Official Crime and Punishment 2025 Story Event Support Thread

[MelissaBaby]

If you are definitely going to replace it anyway, it seems nicer to Laurel to delete it now before she might start reviewing it.

Thoughtful advice, but I suspect Laurel’s review of Chloe’s stories takes about the amount of time it takes to read her name.

 

[FreyaGersemi]

The Literotica front page says: "09/26 - The Literotica Annual Halloween Story Contest is coming in October and is open to all writers!"

Perhaps these updates are scheduled, but maybe it means that there is someone still running the site...?

 

[FreyaGersemi]

The Literotica front page says: "09/26 - The Literotica Annual Halloween Story Contest is coming in October and is open to all writers!"

Perhaps these updates are scheduled, but maybe it means that there is someone still running the site...?

Forget it. The date changes each day automatically.

 

[FreyaGersemi]

So, has anyone heard anything from the site owners/managers?

 

[ChloeTzang]

Thoughtful advice, but I suspect Laurel’s review of Chloe’s stories takes about the amount of time it takes to read her name.

LOL. Usually, altho I have had the odd one sent back now and then, usually for sliding over the boundaries of the under-18 rule. LOL.

Anyhow, my edits are resulting in a vastly improved story, so I have decided to just delete the old one - its way too late for the Crime and Punishment event page to have any impact on views so I'll just tweak it and resubmit for the Halloween competition seeing as that opens on Oct 2nd. Put all this work into it so I may as well go for the views.

 

[Eisenloewe]

Update: I submitted before the deadline for Crime & Punishment and after the deadline for Dark Fairy Tales, several days later.

My story for Dark Fairy Tales was just published. My story for Crime & Punishment remains pending.

The mystery deepens. I must conjure a hardboiled, licentious detective to investigate.

 

[TheRedLantern]

@Eisenloewe I think most of us have given up waiting for this event and are repurposing our stories for the Halloween contest as best as we can.

 

[FreyaGersemi]

Update: I submitted before the deadline for Crime & Punishment and after the deadline for Dark Fairy Tales, several days later.

My story for Dark Fairy Tales was just published. My story for Crime & Punishment remains pending.

The mystery deepens.

On another thread, someone suggested pulling your submission, then resubmitting it. That worked for some people. There's clearly a glitch going on. But coupled with the fact that Literotica has had no interactions on either Bluesky or Twitter in over a week, makes me concerned that this could be something more than just a glitch.

Does anyone have any more information about this? Is there a dedicated thread to what's happening?

EDIT: And I just noticed that my avatar has disappeared. It's there when I click on my page, but just a blank circle on the forum...

 

[iwatchus]

LOL. Usually, altho I have had the odd one sent back now and then, usually for sliding over the boundaries of the under-18 rule. LOL.

Anyhow, my edits are resulting in a vastly improved story, so I have decided to just delete the old one - its way too late for the Crime and Punishment event page to have any impact on views so I'll just tweak it and resubmit for the Halloween competition seeing as that opens on Oct 2nd. Put all this work into it so I may as well go for the views.

Not related to the topic of the post and you can DM me. How long did the story sit in pending before being rejected. My rejections were all early on dialogue issues, so I got bounced pretty quickly. Just curious to better understand the review process when it was working.

 

[Eisenloewe]

@Eisenloewe I think most of us have given up waiting for this event and are repurposing our stories for the Halloween contest as best as we can.

On another thread, someone suggested pulling your submission, then resubmitting it. That worked for some people. There's clearly a glitch going on. But coupled with the fact that Literotica has had no interactions on either Bluesky or Twitter in over a week, makes me concerned that this could be something more than just a glitch.

Does anyone have any more information about this? Is there a dedicated thread to what's happening?

EDIT: And I just noticed that my avatar has disappeared. It's there when I click on my page, but just a blank circle on the forum...

I'm going to leave it in Pending because it really doesn't work for a Halloween tale, and I also already pulled and resubmitted it once (all before the original deadline). I also secretly hope that when the glitch resolves, however it does, they re-bump the Crime & Punishment anthology page to the front page with all the submissions. The current anthology page was actually published before the official publication date originally announced for the challenge, so I thought it was a "first installment" of a sort, done because they had a lot of entries. If I'm wrong, so it goes. It does seem odd to me that many more "normal" (non-challenge) submissions have continued to roll out in the same category (BDSM) where I submitted my challenge entry.

 

[MelissaBaby]

I'm going to leave it in Pending because it really doesn't work for a Halloween tale, and I also already pulled and resubmitted it once (all before the original deadline). I also secretly hope that when the glitch resolves, however it does, they re-bump the Crime & Punishment anthology page to the front page with all the submissions. The current anthology page was actually published before the official publication date originally announced for the challenge, so I thought it was a "first installment" of a sort, done because they had a lot of entries. If I'm wrong, so it goes. It does seem odd to me that many more "normal" (non-challenge) submissions have continued to roll out in the same category (BDSM) where I submitted

Laurel has explained in the past that she has the ability to search for terms in the authors notes, which is why she insists on exact wordage for contest and challenge entries. It allows her to make sure all submissions with that designation get included in the list. Whatever is going on, that apparently didn’t happen with this event.

 

[Actingup]

I'm going to leave it in Pending because it really doesn't work for a Halloween tale, and I also already pulled and resubmitted it once (all before the original deadline). I also secretly hope that when the glitch resolves, however it does, they re-bump the Crime & Punishment anthology page to the front page with all the submissions. The current anthology page was actually published before the official publication date originally announced for the challenge, so I thought it was a "first installment" of a sort, done because they had a lot of entries. If I'm wrong, so it goes. It does seem odd to me that many more "normal" (non-challenge) submissions have continued to roll out in the same category (BDSM) where I submitted my challenge entry

Yeah, it's frustrating that the challenge is currenly invisible. I've left my (second) story sitting there in pending too.

 

[Eisenloewe]

I guess I'm being stubborn to the point of denial at this point. I'll pull it in another couple of days. So many other stories in the same category have been posted now. Not sure why submitting to a challenge ended up with it being stuck in eternal limbo. And it was another long one, likely 8-9 Lit pages.

 

[FreyaGersemi]

I guess I'm being stubborn to the point of denial at this point. I'll pull it in another couple of days. So many other stories in the same category have been posted now. Not sure why submitting to a challenge ended up with it being stuck in eternal limbo.

I think something else is going on. There has been ZERO activity on social media sites (Bluesky and Twitter, at least) in over 12 days. Nothing. And Literotica used to post things daily. And 12 days ago is about when all the issues on this site started happening. Does anyone have any insight on any of this???

EDIT: And it's more than just story submission issues. For one thing, my avatar has gone missing for the last few days. It shows up on my personal page, but on the forum it's gone. And some of the forum pages are out of order. A new post on another thread showed up as page 11, then when I went to the last page (page 16), the post was repeated in it's correct (most recent) place. Weird.

 

[Actingup]

I've just deleted my pending story again, and resubmitted with a polite note hoping that it could still be listed with the story event. It's something to do to pass the time....

 

[MelissaBaby]

I've just deleted my pending story again, and resubmitted with a polite note hoping that it could still be listed with the story event. It's something to do to pass the time....

I resubmitted mine with a similar note on September 27. Still nothing. If it doesn't publish this weekend, I will try again, but I will leave out the C&P note. It's too late to make any difference now.