Potterfests

Fest Name: Comfort Zone Fest 2025
Origin: Harry Potter Fanfic Writers' Guild (Tumblr | Discord)
Links: Overview & Links | AO3 | Rules | Sign-up Form
Type of Challenge: Prompt fest
Description: A HP fic fest hosted by HP Fanfic Writers' Guild. You don't have to be the Discord server member to participate. When you sign up, you can request for character prompts and/or trope prompts, which you must include in your work in some way. Sign-up is open till November 1.
Ratings Restrictions: All ratings allowed
Length Restrictions: Minimum 150 words; maximum 7000 words
Timeline:
Sign-ups: October 13 - November 1
Works Due: January 19
Reveals Begin: January 26

Fest Name: Comfort Zone Fest 2023: Fix It or Fuck It Up Edition
Origin: Harry Potter Fanfic Writers' Guild (Tumblr | Discord)
Links: Announcement | Rules | AO3 | Sign-Up
Type of challenge: Anonymous prompt fest
Description: A HP fic prompt challenge to get writers to step outside their comfort zone. Prompts will be randomly assigned based on what you've written in the past.
Ratings restrictions: All ratings allowed
Length restrictions: Minimum 500 words. No maximum.
Timeline:
Sign-up: Now until November 16 at 11:59pm EST
Due Date: January 22 at 11:59pm EST
Fic Reveals: January 23
Author Reveals: January 25

HP Fanfic Writers' Guild is holding The Inner Circle, a Death Eater drabble-writing exercise that will run from April 4 to April 10 on their Discord server.

The aim of the exercise is to write a drabble for some of the less known Death Eaters. The drabble must be under 150 words in length. If you are interested in participating, please visit the HP Fanfic Writers' Guild Discord server.

Links: Announcement & Info | Discord | Tumblr

Timeline: April 4 - April 10

July 28, 2021: Fixed Discord Invites link.

Harry Potter Fanfic Writers' Guild is a discord server for writers by writers. The group runs workshops, discussions and challenges on discord, as well as providing support and feedbacks for writers. The server has a Tumblr blog at hpffwritersguild, where they post some of their recent workshops.

You can read more about the server here.

In August, the discord server will run Write A Thon. The writing event will take place from August 21 at midnight EDT to August 22 at 11:59 PM EDT.

The Write A Thon announcement also includes the discord invites in case you are interested in joining: Link