Archive of Our Own has always been more than the hottest fanfiction destination on the internet. In 2007, after years of struggling with fragmentation, lack of preservation, and legal threats, a group ...

Actors Emma Watson (L) Maggie Smith (M) and Daniel Radcliffe (R) on the set of the film "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix." Harry Potter is one of the most popular subjects of fanfiction. The ...

Fanfic's stigma seems to be receding: Some fan writers have snagged lucrative contracts, either for original works or for books based on older literary classics not protected by copyright. At least ...

How long will AO3 be down? Is AO3 shutting down? This post answers your questions and suggests ArchiveOfOurOwn alternatives too. If you are wondering what happened to the ArchiveOfOurOwn website, no, ...

Buckle up babes, we’re all in tonight. In a ridiculous moment of hubris a few weeks ago, I posted on Twitter that I was debating between writing fanfic and doing work while on a plane home from a work ...

The owner of AdultFanFiction.net doesn’t actually read fanfiction. Apollo, the owner and head moderator of the longstanding literary archive, has very little time for reading these days. “I'm a very ...

Over the past two weeks, io9 has been running new installments of Rob Bricken’s Fan Fiction Friday column, which he brought over from his previous blog, Topless Robot. It’s a column where Rob finds a ...