Congratulations to the winners and thanks for all of the story submissions!
Nifty Archive Valentine's Day Stories
Story Contest Rules
- Submission Deadline: 11 February 2025.
- Prize awarded: 14 February 2025.
- First Place: $200 Cash Prize.
- Second Place: $150 Cash Prize.
- Third Place: $100 Cash Prize.
- Honorable Mention: $50 Cash Prize.
- Authors may submit as many entries as they wish.
- Explicitly state "Valentines 2025" in the cover letter, not the email subject line.
- Awarded to a complete story.
- Additional chapters will be accepted and published after the award, but
the story will not be eligible for another award.
- A story may win the award once.
- Sequels that are published as independent stories instead of a series
are not eligible for multiple awards.
- A wholly new sequel can be considered for a separate award.
- Stories must have a Valentine's Day theme (romance, cupid, etc.).
- The prize will be awarded to romantic stories depicting adult
relationships in the Adult-Friends, Beginnings, Encounters, Relationships, and College
categories of the Gay, Bisexual, Lesbian or Transgender Sections of the
Nifty Archive.
- Taboo content (minors, raunch, urination, scat, authoritarian, BDSM,
torture, rape, etc.) will disqualify a story from consideration.
- Playful, light bondage or watersports, as well as adult incest,
can be present.