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Amnesia Flash is a flash exchange where participants exchange fanfiction based on amnesia tropes and adjacent themes. Assignments are a minimum 300 word completed piece of fanfiction featuring a requested fandom and ship.

As a flash exchange, gifts are not guaranteed, but pinch hits will be posted in the Discord servers the mods run around in.

July/August 2026 Schedule (times in EDT):
Nominations/Sign-ups Open: July 24
Nominations/Sign-ups Close/Assignments Out: July 27th, 11:59 PM
Works due/Works Revealed: August 3rd, 11:59 PM
Creators revealed: August 10th, 11:59 PM

Nominations:

- Nominations will run concurrently with sign-ups.
- You may nominate 10 fandoms and 10 relationships per fandom.
- You may specify an amnesiac in your nominated tag OR allow your creator to choose.
- This exchange allows platonic (&), romantic/sexual (/), and solo character nominations. Solo nominations should specify solo: before the nomination (ie Solo: Percy Jackson (PJO Books)
- Original Work, Creator’s Choice of Fandom, and RPF nominations are allowed. The mod reserves the right to reject nominations for any reason.
- Up to five optional freeform tags may be nominated if they fit the theme of the exchange. Freeforms exist for inspiration purposes and will not be matched on.

Sign-Ups:

Requests
- You may request 1-10 fandoms and 1-20 relationships per fandom.
-Up to 20 freeform tags may be included in your request as inspiration for your creator. Freeform tags will not be matched on and are optional for the creator to include.
- Please include any DNWs (Do Not Wants) in your requests.
- Signups with no matchable requests will go to pinch hit.

Offers
- You may offer 1-10 fandoms and 1-20 relationships per fandom; please try to be matchable.
- Signups with no matchable offers will be deleted at the end of signups.

Assignments

- Participants must create a completed piece of fanfiction with at least 300 words featuring amnesia or a related trope.
- Freeforms may be included in your assignment as inspiration, including these tags is optional.
- Your work must feature one fandom and relationship from one of your recipient’s requests, and respect any DNWs.

Posting

- Please post your work to this collection by either pressing “fulfill” on your assignments page or “Post to Collection” on this page.
- This exchange will have a mandatory anon period after work reveals. Please refrain from talking about your assignment in public or posting it anywhere besides this AO3 collection until this anon period is over.
- Treats are allowed and encouraged. Treats have no minimum but must respect DNWs.

You must be 18 or over to participate in this exchange.