We're very excited to announce the winners of Summer Camp 2026! Congratulations to EVERYONE who participated—building up your world is an amazing prize in itself!
Winners list
Community award winners
The four community award winners will get a World Anvil mug as their prize!
- Most helpful camper: Polina "Line" Arteev
- Most improved: E.G Bear
- Human of the Match: Keon Croucher
Prompt winners
All 32 themed prompts had a sponsor, who chose their favorite entry to the prompt among all the Competitors who submitted to it. These are their picks and the prizes they'll get!
| Prompt | Winner | Article | Prize | Sponsor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A celebrity loved by all | Emmett Marsh | Tasar | $100 USD giftcard to the World Anvil Store | World Anvil Team (in memory of Gorkam Worka) |
| A tradition that celebrates love | Keon Croucher | Sharing Spirits | Winner's choice between a World Anvil annual Master subscription or a custom CSS theme | Imagica |
| An item associated with a common hobby | Marjorie Ariel | spinnerets | A Lapham's Quarterly box set | Travakh |
| A famous love story | Imagica | Orpheus' Last Song | A dice set and a $50 USD HeroForge gift certificate | Chris L |
| A natural phenomenon associated with fertility | Imagica | The Bloom | $100 USD gift card for Czepeku maps or scenes | Tlcassis Polgara | Arrhynsia | Eryia | Compendium |
| A faction that employs questionable methods for the love of their people | SanctifiedSavage | Order of the Custodians | Editing services for 5 articles | Lady Wynter |
| A job many children aspire to | Alikzander Wulfe | Way-singer | Advanced Worldbuilding Course | Jaime Buckley |
| The language of love in a culture of your world | Marjorie Ariel | Kivi Tsämä | How to Create a Language: The Conlang Guide by Jessie Peterson and The Art of Language Invention by David J. Peterson | Valen's Expeditions |
| A city that grew out of the ashes of a ruin | Polina "Line" Arteev | Ausper | Winners choice between Story Engine Deck, Deck of Worlds, or Lore Master's Deck | Owen (Vibrant Worlds) |
| A fruit that grows in an unlikely environment | Stormbril | Oxyfruit | Commissioned artwork for a full-colour custom creature design | Mochi |
| A war that resulted in the expansion of a territory | Nulcheck | Ardenfell Conquest | $100 USD giftcard to the World Anvil Store | Dimitris Romeo Havlidis |
| Write about the development of a vehicle | Blue Fairy 74 | Ynai Incubation Stations Types 1.0 to 3.0 | $100 USD gift card for an online store, including the World Anvil shop, Paizo, Kobold Press, HeroForge, and many more. | Tillerz |
| A disease that quickly becomes an epidemic | RiverFang | Fire Blight | $50 USD gift card to Goodman games for dice or roleplaying games. | Alex |
| A prized fabric based on a plant fibre | Blue Fairy 74 | Resonance-Damask | Pen and Paper Tea and metal dice set chosen by the winner | Leijona |
| A profession that helps others develop | Imagica | Imaginary Friend | Winner's choice of a Steam or Xbox videogame | Qurilion |
| A building that keeps being expanded over time | SanctifiedSavage | Kasbiel's House | $30 USD giftcard to the World Anvil Store | World Anvil Team |
| A religion that no longer exists | Demongrey | Didn't you all kill yourselves? | Winners choice between a 1-year Grandmaster subscription or a $100 World Anvil gift card. | Kwyn Marie |
| A myth that inspired modern funerary traditions | GreyTailZA | The Bonefather's Lesson | Handmade crochet Kraken in colours of winner’s choice | LollyBeau |
| An ancient technology lost to time | 13pastmidnight | Great Drill of Osgradd | A fabulous scarf of holding | Rachel Naylor |
| A subculture seen as outdated by modern generations | Nightone | Vork-Falûkga - Schwarzbartzwerge | Winner’s choice between a real warhammer or a surprise prize themed to the winner's world | Absinthe |
| A military unit known for its incompetence | The Big G | Duck Chasers | Surprise GenCon & Fan Roll dice bundle | Haly, the Moonlight Bard |
| A controversial will that changed the course of history | drunkenpanda951 | The Will of Percival the Bard | Lifetime subscription to her Introductory Intern Ko-Fi tier. | Lexi Con (WordiGirl) |
| A collector of "lost" things | Tim Day (Ononomad) | Witega | $100 USD giftcard to the World Anvil Store | Janet Forbes |
| An abandoned building shrouded in mystery | Deleyna Marr | North Park Mall | Summer Camp towel | Secondhand |
| A species with an intriguing symbiotic relationship | Kwyn Marie | Dragon Companionship | One-month subscription to my Writer's Best Friend text-based writer support service | Jessica Huckabay |
| An influential family or dynasty | Diane Morrison | The Woodlander Royal Family | Calligraphy set with wax seal | Brianna Siobhan Healey |
| A celebration involving non-blood family | Evilyn Carnate | The Feast of the Found | Digital copy of Teatime Adventures: Tea Pets (solo/group mapmaking cozy RPG) & Cantrip Candles $50 Gift Card | Polina "Line" Arteev |
| A character known as the font of a bloodline | Smegeli | Old Brenna, Mother of Paper | $30 USD gift card for HeroForge | Kat Bradbury |
| An instrument used in family celebrations | Adrian Waite | Frostsong Pipes | A single large piece (or up to 3 smaller pieces if preferred) of artwork based on the winning article | Aelyrya Payne |
| A small town that keeps to itself | Amélie I. S. Debruyne | Aquincum | Character Portrait / Landscape Art of the winner's choice | Connie Ruotsalainen |
| An archipelago considered a "family" of islands | Jaime Buckley | The Southern Islands of Kätulu | $50 gift card chosen from a variety of online shops: World Anvil Shop, Cantrip Candles, Hero Forge, DriveThruRPG, and more! | Michael Chandra |
| A congenital condition | Barbarossa Sparklebeard | Call of the sea | Deck of Worlds with cartography expansion bundle. | drunkenpanda951 |
Prize draw winners
Out of all Competitors who won Summer Camp (i.e. completed 8 prompts or more), we drew the following random names! Some of these prizes are offered by community members.
| Winner | Prize | Sponsor |
|---|---|---|
| E. Christopher Clark | 2 tickets to D20@Sea, the EPIC D&D Cruise run by Events.Cruises | D20 CRUISE |
| Sparkles | 50 USD gift card for a variety of online stores | Tillerz |
| Rashkavar | 50 USD gift card for a variety of online stores | Tillerz |
| Kereminde | $50 WorldAnvil Gift Card | Haly, the Moonlight Bard |
| Amélie I. S. Debruyne | 50 USD gift card for a variety of online stores | Michael Chandra |
| Chris L | Box of wondrous surprises | Absinthe |
| cow2face | Hydrating, Cogitating, Creating t-shirt | World Anvil |
| Bob O'Brien | Hydrating, Cogitating, Creating t-shirt | World Anvil |
| HerbalCoyotea | Hydrating, Cogitating, Creating t-shirt | World Anvil |
| Charlotte S | Hydrating, Cogitating, Creating t-shirt | World Anvil |
| Bitzsoii | Hydrating, Cogitating, Creating t-shirt | World Anvil |
| Jessica Huckabay | No plan, just vibes mug | World Anvil |
| Lloydene Louvain | No plan, just vibes mug | World Anvil |
| Aelyrya Payne | No plan, just vibes mug | World Anvil |
| Marc Zipper | No plan, just vibes mug | World Anvil |
| Blodan | No plan, just vibes mug | World Anvil |
| Michael Blue | No plan, just vibes notebook | World Anvil |
| Viewol | No plan, just vibes notebook | World Anvil |
| Lexi Con (WordiGirl) | No plan, just vibes notebook | World Anvil |
| Qurilion | No plan, just vibes notebook | World Anvil |
| LollyBeau | No plan, just vibes notebook | World Anvil |
| Bu WeiLong | A full color custom creature design commission by the amazing Mochimanoban | Imagica |
| HippieDrillSgt | A single large piece (or up to 3 smaller pieces if preferred) of artwork for an article chosen by the winner | Aelyrya Payne |
| S. M. Girard | Lifetime Subscription to her Temporary Dependency Ko-Fi tier | Lexi Con (WordiGirl) |
| Jacob-W | Lifetime Subscription to her Temporary Dependency Ko-Fi tier | Lexi Con (WordiGirl) |
| nnce | Lifetime Subscription to her Temporary Dependency Ko-Fi tier | Lexi Con (WordiGirl) |
| Raigán Avalon | Lifetime Subscription to her Temporary Dependency Ko-Fi tier | Lexi Con (WordiGirl) |
| AmazingChi | Lifetime Subscription to her Temporary Dependency Ko-Fi tier | Lexi Con (WordiGirl) |