Enter Soon: Filament Magazine’s Erotic Fiction Contest (I’m Judging!)

I’m honored to announce that I’m judging Filament Magazine’s first erotic fiction competition! Filament is “the thinking woman’s crumpet” – an erotic magazine by women, for women, with a lot of male eye candy. It has been suggested that UK-based Filament is a hip indie rival to America’s Playgirl Magazine – if Playgirl was hot! The competition is being sponsored by LoveHoney (first prize £100, £50 each for the two runners up) and is open to entrants worldwide. The three winning entries will be published in Issue 8 – and second birthday issue – due out June 2011.

The theme for erotica submissions is ‘water’, the deadline is January 31, and the word limit 2,250. I’m eyeing submissions and winners for my selection pool when I narrow down my choices for Best Women’s Erotica 2012 – basically, you could possibly be eyed for the anthology if you are a winner.

I’m super excited about this! I can’t wait to discover new authors, and hope to see familiar writers pull out some surprises. Here’s how to enter – but be sure to see the Terms and Conditions for the rules:

1. Check out an issue of Filament Magazine to see what we’re looking for.
2. Read our fiction guidelines (.PDF; note that they are not looking for girl-girl pairings or formal BDSM).
3. Write the most fantastic, filthy, lucious, dripping, delightful piece of fiction ever. Your story needs to meet our guidelines and ideally suggest the theme water.
4. Send your entry in the body of an email (not as an attachment) to [email protected] by 31 January 2011, 5pm GMT, subject line Filament fiction competition.

You can also follow Filament on Twitter.

Violet Blue

The London Times named Violet Blue "One of the 40 bloggers who really count" and Self Magazine named TinyNibbles one of the “Best Sex Resources for Women.” Blue is an autodidact and pundit on sex and technology, hacking and security, porn for women, privacy and bleeding-edge tech culture. She is a journalist for ZDNet, CBS News, CNET; she's an educator, speaker, crisis counselor, volunteer NGO trainer, and the author and editor of over 40 award-winning books.

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1 Milky January 20, 2011 at 11:47 am: @SCV A little secret: the first rule of getting published is to read what you are submitting to, and that’s probably why the makers of the mag are suggesting that you buy it instead of looking at a free sample. I predict the winners of this competition will have bothered to do their homework.
2 SCV January 17, 2011 at 8:26 pm: It’s too bad that their “check out an issue” link on their page leads to subscribing. Thanks Violet for linking to a preview. I might submit just in hopes it’ll catch the 2012 edition.
3 Tiffany January 16, 2011 at 9:33 am: Thanks for posting this. The Calgary Smutty Story Circle is meeting today, and “Water” will be one of our prompts. Maybe you’ll see some submissions from my insanely talented group of smutsters!