"ficathon" meaning in English

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          "text": "General fan fiction challenges and “ficathons” are regularly sponsored by many sites, including those named above.",
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          "ref": "2010, Roz Kaveney, “Gen, Slash, OT3s, and Crossover – The Varieties of Fan Fiction”, in Stacey Abbott, editor, The Cult TV Book, I. B. Tauris & Co., page 244",
          "text": "Much fanfiction is written to commission – people will ask for a particular sort of story, or for erotic fiction featuring a particular partnership, often as an online birthday present – or in exchange for ficathon challenges where likely contributors post cues for a story they would like to see and scan the challenges for something they would enjoy writing.",
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          "text": "Yet as early as March 2007, when the show was still in its second season, a Livejournal community, spn_gaiman, was created to promote a Supernatural/Neil Gaiman crossover “ficathon” as well as to archive fiction that had already been written by fans earlier in 2006.",
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