One of the buzziest internet stories of the week sounds like a digital-age Mad Libs: Fan fiction website AO3 was taken down by a hacktivist group in a DDoS attack. As they say, sometimes truth is ...

The popular fanfiction site was targeted by a group claiming to be a part of Anonymous, but is likely a Russian-backed extortionist group. reading time 2 minutes The Archive of Our Own—the largest ...

Editor’s Note: This article is purely satirical and fictitious. All attributions in this article are not genuine, and this story should be read in the context of pure entertainment only. Three major ...

The University of Iowa is renowned for its excellent writing program, churning out countless award-winning novelists, nonfiction authors, and playwrights from the writers’ workshop. But fan fiction ...

With the dawn of a new year, the whole world is looking back on the trends of 2024. For any avid readers of fan fiction, that means reflecting on what fandom culture looked like throughout the year, ...

The novel coronavirus has woven its way into nearly every facet of our online and offline lives, and that includes fan fiction. Works that feature quarantine, social distancing, or the virus itself ...

What started as Harry Potter fan fiction – and a particularly dark one at that – is now becoming a big-budget Hollywood movie, thanks to a jaw-dropping seven-figure deal.

Star Trek fanfiction is nothing new. Since the original series began airing, aspiring and often talented writers of all ages began contributing their works to fanzines, which were originally printed ...

Romance novels do big business for the publishing industry, and there’s a new source for those books going mainstream. As Elizabeth Held wrote in Vulture, publishing houses are looking to the world of ...