FK Recently: What You Guys Have Been Up To (8/01/16-8/31/16)

For the month of August, in my corners of social journaling, here are the Forever Knight items that I happened to see:

Ficathons, fests and communities that welcome FK

• fkficfest/fkficfest stories are due 9/24 for release starting 9/26.
• artfeverfest, a fest and exchange for visual fanart, has nominations through 9/11, sign-ups through 9/28, due 11/06.
• fancake features "slow-burn romance" recommendations this month.
• crossover_prompt is a new, fortnightly-prompt community for crossovers.
• ladiesbingo, a bingo challenge for female characters' relationships, is open through 3/31/17.
• femslashex, an f/f exchange, has sign-ups through 9/07, with assignments out 9/10, due 10/22, releasing 10/28.
• yuletide_admin announced that 2016 nominations are 9/09-9/16, sign-ups 10/01-10/10, with assignments out 11/01.
• Members of yuletide announced a nominations trading spreadsheet and a brainstorming/fandom-promoting post for Yuletide 2016.
• Recommendation communities that would welcome you posting about your FK favorites include: fanart_recs, het_reccers, gensplosion, recshelf and fancake. (Know more FK-friendly rec communities? Tell me about them!)

Fanfiction
Archive of our Own (AO3) Summary: 0 of the 714 FK stories on the AO3 show posting dates in this period (but that's 2 more works than showed at this time last month, so I presume backdating).

Chat & meta

• 8/24: greerwatson shared news of FK fan Arletta Asbury's death.
• 8/16: [Locked] commented on the accuracy and objectivity of assorted fandom wikis, including an FK resource.
• 8/11: lastscorpion observed Natalie's mad-scientist tendencies.