Real Love Contest

Hosted by evieeden and elidunbigboot

Have you ever read a lemon in fanfic and thought ‘there’s no way sex is that perfect in real life.’

Due to problems with the voting system, we're still working out what's going to happen with the public vote. Unfortunately this means that the announcement of the winner has been delayed, but we're hoping that this will not be the case for more than a week. Sorry for all the inconvenience.

Presenting the ‘Real Love’ Contest

*Winner Announcement*

1st place judges' vote: Love is Ruff by MegsD

2nd place judges' vote: Floaters and Sinkers by Hammer of Destiny

3rd place judges' vote: Granny Pants by Hongkongphooey

The Deflated Cherry Pop Award: Wedding Night Blues by Lady of Spain

The Closest Near Miss Award: From Perfect to Wrong by RandomMama

That Really Happens Award: Floaters and Sinkers by Hammer of Destiny

Disaster Alert Award: Parental Discretion is Advised by Hammer of Destiny

Best Comedic Value Award: Floaters and Sinkers by Hammer of Destiny

Thank you to everyone who entered the contest, we've loved reading all your entries, and congratulations to the winners. Feel free to post them to your own accounts now.

We want your stories based around a realistic sex scene, with all the funny, embarrassing, painful or just unexpected aspects of making love in real life. Maybe Bella and Edward’s first time is more painful than perfect, Esme doesn’t really like to swallow, Leah always gets the giggles or Emmett just can’t perform. We want all the nitty-gritty, imperfect details of how sex really is.

The Rules

- All stories must include the realistic portrayal of sex or a sexual act. A little bit of plot wouldn’t go awry either.

- All pairings/characters are acceptable.

- Because of the subject of this contest, all entrants must be 18 or over to participate and all contest fics must be rated M.

- Collaborations are acceptable, but no more than two entries per person/collaboration.

- All entries must be between 2000 and 10000 words.

- Entries must be an independent one-shot, no outtakes or continuations of previous fics will be accepted. Your entry should not be continued until the contest is over.

- Entries must meet a minimum standard of spelling and grammar. Betas are your friends and we recommend that you use one.

- No entries containing rape, bestiality, paedophilia or incest will be accepted into the contest. The entries will be screened by us before they are posted.

In addition to the public and judges’ votes, we will also be giving special recognition to the winners of these categories:

- Deflated Cherry Pop – best depiction of realistic virgin lemons.

- The Closest Near Miss – the lemons that should’ve happened, but somehow... didn’t.

- That Really Happens?! – lemons you thought only existed in fanfic.

- Disaster Alert – it should have gone so right, but then it went so wrong.

- Best comedic value – the funniest realistic lemon story

All entries must remain anonymous. This is in the interests of fairness in the contest, so please do not let anyone know which entry is yours until the contest is over and the winners have been announced. Your entry will be posted to our account.

All entries must be emailed to reallovecontest@ for submission with the following header:

‘Real Love’ Contest

Title:

Pen name:

Characters:

Disclaimer:

Please also include a summary in your email.

The contest is open for entries from Friday 15th April to midnight on Friday 3rd June 2011.

Public voting will take place from Sunday 5th June to Friday 10th June.

Winners will be announced a week after on Friday 17th June.

Winners of the public and judges’ vote and the special categories will receive custom banners.

Your judges for this contest are PhoenixRising25, naelany, kimmydonn, AlverdineFF, tiffanyanne3 and Mrs_Will.

Happy Writing.