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silwritersguild2025-12-16 12:48 am
We are in a season of celebration! Many of our members celebrate holidays during the month of December. For some of us, it is the season when darkness begins to again give way to light. For our group, we spent the last year celebrating our 20th birthday, and at the end of the month, many of us will welcome a new year and the sense of renewal that brings.
We will be hosting a live reading on our Discord server around the theme of celebrations. The reading will be held on Sunday, December 28, at noon Eastern Time. (Find this time in my timezone.)
Anyone is invited to read. If you want to be on the event program, you can sign up here. Fanworks on the program will be linked so that attendees can follow along, read your full fanwork if you are presenting just an excerpt, and leave comments. There will also be an open mic block at the end of the program that is open to anyone who wants to read.
We also welcome people to attend who just want to listen.
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Admin Post: Great Beleriand Bake-Off PLUS! Instadrabbling
Do you want to create a challenge response for the Great Beleriand Bake-Off challenge but haven't gotten around to it yet? Are you off for the holidays and looking to hang out with some fellow fan-creators? Do you just love instadrabbling or need something to do on a Sunday? Himring and Dawn will be hosting the Great Beleriand Bake-Off PLUS! instadrabbling session this coming Sunday, December 21, at noon Eastern Time (find this in my timezone). They will be featuring prompts from the current challenge and more, aimed at non-bakers (though twisting the prompts back to a baking-related prompt is welcome too!)
We hope you can join us, whether you want to write, sketch, or just hang out and enjoy fanworks and conversation!
What is instadrabbling? Instadrabbling is a long-standing community activity in the Tolkien fanfiction fandom. A group of friends gets together on chat, someone throws out a prompt or four, and everyone writes a drabble (or whatever comes to mind). We share our creations in the server and admire each other's work. Instadrabbling is low-pressure and casual, and all are encouraged to participate to whatever degree they are comfortable. Instadrabbling responses shared on our server can be about any aspect of Tolkien's legendarium, not just Silmworks.
When we instadrabble, we meet on the #instadrabbling channel on our Discord server. Discord invites can be requested at any time from the moderators. All are welcome to join the Discord, whether you want to instadrabble with us or not!
swg_archive_feed) wrote2025-12-15 11:47 amswg_archive_feed) wrote2025-12-15 01:57 amdawn_felagund) wrote in silwritersguild2025-12-14 06:06 pm
This is the last call for participants in the 2025 Tolkien Fanfiction Survey! We will close the survey on January 1. Signal boosts on other Tolkien communities, if appropriate, are much appreciated.
Do you read or write fanfiction based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien or a Tolkien media adaptation like the film trilogies or Rings of Power series? If so, we'd love to hear from you!
The Tolkien Fanfiction Survey first ran in 2015 and has run every five years since. It is run by Dawn "Felagund" Walls-Thumma, an independent scholar, and Maria K. Alberto, an assistant professor at Richland Community College. Both of us are also readers and writers of fanfiction ourselves. We are excited to introduce the third edition, which will give us insight into how the fandom has changed across the last decade!
If you choose to participate, we will collect basic demographic information and ask you about your beliefs and habits regarding reading and/or writing Tolkien-based fanfiction. Most questions are multiple choice, but there is also a space on each page where you can elaborate on any of your answers if you want to share more information with us. You can skip any question you don't want to answer and quit the survey at any time.
The survey will take about 20-30 minutes to complete.
Who can participate?
Participants must be 18 years or older.
Click here to start the Tolkien Fanfiction Survey!
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