Pink Orchid 2026: Story Event for Women-Centric Erotica - Official Support Thread

[Omenainen]

I'm posting this thread to officially kick of the "Pink Orchid 2026: Story Event for Women-Centric Erotica"

Stories are to be posted in February, and the story list will be published on the International Women's Day, March 8th of 2026.

Theme of the event: sex positivity and women as the subjects of their own lives. Women in control of their own pleasure and passion. Erotic tales where women make sense and have agency. The aim is not to turn tables and write femdom, male-bashing or revenge stories, but produce sex positive stories of women existing for their own sake and living, loving and lusting on their own terms.

This event is open for absolutely everyone. Stories are not limited by anything other than Literotica's standard rules - you can write in any category.

Rules:
1. Write a story in which a female character has agency and makes sense on her own terms.
2. Include text "PINK ORCHID" in the Note to Admin-field
3. Post your story in February 2026

That's it! Now go forth and write! If you have any comments, questions or ideas, post on this thread.

Obs! Since this is a writer's challenge and not a competition, stories can also be submitted to any and all competitions and other events with overlapping submission times. If you want to take part in other events, make sure to comply to limitations set by them, for example in competitions one has to enter a standalone story and not a chapter of ongoing series. Traditionally, Valentine's Day contest and the 750 challenge have had overlapping schedules.

I will update this post to include relevant links when available.

 

[Omenainen]

Links to previous years' support threads: 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022

Also made a list of all the stories throughout the years.

For anyone concerned if your story idea is applicable: I'm not an authority but I do host the event, so if you're interested in my opinion, you can ask me to beta read your entry. Any category or length or subject matter will do. I'm not squeamish. I reserve the right to decline but I'll try to do as many as humanly possible, so please ask early.

For anyone that feels "write women that make sense" is too broad an ask, I'm open to suggestions for an optional sub-quest. (From previous years I really loved space hippies.)

 

[ChloeTzang]

Going to try and get one in for this

 

[iwatchus]

I am excited for the events that happened before I was here this year or at least before I was aware of events here. This is one of the ones I have been looking forward to. I ma use the novel I am just starting now as my submission here.

 

[Erozetta]

I'm planning on doing my extension of either "Cookies, Commands, and Subroutines" or "Wicked Allure" for this. One will be for this and one will be for Valentine's Day, lol.

 

[StillStunned]

If I had more patience and restraint I'd have saved "Annie's Inhibition Removal Therapy" for PO 2026. As it is, I just wrote 600-ish words on a new story that would be a good fit. All I need to do now is find the energy to complete it, and the patience not to complete it too soon.

 

[AwkwardMD]

I will also offer my beta reading services. Similarly, I have no problem reading any category or kink, and I also reserve the right to say no.

 

[MelissaBaby]

I suppose I can finish that Gold Dollar Girls story I didn't get done in time last year...

 

[Aoife_from_Ulster]

Ohh goodness I better get busy! I am so excited

 

[SkyBubble]

I wonder just what constitutes "female empowerment."

 

[AlinaX]

There’s a switch, but it’s in a safe, and the keyhole is filled with cement, and the safe was dropped into a deep part of the Atlantic, and the exact location is itself in a bank vault, guarded by Swiss Guards, for reasons lost to history.

 

[Omenainen]

I wonder just what constitutes "female empowerment."

That’s a nice philosophical question! However, if you look closely, there is no mention of female empowerment in this thread, so here you don’t need to bother your cute little head with such irksome things.

 

[SkyBubble]

I have a specific story of mine in mind. It's definitely female-centric (and long), though the MFC's BF is a fairly prominent character.

 

[SkyBubble]

If I had more patience and restraint I'd have saved "Annie's Inhibition Removal Therapy" for PO 2026. As it is, I just wrote 600-ish words on a new story that would be a good fit. All I need to do now is find the energy to complete it, and the patience not to complete it too soon.

I don't think it matters when you complete it. It's when you submit it.

 

[Omenainen]

Happy weekend, people! I hope everyone is writing Pink Orchids.

 

[Aoife_from_Ulster]

Happy weekend, people! I hope everyone is writing Pink Orchids.

Am trying, have a bit of a massive writers block going on right now.

I have a great concept,more at least what I see as a great one. A minor character pulled from a previous series becomes the protagonist, as circumstances drastically change.

 

[Omenainen]

Am trying, have a bit of a massive writers block going on right now.

Yeah, this is more of a "do as I say, not as I do" situation for me too... I have some ideas but none of them are happy, fluffy, smutty ideas, and none of them are in any way formed yet.

 

[Aoife_from_Ulster]

Yeah, this is more of a "do as I say, not as I do" situation for me too... I have some ideas but none of them are happy, fluffy, smutty ideas, and none of them are in any way formed yet.

Not to give much away, but this starts with a “drastic” life change, and is more of an awakening, which will evoke into her, seeing, feeling, loving. I just need to get it out of my old brain and onto “paper”.

I am also fighting the calendar for the Winter Contest, submit dates 11/11/25 and the Valentines Day challenge, submit date 1/10/26 as well.

Wishing you best of luck.

 

[Cagivagurl]

I wonder just what constitutes "female empowerment."

 

[iwatchus]

If I can finish the draft I have been working on, I will start back onto the draft for what I intend on submitting here.

 

[Randi_McRando]

Unfortunately, the word "empowerment" was removed... It was included in the original event.
I say unfortunately, because I liked it's inclusion. I think it's removal diluted the original intent.

Cagivagurl

Some might interpret empowerment as a value judgment. In which case, its removal clarifies that the theme is centered on "women in control of their own pleasure and passion," whatever that pleasure and passion might be. Now there's even more creative flexibility in the interpretation of the theme.

 

[Cagivagurl]

Some might interpret empowerment as a value judgment. In which case, its removal clarifies that the theme is centered on "women in control of their own pleasure and passion," whatever that pleasure and passion might be. Now there's even more creative flexibility in the interpretation of the theme.

 

[Lifestyle66]

I couldn't disagree more....
In no way does empowerment equate to judgement....

According to the Cambridge Dictionary...
he process of giving a group of people more freedom or rights:
This approach to management emphasizes the empowerment of workers to make decisions.
The government's economic empowerment program aims to create jobs and raise living standards in the poorer communities.

The inclusion of empowerment focuses the emphasis on women taking charge of their lives for their betterment...

Focus on empowerment, improvement, bettering. Taking charge of her future.

Those are my thoughts. Nobody is excluded. Anybody could write it...

Cagivagurl

I like my female characters because they mostly represent powerful women.

By the definition you posted, the female characters I write are not "empowered", because they aren't GIVEN power or control. The women in my Pink Orchid stories TAKE control. They don't wait for the men in the stories to give them anything. That's why I don't care for the term "empowerment", because it makes them sound needy.

My Pink Orchid story for 2024 "The Maneater" is my version of a powerful woman. She uses her sexuality as a tool or weapon to TAKE control of the men around her.

I know that many of the Pink Orchid readers don't care for my version of the powerful woman. O has given me feedback that she doesn't like "Jan" in my stories. I think they find her overbearing and manipulative. But if you read the stories, her husband is the one person she can't manipulate, which is why she stays with him. She doesn't like weak men any more than her husband doesn't care for weak women.

 

[Rob_Royale]

I actually just started a story that could fit. Two queens, a victor and a loser and the power dynamic between them, to include their men. Count me in.

 

[Cagivagurl]

I like my female characters because they mostly represent powerful women.

By the definition you posted, the female characters I write are not "empowered", because they aren't GIVEN power or control. The women in my Pink Orchid stories TAKE control. They don't wait for the men in the stories to give them anything. That's why I don't care for the term "empowerment", because it makes them sound needy.

My Pink Orchid story for 2024 "The Maneater" is my version of a powerful woman. She uses her sexuality as a tool or weapon to TAKE control of the men around her.

I know that many of the Pink Orchid readers don't care for my version of the powerful woman. O has given me feedback that she doesn't like "Jan" in my stories. I think they find her overbearing and manipulative. But if you read the stories, her husband is the one person she can't manipulate, which is why she stays with him. She doesn't like weak men any more than her husband doesn't care for weak women.