Introduction to the Poetry Contest Forum

Welcome to the Poetry Contest forum; this area is set aside for a friendly competition amongst our authors to practice our skills, expand our horizons, fight our limitations and display our abilities.

Things to know:

1. Poems are to be submitted to contest-entries@hotmail.com. Submissions will be posted anonymously, to encourage unbiased appraisal and to encourage emerging authors to contribute. At the completion of voting, only the winner's identity will be revealed (although other authors may, of course, identify themselves). Please note that once a confirmation email is sent, no email addresses will be saved or used for any purpose.

2. Entry in the Poetry Competition grants bdsmlibrary.com non-exclusive rights to the work. We encourage you to post elsewhere as well, but entries will not be removed from the site, even at the request of the author. Please be aware this may interfere with future publishing; posting here is for fun and sharing, not for works you hope to profit from later!

3. All members of the Library are invited to judge poems; criteria may be suggested for consideration, but the decision is up to your peers. The winning poem will be posted in a special forum, and the winning poet distinguished with a forum insignia.

4. Contest entries will be accepted until the end of each month; there will then be a week-long poll in the Site Announcements forum, after which the winner will be announced.

6. Upcoming themes will also be posted ahead of time to allow poets more time to plan and write. Submissions may be made as soon as an upcoming month's topic is posted. These themes will rotate between three over-arching concepts: A style or genre of poetry; an aspect or kink within the BDSM scene; and a non-linguistic work of art.

If you have any questions, please post them here or pm me!