Nifty Laureate Author Award Program Rules

  • Award of $50 per month for best story or $100 per month for best series.
  • Maximum of $250 per year per author.
  • Prize payment transmitted through PayPal.
  • Using multiple names, email addresses or aliases disqualifies author.
  • Awarded to completed story or series.
  • Additional chapters will be accepted and published after the award, but the story will not be eligible for another award.
  • A story may win the award once.
  • Sequels that are published as independent stories instead of a series are not eligible for multiple awards.
  • A wholly new sequel can be considered for a separate award.
  • The prize will be awarded to romantic stories depicting adult relationships in the Adult-Friends, Beginnings, Relationships, and College categories of the Gay, Bisexual, Lesbian or Transgender Sections of the Nifty Archive.
  • Taboo content (incest, raunch, urination, scat, authoritarian, BDSM, torture, rape, etc.) will disqualify a story from consideration.
  • Playful, light bondage or watersports, as well as adult incest, can be present.

Winter Season Story Contest