#hpwlwbb2026

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HP WLW Big Bang is Back!

We are very excited to announce that HP WLW Big Bang is back for its 2026 edition! After a 3-year break, we are finally bringing this fest back for everyone to enjoy.

The purpose of the HP WLW Big Bang is to encourage longer fic and accompanying artwork for wlw pairings featuring our favorite Harry Potter characters! Through this fest, we hope to encourage wlw stories with rich character development and plots. Nonbinary and trans interpretations of characters are welcome, as are poly ships and ace characters, but all stories should have a romantic/partnership component. The primary relationship should be between two or more characters who are canonically not men.

The HP Saffics discord server have picked up the fest - you don't have to be a member of the server to participate, but the fest and server have the same mod team.

See our rules and fest timeline

Sign up as a writer!

Please contact us if you have any further questions!

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Email: [email protected]

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HP WLW Big Bang important info!

Everything you'll need to know for this year's fest can be found under the read more of this pinned post. If there's anything else you need to know, please send us an ask!

Rules

Fic: minimum word count 20k, no maximum word count

Art: one piece of art and one banner (banner can be a cropped portion of art)

Writers and artists must be 18+ to participate

The use of generative AI is prohibited for all submissions

All works must include a main WLW pairing of HP characters

Find the full rules on AO3!

Timelines

Writer Schedule:

Apr 26 - May 9: writer sign-ups

Jun 28: 50% check-in

Jul 26: 80% check-in and summary due

Aug 9: fic submissions due

Aug 16: writer and artist matches sent out

Oct 1: posting begins

Artist Schedule:

Jul 26-Aug 8: artist sign-ups

Aug 16: writer and artist matches sent out

Sep 6: 50% check in

Sep 20: art submissions due

Oct 1: posting begins

Sign up links

Writer sign up

Artist sign up (coming Jul 26!)

Contact

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Email: [email protected]

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Looking for Beta Readers

Beta Readers, This is a call for help! 

As mentioned here, we have brought back the HP Saffics WLW Big Bang event! We are asking YOU ALL, if anyone would be interested in Beta reading for some of the Authors! 

Want to see a sneak peak into the stories being written? Want to help out other writers who took on this fest? 

Then please fill out this form here

If you sign up, you will be paired with a writer by June 24th!

Thank you for all your support!

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I'm so excited hpwlwbb is back :DDD

... I know it's probably a long-shot, but is there a way a podficcer could participate as an artist? (If it's at all helpful, I can look up and send you examples of how other big bangs and similar include podficcers?)

Hi! We are also very excited to bring hpwlwbb back this year!!

We have discussed amongst the mods, and we don't think podifcs fit the scope of the fest. In the sense that, the beauty of the big bang is that artists create two specific drawings for a specific story, and by doing so the art and story mutually enhance and compliment each other. Podfics, though an amazing and wonderful part of the fandom ecosystem, don't transform a work in the same way.

But thank you for the ask! We have saved the idea as something to potentially incorporate into future iterations of the fest 💖