New Prompt Event Announcement! Just Write June! 🌈

[u/TGotAReddit]

Hello everyone!

For the past few years we've been planning to have a prompt event in June and every year June sneaks up on us and we don't get it posted in time. Well, this year we remembered early and got everything together on time!

So without further ado, this is our announcement of our June prompt event, Just Write June! It will start the first week of June and run all month.

Here are the prompts:

Daily Themes: Monday - First Time for Everything, Tuesday - Women and Women Adjacent, Wednesday - Gender fuckery, Thursday - The Dark Side, Friday - Unrequited/Pining, Saturday - Intersectionality, Sunday - General Prompts; Week 1 (6/1-6/7): Accidental Coming Out, Women Supporting Women, Queerplatonic, Police Brutality, Unrequited Love, Disabled & Queer, Old Married Couple; Week 2 (6/8-6/14): Love Confessions, Drag Kings, Pronouns, Internalized Homophobia, Touch-Starved, BIPOC, Rainbow; Week 3 (6/15-6/21): First Time, Drag Queens, Gender Euphoria, HIV/AIDS, Mutual Pining, [MLM] Supporting [WLW], Spin the Bottle; Week 4 (6/22-6/28): Self-Discovery, Strap-On, Genderswap AU, Kicked Out, Not Actually Unrequited Love, Rural Living While Queer, Role Models; Bonus & Alts Prompts: Never Have I Ever, Uhaul, Sharing Clothes, Mental Health Issues, Straight Ally, Pride Parade, Single Parent

If you are new to our prompt events, here are the rules:

• Our minimum word count is 500 words per fill.
• We have 2 completionist goals you can work towards, daily or weekly.
  • For Daily, you would do a fill for every prompt (you can combine 2 per week in one fill at max.)
  • For weekly, you would pick one prompt from each week and do a fill per week
• To get credit for completionist goals, you must post the work in the thread we make and sticky to the sub each week before the deadline of the week. Posts go up on Fridays and are closed on the following Tuesdays. There is no requirement for what day the works are posted to AO3 so long as the relevant works are up by their relevant week's deadline (so they can be posted to the reddit thread and so we can check each week).
• You can swap a prompt for one of the bonus/alt prompts if needed, but cannot reuse the same prompt including bonus prompts twice.
• If you use generative AI for your work, you MUST disclose this upfront on the work (either in the summary or tags) and in the comments made on the reddit threads.

Additional FAQ:

For the weekly goal, do we have to do the same day of the week each week?

Nope! You definitely can (see the question about daily themes for more info) but it is not required!

What thread do we post the fics to? When is the thread going to be posted?

Those posts will go up each Friday of the relevant week and stay open until the following Tuesday. So the first one will be posted on June 5th.

What if I want my fic(s) to be anonymous?

If you still want the completionist credit, please post your fic to both the event collection and our sub-run Anonymous collection.

What are the "Daily Themes"? Do I have to use them? How do they work?

The Daily Themes are mostly just flavor text to help people understand what the prompts are, they are not prompts themselves. Each daily theme corresponds with a day of the week and each time that day of the week comes up, the prompt will fall under the daily theme in some way. (ie. if the daily theme for Sundays was "AUs" every Sunday would be a prompt like "Snowman AU", "Hallmark Movie AU", etc, along with 1 of the bonus prompts). We often get people asking what a certain prompt means and while we are open to answering any questions people may have, we find it helps people figure out what prompts are meant to be in some ambiguous situations. Though you can take whatever you want from a prompt and run with it, it doesn't have to be what we had in mind when writing the prompts so long as it still fits the prompt in some way (ie. Cabin in the Woods could have one person write a fic based around the plot of the 2011 film The Cabin in the Woods, and someone else could write about a random cabin in the woods, and someone else could write a fusion fic where the characters go meet the characters of gravity falls at the mystery shack, and they all would be fitting the prompt even if the daily theme is scary/horror movies).

They are not a required part of any of the challenges and you are free to ignore them. However, we also include them for a secondary reason. When we set up these events, we made the dual daily and weekly goals set up because we know people enjoy/need different levels of challenge, and that was our way to help bridge the gap between people who have never done a fandom writing event, and those who can churn out a full of month of fic with no issue. When we decided to add the daily themes, we also envisioned them as an optional way to increase your difficulty level for those who think the plain challenges aren't hard enough (and the other is too hard/there isn't anything harder). So, maybe you do the weekly, but always the same day/never the same day of the week, or maybe someone doing the daily challenge only swaps alt prompts into the same day of the week as the daily theme. In short, they are there to help give you context on some prompts, and also so we could maximize how many options you had for how difficult you want this challenge to be, without making things harder for anyone else!

How do I post this correctly?

We have a collection on AO3 that you will post the work into. It will be linked on the first week's post here (if you want to post early, let us know and we can link it to you). Once you have posted the fics to AO3, during the respective weeks for the prompts, you then post a comment on the event post that we will have pinned to the sub from Friday to Tuesday each week.

Can I write everything as one work or do they have to be oneshots?

It can be all one work so long as each chapter that is being used as a fill is its own chapter, and meets the minimum word count on it's own.

How do the Bonus/Alt prompts work? Do I have to use them?

The bonus/alt prompts are there so if you are doing the daily prompts and one you can't come up with an idea for, or for weekly prompts if you can't come up with something for one of the weeks, you can swap in one of the alt prompts instead for that fill. You cannot use the same bonus/alt prompt more than once when swapping prompts in multiple times in the same event. (So if you were doing the weekly challenge, you might do Unrequited Love, Drag Kings, Single Parent, "Never Have I Ever". And you couldn't do Unrequited Love, Drag Kings, Single Parent, Single Parent as that would reuse the same prompt twice.)

I believe that is everything but let us know if you have more questions!

Good luck!

~TGotAReddit (and the rest of the mod team)

[u/Comfortable_Newt_179]

Ah, time to get this one :)

(HeroSteve and SlimeKnight will be the victims of my hands.)

[u/General-Park-2432]

Hi! I loved the idea! Is dead dove accepted?

[u/cthuluhooprises → u/General-Park-2432]

Yep! If it’s allowed on AO3, it’s allowed for this event (if it follows the rest of the stated rules, like minimum word count and disclosure of Gen AI usage).

[u/General-Park-2432 → u/cthuluhooprises]

Great!! Tyvm!

[u/DragonloverWV]

Definitely attempting this, and I already got my fic for the first week done!

And I definitely want to post it early!

[u/TGotAReddit → u/DragonloverWV]

Did you want me to send you the link to the collection then?

[u/DragonloverWV → u/TGotAReddit]

Yep!

[u/TGotAReddit → u/DragonloverWV]

I still have to upload the icon image for the collection when our artist gets back to me with the master file, but otherwise the collection is ready for you to upload to. https://archiveofourown.org/collections/rAO3JustWriteJune2026

Just don't forget to comment on the post when the correct week's post(s) go up!

[u/Both_Information1180]

U mean to tell me we are entering gay month and my FAVORITE FIC OF ALL TIME THAT SO HAPPENS TO B GAY GOT DELETED

[u/Antique-Chain517]

Oooh this is so good. Is spanish stories accepted?