International Fanworks Day is Coming

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2015-12-15 17:16:22 UTC

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Banner created by Ania celebrating International Fanworks Day, featuring various fanworks including cosplay, text, and visual art.

International Fanworks Day will take place on February 15, 2016. The OTW is making plans to celebrate, but we also want to know what you will be doing!

What is International Fanworks Day?

A day to promote fan creativity in all of its forms, all over the world. Whether in text, image, audio or multimedia, and whatever their nation or language of origin, we use fanworks to express love for our fandoms and forge our own communities and traditions. On International Fanworks Day (IFD), we want fans everywhere to show how important fanworks are to them.

Tell Us What Fanworks Mean to You

We will be announcing OTW-sponsored activities next month, but in the meantime we'd like to hear your plans for celebrating. We'd also like to get you to tell us what fanworks mean to you.

Send us your thoughts (up to 500 words) through our Communications contact form by January 1. We will be selecting up to six submissions for publication on OTW News between January 15 and February 15 as part of our lead-up to next year's IFD. When submitting, please tell us:

How you would like your name/pseudonym listed
What country you call home

Submissions are welcome in all languages!

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SoloShikigami (Guest) Tue 15 Dec 2015 08:10PM UTC

I'd like my psued listed as it is spelled above and I hail from the East Coast of the USA!
I've been dying to start a major re-haul project of my old fanfiction, and perhaps getting it prepared and releasing it on IFD would be the perfect way to celebrate!
So what does fanwork mean to me? It's a chance to explore - explore the environments characters live in, their personalities or alternates thereof, it allows me to explore the "what if?" possibilities. I feel that it opens up conversations about characters and in turn, people in real life. It's like being part of a really fun and awesome sociology project because it helps me to connect and understand people. Fanwork has allowed me to express myself and open up to others in a way I never knew possible - verbal communication tends to be challenging for me and to have an idea expressed, understood, and even welcomed has helped me in the many facets of my life. It may be difficult for others to understand me sometimes as I go about my every day life, but knowing that I have a safe, warm, welcoming environment in fanwork to come home to makes life a little easier to take.

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1. OTW_Communications (Official) Tue 15 Dec 2015 10:22PM UTC
  
  Hello Solo
  We got your submission through the contact form, thanks for taking part!
  Claudia Rebaza
  Staffer, OTW Communications
  
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Account Deleted Fri 18 Dec 2015 11:02AM UTC

Well, this does give me some extra motivation to do more writing/photo manipulation. Should be fun.

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Miley (Guest) Sat 16 Jan 2016 01:36AM UTC

I just want to say how much I respect fan fiction writers because they aren't respected as much as they should be. To all fan fiction writers: keep on doing what you love and what provides an outlet for you!

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Jami Miller (Guest) Sat 16 Jan 2016 05:11AM UTC

ZOMG!!!!! When is the due dates to write fanfiction for international daneorks day????

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Lisa (Guest) Sat 16 Jan 2016 04:19PM UTC

I am going to be celebrating my birthday on the 15th of February. Cause it is my birthday....
I'm from the Netherlands.

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taintednephilim Wed 20 Jan 2016 01:34PM UTC

For the communications contact form, do we put our real name or our pseud?

Last Edited Wed 20 Jan 2016 01:35PM UTC

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