2026 Literotica Competitions and Author-Organized Events

[Duleigh]

You know I'll always be there for you Chloe, just checking in to show solidarity.

I need to get started on my Geek Pride entry too...

 

[ChloeTzang]

You know I'll always be there for you Chloe, just checking in to show solidarity.

I need to get started on my Geek Pride entry too...

I think I'll save my Geek Pride story for 2026 now - it'll probably take me that long to get it done. It's only just over 6 months away after all!!!! I think I'll do the Support Thread for it now as well.

I'm going to be way more proactive with my events for 2026 and contact people to solicit stories. The AH by itsef doesn't really have very broad visibility and there are a LOT of LIT writers who never show up here.

 

[ChloeTzang]

And for anyone interested, here's the link to the Archive of author-organized challenges

https://forum.literotica.com/threads/author-organized-challenge-list-archive.1556922/

And this is the Competitions AND the Events

https://www.literotica.com/authors/Literotica/works/stories

 

[Duleigh]

I think I'll save my Geek Pride story for 2026 now - it'll probably take me that long to get it done. It's only just over 6 months away after all!!!! I think I'll do the Support Thread for it now as well.

My last two Geek Pride entries became novels that are doing fairly well. I was stupid this year and promised a third.

 

[ChloeTzang]

My last two Geek Pride entries became novels that are doing fairly well. I was stupid this year and promised a third.

I shall expect nothing less for 2026!!!!!!!

 

[dirk2024]

That March 17th slot is so tempting considering my birthday is the next day...

But short of "Dark romance" which is vague as fuck, I don't have any ideas for a challenge.

Perhaps Romance with a little Erotic Horror thrown in?

 

[Erozetta]

Perhaps Romance with a little Erotic Horror thrown in?

Still not enough of a challenge to be worthy of clogging up the submission pipeline.

 

[Bamagan]

What about using Amazing Stories as a theme?
Data: The original IP was a 1926 magazine devoted to science fiction, one of the first to do so (possibly the first). It was a pulp fiction rag, and stories published in it ran the gamut from silly to serious to scary, but they pretty much all involved 'amazing' and unbelievable things. Steven Spielberg turned it into a TV series for a couple of years in the 1980s, and I believe there was another reboot a few years ago. One particularly memorable episode for me involved a student decapitating his professor, played by Christopher Lloyd, although he came back to class complaining of a sore throat (and made for a fun Easter Egg of sorts in the new season of Wednesday, as Christopher Lloyd plays just the head of one of the teachers). Another that might be apropos for the site is about a couple of ghosts who are horrified when a porn star moves into their haunted house.
Stories in such a challenge could land in almost any category, although most would likely lean toward the less realistic ones (Erotic Horror, Mind Control, Nonhuman, SF/F). Ideally they would feature concepts like mad science, cryptids, aliens, magic artifacts, psychic powers, and other impossible (or at least improbable) things. Other suitable inspirations could come from The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, or pre-Code comic books (before sanitized superbeings became the staple of the genre). Certain noir tales could fit in nicely, if Crime and Punishment doesn't seem like a good match.

 

[WaxPhilosophic]

Born to Run was a one-off. It was on August 25th, 2025 because that was the 50th anniversary of the album's release. If folks want to do a more general music-based challenge, there's no need to keep the August 25th date.

 

[SouthernCrossfire]

I'm sort of disappointed at the end of the Hammered event, but my next Hammered story has languished uncompleted for two events in a row so I can't complain! I'll drop it in the pipeline when (if?) it is ever completed.

Or maybe I can tweak it a bit so it will fit in the Crime and Punishment event...

 

[Rob_Royale]

What about using Amazing Stories as a theme?
Data: The original IP was a 1926 magazine devoted to science fiction, one of the first to do so (possibly the first). It was a pulp fiction rag, and stories published in it ran the gamut from silly to serious to scary, but they pretty much all involved 'amazing' and unbelievable things. Steven Spielberg turned it into a TV series for a couple of years in the 1980s, and I believe there was another reboot a few years ago. One particularly memorable episode for me involved a student decapitating his professor, played by Christopher Lloyd, although he came back to class complaining of a sore throat (and made for a fun Easter Egg of sorts in the new season of Wednesday, as Christopher Lloyd plays just the head of one of the teachers). Another that might be apropos for the site is about a couple of ghosts who are horrified when a porn star moves into their haunted house.
Stories in such a challenge could land in almost any category, although most would likely lean toward the less realistic ones (Erotic Horror, Mind Control, Nonhuman, SF/F). Ideally they would feature concepts like mad science, cryptids, aliens, magic artifacts, psychic powers, and other impossible (or at least improbable) things. Other suitable inspirations could come from The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, or pre-Code comic books (before sanitized superbeings became the staple of the genre). Certain noir tales could fit in nicely, if Crime and Punishment doesn't seem like a good match.

I'd be down for that.