Gay Genre Expressionisms
♀♀ Contestant Guidelines ♂♂
The contest is available to any person (regardless of sexual orientation) who is writing in the GLBTTQ (Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transsexual Transgender Queer) genre. Contestants must be of legal age and comfortable with Alternative Life style situations.
Categories
Fiction
Non Fiction
Poetry
Fantasy
Each person is welcome to submit one (1) unpublished entry in each of the above categories. First, Second, and Third Places will be awarded in each category. Previously published material (in any media) is not acceptable.
Fiction manuscripts need to be inspired by the photo published for each month. See monthly links on home page. Fiction entries may not exceed "one word more or one word less than what it takes to tell the story." Create a title to correspond with the inspired theme. Suggested target length: 7,000 to 8,000 words or less.
Non Fiction manuscripts should be something from real life. See monthly links for guidelines and current monthly suggested title for this contest. Keep the word limit to less than 4,500.
Poetry is limited to 32 lines Excluding title, single space on a one page document. Poetry submissions should be written inspired by the photo published in monthly links on the home page.
Fantasy Let your imagination run wild. We all have fantasies and should live them in one form or another—safely without harming another person. Write about a fantasy that you have had and how it came true. Fantasy manuscripts should be kept to fewer that 2,500 words.
Deadlines
All entries for the current month's contest must be received by email submission on or between the 1st and 15th of the month. To give our judges ample reading time no late entries can be accepted.
Fees
There will be no fees assessed for this contest. (However, large cash donations will be accepted to Dustin P. Roèbére’s Swiss Bank Account.)
Entry Formats
All entries must be digital files preferably in Microsoft Word, double-spaced (poems need not be double-spaced), with one-inch margins on all sides. A standard 12-point font size in Courier, Arial, or Times New Roman must be used. Pages should be numbered, with the title of the manuscript appearing on each page, centered in the Header, on line below should appear the page number justified to the right. The author’s name should not appear on the document.
Email Address for Submissions
Dustin P. Roèbére, Editor
Submission should be sent as attached files with the following in the Subject line: GGE Monthly Writing Contest. Your email will be considered your entry form and needs to have the following information.
Full Name
Address
Phone Number
Email Address
List of Submission as follows:
Title of Manuscript or Poem, Category, Word or Line Count.
Under each title type your Copyright as follows:
"©Copyright 2006 (Your Full Name) All rights reserved."
Submission using only an Internet ID or email address will not be accepted.
Copyright
Each submitting Author retains all Copyright privileges to their work. However, by submitting to this contest you permit GGE Monthly Writing Contest organizers to publish winning entries on this website. Your Copyright as listed above in your email entry form will accompany your manuscript or poem.
Legal Age Disclaimer
By submitting to this contest you claim to be of legal age, consenting adult, and do not have an issue with Alternative Lifestyle subject matter. "Erotic subject material" will be accepted for all categories—tastefully written. "Coming out" stories will be okay but anything that could be considered Child Pornography will be disqualified.
No prizes can be awarded for the monthly contest at this time. However, our goal is to accumulate the best of the best stories in the GLBTTQ Genre for a future Anthology. Thus we reserve the right to publish the winning entries in this anthology.
One we have completed our plans for the Anthology, we will discuss the aspects with our winners.
