Name: I Saw Three Ships
Community or Website: http://sesa.zvilikestv.net or 3_ships_feed or 3_ships
Fandom(s) Involved: Multifandom
Specifics: Threesomes fanfiction exchange
Minimum/Maximum Word Count: minimum word count is 1000

Sign-Up Period: October 1 until October 30
Posting Due-Date: December 29, 2009
Additional Sign-Up/Posting Notes: Please read the rules before you signup.

Name: Good Omens Holiday Exchange
Community or Website: go_exchange
Fandom(s) Involved: Good Omens, the novel by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Specifics: (If Any: Slash, Het, Gen, Character-Specific, Art Only, Etc) Open to both art and fic, and we've also had comics and even an interactive LJ design/fic in the past. Content of gifts determined by participant request. All characters and pairing types, as well as gen, are welcome. All ratings too; standard warnings for adult or disturbing content apply.
Minimum/Maximum Word Count: 1,000 words minimum. No maximum.
Additional Notes: (If Any) We like to celebrate every holiday as if the end of the world is nigh...oh, wait.

Sign-Up Period: September 8 - September 22, 2009. Assignments will go out to participants by September 30.
Posting Due-Date: Works must be submitted to mods by November 15.
Additional Sign-Up/Posting Notes: (If Any) GOE is an anonymous exchange, with a Big Reveal of creator IDs on New Year's Day. So when works are completed, they should be submitted to the mods via email (goodomens.exchange@gmail.com), and we will post them. Signup poll is here, and general rules and guidelines are here. This will be our fifth year (!), and we also have a terrific archive of past gifts to enjoy as well.

Name: House Fandom Exchange
Community or Website: housegift
Fandom(s) Involved: Just House. Obviously. :)
Specifics: None, really! The only requirement is that it falls somewhere into the fandom. We're okay with any rating, pairing, genre, etc. And we love fic, graphics, vids, just anything and everything a fan could create.
Minimum/Maximum Word Count: For the smaller exchanges, there's no limit; however, one may be imposed for any big (say, Christmas) challenges.
Additional Notes: This is brand-new, so I'm still trying to get it off the ground. Anyone is welcome!
Sign-Up Period: First sign up is already in progress - it ends July 7.
Posting Due-Date: The comm will be open for posting the gifts on August 1 - the "deadline" will probably be around August 10 or so.
Additional Sign-Up/Posting Notes: We'll be having a lot of exchanges, I hope, depending on participation. This is just a first little one to get the ball rolling.

Hi!

After discovering a yearning for school stories, I've started a school story fic exchange. I'm going for all the books everyone had as kids - Chalet School, Mallory Towers, St Clares, A Little Princess, Billy Bunter, What Katy Did At School, Sweet Valley - you know the ones!

Currently taking nominations - signups will start in about a week, and then hand in will be 5th September.

http://schoolsoutforever.dreamwidth.org/

Name: Twelve Knights
Community or Website: twelve_knights
Fandom(s) Involved: Any and all sorts of Bat!fandom.
Specifics: The exchange is regrettably fic-only, however requests of all sorts are allowed.
Minimum/Maximum Word Count: 1000+ words.
Additional Notes: None I can think of at the moment. :)

Sign-Up Period: 11/15-11/22
Posting Due-Date: 12/28
Additional Sign-Up/Posting Notes: Sign-up post is located here.

Name: Merlin Secret Santa
Community or Website: merlin_santa
Fandom(s) Involved: Merlin
Specifics: Offers and requests may include any type of created gift, including fanfic, art, graphics, videos, fanmixes, layouts, etc.
Minimum/Maximum Word Count: None
Additional Notes: Details and other rules can be found here.

Sign-Up Period: November 1st - November 30th
Posting Due-Date: December 24th - January 3rd
Additional Sign-Up/Posting Notes: Sign up by posting a new entry to the community. Assignments will be sent out in the first week of December.

Everyone wants holiday ficathons to go smoothly, for everyone to get their fic done on time. But defaults happen, people run late, disappointment taints the joy of giving.

To try to help, ficfinishing - a comm devoted to helping authors finish fic - is running a special End of Year Double Round through November and December.

We have a special track called Holiday Ficathons designed specifically to help ficathon authors make their end of year deadlines.

Please help me spread the word so that authors can sign up, get help and get their fic done on time.

We only accept sign ups for a limited number of fandoms (below), however anyone who joins the comm before end of year gets access to members only content including techniques, exercises and other suggestions that can make a difference in getting stories done.

Ficathon comm mods - contact me if you'd be interested in having me post on your comm to encourage your participants to join in. I can provide a graphic to use as a link if you'd like one, especially for your profile.

Fandoms: Numb3rs, Criminal Minds, Heroes, Blood Ties, Doctor Who, Torchwood, Bones, NCIS, Supernatural, Charmed, Blake's 7, Veronica Mars, Psych, Miracles, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel the Series, Firefly/Serenity, House, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis

Seasons ficcings everyone!

Name: I Saw Three Ships
Community or Website: 3_ships / http://sesa.slashx-files.com/
Fandom(s) Involved: Any
Specifics: Threesomes
Minimum/Maximum Word Count: 1000 words
Additional Notes: Please read the rules before signing up. There are no extensions, and incest threesomes have to be handled in a very particular fashion.
Sign-Up Period: 10/21/2008-11/15/2008
Posting Due-Date: 12/29/2008
Additional Sign-Up/Posting Notes: You must be willing to write in at least three different fandoms.

Name: Nancy Drew Yuletide
Community or Website: nancydrewfic
Fandom(s) Involved: Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys
Specifics: Het, Nancy Drew specific
Minimum/Maximum Word Count: 1000 minimum*
Additional Notes: *I'm allowing comment-fic this year, for those who would rather participate that way.

Sign-Up Period: September 15-October 15 ish
Posting Due-Date: December 20-25
Additional Sign-Up/Posting Notes: Only members of the site may sign up to be writers, and must provide a link to a 1000-word Nancy Drew story they have written. Otherwise, the fest is open for comment fic.

Name: Christmas Kinkathon
Community or Website: xmas_kinkathon
Fandom(s) Involved: Any and All
Specifics: Kinky is the name of the game
Minimum/Maximum Word Count: Minimum of 1000 words
Additional Notes: A Christmas fic exchange with a kinky twist. Name your fandom, name your kink. We'll do our best to match you up with a fine purveyor of kinky Christmas fic.

Sign-Up Period: September 15-October 31
Posting Due-Date: Posting opens December 22nd, deadline December 31st
Additional Sign-Up/Posting Notes: Sign up post and details available: http://community.livejournal.com/xmas_kinkathon/689.html

Name: xmas_rocks
Community or Website: xmas_rocks; Website archive
Fandom(s) Involved: rock musician and band/bandom slash
Specifics: Slash fiction (m/m or f/f) only, off a list of nominated pairings
Minimum/Maximum Word Count: 1,000 word minimum, no maximum
Additional Notes: In our third year. xmas_rocks runs very similar to yuletide though limited to rock musician RPS. Those who sign up are asked to provide a recent writing sample to ensure that they are at least basically capable of completing a 1,000-word story. Everything from classic rock favorites like The Beatles to modern rock popular acts like Fall Out Boy are welcome. 6 weeks are provided for writing your assignment.
Sign-Up Period: October 6 - November 3 (after a pairing nomination period which runs September 13 - October 4)
Posting Due-Date: December 22 (with two weeks of "fudge time" for pinch-hits/etc until stories go live on January 5)
Additional Sign-Up/Posting Notes: The F.A.Q. should cover everything you need to know.

Name: Merry Pirates
Community or Website: merrypirates
Fandom(s) Involved: Pirates of the Caribbean
Specifics: Fiction only, any genre or pairing
Minimum/Maximum Word Count: 1000 words minimum/no maximum
Sign-Up Period: August 24 - August 31
Posting Due-Date: Stories due November 15 and posted December 1 through December 24.
Additional Sign-Up/Posting Notes: See the sign-up post.

Name: Svalbard Swaps: A Winter HDM Fanfic Exchange
Community or Website: svalbard_swaps
Fandom(s) Involved: His Dark Materials
Minimum/Maximum Word Count: 1000 word minimum

Sign-Up Period: Now until 16 December
Draft Due-Date: 25 January
Posting Due-Date: 1 February
Additional Sign-Up/Posting Notes: See here for additional information.

Name: Potter Wishes
Community or Website: potterwishes
Fandom(s) Involved: Harry Potter
Minimum/Maximum Word Count: n/a
Additional Notes: Rather then being a typical fic exchange (which I do love!) it's a community for posting of general Potter wishes.

Sign-Up Period: 11/24 - 12/30
Posting Due-Date: 12/31
Additional Sign-Up/Posting Notes: Basically, you post what you wish for from the Potter fandom, and try to fulfill what wishes you can! Rules and additional information post for details.

Name: Hobbity Holidays
Community or Website: hobbit_xmas
Fandom(s) Involved: Lord of the Rings RP
Specifics: Slash specific, character specific (Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd)
Minimum/Maximum Word Count: 500 words +
Additional Notes: Word count flexible...

Sign-Up Period: November 20-26
Posting Due-Date: December 28
Additional Sign-Up/Posting Notes: Fics posted anonymously and then authors revealed after a few days.

Name: Make the Yuletide Gay
Community or Website: http://www.maketheyuletidegay.org/ / mtyg_discuss
Fandom(s) Involved: RPS : Popslash
Specifics: (If Any: Slash, Het, Gen, Character-Specific, Art Only, Etc) Slash.
Minimum/Maximum Word Count: 1000+ words
Additional Notes: Sadly, Don We Now Our Gay Apparel is no more, but, fear not, there will be sparkle under the tree

Sign-Up Period: Sign ups open: November 7th (USA, UK, Europe) / November 8th (AUS). Sign ups close: November 13th 11:59pm PST.
Posting Due-Date: December 21st 11:59pm PST

fic_pinch_hit is a community for challenge maintainers to post requesting people to pinchhit for their challenges.

The proto-template for putting up a request is:

fandom:
name of challenge:
minimum story length:
story due date:
other details:

liviapenn thought it up, and fanofall made it.

You may consider, when opening signups, advising people that don't feel they can sign up for your challenge to add fic_pinch_hit to their flist, particularly if you don't want to arrange pinch hitters ahead of time.

Name: Pushing Daisies Secret Santa
Community or Website: pd_santa
Fandom(s) Involved: Pushing Daisies
Specifics: Fanfic, fanart, etc.
Minimum/Maximum Word Count: none

Sign-Up Period: Now to November 25, 2007
Posting Due-Date: December 24, 2007 - January 1, 2008
Additional Sign-Up/Posting Notes: Typical SS community but better because it's Pushing Daisies ;). Check out the rules for specifics.