AELDWS

Mark your calendars for AELDWS 2026!

Signups will open on Friday, June 19 at 7AM ET (click the hyperlink for your timezone!). There will be 10 slots available!

Signups will close as soon as all slots are filled, or by Thursday, June 25 at 7PM ET at the latest.

AELDWS will run for six weeks from June 26 to July 31. The weekly schedule is below:

Friday @ 1AM ET - prompt revealed Tuesday @ 1PM ET - drabbles due Tuesday night - drabbles posted, voting opens Thursday @ 7PM ET - voting closes Thursday night - results posted, drabbles revealed Friday @ 1AM ET - new prompt revealed

AELDWS is a weekly, elimination drabble contest. Each Friday, a prompt will be posted which consists of a prompt, genre, and word limit. Author drabbles are compiled, with author names removed, and the fandom is invited to vote for their favorite and least favorite drabbles. The author who comes in last place each week is eliminated until there are only three authors remaining in the final week.

Note: If all ten slots are filled, the first two weeks of AELDWS will be double elimination weeks.

Week 6 results are in!

Our first place winner, and the winner of AELDWS 2025 is @dingdangit who wrote 'I AM ALIVE'!

Author names have been added to the original drabble post and comments are being emailed to authors. Authors, if you would like to know your ranking for this week, let us know in a reply to that email!

Authors are encouraged to add their drabbles to the AELDWS AO3 collection if they post on AO3!

Thank you to everyone who read, voted, and commented! We had a total of 84 votes cast this year!

And an extra thank you to all of the wonderfully talented authors who participated in AELDWS this year!

Here are the drabbles for Week 6, the final week of AELDWS!

The prompt was:

Prompt: Damned if you do...

Genre: Non-human AU

Word limit: up to and including 500 words

To vote, head over to this Google Form and vote for your favorite and least favorite drabble.

Authors, you are welcome to vote, but you cannot vote for your own drabble.

Betas, you are welcome to vote as well. You may vote for the drabble you betaed if you truly believe it is the best!

Hi authors, this is a reminder that your drabbles are due in 12 hours at 1PM EDT! (click here for your time zone)

Welcome to Week 6 of AELDWS 2025!

Prompt: Damned if you do...

Genre: Non-human AU

Word limit: up to and including 500 words

All drabbles are due by Tuesday, August 5 @ 1 PM EDT (click here for your timezone!).

Please submit your drabbles in the body of an email to aeldws @ gmail . com with the following subject line and completed header:

Subject line: Week 6 - [Username] Title: Author: Warnings: [please make sure to include any potential triggers here!] Summary:

Author names will be removed from the drabbles before posting and revealed after voting as closed.

Reminder: Any drabbles that do not adhere to the prompt, genre, word count, deadline, or Arthur/Eames requirement will be eliminated from the challenge at the mods' discretion. Mods will be using https://wordcounter.net for word counts.

Week 5 results are in!

Thank you to everyone who read, voted, and commented!

The first place goes to @dingdangit, who wrote 'gear shift'!

Sadly, we must say goodbye to @killym, who wrote 'Running on Fumes'. Thank you so much for joining us!

Author names have been added to the original drabble post and comments are being emailed to authors. Authors, if you would like to know your ranking for this week, let us know in a reply to that email!

Authors are encouraged to add their drabbles to the AELDWS AO3 collection if they post on AO3!

Here are the drabbles for Week 5!

The prompt was:

Prompt: Fixer Upper

Genre: Post-canon

Word limit: between 425 and 475 words, inclusive

To vote, head over to this Google Form and vote for your favorite and least favorite drabble.

Authors, you are welcome to vote, but you cannot vote for your own drabble.

Betas, you are welcome to vote as well. You may vote for the drabble you betaed if you truly believe it is the best!

Hi authors, this is a reminder that your drabbles are due in 12 hours at 1PM EDT! (click here for your time zone)

Welcome to Week 5 of AELDWS 2025!

Prompt: Fixer Upper

Genre: Post-canon

Word limit: between 425 and 475 words, inclusive

All drabbles are due by Tuesday, July 29 @ 1 PM EDT (click here for your timezone!).

Please submit your drabbles in the body of an email to aeldws @ gmail . com with the following subject line and completed header:

Subject line: Week 5 - [Username] Title: Author: Warnings: [please make sure to include any potential triggers here!] Summary:

Author names will be removed from the drabbles before posting and revealed after voting as closed.

Reminder: Any drabbles that do not adhere to the prompt, genre, word count, deadline, or Arthur/Eames requirement will be eliminated from the challenge at the mods' discretion. Mods will be using https://wordcounter.net for word counts.

Week 4 results are in!

Thank you to everyone who read, voted, and commented!

The first place goes to @killym, who wrote "Marriage-adjacent"!

Sadly, we must say goodbye to @bebravedearheart, who wrote "For Better Or For Worse". Thank you so much for joining us!

Author names have been added to the original drabble post and comments are being emailed to authors. Authors, if you would like to know your ranking for this week, let us know in a reply to that email!

Authors are encouraged to add their drabbles to the AELDWS AO3 collection if they post on AO3!

Here are the drabbles for Week 4!

The prompt was:

Prompt: "We should talk" (phrase must be used word for word, not necessarily as dialogue)

Genre: Fake Relationship

Word limit: between 400 and 450 words, inclusive

To vote, head over to this Google Form and vote for your favorite and least favorite drabble.

Authors, you are welcome to vote, but you cannot vote for your own drabble.

Betas, you are welcome to vote as well. You may vote for the drabble you betaed if you truly believe it is the best!