Accolades

This page contains wins and other accolades from challenges big and small.

These challenges are a great form of motivation and support for worldbuilders of all levels. If you want to join in, check out the official challenges page and join the Discord for unofficial, community-run challenges.

Nominee
Most Beautiful World 2024
Best World 2025
Best Timeline 2026

Winner
Best World 2026

They have just such a fantastic mind for diplomacy, plots, intrigue, with the writing skill to hint at the complexities with just the right balance of hard information and graceful suggestion...If you're in the slightest bit into scifi, it's pretty mandatory to follow wow that's a lot of stars.

— Alan Byers, Let the New Year In

Summer Camp

Prompt Winners

It was written in a way that helped you understand how it would be used in the storytelling itself. It was concise, it was to-the-point. I totally got why it was there, what it was, how I could use this to tell a great story.

— Janet Forbes, SC2023 Awards Ceremony

A powerful organization.
Sponsored by Dimitris Romeo Havlidis and Janet Forbes

Shortlists

A historical figure who is still venerated today.
Sponsored by Polina "Line" Arteev

A species known for its mischievous personality.
Sponsored by Jordan Beasley

A letter sent in secret by a well-known person.
Sponsored by Emily Armstrong

A degenerative disease
Sponsored by spleen

A tumultuous region prone to natural disasters
Sponsored by Polina "Line" Arteev

Reading Challenge Features

• Astronius Collective Teacher
• Battle for Talmar
• Hope
• How are you still alive 2
• How the Wire Rat Got its Name
• Mother of the Stars 2
• Niris
• Norah Everdin
• Phoenix
• Phoenix Nuggets 3
• The Scream
• Urahl
• Xerosian Solar Eclipse
• Feral
• Metadimensional Extraversion Syndrome 4
• Metadimensional Space
• Rada 2

I'm amazed that this article is a summercamp article, honestly; the narrative is brutal and complete in its telling.

— Han on Rada, Summer Camp 2024: Reading Challenge

WorldEmber

Winners

Conflict template
Sponsored by Dimitris Romeo Havlidis

It was so effing good, I could not not give the prize. It was small(ish), to the point, very clear, and very well written.

— Dimitris Romeo Havlidis, WE2025 Awards Ceremony

Shortlists

Settlement template
Sponsored by

Reading Challenge Features

• Burrowbugs 5
• Commercial District
• Control 2
• Cryptix 2
• Galendra
• Gamma Radiation
• Glowcore 4
• Psionic Discipline Personality Quiz!
• Research Base
• Space Travel
• Gemini Station 2
• Devil in the Fog
• Little Tow
• Hoverboard Relay
• Stardust 2
• Great Mother 3
• Jump Gates
• Legion Incursion 2
• The Lost Jump Gate 2
• Psionic Quarantine Zones
• VI Culture 2

I want to write like this. The characters are so real, the scenery so clear--even the environment feels alive.

— The Big G on Stardust, 2025: Inching Closer to My Goals

Other Official

2023 Treasured Companions

A companion or friend of a major character who also had a big influence on the world.
Shortlisted

Featured Articles

Featured April 7, 2025

The writing is amazing, the CSS is stunning, and the name is so memorable.

— Mochi, Mochi's SC23 Reading Challenge

Unofficial

2023 Under the Sea

First Place
Sponsored by Annie Stein and Qurilion

I love travelling cities, but what Rin does with the joining blew me away. A masterful blend of biology and festivals comes together to make some really, really, good worldbuilding.

— Annie Stein, Winners of the Under the Sea Challenge

2024 Magic March

Winner
Sponsored by Icarus Crow

2024 Spring Improvement

Best Article
Sponsored by Chrispy_0