Announcing the winners of our "Spring Forward" competition

This was a great competition to judge, with so many different types of stories based on the theme. Huge congratulations to our winning three, VioletVixen, krystalg and Saucymh. I will be in touch today about your prizes.

Thank you also to those who helped shortlist and to our panel of judges for your insight and decisions.

Another competition will be announced shortly.

Top ten winners:

1. Catharsis by VioletVixen

2. Protean: Born Anew by krystalg

3. Chrysalis by Saucymh

4. Sex on Fire by StarBelliedBoy

5. Skye by kkikkiriccio

6. Human Again by dronette56

7. Tomorrow Is Another Day by ChrisM

8. Into The Cold by 1meanjean

9. Heaven, Hell and Hard by Norcoaster

10. Hard Love by toniscales

Congratulations to all the winners and kudos to everyone who participated! Great stories!

Congratulations to everyone, and especially the podium winners! What a talented group of people we have here!

Great job by everyone entering, as always wonderful stories inside an outside the top ten. Special congrats to VioletVixen, krystalg and Saucymh on their well deserved podium places and to the others who rounded out the top ten. A great competition to be part of, thanks to those who read, commented, organised and judged.

A stellar collection of stories. Congratulations to the winners and to all who participated .😉😉😉😎

Congratulations to everyone in the top 10. Great work especially by Violet, Krystal and Saucymh!

Congratulations to all who placed and everyone who entered.

Well done to the superb podium finalists, the terrific top 10 and all who entered! Many congrats!! 🎉🎉🎉

Well done to everyone who entered, placed or stands on the podium. I read almost all of them and the incredible creativity on display matched the rather wide brief. So many great entries.

Congratulations to everyone involved: the judges, site admins and of course anyone who had the courage to enter and showcase their talents. Marvellous.

Good job everyone! And to VioletVixen, krystalg, and Saucymh: seriously great writing from seriously great writers!

Woohoo! great job everyone: authors, admin, mods, and judges! This was a great theme to spark some really creative stories!

Extra congrats to Top Ten and Stellar Podium (Violet, krystalg, and Saucymh)! You all rock!! I'm happy for you! ❤️

Great work by all ten and well deserved top honors to VioletVixen, Krystalg, and Saucymh!

Such an honor and to get my first win on here with some queer sci-fi and gay cowboys, yeehaw! Even more an honor to be sharing it and the top ten with so many talented writers here. Congrats to everyone in'n'out of the top 10. Great to see so many new names in there.❤️

Congratulations to the winners and to everyone else in the top 10!

I wanted to say that I found this particular competition to be filled with fantastic stories. I thoroughly enjoyed ALL of the stories written in this one and I don't think that there was a single story in this round that wasn't stellar.

Congratulations to the winners and the rest of the top ten! Wait, what's my name doing there? Especially great to see some new names in there - my memory is terrible but I know that at least toniscales' entry was her first in any Lush competition, so to get in the top ten is a great achievement! And there's at least one there I haven't read so shall do that ASAP.

Yay, I’ve squeezed on to the podium with VV and Krystal - that’s a good place to be Well done to the top 10 (lots of new writers) and everyone else who made this competition so much fun. And, of course, thank you admins and judges xxx

Congratulations and thank you to all involved in this competition. Always an eclectic mix of excellent stories to read, I find it fun and challenging. Always impressed with the numerous authors involved and appreciative of the work behind the scenes. 😎

Congrats to top 3, top 10 and those who entered.

Congratulations, Saucymh

This was a tough writing prompt, so a big round of applause to all of you who took a stab at it. There were a ton of fantastic and creative ideas. I am envious of all of you and your talent(s).

Congratulations to Violet who seems to have taken to these comps like a sitophile to gooey desserts (that's the same as saying a duck to water for us non-food-sex players). 😊

Great to see Krystal and Saucy round out the podium! Well done by all.

Yayy! What an amazing trio up there!

Thank you all who entered and entertained us with your talent display. It's great to see so many new faces and fantasy/sci-fi stories!
Comps are great

Congratulations to the winners and the honorable mentions! I loved reading these!

Congratulations to all the top tenners here. Some I've read, and some are on my list. Great to see a mix of friends and newbs hitting the high spots. Well done Violet, Krystal and Saucy for the podium placings!!! 😀

Well done V.V!!!

Some excellent entries in this comp, glad I wasn't involved in picking the winner!

This was one of my favourite competitions since moving to Lush V2.

It's great to see new faces contributing and building confidence too!

I am already looking forward to the next one!!

Congratulations to everyone who got a story in the Top 10! Well done! 🍷

Congratulations Violet and the top 10. You should all be so proud of your stories. 🍷

All three of these podium winners are top notch. Strong writing! And in addition, they were written by some of my favorite folks here at Lush! Yay!

I'm still going through the runners-up, but congrats to all of you too, this looks like a tough field! And of course congrats to anyone who has the courage to put words down on a blank page and create a world all your own.

congratz to all 10 of you, especially top 3. super excited to see VV's first win PLUS Krystal's placing! I knew she'd find herself there one day!

Congrats to everyone!