More 2026 Events Ahead from Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza
Please join the fun by creating fanworks or enjoying them! We're bringing the festival atmosphere as we celebrate The Magicians (Lev Grossman/SyFy) in 2026!
Queliot Week 2026: June 15-21
💬 0 🔁 4 ❤️ 7 · Queliot Week 2026: June 15-21 · We're so excited to bring back Queliot Week, with the blessing of one of the original mods!
Amnesty Week 2026: August 10-16
💬 0 🔁 1 ❤️ 1 · Amnesty Week 2026: August 10-16 · Join us from August 10-16, 2026 (Eastern time zone), for our second Amnesty Week! We welc
The Tales of the Seven Keys (Aug. 31-Oct. 25, 2026)
💬 0 🔁 6 ❤️ 6 · The Tales of the Seven Keys (Aug. 31-Oct. 25, 2026) · We're holding another eight-week event this fall! Please join us to c
Also, don't miss this amazing event from our sibling station, @peachesandplumsbigbang!
Peaches and Plums Big Bang 2026!
💬 0 🔁 17 ❤️ 21 · Peaches and Plums Big Bang 2026! · WELCOME TO THE PEACHES AND PLUMS BIG BANG EVENT, YEAR TWO!
What does that mean? Well
Please check out all the specifics, including more details about their schedule, in their post. However, since this event covers a lot of 2026, here are a few important points:
Writer sign-ups are open until May 25, 2026
Artist sign-ups are open from May 4-June 15, 2026
Works due October 12, 2026
Works post beginning October 19, 2026, until out of works.
"Okay." Eliot flops back after failing to solve the puzzle (Watercolor edition)
Painting completed for Amnesty Week, Aug. 11-17, 2025, for the @magiciansfanworksextravaganza challenge Welcome Home!, Week 2, "It's been a long time," with special emphasis on the Mosaic.
I created the drawing for this painting for the original Welcome Home event, same theme, so it seemed only fitting to finish the painting for Amnesty Week.
I love Eliot's sunrise! I know the true answer to the Mosaic is the most beautiful of all, yet I wish their heartfelt efforts could have been rewarded, or at least acknowledged. (Imagine the Mosaic saying: "I love it! It's beautiful! But sorry, no prize.") I know how much time, energy, and heart they must have put into working out each artistic pattern, with so much hope that each would truly solve the puzzle--you can see how much Eliot believes it will work by his prayer to the Mosaic, followed by his deep disappointment when it doesn't work. As an artist, I also feel for them in having to tear out their work so soon after completing it! Such is life...and that is the point... But after spending so long building it, by the way Eliot relaxes when Q promises to write it down, perhaps their Mosaic pattern journal also provides some balm for the artist's soul: at least Eliot's pattern won't be entirely forgotten.
To see this painting with greater resolution/sharpness (if you have the chance to view it on a computer or laptop, you'll get more detail), visit Chapter 16 of Mosaic Haiku on AO3:
Mosaic Haiku (with Art) - Chapter 16 - EliotQueliot - The Magicians (TV) [Archive of Our Own]
Here's the drawing I posted during the original Welcome Home! event, along with more about the theme.
💬 0 🔁 2 ❤️ 5 · "Okay." Eliot flops back after failing to solve the puzzle · Happy 7th anniversary of "A Life in the Day!" (The Magicians 3
Written for @magiciansfanworksextravaganza's Amnesty Week, continuing from the Welcome Home event earlier this year: Chapter 2 of The Whole Package. Theme: Week 3, "Seasonal/Holiday."
Eliot Waugh didn’t know him, definitely didn’t want him, and probably saw guys like Quentin as…redshirts or something. Maybe NPCs. Yeah, that made sense; he was a shopkeeper in the video game that was Eliot’s life, and all his lines would be garbage like ‘hail, fair traveler, for I have wares to sell.’
He shook his head. Why the fuck was he envisioning this guy as a quasi-medieval quester? Probably because he would look great in hose with a lute slung over his back. Shit. Quentin knew a fourth Witcher rewatch was a bad idea.
(Quentin finds his bravery, the heat he craves, and Valentine's Day treats.)
Thank you so much to PhantomNightjar for making suggestions and looking things over!
Welcome Home! - Week 4 theme: Magical creature—A being from the show or books, or from mythology/folklore, or one you make up.
They stayed as long as they dared, but there were still too many teachers around for the group to get any look without taking undue risks. With a new understanding of the room and the setup, they made plans to return again the next day. It was logical to make their move when they were on solid footing. That was also why Eliot had no intention of waiting until the next day.
Alice sighed for the fifth time since he dragged her away from studying at ten o'clock at night; Margo still had a lot of work to do with this girl. Teachers were nearly inactive after nine at night, which was how they got away with half the things they did, Margo crowning herself queen of Brakebills atop a throne of naked freshmen notwithstanding. It was the prime time, the Witching Hour (not quite). He thought they deserved the advantage. Fogg was in his robe by now, and no one better ask how Eloit knew that, because it involved a covert mission of spying. Eliot never did tell Alice about her aunt and Fogg, mostly because she might not be as ready to help him if she found out Genji Quinn occasionally got naughty with their teacher. It seemed like something that could scar her for life, probably.
Fuck, Eliot needed to know less about the staff, to be honest. One day, it would all run out of his ears or something.
"This isn't a good idea, Eliot," Alice protested in a harsh whisper, but she had yet to actually abandon him, so he took the win.
"We didn't even see anything, though. Don't you want to have a look at their notes?"
The moment of silence was clearly an admittance that she did, "We are coming back tomorrow."
"But the teachers will still be there. Harder to see what they keep scribbling when they are moving," the look on her face told him he had her, but he was very good at convincing people to do what he wanted them to, mainly because he picked his targets well and everything he asked of them was things they secretly wanted to do.
"There was a reason we agreed not to be alone with it. Very little is known about their powers, but it is fairly common in lore for them to have the ability to break the human mind. Mermaids and Sirens allegedly induce madness, which is obviously not ideal." Alice sounded like she was in a lecture hall, "Which is why visits should be conducted while teachers are in the room, as they likely have some idea how to prevent that from happening."
Eliot hummed, glancing around the corner, peering into the darkness, "And yet, here you are."
Her cute little nose wrinkled up. "I didn't say I wouldn't help, I'm only pointing out that it is possible we will regret this."
He slid his fingers through hers and pulled her along with another self-satisfied hum. It was not as if there was no chance for absolute, total, catastrophic failure. Eliot was aware this could be the worst move he ever made, which, honestly, was impressive. Even so, he just had to see that creature again. He wouldn't get too close, just close enough to get a real look.
The two of them slipped inside without much trouble. While there were wards, Alice and Eliot were more than enough to beat them. Alice could have all on her own, and didn't they all just know it too? All the powerful wards were focused less on the human element - If the madness thing was true, he could see why they were focused on that. Still, it was their mistake to assume they were dealing with average students when Alice Quinn attended.
When Alice pulled on his hand, he realized he stopped in his tracks the second he saw the tank; he saw eyes gleam at them in the relative dark like little lanterns. The sight made him shiver, like little electric eels were crawling over him. Hello there, beautiful... Did you miss me? Because I think I missed you.
Our mission: to offer fanworks events celebrating The Magicians (Lev Grossman, SyFy) on Tumblr and AO3. Fanworks of all types are welcome! WIPs are welcome! No signups needed.
We've got a lot planned for you in the coming months.
Our next challenge: Time Is an Illusion, Dec. 8-16, 2025.
It may be hard to believe, but this December marks the ten-year anniversary of the first episode of The Magicians. To celebrate that, we’re running a week-long event. The themes are anniversary, 1x01-inspired, and/or time-related.
💬 0 🔁 12 ❤️ 17 · TIME IS AN ILLUSION, Dec. 8-16, 2025 · Time Is an Illusion. It may be hard to believe, but this December marks the ten-ye
In 2026, we have four events planned welcoming The Magicians fanworks. For all of them, we welcome all types of fanworks; additions to existing WIPs are welcome, provided they fit the theme for the event; you may create as many things as you want for each event; no sign-ups needed!
Mar. 23-29, 2026, Don't Make Me Sing (Every Single One of Us Has to Sing) (fanworks event centered around music)
June 15-21, 2026, Queliot Week (recurring event; inaugural revival of original event; will have themes to choose from)
Aug. 10-16, 2026, Amnesty Week (recurring event; reopens all prior unique, non-recurring events)
Aug. 31-Oct. 25, 2026, The Tales of the Seven Keys (anything Keys Quest welcome! We'll have one week per key and one catchup week--but also anything related to the Keys Quest will be welcome anytime, just in case you're not retrieving your keys in the same order as on the show!)
Please see our website Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza for updates! (You'll need a computer or laptop to see everything. Calendar on the left; Navigation and Project Links on the right.)
And don't forget to check out works created for our prior events:
💬 0 🔁 2 ❤️ 3 · Amnesty Week 2025 Masterpost · From August 11-17, 2025, Amnesty Week 2025 celebrated The Magicians (Lev Grossman, SyFy) on
💬 0 🔁 7 ❤️ 9 · Welcome Home! Masterpost · From January 27-March 16, 2025, we invited fanworks creators to celebrate The Magicians (Lev Gro
💬 0 🔁 11 ❤️ 14 · Warm Up Masterlist and Wrap-Up · We're so thrilled you've all joined us on this journey! From December 1 through our exte
Join us from August 10-16, 2026 (Eastern time zone), for our second Amnesty Week! We welcome fanworks of all types celebrating The Magicians (Lev Grossman/SyFy). Want to dream up new works for prior events, or just enjoy the creative vibes? Please come party with us!
For Amnesty Week, Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza reopens all previous non-recurring challenges. (Note: this doesn't include Queliot Week, which is a separate recurring event that reopens its own prior themes each June.)
Events reopening for Amnesty Week 2026:
Don't Make Me Sing (Every Single One of Us Has to Sing)
Time Is an Illusion
Warm Up
Welcome Home!
As many or few things as you wish to create are welcome, as long as they fit the event guidelines. Warm Up has a length restriction, but Welcome Home! does not. All our events have themes, but one choice for Welcome Home! allows new additions to existing WIPs that don't fit any other theme.
Amnesty Week takes place on AO3 and Tumblr. We have AO3 subcollections for each challenge, and we'll reblog your work here and gather it in our recap posts for Amnesty Week 2026. We'll also add your work to the recap posts for the original events!
As always, new works and additions to existing WIPs are welcome, as are all types of fanworks (fic, art, edits, vids, cosplay, crafting, podfic, fanmixes, pinboards, moodboards, and more). If you wish to submit individual chapters of the same work as separate entries, that's totally valid! They could be for the same theme, or different ones.
Stay tuned for more specific guidelines! In the meantime...
Here's more about those prior events!
Warm Up
Warm Up event guidelines
Warm Up event recap
Welcome Home!
Welcome Home! event guidelines
Welcome Home! event recap
Time Is an Illusion
Time Is an Illusion event guidelines
Time Is an Illusion event recap
Don't Make Me Sing (Every Single One of Us Has to Sing)
Don't Make Me Sing (Every Single One of Us Has to Sing) event guidelines
Don't Make Me Sing (Every Single One of Us Has to Sing) event recap
Our First Year: The Magicians fanworks challenges, Dec. 2024-2025
Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza has been such a delight. The first post went up Oct. 9, 2024, and we held our first challenge from Dec. 1-8, 2024. So it's now been a little over a year's worth of challenges—an incredible thing to share with fellow fans of The Magicians (Lev Grossman, SyFy)! Thank you so much to everyone who participated, is taking the time to enjoy these amazing works by so many creators, and/or has joined us in the Discord to chat with fellow fans.
In case you're looking for some fanworks to enjoy (during long winter nights or any other time), here are all our challenges so far in one place.
Also I'd just like to add an additional thank you to the mods who've helped us and creators who've joined us over the past year-plus.
Finally, keep an eye on our website and/or join our Discord to learn about (or help suggest) future fanworks events for The Magicians! We've got a lot planned for the coming year! (Discord is not required for any challenge.) Details below.
Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza Team
Fully 24 creators have crafted things for us so far—that's extraordinary, especially given how small our fandom is these days! And 6 mods have stepped up to help share these works! Thank you so much to our:
Mods:
@carcrash429, @eliotqueliot, @magicians4time, @museinabsentia, @state-of-being, and @unlifeira
Our first four fanworks events have brought us 182 individual entries (some of them containing multiple chapters or types of work). The following breakdown counts entries as they were presented (separately or together), except in 3 cases where types of work presented together were distinct enough to warrant a separate mention.
Art
86 works of art and art chapters, including collage, drawings, edit/graphic, paintings, pinboard, etc. (Art chapters had multiple works.)
Fanmix
1 separately identified fanmix; additionally, several fic chapters identified and/or linked to mood music.
Fic
84 fic or fic chapters (not counting poetry chapters counted below). Sometimes fic with multiple chapters were presented as one entry, so there are more chapters than this number reflects.
Poetry
4 poems or poetry chapters, most of which included quite a number of poems per chapter.
Video
10 video-related works, including animatics, edits, gifsets, vids, etc.
Individual Events
Time Is an Illusion
Celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the first episode of The Magicians! Themes: anniversary, 1x01-related, and time-related.
💬 0 🔁 3 ❤️ 2 · TIME IS AN ILLUSION 2025 Recap · Time Is an Illusion. It may be hard to believe, but December 16, 2025, marked the ten-year
Amnesty Week
Reopening all prior non-recurring fanworks events we've held! Bringing more work to prior themes
💬 0 🔁 2 ❤️ 3 · Amnesty Week 2025 Masterpost · From August 11-17, 2025, Amnesty Week 2025 celebrated The Magicians (Lev Grossman, SyFy) on
Welcome Home!
Seven weeks with multiple themes! Themes: Welcome Home! (overall event theme); Week 1: Home; Week 2: "It's been a long time" (especially Mosaic fic); Week 3: Seasonal/holiday; Week 4: Magical creature; Week 5: Returning after absence (or returning to being themselves); Weeks 6-7: Welcome back to WIPs! and catch-up.
💬 0 🔁 7 ❤️ 9 · Welcome Home! Masterpost · From January 27-March 16, 2025, we invited fanworks creators to celebrate The Magicians (Lev Gro
Warm Up
Short fanworks (fic to 1.5k; smaller things) on the theme of warmth and warming up, any interpretation.
💬 0 🔁 11 ❤️ 14 · Warm Up Masterlist and Wrap-Up · We're so thrilled you've all joined us on this journey! From December 1 through our exte
Our first post, Oct. 9, 2024:
💬 0 🔁 17 ❤️ 28 · Magicians Fanworks Creators Unite! · Please watch this space for several upcoming fanworks events that are in the works!
Additional Useful Things Website flavor of Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza Please note: you will need a computer/laptop. A phone can only serve up the Tumblr blog side. Through the above link, you can find Project Links to all our past events, as well as a calendar showing upcoming events and links to the guidelines for current challenges once they're available. The Project Links are a handy way to see everything specifically posted for a certain event, in the order in which it occurred. Each challenge has one! On the right, look past Navigation (whose links lead to guidelines and recaps for each event) and scroll down to see Projects. Each challenge has its own box, with the icon for the challenge and a Project Link, which serves up everything we’ve posted with the challenge #tag. Magicians Fanworks Extravaganza Discord Server Chat with fellow creatives and fans about The Magicians fanworks, books, and show; help select themes for future fanworks challenges like our upcoming Queliot Week revival; help us select dates and propose concepts for future challenges; brainstorm or sprint with others. Discord isn't required for participation in any challenge.
2026: More fanworks challenges for The Magicians are just around the corner!
💬 0 🔁 8 ❤️ 10 · The Magicians challenges on the horizon · Our mission: to offer fanworks events celebrating The Magicians (Lev Grossman, S
We're excited to let you know that our first Amnesty Week will occur from August 11-17, 2025, so you can dream up more fanworks for our previous events! (We also have a new event planned for Dec. 8-16, 2025, so please stay tuned for news about that!)
During any of our Amnesty Weeks, we will reopen all our previous event collections and guidelines, and you may contribute works to any of the previous events.
We're hoping you'll be inspired to create more works for either of the two events we've held so far! As many or few things as you wish to create are welcome, as long as they fit the event guidelines. Works for Welcome Home! will follow the guidelines for Weeks 6-7, which were our catch-up weeks, in which all the weekly themes were open, as well as the overall event theme and Welcome Back to WIPs (no theme necessary).
As always, new works and additions to existing WIPs are welcome, as are all types of fanworks! Read more in the guidelines. Note: Warm Up has a length restriction, but Welcome Home does not. Just as before, if you wish to submit individual chapters of the same work as separate entries, that's totally valid, and we encourage it! They could be for the same theme, or different ones!
Also, note that if you send the first chapter of a new work for one of the event themes, your work is now a WIP, and subsequent chapters may be sent during Amnesty Week under Welcome Home's "Welcome Back to WIPs" category, even if they don't match another theme!
Here's a little more about the events you may join during our first Amnesty Week!
Warm Up
Warm Up Event Guidelines
Masterlist for event fanworks posted Dec. 1-8, 2024, with more info about the event
Welcome Home!
Welcome Home! Event Guidelines
Masterpost for event fanworks posted Jan. 27-Mar. 16, 2025, with links to all creators and works, with lists by theme and by week
