2026 Schedule and Important Links.

[casemod]

caseficexchange is a fanwork exchange focusing on investigations. These can be solving murders, retrieving stolen items, finding missing people, missions and solving mysteries. As long as it centres on the requested characters mainly interacting with an investigation, it fits with the exchange.

We have a minimum of 3,000 words (or work equivalent) and allow fic, comics, and podfic. You must have an AO3 account and be 18+ to participate.

2026 Schedule

✓ Nominations: Friday 16 January to Friday 23 Saturday 24 January [ In your timezone + Countdown ]
✓ Sign-ups: Sunday 25 January to Friday 30 January Sunday 1 February [ In your timezone + Countdown ]
✓ Assignments out: Monday 2 February
✓ Works due: Friday 1 May [ In your timezone + Countdown ]
✓ Extension deadline: Friday 15 May [ In your timezone + Countdown ]
✓ Deadline to add fandoms for non-guarantees*: Friday 15 May [ In your timezone + Countdown ]
Post-deadline pinch hits due (round 1): 5 June [ In your timezone + Countdown ]
Post-deadline pinch hits due (round 2): 26 June [ In your timezone + Countdown ]
Collection reveals: Friday 12 June Friday 3 July
Creator reveals: Friday 26 June Friday 17 July

The exchange runs on EDT/EST time. All deadlines are 11:59pm EDT/EST.

*Participants who choose to sign up with less than 3 unique fandoms (and who are pinch hits) have until this deadline to add additional fandoms to their request.

Important links

Rules and Guidelines | AO3 Collection | Tagset | AO3 app | Tips on creating a case-centric work | Promote your canon | Find a beta | Treat a pinch hitter

Email: gumshoeagency@gmail.com with your AO3 username.

Current Phase

We're polishing our final works and working hard to get our active pinch hits picked up!

But no matter what we're doing, we're all looking like this on the inside: