Outsiders Week 2025
Hi all! This is an official announcement for Outsiders Week 2025, a fandom-wide event celebrating all things SE Hinton! This year it is taking place November 16-22, 2025!
What is Outsiders Week?
A week celebrating the creators and fans of the classic story, The Outsiders by SE Hinton! This event is inclusive of all adaptations: the book, movie, musical, and TV show, as well as other Hintonverse stories (That Was Then, This Is Now, Rumble Fish, Tex, etc.)
To participate, you create a new, never-before-seen fanwork and post it during the week of November 16-22nd. You must tag this blog or tag the post "outsiders week" or "outsiders week 2025". The AO3 Collection can be found here. The work must contain characters or locations from The Outsiders or any of S.E. Hinton's adjacent work. Original characters are allowed, but the focus should be on existing characters or the OCs relationship with existing characters.
What types of fanworks will be allowed?
Any! Fic, art, moodboards, gifs, playlists, meta, edits - anything you can think of! AUs are also allowed. I just ask that the work is new, or at least has not been shared publically before.
If you are posting art, please add alt text - This is a short description of the image and helps make it more accessible to people who use screen readers or people with low vision. You can learn more about alt text here.
If you are posting fic, you can link to AO3 or post it on tumblr. If it's on tumblr please put it under a readmore.
I don't have any ideas, help!
Don't worry, there's a prompt for that! Each day of the week will have both a general prompt and a character prompt. Fee free to mix and match prompts! You do not have to follow the prompts if you don't want to, they're just to get your creativity going! (Prompts can be found here)
Is shipping allowed?
Yes! Both shipping (romantic) works and gen (platonic) works are allowed! This includes x reader and OC ships, however the work should contain at least one canon character and the focus should be on their relationship to the canon character.
Please note, for the comfort of everyone involved, works containing incest ships or adult/minor ships* will not be allowed. Aged-up ships is fine.
Is NSFW or mature work allowed?
No. We ask that any work shared for the week has a "PG-13" rating. No explicit sex or graphic violence, but implied or fade-to-black is okay. Basically like how it's written in the book.
If you have any questions about the week or if your work will be allowed, please ask!
