1st place: Donna George Storey
The New Libertine

2nd place: Lilie Berlin
New for Me

3rd Place: Tulsa Brown
The Empress's New Clothes

Runner up: Ann Regentin
New-sflash

Runner up: Barbara Holliday
New Wine



We received over 150 stories in this contest, and it was a delight to read all of them. From the original 150, we narrowed it down to 12 finalists, and then the judges went to work, coming up with our 5 top stories that you can read through the links above. As an editor who is starting to work on a new themed anthology ( see Sex & Laughter guidelines), it gave me great faith in erotic writers -- everybody who submitted followed the rules(!), creativity and imagination ran high, and the sincere and authentic stories being told were all true "winners" simply because of that.

Our five top winners come from Germany, Canada, the states midwest, south, and west coast; some have published in Clean Sheets before, some have not; they write about gay, lesbian, and heterosexual adventures; and the fact that all 5 winners are women, well, we can only say that we read all entries 'blinded', and there were certainly some men who were really close in the top 12 finalists!

           --Susannah Indigo, Editor-in-Chief

First Prize:  $100.00 and publication in Clean Sheets Magazine

Second Prize:  $50 and publication in Clean Sheets Magazine

Third Prize:  A copy of any two Clean Sheets direct-books and publication in Clean Sheets Magazine

Two runners-up will receive a token gift from our official sponsor, Toys in Babeland!

Tell us a story. Make it short -- no more than 1500 words. Make it sexy. Make it involve summer somehow. Maybe funny, maybe dramatic, but make it new. So new, in fact, that it must have the word "new" in the title.

We admit to not inventing that rule, and herewith provide our inspiration, from Book Magazine -- and we highly recommend a read in particular there of "The New Polygamist" and "The New and Best Rule for Sandwich"...neither of which are erotica, just great writing.

Your challenge is higher, since we believe that sex is one of the hardest subjects to write well. But we know you are up to it -- we receive hundreds of emails every week with potential erotica for Clean Sheets! Entries will be blinded (no names on them) and judged by a panel of Clean Sheets editors, including Susannah Indigo, Nola Summers, Brian Peters, Bill Noble, and Julia Peters.