Deadline: 31 January 2011
Filament magazine's er0tic fiction competition – Issue 8 – theme: water
Filament magazine is delighted to announce its first erotic fiction competition, sponsored by the amazing LoveHoney!
Our judge is the fantastic author, editor, and blogger Violet Blue.
First prize = £100 and publication in Filament magazine Issue 8
Two runners up = £50 each and publication in Filament magazine Issue 8
How to enter
1. Check out an issue of Filament magazine to see what we're looking for.
2. Read our fiction guidelines.
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 and/or be inspired by one of the following photographs (click for larger, but please note some pictures are not safe for work):
4. Send your entry in the body of an email (not as an attachment) to fiction@filamentmagazine.com by 31 January 2011, 5pm GMT, subject line Filament fiction competition.
Terms and conditions
1. Competition is open to entrants aged 18 years or older, from anywhere in the world.
2. Prize payments will be made to the winning entrants within one month of publication.
3. Prize payments will be made in pounds sterling by PayPal. Other means of payment may be attempted if requested by the winner or runners up, but only at the discretion of Filament magazine. Currency exchange fees and any other fees will be borne by the prize recipient.
4. Entries may not be withdrawn once submitted.
5. Competition entrants are deemed to have agreed to have their story published by Filament magazine according to Appendix 1 of Filament's fiction guidelines if their story is selected as a winner or runner up. If their story is not selected among the winning entries, Filament will have no rights to the story, unless Filament magazine and the writer agree otherwise.
6. Entrants may submit their writing under a pseudonym, but must be willing to disclose their full legal name confidentially to Filament magazine in the event that they win, for the purposes of completing legal use documentation and making payment of winnings.
7. All entries must meet Filament magazine's fiction writers' guidelines. Entries that do not meet the guidelines (eg, submitted as attachments, over word count) will be disqualified.
8. Filament magazine undertakes only to notify the winning entrants.
9. The judge's decision is final.
10. Any questions about the competition may be directed at fiction@filamentmagazine.com.
11. Attempts to influence the judging of this competition may result in disqualification.
More information here.