Two weeks until Queliot Week 2026: June 15-21
We're so excited to bring back Queliot Week, with the blessing of one of the original mods! (Thank you so much, @believesinponds! ❤️❤️❤️) We'll have seven days celebrating the love of Quentin Coldwater / Eliot Waugh of The Magicians (Lev Grossman, SyFy) with all the fanworks you can create! Queliot Week 2026 will take place from June 15-21. This will be an annual event, during the timeslot brought to us by Queliot Week 2019. Read on to learn about the themes and how this event works!
Here are the themes you've been waiting for!
Day 1: Monday, June 15 ❤️ History AUs ❤️ Queliot "for want of a nail" AU: one thing changes somewhere, but that changes everything ❤️ Alternate Genre/Universe
Day 2: Tuesday, June 16 ❤️ Mosaic era/flavor/AU ❤️ Brakebills era/flavor/AU
Day 3: Wednesday, June 17 ❤️ Book Queliot ❤️ There was only one bed ❤️ Epistolary fic (or any type of messaging in some format makes an appearance somewhere)
Day 4: Thursday, June 18 ❤️ XOXO, aka “Love, Eliot”—Queliot hugs, kisses, and/or ways they say “I love you” ❤️ Cuddling ❤️ Hurt/comfort
Day 5: Friday, June 19 ❤️ Misunderstandings ❤️ Idiots to lovers ❤️ Forced proximity
Day 6: Saturday, June 20 ❤️ Immortal/Mortal ❤️ Omegaverse ❤️ Magical creatures
Day 7: Sunday June 21 ❤️ Queliot Week 2019 prompts* ❤️ Queliot Week 2020 prompts* ❤️ Free Choice
*See below for prior Queliot Week prompts.
Basic Rules
❤️ Your fanwork must be about the ship Quentin Coldwater/Eliot Waugh from The Magicians (Lev Grossman/SyFy).
❤️ Many themes are available; we also offer “Free Choice.” You may select any of that day's themes; use as many as you want, or only one. Please let us know which you've chosen.
❤️ Any type of fanwork you can imagine; any size or length.
❤️ Additions to existing WIPs welcome; you may also start a new WIP.
❤️ As many or as few pieces as you wish to enter are fine.
❤️ The challenge takes place on AO3 and Tumblr (if you are posting your work on another platform, please share a link to that here on Tumblr).
❤️ Relaxed posting: Try to post on the appropriate day, but if you find you need to post on a different day, that’s fine, too. We want this to be fun, and to encourage as many Queliot works as possible! Please let us know which prompt you used.
❤️ Queliot Week is a separate, recurring event. It’s not covered during our recurring Amnesty Weeks. However, each future Queliot Week will include an invitation to use any prompts from a past Queliot Week!
Here are the prompts from prior Queliot Weeks:
Queliot Week 2019 (June 17-23; alternates could be used on any day) Day 1: Fake Dating/Marriage Day 2: Hedge Witches Day 3: Neighbors/Roommates Day 4: Free Day! Day 5: Polyamory Day 6: Alternate Timeline Day 7: Soulmates Alternate 1: Non-magic College Alternate 2: Queliot Reunion Alternate 3: In Fillory
Queliot Week 2020 (Nov. 16-22; two prompts per day) Day 1: "Hugs aren’t the only thing required by law." / Favourite scene Day 2: "We're married." / Colours Day 3: "That wasn't brave." / Royalty Day 4: "It was real, this is real." / Magic Day 5: "Not everything can be mended." / The Monster Day 6: "So we're just giving up?" / Death Day 7: Free Choice Day
Here are some places to enjoy the works from prior Queliot Weeks!
Queliot Week 2019
This AO3 collection has 62 works for Queliot Week 2019 by multiple creators, but there are also some things on Tumblr that aren't on AO3.
Many works for the event can be found under the tags #queliot week 2019 and especially #queliotweek (this 2nd tag has more, but also does bring up some works for Queliot Week 2020).
The original Queliot Week 2019 website is beautiful and well worth checking out, but enter at your own risk: when I load it now (link below), virus protection is giving me a "threat secured" script warning; not sure why, but it seems to be fine with virus protection, as mine is blocking the problem script without any issues, and the works are still linking to AO3 and Tumblr. I love the original Queliot Week 2019 Tumblr website.
Queliot Week 2020
The original Tumblr website is gone, but many of the entries can still be found through the tags #queliotweek2020 and #queliotweek (this 2nd tag also brings up posts for Queliot Week 2019).
I couldn't find a single, unified AO3 collection, but some creators made their own personal Queliot Week 2020 series, while a few others used a custom AO3 tag. To the best of my ability, here's a link to all those things on AO3.
And here you'll find Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza's ongoing news about Queliot Week 2026 and beyond.
Also: Here's a list of all our upcoming 2026 fanworks challenges for The Magicians, in case you'd like to get a head start!
And here are our prior events, starting with the most recent:
Don't Make Me Sing (Every Single One of Us Has to Sing)
Time Is an Illusion
Amnesty Week 2025
Welcome Home!
Warm Up
Finally, while membership in our Discord server is absolutely not required to create works for any event, feel free to join us to discuss The Magicians, our events, and more in the Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza Discord.
Thanks for joining us!
