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Welcome to Unsent Letters, an epistolary fic exchange.

Participants will write, and receive, a complete fic of at least 1000 words focusing on in-universe correspondence written by a requested character, either intended for, about, or read by another requested character. At least 500 words must be in a requested epistolary format.

The letters do not actually need to be unsent.

AO3 Collection
Tagset
Rules

Mod contact: DW PM or unsentlettersexchange @ gmail

2026 Schedule

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Gentle reminder: Please disambiguate your relationship nominations (include the fandom in parentheses behind the relationship)! This will help your nominations get approved faster.

If there are duplicates, wandering tags, or other errors in the tagset, please let me know.

Clarifications

Character &/Reader nominations will not be accepted. Please nominate only canonical characters or broadly defined original characters. Feel free to re-nominate as Character &/ Any, or Character &/ Original Character.

Please nominate under Crossover Fandom or they will be rejected:

Inception
Arthur (Inception)/Tommy Conlon
John Blake/Eames (Inception)

Dune Movies
Paul Atreides/Anakin Skywalker

Bullet Train (2022)
Tangerine (Bullet Train)/Sergei Kravinoff (Kraven the Hunter)
Tangerine (Bullet Train)/Tom Ryder (The Fall Guy)

The Fall Guy (2024)
Tom Ryder (The Fall Guy)/Nikolai Kravinoff (Kraven the Hunter)
Tom Ryder (The Fall Guy)/Sergei Kravinoff (Kraven the Hunter)

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Nominations for Unsent Letters 2026 are now open (a little late, my apologies)! The tagset is here.

Nominations will remain open until Feb 25, 11:59PM UTC (countdown).

Please disambiguate all relationship nominations (include the fandom in parentheses after the relationship). This will help your nominations get approved faster!

AO3 Collection | Rules
Mod contact: DW PM or unsentlettersexchange @ gmail

You may nominate 7 fandoms, and 7 relationships in each fandom.
Please disambiguate all nominations: add the fandom in parentheses to the end of the relationship, e.g. Cassian Andor/Jyn Erso (Rogue One).
Please nominate under a specific media type if possible. Nominations under [Fandom] & Related Fandoms or [Fandom] - All Media Types will be accepted, but please note that requests under All Media Types will not match to an offer under a specific media type, and vice versa.
Nomination clarifications will be posted to this community. If a clarification question is unanswered by the end of nominations, I will amend the nomination to the best of my knowledge.
If you spot duplicate nominations, let me know in a comment to this post.

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Unsent Letters 2026 will run according to the schedule below:

2026 Schedule

Nominations: Feb 18 - Feb 25
Sign-ups: Feb 26 - Mar 7
Assignments out by: Mar 9
Assignments due: Apr 25
Collection opens: May 2
Authors revealed: May 9

All deadlines are 11:59pm UTC.

Exchange rules, including the epistolary format categories, can be found here.

See you at the post office!

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Gift creators for Unsent Letters 2025 have been revealed! Thank you to all participants and pinch hitters, and I hope you enjoyed the exchange. The collection will remain open indefinitely for treating.

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We had a bout of inclement weather this year, but neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

The Unsent Letters 2025 collection has been revealed. Thank you, participants and pinch hitters!

For any issues, please DM

lettersmod or email unsentlettersexchange @ gmail. The collection will also remain open indefinitely for treating.

Creators will be revealed May 22, one week from now.

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All required works are in! Special thanks to our post-deadline pinch hitters for going the extra mile to send Priority Mail 📨 to their recipients.

Unsent Letters 2025 will open at 11:59PM UTC today (countdown ).

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As we still have an outstanding pinch hit, reveals will be delayed to May 15th, 11:59PM UTC (6 days from now).

The collection will not reveal until all pinch hits have been claimed and everyone who signed up and turned in a gift also has a gift.

PH 2 - CLAIMED

When claiming, please let me know when you can submit it; otherwise, your deadline will be May 14th, 11:59PM UTC (5 days from now). If you are working on something but cannot claim the pinch hit yet, it would also be helpful if you let me know.

To claim, please comment on this entry (all comments are screened) or e-mail unsentlettersexchange @ gmail with your AO3 name and the pinch hit number or recipient name.

Best of luck to all pinch hitters! The post will arrive soon.

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As we still have two outstanding pinch hits, reveals will be delayed to May 10th, 11:59PM UTC (8 days from now).

The collection will not reveal until all pinch hits have been claimed and everyone who signed up and turned in a gift also has a gift.

PH 2 - CLAIMED
PH 6 - CLAIMED

When claiming, please let me know when you can submit it; otherwise, your deadline will be May 9th, 11:59PM UTC (7 days from now). If you are working on something but cannot claim the pinch hit yet, it would also be helpful if you let me know.

To claim, please comment on this entry (all comments are screened) or e-mail unsentlettersexchange @ gmail with your AO3 name and the pinch hit number or recipient name.

Best of luck to all pinch hitters!

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We have 2 existing post-deadline pinch hits, and one new one:

PH 2 - CLAIMED
PH 6 - CLAIMED
PH 18 - CLAIMED

To claim a pinch hit, please comment on this entry (all comments are screened) or e-mail unsentlettersexchange @ gmail with your AO3 name and the pinch hit number or recipient name.

These pinch hits are due May 2nd, 11:59PM UTC, five days from now.

Best of luck to pinch hitters and creators with extensions!

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The assignment due date has now passed!

There are several creators with extensions. If you have turned in your assignment and do not yet have a gift, your creator may be among them. Please DM me or e-mail unsentlettersexchange @ gmail if you want to know.

Here are the current post-deadline pinch hits:

PH 2 - CLAIMED
PH 6 - CLAIMED
PH 13 - CLAIMED
PH 14 - CLAIMED
PH 15 - CLAIMED
PH 16 - CLAIMED
PH 17 - CLAIMED

To claim a pinch hit, please comment on this entry (all comments are screened) or e-mail unsentlettersexchange @ gmail with your AO3 name and the pinch hit number or recipient name.

These pinch hits are due May 2nd, 11:59PM UTC, six days from now.

Best of luck to pinch hitters and creators with extensions!

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The mail carrier will arrive for pickup in just under 24 hours, at April 26, 11:59PM UTC (countdown)! Please drop your correspondence in the mailbox by then.

Please ensure that your work:

is posted, not saved as a draft

is for a fandom, relationship and epistolary type your recipient requested

does not contain any of your recipient's DNWs

is at least 1000 words, of which at least 500 are of the requested epistolary type

There are also 4 open pinch hits here.

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Assignments are due in a little under 2 weeks, on 26th April 11:59PM UTC.

We have 4 existing pinch hits and 2 new ones:

PH 1 - CLAIMED
PH 2 - CLAIMED
PH 5 - CLAIMED
PH 6 - CLAIMED
PH 11 - CLAIMED
PH 12 - CLAIMED
These pinch hits are due April 30, 11:59PM UTC, 4 days after the assignment due date.

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Here are the initial pinch hits:

PH 1 - CLAIMED
PH 2 - CLAIMED

PH 3 - CLAIMED

PH 4 - CLAIMED

PH 5 - CLAIMED

PH 6 - CLAIMED

PH 7 - CLAIMED

PH 8 - CLAIMED

PH 9 - CLAIMED

PH 10 - CLAIMED

To claim a pinch hit, please comment on this entry (all comments are screened) or e-mail unsentlettersexchange @ gmail with your AO3 name and the pinch hit number or recipient name.

These pinch hits are also due April 26, 11:59PM UTC.

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Assignments have been sent out!

If you have questions about your assignment or for your recipient, please contact lettersmod by DM or e-mail unsentlettersexchange @ gmail.
You can write for any request in your assignment, which does not need to be the request you matched on.
Assignments are due April 26, 11:59PM UTC (countdown), just under 7 weeks from now.

Pinch hits will be posted later today, about 12 hours from now.

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Matching has been run, and there were two unmatchable sign-ups. Please check your e-mail if your username begins with W or Z!

Matching will be re-run and assignments sent out once the participants have responded or on March 10th 11:59pm UTC, whichever is sooner.

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Unsent Letters signups will close a little under a day from now, at March 8th, 11:59PM UTC (countdown).

This is a good time to update any WIP requests, link your Dear Writer letters, or check that you are matchable on offers. All requests are visible at the Requests Summary page, or at the app.

Best of luck!

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Tag Set | Signup Form

You may request 3-10 fandoms and offer 3-10 fandoms, with at least 1 relationship and 1 epistolary type in each request and offer.
Requesting or offering the same fandom more than once is fine, as long as your overall signup meets the 3 unique fandom requests/3 unique fandom offers requirement.

There is a known AO3 bug where typing into the box does not make the relationship show up in the dropdown. In that case, please copy and paste the relationship from the tagset, exactly as it appears there; this should save. If you still encounter issues, please let me know in a comment or by email or PM, and I can manually add it to your sign-up after sign-ups close.

Signups will be open until Mar 8, 11:59PM UTC (countdown).

Some notes on DNWs:

If you routinely DNW 1st or 2nd person POV, please consider waiving or clarifying the DNW (e.g. 'DNW 1st/2nd POV when outside of epistolary sections') as epistolary fic frequently uses these POVs.
Please ensure your DNWs do not conflict with your signup. For instance, do not DNW a relationship or epistolary category you request.
If you receive an assignment where the recipient's DNWs contradict the signup, the signup takes priority. If the DNW is the only relationship or epistolary category you matched on, please contact me for a new assignment.

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Nominations are closed! Sign-ups will open today (Feb 27), 11:59PM UTC. If you spot any errors in the tagset, please let me know.

Clarifications

Wind Breaker (Manga)
Tsubakino "Tsubaki" Tasuku & Everyone (Wind Breaker Manga)

Nominator, would you be OK with Tsubakino "Tsubaki" Tasuku & Any?

Bridgerton (TV)
Francesca Bridgerton/Michael Stirling (Bridgerton)

Michael Stirling seems to be a character from the books. Did you mean Michaela Stirling, or is this a book fandom nomination? If you don't respond, I'll change this to Francesca Bridgerton/Michaela Stirling (Bridgerton).

Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis: I've historically combined these as Stargate - All Media Types due to the significant overlap of the cast. The fandoms were nominated completely separately this round, so I left them separate. If you'd like to pool them under the All Media Types tag as we've done in prior rounds, let me know.

Changelog

Creator's Choice of Fandom
Male Character/Male Character (CCoF)

Apologies, but Creator's Choice of Fandom is not accepted in this round of the exchange.

Live A Live (Video Game)
Oersted (Live a Live) & Everyone -> Oersted & Any (Live a Live)

The Terror (TV 2018)
Harry D. S. Goodsir/Other(s) -> Harry D. S. Goodsir/Any

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Gentle reminder: Please disambiguate your relationship nominations (include the fandom in parentheses behind the relationship)! This will help your nominations get approved faster.

If there are duplicates, wandering tags, or other errors in the tagset, please let me know.

Clarifications

Live A Live (Video Game)
Oersted (Live a Live) & Everyone

Nominator, would you be OK with Oersted & Any?

The Doomsday Books - K. J. Charles
Lord Corvin (Band Sinister)/Luke Doomsday

This seems to be a crossover pairing. Does Lord Corvin also appear in the Doomsday books? Otherwise, I'll move this to Crossover Fandom.

The Terror (TV 2018)
Harry D. S. Goodsir/Other(s)

In The Terror, is 'Others' a known group with enumerable members? Otherwise, I'll accept as Harry D. S. Goodsir/Any.

Changelog

Captain Marvel (2019)
Carol Danvers/Maria Rambeau

Accepted under Marvel Cinematic Universe

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Gentle reminder: Please disambiguate your relationship nominations (include the fandom in parentheses behind the relationship)! This will help your nominations get approved faster.

If there are duplicates, wandering tags, or other errors in the tagset, please let me know.

Clarifications

Star Trek: Picard
Raffi Musiker (ST: Picard)/B’Elanna Torres (ST:Voyager)
Seven of Nine (ST: Picard)/B’Elanna Torres (ST: Voyager)

These seem to be crossover pairings. Do the Voyager characters also appear in Picard? Otherwise, I'll move these to Crossover Fandom.

Crossover Fandom
Clint Barton/Roy Harper
Frank Castle/Jason Todd
Frank Castle/Natasha Romanov (Marvel)/Jason Todd
Natasha Romanov (Marvel)/Jason Todd
Phil Coulson/Jim Gordon (DCU)
Roy Harper/Natasha Romanov (Marvel)/Jason Todd

Please indicate the source material name of all characters in the crossover in parentheses after their name, thank you!

Live A Live (Video Game)
Oersted (Live a Live) & Everyone

Nominator, would you be OK with Oersted & Any?

Changelog

Band Sinister - K. J. Charles
Any member(s) of the Murder (Band Sinister) -> Any member(s) of the Murder & Any member(s) of the Murder (Band Sinister)

X-Men (Original Timeline Movies)
Xavier Institute Students (X-Men) -> Any Xavier Institute Student & Any Xavier Institute Student (X-Men OTM)

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Unsent Letters: An Epistolary Exchange

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2026 Schedule

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Nominations Open!

Unsent Letters 2026

2026 Schedule

Creator Reveals

The Post Has Arrived

On Track for Reveals Today

Reveals Delayed (again)

Reveals Delayed

Post-Deadline Pinch Hits #2, #6; New Pinch Hit #18

Assignment Due Date Has Passed; Post-Deadline Pinch Hits

Assignments Due Tomorrow

Pinch Hits #1, 2, 5, 6; New Pinch Hits #11, 12

Initial Pinch Hits #1-10

Assignments Sent

Signups Closed

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Nominations Closed; Final Clarifications and Changelog

Nominations Clarification and Changelog 2

Nominations Clarification and Changelog 1

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