your prompts, please visit the prompting post: Dreamwidth | Livejournal | Tumblr

For instructions on how to submit your prompts, please see the prompting guide: DW | LJ | Tumblr