Potterfests

Fest Name: The Drarry100 Christmas Challenge
Origin: dracoharry100 | dracoharry100
Links: Rules & Prompts on Dreamwidth and Livejournal
Type of Challenge: Prompt challenge
Description: A Draco/Harry Christmas prompt challenge. Fic and art are welcome. The challenge will run from December 1 to December 31.
Ratings Restrictions: All ratings allowed
Length Restrictions: None; you don't have to keep to 100 words
Timeline: December 1 - 31

Fest Name: New Year's Countdown 2024
Links: Dreamwidth | Livejournal | AO3 | Rules | Sign-up on DW | Sign-up on LJ
Type of Challenge: Prompt challenge
Description: A multi-fandom December prompt challenge focusing on the end of the year, such as a winter theme or a holiday theme. You can create your list of prompts with the prompts provided; you can also request for the mod to create a prompt list for you. Sign-up is open till November 30.
Ratings Restrictions: All ratings allowed
Length Restrictions: None. Accept any medium, both original and fanwork.
Timeline:
Sign-up: November 1 - November 30
Posting opens: December 1
Posting soft close: December 25
Posting hard close: December 31

Fest Name: 25 Days of Draco and Harry 2024
Origin: slythindor100 (Dreamwidth | Livejournal | Tumblr)
Links: AO3 | Rules | Late-Early Bird Sign-up (Tumblr)
Type of Challenge: Prompt challenge
Description: A Draco/Harry winter holiday prompt challenge taking place in December. Early bird sign up gives you early access to the prompts; the early bird prompts will be different from the traditional method prompts. You can still sign up for early bird access until November 20.
Ratings Restrictions: All ratings allowed
Length Restrictions:
Fic: Minimum 100 words per prompt; no maximum
Art: None
Timeline:
Early bird sign-ups: October 6 - 11 at 9PM CST
Early bird prompts available: October 13
Late-early bird sign-up: October 14 - November 20
Posting begins for early bird and traditional method: December 1
Posting ends: December 31

Fest Name: 2024 Yuletide & Mulled Wine: Rare Pair Edition
Origin: Yuletide and Mulled Wine Facebook (Discord)
Links: AO3 | Rules | Prompts | Sign-up Form
Type of Challenge: Anonymous prompt fest
Description: A HP fic prompt fest for any rare pairings with 1,000 fics or less on AO3. You don't have to be a member of the Facebook group to participate. Claiming is open till December 14. Each prompt can be claimed once.
Ratings Restrictions: All ratings allowed
Length Restrictions: No minimum or maximum word count
Timeline:
Prompting closes: October 4, 11:59am EST
Claiming: October 5 - December 14
Stories due: December 14, 11:59pm EST
Work revealed: December 15, 09:00am EST
Creators revealed: December 21, 11:59am EST
Shout Outs & Story Time: TBD

Fest Name: Marauders Christmas Fest
Links: Tumblr | Twitter | Website | AO3 & Rules | Prompts
Type of Challenge: Prompt challenge
Description: A 12-day Christmas prompt challenge focusing on Marauders era characters. Your work doesn't have to take place in the Marauders era. The challenge runs from December 20 to 31.
Ratings Restrictions: All ratings allowed
Length Restrictions: None. Any medium is welcome.
Timeline:
Prompts released: October 18 - 29
Challenge runs from: December 20 - 31

Fest Name: dracoharry100 Christmas Challenge 2023
Origin: dracoharry100 | dracoharry100
Links: Dreamwidth | Livejournal | Rules & Prompts (also on LJ)
Type of Challenge: Prompt challenge
Description: A Draco/Harry fic and art daily prompt challenge for December. The prompts can be used in any order.
Ratings Restrictions: All ratings allowed
Length Restrictions: None
Timeline: December 1 - 31

Updated on Dec 6: Added Sapphic Stocking Stuffers.

Here are several multi-fandom December and winter holiday prompt challenges and events happening throughout December and beyond. All of them are happening on Dreamwidth.

For HP specific challenges, see this post.

Sapphic Stocking Stuffers
A multi-fandom femslash wishlist event. Post your wishlist (stocking) as a comment on the following post by December 20. Fills are open till December 31.
Wishlist and fills

Adventdrabbles 2023
An advent calendar style prompt challenge. Prompts will be posted daily on Dreamwidth starting on November 30, but you can post your works anywhere you like. The challenge will run from December 1 to 31.
Dreamwidth | Info & Prompting

New Year's Countdown 2023
A prompt challenge themed around December, winter and any December holiday. Original works are also welcome. Sign-up closes on November 30. Self-posting opens from December 1 to 31.
Dreamwidth | Livejournal | Rules & Sign-up (DW) (also on LJ) | AO3

Fandomtrees 2023
A gifting fest on Dreamwidth. Participants sign up with their wishlists, fandoms, prompts, do-not-wants, etc., and other people will leave gifts under the trees.
Sign-ups: November 16 - December 6
Gifting: November 18 - January 10
Reveals: January 11
Dreamwidth | Rules | Sign-up Post

Holiday Wishes 2023
Another gifting fest on Dreamwidth. For this one, the wishes don't have to be fannish. Wishlists are accepted through December 31.
Dreamwidth | 2023 Info | Rules

2023 Femslash Kink Meme
A multi-fandom femslash kink meme. Fills are open indefinitely.
Dreamwidth | Rules & Prompts

Firewhiskey Fic: Wintry Mix Edition
Have a drink. Write or draw something using the prompts provided. FWF Wintry Mix Edition will happen on December 9 at 5PM EST (or 10PM GMT). Prompts will be released a week before the event. The prompts tend to be more Harry Potter oriented, but the event welcomes all fandom.
Dreamwidth | Rules | Announcement



If you are interested in multi-fandom events and/or non-HP fests, you can find fest announcements on fandomcalendar and fandom_on_dw.

Also visit whenisitdue for a list of current fandom event deadlines, as well as fanwork_events_calendar for the fandom event calendar.

For podfic specific events, see podfic_calendar.

To find multi-fandom fests and challenges on Tumblr, see thebigbangblogproject on Tumblr. In spite of the name, this Tumblr blog promotes any and all fandom challenges.

Fest Name: Liquid Luck Roll the Dice Challenge Winter Edition
Links: Tumblr | AO3 | Rules | How to get a prompt
Type of Challenge: Prompt challenge
Description: A winter themed HP prompt challenge. To receive your randomly generated prompts, send the mod a message on Tumblr.
Ratings Restrictions: All ratings allowed
Length Restrictions: None. Accepts fics and all forms of art (moodboard, drawing, video, etc.)
Timeline:
First day to get a prompt: November 15
AO3 collection opens: December 1
Final day to get a new prompt: January 24
AO3 collection closes: January 31

Fest Name: Wheel of the Year Fest
Links: Announcement | AO3 & Rules | Claim a Prompt
Type of Challenge: Prompt fest
Description: A Draco/Hermione fic fest featuring yule in some way. Claiming is open till November 30.
Ratings Restrictions: All ratings allowed
Length Restrictions: Minimum 1,500 words. No maximum.
Timeline:
Claiming: October 31 - November 30 at 8:50PM CET
Works Due: December 20 at 12:50AM CET
Works Revealed: December 21 at 12:50 CET

Fest Name: Marauders Christmas Fest
Links: Tumblr | Twitter | Website | Info | Prompts Tag (ongoing)
Type of Challenge: Prompt challenge
Description: A 12-day Christmas prompt challenge focusing on the Marauders. Prompts are released daily in October. The challenge runs from December 20 to 31.
Ratings Restrictions: All ratings allowed
Length Restrictions: None? Any medium is welcome.
Timeline:
Prompts released: October 18 - 29
Challenge runs from: December 20 - 31