#fiab 2026

Fic in a Box

A gift exchange is an event where participants create fanworks to gift to each other. Fic In A Box is a fanwork exchange with a large minimum gifting requirement and several unique features:

All participants in Fic In A Box are requesting 10,000 words of fanfiction by default, but can opt in to other mediums (such as art, podfic, knitting patterns, and so on).

Participants who work in non-writing mediums are very welcome and will get specially matched (as long as they give the mods a heads-up) so they'll have an assignment they can complete.

Participants have the option to split the 10k words (or equivalent) that they owe between several separate works (say, one fic of 3k and another of 7k) to reach 10k total.

The minimum word count per work is 1k by default, but lower wordcount works will count if your recipient has opted into receiving them.

Initial assignments are 10k for one person, but at the start of the exchange we run swaps which will give you the chance to spread that 10k out over multiple assignments for multiple recipients!

-> dreamwidth comm -> ao3 tagset -> autoapp for browsing requests -> gift mediums rulesets <-

One of the most fun and unique exchanges I took part in last year! Fic in a Box sounds confusing, but once you get into requesting and offering, it all falls into place. Very fun for if you feel like making a variety of different things across different recipients and prompts - last year I did a long epistolary fic, an in-universe rpf tumblr blog for sam/bucky and some zamasian softer world edits, and had an absolute blast! I'm still on the fence about whether to join this year due to other commitments, but I will definitely be keeping an eye on requests and treating any zamasian that may appear, so like SoD if you would like something of them, then please consider signing up for FIAB!