Hello fandom! We would like to announce the 2026 Obi-Wan Kenobi Gen Exchange!

This exchange was created to encourage fanfics and fanart focusing on Obi-Wan Kenobi in a positive way that isn’t dependent upon ships or smut.

When is this happening?

The 2026 schedule is as follows:

Nominations: 16 May - 06 June

Sign-ups: 06 June - 20 June

Assignments sent out: 27 June

Assignments due: 29 August (No fault deadline: 15 Aug.)

Work Reveals: 05 September

Creator Reveals: 12 September

Who can participate?

Since this is hosted on AO3, anyone with a registered account! Need an AO3 account? No problem - just send a message here and one of the moderators will handle invitations.

How can I participate?

The tag set nominations will open on the 16th, and will be open to anyone.

There’s also signing up for a recipient, in which you can request fics from the tag set. Treating, pinch-hitting, and beta reading are options, too!

Where can we find you?

Written for the @kenobi-gen-exchange

Pairings: None CW: None Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Mace Windu Summary: When Leia was kidnapped, Bail went to the one person he could trust to bring her home. Now Leia is back where she belongs, and all that's left is one last goodbye. But Obi-Wan may be a bit more injured than he let on.

read on ao3...

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Snippet:

Bail is waiting on the landing pad as the shuttle touches down. Breha stands next to him, a hand on his elbow, and his own hands rest on Leia’s shoulders. His daughter bounces up and down on her toes, a tight bundle of excited energy. Bail can’t blame her, he'd spoken to Obi-Wan on Tatooine, but hasn’t seen his dear friend since then, and it will be a relief to look upon him with his own two eyes after everything Leia has told them.

The ramp of the shuttle opens and after a moment, a figure emerges from the dark interior, squinting in the bright Alderaani sun.

You can read my little contribution here!

Snippet: 

“Problems with your padawan, you are having?”

“No. Yes! I mean…”

“Your mind, speak, young Kenobi.”

Obi-Wan paces back and forth for a moment as if making up his mind. He plops himself down on the ground in a way that is indicative of both his youth and his frustration.

And all at once, Obi-Wan’s grievances spill out of him.

“He just doesn’t listen!” Obi-Wan exclaims. “It’s like he doesn’t even hear me half the time. I try and I try and I try and I still can’t get him to pay attention. He cares not for meditation or for most of his studies save his science and engineering classes, thank the Force. He’s willful and rogue and so emotional.”

“A hard time in his classes he is having?”

“No, not in that way. He is very smart. Too smart. I think he is bored in his classes. But he needs to learn the fundamentals first.”

“Indeed, intelligent he is. Unfamiliar with the life of a Jedi, Anakin is.”

“I understand he is not used to life here, but I’m trying to change that. He simply will not let me.”

“Unaccustomed to structure, the boy is. Structure, the boy needs. Yes?”

“Yes! And I’m trying to give him structure. Order. Routine. All he does is reject it.”

“Hmmm,” Yoda hums. “Uptight, you are.”

*wanting to be done early to avoid stress*

Crunches fic from bunch of notes in one crazy ass writing session over an entire day, plonks 4k polished fic on beta's lap.

Being like - Wow, it's midnight? I skipped lunch? And dinner??

Except it's like smoking the fic. A good old writing high.

Beta does miraculous one sitting edit, pushes through tagging and summary with me... Glorious high of pressing the Post button 3 weeks early.

Realising the works are not revealed to anyone until 3 weeks later, duh, and you can't share because it's anonymous...

OKAY then.

*turns around to gen Kenobi fic due in a month*

**CRACKS KNUCKLES**

'You're next.'

Foreseeing a potential disappointment when I finish it 3 weeks early as well and can't share either...

_(:з」∠)_

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker Additional Tags: Fluff Summary:

Sign-Ups Are Open!

Nominations have now closed, and you can sign-up here! Please be aware that requests and offers for fandoms, characters, and additional tags are from the tag set. The minimum is 3 requests and 3 offers!

Dates: 06 June - 20 June 2026

Request Options: 1-10 Fandoms, 1-10 Characters*, 1-10 Additional Tags*, 1-2 Relationships**, optional tags allowed, prompt url allowed, description allowed

Offer Options:  1-10 Fandoms, 1-10 Characters*, 1-10 Additional Tags*,  1-2 Relationships**, description allowed

* “Allow any” is available, which is a wildcard function for matching. Please be careful if selecting this instead of specific characters/tags, as you may be matched with something you don’t like. **The Relationship section is to select for request/offer format. "Any Relationship" allows for any medium.

Please note that it is implied that Obi-Wan is a default character in all requests, and as such does not need to be added in each request. If, however, you would like Obi-Wan as the only character in your requests and/or offers, then please use the tag “Solo Character: Obi-Wan Kenobi” in the Character Tag field and do not add other characters in that request box.

Accordingly, please also do not put prompt descriptions in your offers - this section's description field is reserved for gifter-side DNWs, as well as matching preferences. The mods will do their best to uphold these DNWs, but recipient DNWs take precedence, particularly for matching. Please see our sample sign-up for more details.

Please see our sample sign-up here for more details.If you have any questions, feel free to send us an ask! We’re also around on Dreamwidth and Discord, and you can email us at [email protected]!

Nominations Closing Soon!

Tagset nominations will be closed on 06 June! If you’re interested in submitting a tag to the tagset for use during sign-ups, please visit our tagset here.

Please note that Obi-Wan Kenobi as a solo character has already been added to the tagset by the mods, and all nominations will be checked for duplicates by the mods before final approval.

Assignments Delivered!

Please check your email - and also your spam folder! - to verify that you’ve received your assignment, and any questions, comments, or concerns may be directed to the mods on Dreamwidth, Discord, or at [email protected] with the email address attached to your AO3 account.

While assignments are due 29 August and must adhere to the 500-word minimum or clean sketch on unlined paper, treats need not and anyone can gift as many treats as they want to during this period (29 August - 05 September). Either way, please do your best to fill your selected prompt(s) as the recipient requested, in terms of both tags and DNWs, and to not post your gifts on other sites (such as tumblr or Dreamwidth) that would de-anon you before the creator reveals date of DD Month!

Pinch-hits may be called occasionally before work reveals, and if you’d like to sign up as a pinch-hitter for specifically this exchange, please fill out this Google Form. Beta readers for this exchange may also sign up using that form, but Yuletide’s Discord server also has a year-round hippo system in place to anonymously match authors and potential beta readers.

Please keep in mind the no-default deadline (or soft deadline) for this exchange is on 15 August. This means participants may not default/withdraw from the exchange after this deadline without penalties. The final deadline is on 29 August.