ficathon

English

Etymology

fic +‎ -athon

Noun

ficathon (plural ficathons)

1. (fandom slang) A challenge in which participants are asked to write fan fiction, generally of a specific type or to fill individual requests.
   • 2008, Daniel Smith-Rowsey, “Still More Gilmore: How Online Fan Communities Remediate Gilmore Girls”, in Ritch Calvin, editor, Gilmore Girls and the Politics of Identity: Essays on Family and Feminism in the Television Series, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 197:

     General fan fiction challenges and “ficathons” are regularly sponsored by many sites, including those named above.

   • 2010, Roz Kaveney, “Gen, Slash, OT3s, and Crossover – The Varieties of Fan Fiction”, in Stacey Abbott, editor, The Cult TV Book, I. B. Tauris & Co., →ISBN, page 244:

     Much fanfiction is written to commission – people will ask for a particular sort of story, or for erotic fiction featuring a particular partnership, often as an online birthday present – or in exchange for ficathon challenges where likely contributors post cues for a story they would like to see and scan the challenges for something they would enjoy writing.

   • 2011, Laura Felschow, “Plagiarism or Props?: Homage to Neil Gaiman in Eric Kripke's Supernatural”, in Stacey Abbott, David Lavery, editors, TV Goes to Hell: An Unofficial Road Map of, Supernatural , ECW Press, →ISBN, pages 235–236:

     Yet as early as March 2007, when the show was still in its second season, a Livejournal community, spn_gaiman, was created to promote a Supernatural/Neil Gaiman crossover “ficathon” as well as to archive fiction that had already been written by fans earlier in 2006.