Silmarillion Writers' Guild

Team storytelling is exactly what it sounds like. Get together with a friend or four (i.e., teams of 2-5 people), and during the week of April 27, you will collaborate to make a fanwork together. On the 27th, we will send you four “ingredients” to include in your fanwork. Otherwise, anything Tolkien-based is fair game! Also, do not get hung up on the “storytelling” part of the title; any and all types of fanworks are welcome, and your response does not have to be a story or even include any writing at all!

In short, we hope that people will make things together that are all kinds of creative, weird, and wonderful.

Want to try it but don’t have a team? Fill out the form and check the box that you need a team, and we will try to match you up!

On May 3, we will have a reveal party on our Discord to unveil the fanworks created for this challenge. Attending the reveal party is completely optional! I will contact each team the week of the event to see 1) if your team wants to attend and 2) to work out logistics, like if you want your response read at the party but don’t want to read it yourself. But if you’re not interested in the reveal party (or if your team wants to take more time than the week before the party), we hope you will still join us!

More information on Team Storytelling, including the sign-up form, is available on our website. The last day to sign up is Sunday, April 26.

(And this is the last new event announcement for a while! By necessity, they had to be front-loaded--I promise we’ve done our best to space them out! :D)