The Official Authors' Hangout Winter Holidays 2025 Support Thread

[ChloeTzang]

I am starting this thread now so that writers have no excuse for not starting a story in plenty of time. The Halloween contest is still running but the Winter Holidays contest follows a short time afterwards - just over a month from this post. The Literotica Annual Winter Holidays Contest is the last of the annual Lit contests of 2025. The contests challenge writers to create compelling, fun tales on a theme. This time, the theme is seasonal holidays and winter-related events.

Winter Holidays (all holidays/events/activities from November through January)
themes: winter holiday traditions (dreidels, gift giving, etc.), cold weather (snow), holiday mythology (Santa, elves), etc.
starts: November 11
closes: December 5
winners announced: December 12

This thread is to SUPPORT and ENCOURAGE authors to enter stories in the 2025 Winter Holidays Contest. Get your characters cold and snowy, celebrating Christmas, giving and receiving presents and being bad for Santa.

And now, a few rules:

• All submissions must be stand-alone stories created for this contest theme. We will not accept individual chapters of a larger work submitted separately. If you have a multi-chaptered contest-themed submission, please submit all chapters together as one story submission
• A story has to accrue only a minimum of 25 votes to be eligible for a prize - not a high bar to surmount - and on the very odd occassion, a story with just over 25 votes HAS won

The following guidelines also apply:

• Author must copy and paste the phrase "WINTER HOLIDAY 2025" to the "Notes to Admin" field of the submission (quotes are not needed).
• Again -- PLEASE do not forget to put the EXACT phrase "WINTER HOLIDAY 2025" IN THE "Notes to Admin" FIELD - NOT the description field or anywhere else. In fact, we recommend that you copy and paste to avoid typos. If it is not in the NOTES field – or if it's typoed - we cannot easily find your story and it may not be approved in a timely manner to be entered into the contest!!
• Submissions must have a Winter Holiday theme: i.e. holiday celebrations, winter weather (will be different in north and south hemispheres!), winter events and superstitions, all things Wintery. Be creative! Please don't just submit a normal story in which everyone is wearing a Santa hat. That would not be in the spirit of the contest, and readers (aka voters) will likely punish you for your trickiness.

There is an advantage to entering stories in one of Literotica's themed contests, apart from the possibility of winning, and that is that your story gets far more exposure and attention than it would normally do.

Some of that attention might be unwelcome of course, some abusive (we have trolls to entertain too), but some could be appreciative and helpful.

Important Note: Once your story is submitted, it may take over 72 hours for it to be posted, or may be sent back to you for clarification/mending. We strongly suggest that you do not wait till the last day of the contest to submit your story. The sooner you submit, the better chance your story has of accruing the votes necessary to be eligible.

Good luck, and have fun!

 

[EmilyMiller]

I am starting this thread now so that writers have no excuse for not starting a story in plenty of time. The Halloween contest is still running but the Winter Holidays contest follows a short time afterwards - just over a month from this post.

Winter Holidays (all holidays/events/activities from November through January)
themes: winter holiday traditions (dreidels, gift giving, etc.), cold weather (snow), holiday mythology (Santa, elves), etc.
starts: November 11
closes: December 5
winners announced: December 12

This thread is to SUPPORT and ENCOURAGE authors to enter stories in the 2025 Winter Holidays Contest. Get your characters cold and snowy, celebrating Christmas, giving and receiving presents and being bad for Santa.

There is an advantage to entering stories in one of Literotica's themed contests, apart from the possibility of winning, and that is that your story gets far more exposure and attention than it would normally do.

Some of that attention might be unwelcome of course, some abusive (we have trolls to entertain too), but some could be appreciative and helpful.

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Yay!

I have a novella in editing - organized for once in my life!

 

[Bamagan]

The following guidelines also apply:

• Author must copy and paste the phrase "WINTER HOLIDAY 2025" to the "Notes to Admin" field of the submission (quotes are not needed).
• Again -- PLEASE do not forget to put the EXACT phrase "WINTER HOLIDAY 2023" IN THE "Notes to Admin" FIELD - NOT the description field or anywhere else. In fact, we recommend that you copy and paste to avoid typos. If it is not in the NOTES field – or if it's typoed - we cannot easily find your story and it may not be approved in a timely manner to be entered into the contest!

A minor typo in an ironically amusing locale.

 

[Voboy]

I'm working on mine right this moment. It's been a bit locked up, but it's flowing again now.

The usual. Woman falls for younger man at work, then fucks him when she finds herself fleeing an unexpected orgy at her house featuring her best friends ravaging her son and his army buddies.

Ho ho ho.

 

[ChloeTzang]

A minor typo in an ironically amusing locale.

A thousand thanks. Good catch LOL