Small Fandoms Bang

Authors, rough drafts are due in just a few days (by Saturday, January 31)! Remember that your rough draft need not be 100% complete, but should be a minimum of 8,000 words/80% completed. I need the story descriptions for the claims list I'm putting together so there are no extensions granted.

(That said, I am flexible on how much story you need to have completed at this time if you are absolutely certain that you will have your final draft completed by the due date and that you will have something substantial to submit to your artist. Your other option is to continue participating, but choosing to opt out of art.)

If you haven't done so already, head on over to the Rough Draft Submission Rules post for instructions on how to turn in your rough draft.

If you will not be submitting a rough draft (or choosing to opt out of art), please contact me to let me know that you are withdrawing from this round of Small Fandoms Bang. You may comment here (comments will be screened) or send an e-mail to the mod account at sfbbmod @ gmail.com. (Please remember that there are penalties if you just disappear without letting me know that you need to withdraw, so don’t do that!)

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Additional Notes:

1. The Artist Claiming Post will go up one week from this Saturday, on Saturday, February 7. Artists will claim a story from the story descriptions, which will be posted anonymously. (The Sneak Peak post will go up at least 24 hours prior to the Claiming Post, though I’m shooting for 48 hours to give all the artists time to review the summaries.) The Matching Reveal post will go up on Saturday, February 14. At that time I will send out contact e-mails to the author and artist.

Authors will be responsible for sending their story to their artist as soon as possible. In the past there have been issues with lack of communication between authors and artists. Please don’t be that person who leaves your author/artist hanging.

2. Artist sign-ups will remain open until all fic have been claimed. If you know of someone who’d like to sign-up as an artist, please direct them to the Artist Sign-Up Post.

3. If you have not already done so, please join this community! This is for both Artists and Authors. Authors & Artists will need to be able to post their Master Posts to the community, and the Sneak Peek Post and Artist Claim Post will be locked to members only.

Thank you!

The third Author Check-In period is now over and we currently have 33 stories in 36 fandoms (this number includes crossover fandoms)! Here’s our preliminary list of fandoms for artists who might be interested in signing up, but are leery of doing so without knowing what fandoms will be represented.


( Preliminary List of Fandoms: )

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Announcements & Reminders:

More Artists & Pimps: I want to thank the 16 artists who have signed-up and checked-in and remind all of you that WE COULD USE MORE ARTISTS!! As you can see from the list, we have a large number of potential fic in quite a diverse bunch of fandoms, and not enough artists for all of them, so please, if you haven’t already done so (or even if you have), pimp us out!

I do not belong to communities for all of these fandoms, so your help would be greatly appreciated. If you belong to any fandom-specific communities for the fandoms listed above (and such announcements are allowed by the mod), please make an announcement! Or pimp us in your own journal or Tumblr! And if you know some artists who are up for a challenge, please mention us to them. Artist sign-ups are still open!

If you are interested in signing up as an Artist, please do so at the Artist Sign-Up Post.


Rough Drafts: Also, please remember that rough drafts are due at the end of this month. (The submission rules post will go up on the 24th, but you will have until the 31st to get them in.) There is no extension on this date because I need the information for artist claims. HOWEVER, I am very flexible regarding ‘percent completed’ so long as you will have the final draft done on time and will have a substantial amount of story to submit to an artist, you’re good. Additionally, there is the option to opt-out of art, should you wish to take that route.

When submitting your rough draft:

1. Remember that your story description should be at least one or two paragraphs, not a clever one-liner. This description is for your artist, not [necessarily] the summary you’re going to include in your story header when you post. (Hint: If you don’t think you can come up with a longer summary, think about dividing your story into parts and give a summary of each part.) If you don’t turn in a nicely fleshed out description the first time, I’ll ask you to re-do it, so start thinking about that now.

2. Please be sure to warn about anything that might squick or trigger your artist. This includes things like character death, extreme violence, non-con/rape, heavy angst, dark themes, genderswap, mpreg, BDSM themes, A/B/O, etc. This is not the warning you need to give to your readers; this is a warning for your artist, so please list anything that might trigger or squick them.

This additional requirement is not meant to shame the author, but to protect the artist and author both. You won’t put an artist in the position of having to work with a story they won’t enjoy, and run the chance of possibly ending up with art you’re not satisfied with.

Thank you!

If you missed the post when it went up, it’s time for our second author check-in. The check-in period will be open through Monday, December 8. Please remember that these check-ins are mandatory and that there are now penalties for disappearing without a word, therefore if you need to drop out please contact me, do not just skip checking-in.


So, if you haven’t yet checked-in, please head on over to the check-in post and do so now: Author Check-In No. 2 Post


Don’t forget to watch or track the community so you see important posts!

Thank you!

Today is the final day of the check-in period.

Please remember that these check-ins are mandatory and that there are now penalties for disappearing without a word, therefore if you need to drop out please contact me, do not just skip checking-in.


So, if you haven’t yet checked-in, please head on over to the check-in post and do so now:

Author Check-In No. 1 Post


Don’t forget to watch or track the community so you see important posts!

Thank you!


(If you can't see the post, then I ask you to remember the first rule of Small Fandoms Bang, which is 'join the community!')

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A 10,000-word big bang for small fandoms!

FAQ | Rules | Author Sign-Up | Beta/Cheerleader Sign-Up | Affiliate

(Author sign-ups are open now through October 31; Artist sign-ups open November 1st.)

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My apologies for being a day late again. Once again I lost track of time, even though I've been counting down the days.


GENERAL RULES & INFORMATION

1. Please make sure you join the Small Fandoms Bang community at smallfandombang. It will be the Author’s responsibility to watch or track the community to make sure you don’t miss anything.

2. Your fandom must be verified before you sign up. If your fandom wasn’t verified during a previous round (and hasn’t since grown too large to qualify), then you should comment here or at the What Qualifies as a Small Fandom post at our sister community smallfandomfest to have it verified. The general rule for this community is that any fandom with less than 2,000 fic qualifies.

(For a list of fandoms that have already been qualified, please check the Qualifying Fandoms Database; for a list of fandoms that have already been disqualified, please check the What Qualifies as a Small Fandom post at smallfandomfest.)

Don’t forget to check the list for fandoms that have been disqualified since the last round.

3. When you sign up please include up to three fandoms that you are most likely to write in on the sign-up form. If you decide at a later date to write in a fandom that you did not list you must contact us first so that we may verify that it qualifies and update our spreadsheet accordingly.

3a. Please note that by including three fandoms you are not signing up to write more than one fic; these are just the fandoms in which you’re most likely to choose to write that one fic.

4. Stories must be at least 10,000 words long. There is no maximum length.

5. All ratings, pairings (gen, het, slash, threesomes), and genres (from horror to romance) are welcome here.

6. AUs are allowed. Crossovers between small fandoms are allowed. Fusions between small fandoms are allowed.

New 6a. AI submissions will NOT be allowed. There will be no warnings; if you are caught using AI to create your submission you’ll be banned from participating in the current and any future round.

7. Stories must be fictional person fiction only; this challenge does not include real person fiction unless the real person has been fictionalized. (For example, if you’re writing Alexander the Great based on the movie Alexander, or Napoleon based on the Temeraire series.)

8. Stories must be complete and new – no WIPs or previously posted work will be accepted.

9. Authors may sign-up to write more than one fic, and/or to co-write a fic. Please read the FAQ before doing so as there are limits to the number of fic you may sign up to write.

10. If you choose to co-write fic, please only sign up once and list both user names in the form.

11. If you choose to sign-up to write more than one fic, please submit a separate sign-up form for each fic.

12. Please note that check-ins are mandatory.

13. Stories must not be posted anywhere on the web prior to your posting date, in part or in whole. You will be able to share snippets of your story at our support comm, smallfandomcafe.

13a. The only exception is if you’re posting a chaptered fic during the posting period, in which case your fic should be posted in its entirety by your official posting date.

14. Authors may also sign-up to do art, but may not claim their own fic.

15. Authors, please note that you may be called upon to assist your artist with screencaps, character descriptions, etc. Since this is a multi-fandom, small fandom challenge there is a high probability that Artists will be asked to create artwork for fandoms they are unfamiliar with, so your assistance will be necessary.

For more information, please read the Rules and FAQ before you sign up.


SCHEDULE FOR ROUND FIFTEEN

Event	Date(s)
Author Sign-ups:	September 1 - October 31, 2025
Artist Sign-ups:	November 1, 2025 - January 31, 2026
Author Check-In No. 1:	November 1-7, 2025
Author Check-In No. 2:	December 1-7, 2025
Author Check-In No. 3:	January 1-7, 2026
Artist Check-In No. 1:	January 1-7, 2026
Rough Draft Due:	January 31, 2026
Artist Claiming:	February 7 - February 13, 2026
Matching Reveal:	February 14, 2026
Author Check-In No. 4:	March 8-14, 2026
Artist Check-In No. 2:	March 8-14, 2026
Final Drafts (Fic & Art) Due:	March 31, 2026
Posting Date Sign-Ups:	April 1 - April 4, 2026
Posting Period:	April 5 - April 30, 2026

To sign up, please fill out the Author Sign-Up Form linked below. Please include all the required information. After you have signed up you will receive a notification from Google containing the information with which you signed up. You should save this in a safe place in case you can’t remember which fandoms you signed up with.

You will also receive an e-mail to confirm that we have received your sign-up and an invitation to join our support community, smallfandomcafe.

Author Sign-Up Form

Thank you for signing up!

If you have any questions about the challenge generally that aren’t answered in the Rules or on FAQ, please ask them at the FAQ post. If you have a question specifically about this round you may ask it here.

Our fourteenth round at smallfandombang has come to an end! I’d like to thank everyone who participated this year and helped make this round a huge success. Whether you were an author or an artist, a beta or a cheerleader, or a someone who left a comment, your participation is appreciated.

In particular I’d like to thank the several artists who stepped up and took on the task of creating artwork for more than one story, and especially those artists who took chances on fandoms they weren’t familiar with. You have my heartfelt thanks.

For those keeping track, we had 25 stories and/or art created in 25 different fandoms this round! Beneath the cut you’ll find links to all the stories and accompanying artwork. If you haven’t already checked them out, enjoy! *g*


( Master List: )


We’ll be holding our fifteenth round in the fall, so please continue to watch the community or check back for more information. Thanks again!

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In other news, our sister community smallfandomfest has opened its thirty-seventh round with a call for prompt submissions! If you want to write more in your favorite small fandoms (but maybe not 10,000+ words *g*), check it out!

The ‘official’ posting period for Round Fourteen is now closed. My deepest thanks to everyone who participated in this round.

For the authors and artists who were unable to make their posting date, the Amnesty posting period has opened. Please feel free to post your fic or art to the community any time during Amnesty Week.

Thank you!