Entries are short, writers of all level are welcome, and the competition is anonymous until after the results are announced, meaning that the victors will be decided purely by skill.
If you’re interested in taking part, please ensure you read all the rules thoroughly before beginning your piece~!
If you're interested in following along, please join us in the Yuri Garden for the fun to come.
You can keep up with this year’s competition over on our Scribble Hub account, found here: https://www.scribblehub.com/profile/25779/theyurigardenallotment/
New submissions will be posted together on Saturdays.
First, second and third place will have their chapter titles changed to reflect their achievement and will be moved to the beginning of the “novel” in order. They will also be mentioned in the “novel” description.
The top three winners will also be immortalised on the Yuri Garden’s opening post, with links to as many of their author profiles as they wish, and links to any other yuri they write, whether now or in the future. (Just let me know when you post a new one.)
In addition, as is the tradition, winners will receive a prize of nuffies (NUF’s forum money – NOT real money). Unfortunately, NUF rules forbid me from offering prizes with real monetary value.
This year’s nuffie prizes are:
Second place: $700 $1609 $3118 $5119 $6517 $6678
Third place: $500 $1409 $2918 $4919 $6317 $6478
(Prize nuffies increased thanks to donations from @Ddraig, @HamsterOverlord-sama, @AsianessPride, @Yandere Devil, @crimson_carnation and @Nekorin, and an anonymous donator)
The rules will be split into two sections to make them easier to navigate.
2. The minimum word count is 1500 words, and the maximum is 3000. I will be strict about this – 1499 is unacceptable, and so is 3001. Your title will not be included in the word count.
3. Your story must be sent in a Private Message to me (Moonpearl) either on Scribble Hub or on NUF before 23:59 on the 31st of July 2020, BST (GMT +1), when submissions will close.
4. Multiple entries are permitted, but each submitted story must have absolutely no relation to each other.
5. You cannot discuss your story, ideas for it, or share drafts of it with anyone other than me (Moonpearl) until voting has finished. Vague-posting about it also counts.
6. After your first submission is accepted, you'll be provided with a personal delay period, which is different for every participant. Participants are not allowed to tell anyone that they've submitted/entered until their delay period has ended. You cannot tell anyone what your delay period is, even after it ends.
(You can say that you intend to enter before submitting, and can continue to say that you plan to enter and are writing your piece until your delay period has ended.)
7. Participants are permitted to tell people that they’ve entered after their delay period, but not how many stories they’ve entered or what their submissions are. You are not allowed to provide hints either.
8. The anonymity rules are serious. Any attempts to cheat in this competition will result in immediate disqualification, announcement of the fact, and potentially a ban from all future Yuri Garden events.
9. You can withdraw from the competition at any time by letting me know.
10. You can publish your story on your own SH account after the voting results are announced, if you so wish.
1. Your story must be yuri.
In other words, there must be a significant romantic or sexual relationship between at least two women in your story, and one of those women must be the protagonist regardless of who the narrator is. This relationship should be the focus of your story in some way.
Casual passing flirtation and/or a character who just happens to be a lesbian will not count. Ambiguous relationships (i.e. yuribait) will not be considered a fulfilment of this requirement.
2. No lolicon. This includes but is not limited to:
- Relationships between characters who are 18 or over and characters who are under 18
- Sexual content with characters below the age of 18. This includes but is not limited to sex involving those characters, sexual contact involving those characters (e.g. hickeys, fondling/groping), and the sexualisation of those characters (e.g. using erotic description)
- Characters intended to look like children and/or much younger than they really are, regardless of what age you try to claim them to be
There are no loopholes in this rule. I reserve the right to refuse any story that tries to find a way to circumvent it.
3. Relationships between characters who are below the age of eighteen can only have a two-year age gap at most. The rule about a character being much younger in all but name still applies here.
4. No incest or futanari.
5. Gender bender will only be permitted if the change is “male to female” and the character(s) undergoing the transformation identified as a woman/women prior to the change.
6. No depictions of rape, bestiality, necrophilia, or other illegal sex acts. Mentions of them should also be kept to a minimum (none at all, if possible) and only in a negative light.
7. No stories where characters are “turned straight”, end up with someone who’s not a woman, or leave a woman for someone who’s not a woman. (Your characters can have had relationships with non-women in the past or leave one for a woman.)
8. NSFW is allowed but do note that, if you plan to publish your story on your own account afterwards, stories on Scribble Hub cannot be purely smut or “porn without plot”. A few smutty stories in a collection, as the submissions will be hosted as, shouldn’t fall foul of the guidelines.
If you have any questions about the competition and its rules, please message me. Questions about elements you plan to include in any entries should be sent in a personal message only~!
Aslan quotes should be posted here.....
I only just discovered about this oh no
May god forbid me from starting another novel.
Ei-men
Wait... I'm... nevermind
3. Your story must be sent in a Private Message to me (Moonpearl) either on Scribble Hub or on NUF before 23:59 on the 31st of July 2020, BST (GMT +1), when submissions will close.
I think it should be 31st of July 2021?