Champions: An Anthology of Winning Fantasy Stories
by Eric Lange
AnthologiesAdded on January 13, 2026
Description
Champions is an anthology of more than thirty of the best fantasy stories that the online writing community has to offer; from spells gone wrong to prisons for gods and much more.
This anthology brings together the winning stories from the monthly competitions of Reddit's FantasyWriters forum with each story demonstrates the vivid and extraordinary worlds that the fantasy genre has to offer. The competitions these stories won range from the end of 2011 until the middle of 2015, meaning that the entries in Champions cover almost every kind of fantasy genre you can think of. With over thirty stories this anthology showcases a wide range of tales and demonstrates what it is we most love about fantasy tales: that anything is possible.
The relevant writing prompt also appears alongside each entry, giving you the opportunity to try your hand at writing something yourself, and each writer weaves a wonderful story for you to enjoy.
This anthology features stories from: Ken Lim, Ian Michael Everett, Lesley Taylor, Ryan Hampton, David Eubanks, Alex Woods, Christine S.R. Jackson, David Babcock, B Lynch, Louise Stanley, G. T. Holmes, C. C. Lewer, Ryan Hampton, Anthony Pinggera, Eric Lange, Devon Young, Andrew Meyer, A.M. Adams, Andrea Stewart, Paul Nabil Matthis, Eamon Brenner, and more…
Reader Reviews
A different kind of anthology with everything from poetry to novellas to cover blurbs. The pieces chosen from among the winning contributors on a reddit authors thread, and while most stories are definitely fantasy (There are sci-go themes as well) they definitely un the gamut from horror to urban to dark to everything else one can imagine. Can’t really say I loved this anthology, since nothing left a deep impression on me, but it was a decent time sink.
You’re rich. Why aren’t you happy? I don’t mean “money” rich. I’m talking the wealth of Something Good to Read. Literarily, you have it all. Rapid access to whatever paper-brick book you want; instant access on your kindle. Heck, the complete works of Western Lit nest in your phone. You can sit in a bathroom stall perusing more titles than in the card-catalog for the Library of Alexandria. And yet, bathroom tiles echo your dissatisfied sigh. Web pages and google-lists of titles, plots, famous a
Champions is an excellent anthology I loaded onto my phone and read when I had odd moments of not doing anything, while standing in lines, waiting for appointments, etc. I normally load books I don't care enough about or find compelling enough so that I'm not bothered by reading it in bits and pieces. But these stories--collected from the winners of monthly competitions of Reddit's Fantasy Writers forum--were a pleasant surprise for me. The quality of the stories was much higher than I expected,
