Announcing the Winners of our Dirty Talk Competition

Another fun competition at Lush HQ, showing once again the diversity on offer from our authors.

Before i get to the winners, I want to say a huge thanks to the person who shortlisted this one for me (I'm on vacation and was being ultimately lazy, lol), and also to all the judges who offered their two cents and insights into the stories that moved them the most.

Without further ado though, let me say huge congratulations to TheShyThespian, who tops the leaderboard for this one with his brilliantly moving tale of space exploits. It's tough to pack that much emotion into erotica in such a tight word count, so well done, Jason

In second place, another massive well done goes to CarltonStJames, who just delighted the judges with his particular brand of dirty talk.

And third place this time around goes to the brilliant Visioneer, whose story really stood out for its clever dialogue, which left the reader to fill in the blanks.

Three wonderful stories, so congrats to those authors, and to the rest of our talented bunch who made the top ten.

Thank you to everyone who participated in this one. As always, you didn't make our jobs easy, which honestly, we're not complaining about.

I'm already looking forward to the next competition. Now I just need to figure out what the heck it's going to be about. I'll post about this shortly :)

To the winners/runners up, I'm literally about to board a flight back to the UK, so I'll be out of reach for the next wee while. I will be in contact with everyone tomorrow to sort out prizes and awards. If any story mods read this and want to award EPs/RRs in my absence, have at it, otherwise I'll pick it up tomorrow.

Thanks everyone,

Jen x

Full list of Winners

1. Think Of Me… by TheShyThespian

2. Good For Nothing by CarltonStJames

3. The Gin Rickey Singularity by visioneer

4. A City Full Of Stories by WannabeWordsmith

5. X-Therapy by Jaymal

6. Confessions by Throb_Johnson

7. Le Métro by AmuseBouche

8. Whispers In The Dark by DadBod1133

9. Good Call by Babygirl4u

10. Pyramus And Thisbe by Piquet

Huge congrats to everyone on the Top 10 and who offered us sheer hot entertainment! You all rock!
Special shout out to those who entered for the first time. Loved to see so many new faces!
Thank you!

Woohoo! Great podium choices!

Congrats Top Ten! :worship:

Be proud of yourself if you entered!!! :worship:

What a fun one!!!!! ❤️

Thanks Jen, shortlister, judges, and everyone who participated as a writer or reader! 😘

Congratulations to the winners!

Big congrats to all the winners, especially to those on the podium!! So well done!

I'm in shock. Holy shi...

Wow, life has been sucky for a while, so this brought a big, broad smile to my face. A podium spot. This is surreal 😳.

Jason's story was so goddamn good. Broke my fucking heart, which is the show of fantastic storytelling.

A big shout out and congratulations to everyone in the top ten!!

Such a diverse set of stories. I wouldn't have known where to begin shortlisting so I'm glad it wasn't my job. To have even made it in, let alone 4th, is astonishing given the field. Honoured.

Congratulations to the well-deserved top 3. Superb writing all round, and as others have said, great to see a load of new faces too. Anyone who had the courage to dream up a story and share it here is a winner in my eye.

Massive thanks as always to the judges, shortlister, site owners keeping the lights on, and of course anyone who takes time to read and comment on the stories our authors conjure. You're all top banana.

To Mr. Thespian, Carlton and Visioneer, my warmest congratulations, such flair and panache in a very difficult, and popular competition, you are very worthy winners indeed. Bravo! 😘

For my story to be placed, that is an amazing honour - I have such problems with dialogue. Wonderful news for the last days of my long holiday sojourn. Mr. Wordsmith, I like to think we put Paris in a very naughty spotlight! I loved your story.

To everyone else, many congratulations, too, keep going and keep writing. Last, but most important, to the team that make this all possible, for your incredible work and these delicious competitions, you are the best! ❤️

Congratulations to the winners! 😊 And well done to all those who entered.

I'll echo Carlton - I'm in shock 😳! I cannot express how delighted and awed I am to have been considered worthy enough to be at the top of such a talented field. Someone very wise on this site once said that in order to win you have to 'knock it out of the park'. But I confess that I never know if I'm even close to that. Usually, I am full of self-doubt and have no idea if I've just written a pile of rubbish.

Does this mean I get a 'Competition Winner' badge 😊?

Well done to everyone who entered, to those who finished in the top ten, and to Carlton and Visioneer - it's an honour to share the podium with you.

Thank you Jen, judges, shortlister, and all those behind the scenes who work to make these competitions happen. And thank you to those who read, voted and/or commented on my emotional little story. You've helped keep my spirits up. I'm afraid I only managed to read a few this time, so apologies if I have not managed to read yours. I will try and make amends 🙄.

Congratulations, ShyThespian! Yours was my favourite entry, so I'm glad you won! And thanks to all the other writers who submitted, that was a really fun competition!

Didn’t see this coming...

I’ve been stuck in a writing drought unable to bring stories to completion for a long time, and to see it broken with a place on the competition podium is immensely therapeutic.

Congratulations to TheShyThespian, CarltonStJames, and everyone in the top 10.

My sincere thanks to readers, judges, and to those working behind the curtains to keep Lush moving.

I am truly honored to have my story selected as one of the top 10 in this competition. Congratulations to the top 3 for their outstanding work—I was captivated by your creativity and talent. To everyone who entered, your stories made this a rich and inspiring experience for us all.

A special thank you to the judges for their time and thoughtful consideration. Your feedback and recognition mean so much.

Good job all! Congratulations to the podium and thanks to the site and entrants.

Agreed! Proud to be among some great writers here. Thanks all. And thanks to KimmiBeGood for alerting me to the news. I didn’t even know!

Congratulations to everyone in the top 10, especially to TheShyThespian, Carlton, and Visioneer!

I'll repeat the astonishment I expressed in my comment to "Think of Me ..." What an incredibly powerful and sexy story, and to realize (which I didn't, until after I'd finished it) that it's 100% dialogue illuminates it as a staggering achievement. Well done, and well deserved.

Congratulations as well to everyone else named in the top ten. I've read, Liked and commented on every one of these tales, and they all deserve the recognition.

Kudos also to all who entered: even beyond the Top Ten, I found numerous stories to Like and quite a few to add to my Favorites collection as well. It was great fun reading them all, something I don't always manage to do.

Congratulations and thanks to all who entered, read, commented, organized and judged. Special congrats to those on the podium, unfortunately life kept me so busy that I only read 20 percent of the stories and only three in the top ten. One was TheShyThespian's which I totally loved; I will have to find the time to read many more inside and outside that top ten.

Congratulations to the winners. There was a lot of really great work in this competition. I especially enjoyed the authors who went beyond the low hanging fruit of phone sex to explore how else the dialog challenge could be taken up. Some of you were pretty inventive in your approach.

Congrats to the podium three and to all fellow top ten-ers! I'm looking forward to catching up with the smut-talking stories I've missed and being surprised by all the novel angles that writers have taken with the theme. Stay creatively naughty, people! 😘

Congratulations to the winners and the rest of the top ten! Wonderful stories, indeed! 😎

Congrats to all of the podiums, it is no easy task keeping writers like WannabeWordsmith, Jaymal and AmuseBouche off of the podiums.

Congrats to the other seven authors making up the top ten, and also commiserations to those that didn't quite make it this time around. It has truly been such a fun comp to read - full of such high quality writing.

You are all pushing the bar of expectations higher and higher as a community.

Lastly, a huge pat on the back to Jen and the judges, this one couldn't have been an easy one to judge at all.

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Congrats to all of the podiums, it is no easy task keeping writers like WannabeWordsmith, Jaymal and AmuseBouche off of the podiums.

Congrats to the other seven authors making up the top ten, and also commiserations to those that didn't quite make it this time around. It has truly been such a fun comp to read - full of such high quality writing.

You are all pushing the bar of expectations higher and higher as a community.

Lastly, a huge pat on the back to Jen and the judges, this one couldn't have been an easy one to judge at all.

This is very true. It is easy to think your writing is not good enough, so I empathise with our new writers who do well. More, please! I wish for all writers here to excel, and if I might inspire others, this is the highest honour!

For you to mention me (and the wonderful Jaymal and Mr. Wordsmith) is a fine compliment. Thank you, Georgina. 😘