October, is right around the corner! You know what that means: Kinktober, Whumptober, Flufftober, all the -tobers! 

Like last couple of years we are organizing a writing challenge for the month of October! We will have a themed-exchange for each week of the month in a different category. Please read this post in its entirety for details!

For this challenge, **write a fic in any of the following categories whump, fluff,  kink, or OC!**. You may choose your own prompt or ask for me to give you one. Specify which category you are writing for and I'll randomly generate you a tag to use. If you don’t want to pick a category and want something random, let me know. Even if you don't request a prompt, please comment to let us know you’re participating.

**You can write for as many or as few themes as you want**

**You may request one prompt change**

**No word count limit**

**When we get closer to October, we will have a collection to post the fics to.** 

We will be having weekly Review exchanges throughout the month. 

**The schedule is currently:**

October 3rd Whump RE 

October 10th Fluff RE 

October 17th Kink RE 

October 24th OC RE 

So be sure to have your fics done by your respective exchange. You are welcome to write multiple fics/request a prompt for each. You are welcome to enter your fic in multiple -tober exchanges if it qualifies for multiple categories.

If you are done before the deadline, you may post to the collection anytime! However we do recommend that you post your fic/fics in October since it's an October challenge. We also recommend to hold off on entering your fic/fics in too many REs before the challenge REs, so people don’t read them until then. But ultimately, it's all up to you. The point of this is to be a relaxed sort of challenge

Have fun and request prompts, sign up, or ask any questions below.

Also, when you post your fic, please specify somewhere if it's for the whump, kink, fluff, or OC category(like in the A/N) and, if you want to help make our tag canon on ao3, tag r/FanfictionExchange!

-Toberfest 2026 🦇🍂💀