Happy Halloween Maniacs

The result of this "first exam" are in and I'm really surprised of how it turned out.

I rarely saw a workshop with such polarising results.

First place for what I can only call a victory by landslide, we have

The Power of the Pencil by Rjjt456 and WriterAngel

Second place goes to the excellent

Back to College by Robolord

Third goes to the short and to the point

Final Exams and New Beginnings by Phantomrenegade

Fourth place to a bit of a classic take with

In a Town Outside a City by Doug

Fifth is the opening of what would hopefully be a long story

The Almond Queen by Barrister Cabbage

Last, but not least, the super-short and cruel

Syncopa's Revenge by NeodymeChrome

See you all next workshop and keep writing.

School is in session... and so is the pool.

It's time to cast your votes for your favorite story in the Spring 2023 workshop.

The pool will run for two weeks, from October 16th to October 30th 2023 at 23.59 GMT.

This time, each one of you can cast two votes.

The order won't matter, but you have to cast all of them, no more no less.

Please, leave any comment, compliment and feedback under the individual stories or in the forum. Meanwhile the votes goes down here.

See you on the other side.

It’s September, and summer is over.

Whether you are a normal student, teacher, or someone hiding a secret, it’s time to…

Go Back to School!

This workshop is for stories involving a (high-)school or college setting where a superpowered girl/woman is involved. Maybe one of the teachers are secretly the local savior of the city? Perhaps one of the students are more than just a regular exchange student that has come to learn? Or maybe someone ends up gaining superpowers!

In any case, here are the usual rules:

1. All characters involved are 18 or above (especially of things get spicy).
2. You can submit more than one story for this workshop. All stories should be originally written for this workshop, or not having been posted anywhere else before the start of this workshop.
3. There is no hard word limit, but we encourage for all stories to be at least 1.000 words long.
4. The Admin team have full discretion to veto a story for any reason (though mostly if a story doesn’t fit the theme of the workshop).

The final assignments are due for October 13th 2023, don't be late.

The time is up and we have pooled the votes. so it's time to reveal the winner and (for the first time) the names of the writers.

First place goes to...

Knowledge is Power by BW (or Brad328)

In second and third place we have Rjjjt456 with two stories currently separated by just one vote.

Dark Desires by Rjjt456 and Between Darkness and Light by Rjjt456

Fourth place goes to our veteran DKC with

A Conscius Choice by DKC

Fifth place is your truly, who really should have known better

The Apprentice by Woodclaw

Finally, we have

The Greatest Treasure by loamlife

See you all next workshop and keep writing.

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The stories are here.

The librarians are furious.

It's time to cast your votes for your favorite story in the Spring 2023 workshop.

The pool will run for two weeks, from April 3rd to April 16th 2023 at 23.59 GMT.

This time, each one of you can cast two votes.

The order won't matter, but you have to cast all of them, no more no less.

Please, leave any comment, compliment and feedback under the individual stories or in the forum. Meanwhile the votes goes down here.

See you on the other side.

If knowledge is power... why in hell did you think it was a good idea to piss of a Librarian?
It doesn't matter, because now you have to deal with a

Librarian's Outrage

And the only way to make things right is to write like there is no tomorrow.

So, how did it come to this? Is the librarian super? Did a super piss her off? What lead to the super ending up in front of a furious librarian?

All these questions can help guide you through this workshop!

Here are the rules:

1. This workshop has a 2K word limit. It’s fine if it goes a little above, but try and stay within the 2K limit.
2. More than one entry per person is allowed, but try to be reasonable with the amount.
3. The story should contain at least one angry librarian. Everything else is up to you!
4. The admin team/Librarian can veto a story at their discretion if it doesn’t follow the general rules, or doesn’t adhere to the spirit of the site/workshop.
5. The deadline is at March 31st 2023 at 23.59 GMT. As usual, the entries will go online on the following Sunday (April 2nd).

The votes are in, the counting is over and, even after considering the idea of pooling together the votes for Zuperfriends 1 and 2, we have a definite winner:

In Dreams by DKC

Congratulations to get another notch into your belt.

As a personal note, I'm really happy that this pretty unusual workshop brought in a few new talents.

Happy writing to you all.

The stories are here.

The cold is ever bitter (at least here).

It's time to cast your votes for your favorite story in the Autumn 2022 workshop.

The pool will run for two weeks, from November 5th to November 19th 2022 at 23.59 GMT.

Thsi time, each one of you can cast two votes.

The order won't matter, but you have to cast all of them, no more no less.

Please, leave any comment, compliment and feedback under the individual stories or in the forum. Meanwhile the votes goes down here.

See you on the other side.

Autumn is coming and it’s getting darker outside.

For ages, we have huddled together and told stories of the fantastic.

Of the arcane.

Of practitioners and guardians of magic.

Now... this power of our imagination is free!

Welcome to the Magic Unleashed - Ubergirl Style workshop.

You can craft any story.

It doesn't matter if your characters are practitioner of magic, champions empowered by the arcane or villains abusing it for their own gain. As long as it's magic everything is fair game.

• Each entry MUST work around the theme.
• No entry can be longer than 10,000 words (give or take a few).
• All characters must be over the age of 18.
• SWM reserves the right to withhold and/or disqualify submitted entries based on their sole discretion of the content.
• Entries must be received no later than October 30th, 2022 at 11:59 pm GMT.
• Once submitted, entries will be voted on by the SWM user via an online poll.

The votes are officially in and the winner of the Spring 2022 Workshop (with pretty significant margin) is

Building Beaches by Robo

Congratulations, you've won the prize of a free render from... well... Robo.

Huh.

We'll let Robo handle how they are going to sort this one out.

(I'd like to remind you all that Robo has a page on DeviantArt, one on Patreon and one on Gumroad)

Meanwhile, if anyone has an idea for another workshop, you can contact Woodclaw and Rjjt via private message or drop a line on the Discord Server.