FKFicFest nominations in progress (through Thursday 3/07)

In case anyone missed it over the weekend, fkficfest is collecting prompt nominations now through this Thursday, March 7, at 10pm Pacific Time. Any community member may nominate up to 5 prompts (scenarios, quotations, tropes, single words, strings of words, what-if questions, etc.) of 1-30 words each. Nominations are not a promise to play. You may re-nominate previously nominated prompts that did not win a pool slot. Share your nominations.

This year, we're experimenting with electing the final prompt pool via single-elimination brackets. (Hypothesis: This will be more fun and more transparent for more people.) We'll rank ("seed") the brackets with a poll from March 8 to March 11, and then have successive daily eliminations polls for as long as it takes to whittle the pool down to 4 final prompts (likely 3-4 days). Read the game plan.

Stories come due no later than May 25 on the AO3 and start releasing on May 27 (US Memorial Day).


(At the moment, we have 6 prompt nominations from 2 people. I personally have a Notepad file of possible prompts that I've been playing with for a few days, mostly of the "scenario" variety, and hope to submit mine on Monday night. We shall see! I'm planning short countdown/reminder admin posts for the community for Tuesday and Thursday.)

Narrowing my prompt nominations for FKFicFest '24

I don't think I'm going to manage to submit my fkficfest prompt nominations tonight after all, but we have through Thursday, and I've managed to pare my Notepad file down to 14 possibilities: ( list )

We each get up to 5 nominations this year...

BTW, I looked up all the prompts we've used in the game since we started doing challenge-style in 2019. We've had 13, because the first year we had only one prompt, last year we had 4, and all the other years 3. These are not eligible for re-nominating (only those that didn't make it into their years' pools). ( list )