Welcome to EroticLiterature’s July Image Prompt Contest!

We’ve lost count of the number of people who have asked us to start running monthly contests again, so here we are! Since other great communities also run themed contests, we wanted to do something a little different for ours. Instead of a single, open-ended theme, we’re asking participants to chose from a gallery of images and write their contest submissions to tell the tale of a picture.

That’s right! Here’s how it works:

1. Flip through the album of images in this post. There are 19 to pick from – they’re all suitably porny (aka don’t open them at work!) but they range from a wide variety of acts, figures, and orientations.
2. Write your story! Try to think about how the scenario arose, what’s happening, who the character is , and spin your narrative out using references to the picture. As a loose guideline, try to make sure that the *thing* in the photo happens at some point.
3. Submit your story to r/eroticliterature.
4. Use the [July Contest] tag in your title so that we know which stories to look out for at the end of the month. If you forget to include this, we might not remember to include it when we’re determining the winners.
5. Remember to tell us which image you chose. Start your post body with something like “I chose image number 7” or something.
6. Hope and pray!

A few extra tips and guidelines:

• Feel free to gender bend characters. We don’t get a whole ton of queer stories here so I only sprinkled a few overtly gay/lesbian images in, but nobody will hold it against you if you pick an image that needs that particular tweak.
• Try not to write the obvious. The 4th image is a titfuck, obviously. How can you spice that up so readers aren’t just reading about the titfuck happening on screen? You get the idea.
• Feel free to write a few of these!
• We’re going to feature the top 5 in next month’s newsletter, host a 1 week spotlight post at the top of the sub with your username and a link to your story, and give everyone in the top THREE another notch on their Top Author user flairs. If traffic to your profile is something that appeals to you, this is a win.

Feel free to ask any questions here in the comments; I’ll check this post often to make sure I don’t miss any. Depending on how this month goes, we’ll look to link with a sponsor for some actual, tangible prizes.

A huge special thanks go out to my new friend u/icebreakerr11 for letting me pillage some of these from their subreddit, r/artforspicybooks. Additionally, shoutouts are due to my very favourite author and dear friend u/stupidthroatdumpster for letting me pillage her reference folder too – we run r/WorthOneThousandWords together where we do this exact exercise for every post. She’s insanely talented and you should all check out her work.

Bon chance!