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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Hugo Awards are some of the most important prizes in genre fiction, including science fiction and fantasy. Among past winners we see Ursula K. Le Guin, Isaac Asimov, Neil Gaiman, and most recently ...