Holly Poly 2025 Schedule

[purpleyin]

Holly Poly is, as the name implies, an exchange for polyamorous relationships. OT3s, OT4s, OT6s, orgies, open relationships, sedoretus, whatever strikes your fancy, as long as it involves three or more entities.

Participants are able to offer and request fanart, fanfiction, fanvids, podfic, fanmixes, gifsets, or aesthetics/moodboards.

Schedule

All times are 11:00am UTC, save for golive which will depend on when final pinch hits are posted.

20-26 October: Pre-nominations (Period to transfer nominations from the last two year’s tagsets into this tagset)
26 October-08 November: Nominations 
08-14 November: Nominations clean up 
14-26 November: Sign-ups - sign-up form + countdown timer link + sign-up info
30 November: Assignments out by this date
18 January: Default deadline - countdown timer link
25 January: Fanworks are due - countdown timer link
01 February: The archive goes live (as soon as everyone has a gift)
08 February: Creators revealed

You can read the updated rules over here.

We understand that life gets in the way sometimes. If you realize you will not be able to finish your assignment, please default as soon as possible.

For extensions, 48 hours is the maximum that will be granted. You're free to still finish your assignment if you need more than 48 hours; however, if you ask for a longer extension or you don't post your fanwork by the extension deadline, then the request will be sent out as a pinch hit. There will be no exceptions to this rule.

Please note that if you defaulted two years in a row, defaulted after the default deadline and didn't write a treat afterwards, didn't submit your work by the due date without any warning, submitted an unfinished work, or deleted your already-completed assignment, you're banned from participating in this year's Holly Poly.

The FAQs for this year's exchange have been posted. Please read over it carefully as some things have changed from past years. Please let us know if anything is unclear. And, as always, leave a comment below if you have any questions.

Collection: https://ao3.org/collections/holly_poly_2025
Tag Set: https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/25541
Tumblr: https://holly-poly.tumblr.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/holly_poly_ex
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/holly-poly.bsky.social
Google Groups - Holly Poly Updates: https://groups.google.com/g/holly-poly-updates
Google Groups - Holly Poly Pinchhits: https://groups.google.com/g/holly-poly-pinchhits

Comments

[avandrathemarysueslayer]

Hi! I saw sign ups become closed. Is it an error, or did I miss the window to sign up? No problem in either case, I just wanted to know if it's still possible to sign up :) Thank you for the hard work in putting this exchange together!

[purpleyin]

We were a bit late opening them since we still had nominations from the clarifications post to process before we did. They've just opened now so you've not missed them