As 2012 comes to a close and a new year approaches, I encourage our authors to look to the future... and where the characters of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel: the Series might fit into that future.

Assuming you're one of the people who doesn't ignore the Buffy Season 8/9 comics and their Angel counterparts, the present day in the universe is roughly 2006. For those of us who don't accept the comics, that rolls back to 2004. Either way, you're looking at a significant gap in time between the end of canon and the present. But the point of this event isn't to bridge the gap. No, my...

A few years back we had the rather popular To Boldly Go challenge, where we asked you to write in a fandom where no-one had written before.

This time around, we're going to narrow the field a little, and your challenge is to write a fic that crosses over with one of the IMDb Top 250 Movies of all time, but one with which we don't already have a crossover fic posted to the site.

Twisted Shorts’ annual August Fic-A-Day Challenge

The Rules:

1. Write one fic per day during August. Stories should be BtVS/Angel Crossovers of any rating with any fandom, minimum 300 words, maximum 3000 words. Daily entries should be a completed story/ficlet. Series of completed ficlets/shorts welcome.
2. Entries must be posted in the Twisted Shorts Livejournal or be a reply to this challenge to be counted.
3. Post more than one a day if you want, but only one fic per 24 hours counts toward the challenge. Backdating fics are not allowed for getting a fic to coun...

July 16th, 2011 is the 4th Annual Day of Femslash.

Join your fellow Twisting the Hellmouth writers in writing or updating a story, anything from a drabble to a multi-chapter fic, showcasing crossover femslash.

The rules are simple:
1. The central pairing, threesome, or moresome must be femslash, contain at least one female identifying Buffyverse character and one crossover female identifying character.
2. At least one of the femslash'ed characters must be a central character in the story.
3. Any rating is acceptable.
4. No bash fics. We're here to celebrate l...

No, it's nothing to do with pizza! The challenge is to build the longest chain of stories using open FFA entries where the character from the previous pairing participates in the next without a) repeating a character or b) using a pairing you nominated yourself. Hint: use the search box on the Fic-for-all page to find all pairings for a crossover character.

e.g. If your first story was Buffy / Daniel Jackson then your second could be Daniel Jackson / Dawn and your third Dawn / Harry Potter etc.

I can't believe I'm posting this as an official site challenge, but then again, I can't believe a throwaway comment in a forum thread got any responses. So: character bashing - normally we abhor it, but trying to bash a character that doesn't speak is not easy. Trying to bash a character that doesn't speak and is an extremely cute kitten is even less easy. Trying to bash a character that doesn't speak, is an extremely cute kitten and has 'fantastico' in her name... now that takes some serious writing skill. Will you pull it off, or just become another name on the list of failed kitten-bashers?

September... the final fandom. These are the stories of the website Twisting the Hellmouth. Your thirty day mission: to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new characters and new civilizations; to boldly go where no author has gone before!

Your challenge this month is a simple one, or so it seems at first: write something in a fandom that has not already appeared on the site. However, the challenging part is that you have to find something that *isn't* obscure – find that mainstream crossover that everybody has seen/heard/read, but we've somehow collectively overlooked. Your rea...

Double the pleasure, baby, triple the fun!

To mark the addition of co-authors feature to the site, we challenge you to team up with a friend to write a first person story with chapters from alternating viewpoints. Pick a crossover pairing, then one of you writes a chapter from the BtVS character's perspective, and the other follows it up with a chapter from the Crossover character's point of view.

Whether you tell each other in advance what you are going to write... that's up to you ;)

In memory of Andy Hallett who played Lorne, and who sadly passed away this week, we present the Karaoke Challenge.

Write a short story about the crossover character of your choice visiting Caritas to sing, the subsequent reading they receive, and its consequences.

What's a 20 Minute Challenge, you ask? These have been around for a while now. You take 20 minutes, the topic and/or character that you're given, and you write.

At the end of 20 minutes you stop.

Now that you've got that straight, here's your latest assignment...

20 Minutes over the rainbow.

Willow. Tara. Kennedy. Satsu. Larry. And... well, seriously, does anyone here actually think Andrew is straight? Take your favorite LGBT character and hook them up with your crossover partner of choice. It's okay if you feed that person a Magical Mushroom of Gayness or t...

This challenge is to list the responses to the 2008 Holiday Fic-A-Thon.

'Tis that time of the year again. We all know the standard YAHF formula: Scoobies dress up in enchanted costumes, the statue gets broken, and the personality/powers/skills of the character they dressed as are retained the next morning. Been there, done that, t-shirt obtained.

Well this year, let's take a look at things from the other side. How does the 'character they went as' cope with waking up the next morning with the strength of a slayer, the power of magic, or an inexplicable craving for twinkies? Your challenge this All Hallows' Eve is to tell us how the other half lives...

This challenge is to list the responses to the 2007 Holiday Fic-A-Thon.

For the month of November we're going to have a challenge theme in place. We encourage all of our writers (and readers, too!) to participate, be it in drabble form, fanart form, ficlet, fic or full length epic style novel (especially because it's National Novel Writing Month).

Anything crossed with BtVS/AtS will work (within site rules, of course).

The theme?

Family: The good, the bad, and the ugly aspects of family. Some prompts for inspiration are: death in the family, kidnapping, birthday gathering, birth of a child, in-laws, an unusual request

So, get...

This challenge is to list the responses to the Spring BtVS / Stargate fic-a-thon.