Sinful Stories 2 (COMPETITION!!)

Back in April, I linked up with Molly Moore to run a short story competition. Writers were invited to use photos from Molly’s Sinful Sunday project as inspiration for erotic stories, and boy did they deliver. I was overwhelmed by the volume and quality of the submissions, by the generosity of some really brilliant sponsors, and by the general enthusiasm the contest generated.

Six months later, it feels like time to see whether lightning can strike twice. Molly has been kind enough to agree to another Sinful Sunday tie-in, and once again I have some fantastic prizes lined up for the winners. Excited? You should be…

The Challenge

Write an erotic short story, no longer than 2500 words, using a photo from the November 9^th edition of Molly Moore’s Sinful Sunday meme as the inspiration (please please read the full rules below for more details)

The Prizes

Winner: a £50 (~$80) online voucher for Sh!, London’s multi award-winning sex store; and a $15 voucher for Dreamspinner Press, the hottest gay erotica publisher around

Runner-up #1: an electronic or paperback copy of Candy Box, the latest illustrated erotic anthology from Sweetmeats Press

Runner-up #2: a paperback or electronic copy of Chemical Sex, edited by Oleander Plume

Readers’ Choice Award: TBC

Huge thanks to Sh!, Dreamspinner Press and Sweetmeats Press for agreeing to support this competition for a second time. They’re all lovely, enthusiastic, sex-positive organisations, which I’m happy and proud to be associated with. If you’re planning to enter the contest, or if you have any interest at all in sex toys and erotic fiction, please do check out their websites and enjoy what they have to offer.

If you’d like to get involved and sponsor either the second runner-up prize, or the Readers’ Choice Award, please do contact me by email or DM.

The Rules

1. The first rule is the most important. You absolutely must obtain the WRITTEN consent of the person whose photo you wish to use in your story. There will be no exceptions on this one. Sinful Sunday photos are, by their very nature, personal and intimate; some regular contributors will (understandably) not want to have their images used as inspiration for a story. Please do not disrespect their wishes or breach their copyright.
2. You may not use your own photo.
3. The story must not be explicitly/directly written about the person/people whose photo you use. Please make your character(s) fictional.
4. There is no minimum word limit. If you want to write a 250-word piece of flash fiction, it will be treated in exactly the same way as something that comes in one word under the limit.
5. This is an erotica competition. You can blend in other genres, but fundamentally something sexy should happen at some point. It can be M/F, M/M, F/F, any combination of Ms and Fs, trans, or just a hot piece about one person getting up to no good. It can also be as graphic/explicit as you like – there’s no need to tone down the language or turn dicks and cunts into throbbing members and flowers in full bloom.
6. You can post your story on your own blog/site and send me the link, or just email it to me directly. You own the piece, so can do with it as you please outside the competition, but to be eligible for the prize you must be happy for me to post it here in the event that you win (and then probably go and wank over it afterwards).
7. You do not own the photo you use. That remains the sole property of the person who took/published it.
8. The deadline for entries is 2300 (GMT) on Monday 24^th November. Winners will be announced on Thursday 27^th November. I’m a fast reader.
9. As with all the best sex parties, multiple entries are permitted.
10. The winning entry will be the one I like the most. I’m really curious to see what people come up with, so I don’t want to set out a whole load of judging criteria here. Write what interests you, or makes you horny, not what you think I want to read.

If you have any questions, or feel there’s something important that I haven’t covered here, please do get in touch.

I loved running this competition last time round, for the buzz it generated and for all the super-hot stories people submitted. I’d love to get the same sort of response this time, so check out next week’s Sinful Sunday (note: not this week’s), put on your perviest thinking cap, and…happy writing!