Epic Erotic Story of the Year:
Any erotic or sex story, more than 100,000 words (500 KB and up of text)
Long Erotic Story of the Year:
Any erotic or sex story, between 50,000 and 100,000 words (250KB to 500KB of tex)
Medium Erotic Story of the Year:
Any erotic or sex story, between 10,000 and 50,000 words (50KB to 250KB of text)
Short Erotic Story of the Year:
Any erotic or sex story, between 1000 and 10,000 words (or 5KB to 50 KB of text)
Flash Erotic Story of the Year:
Any erotic or sex story, up to 1,000 words (or 5KB of text)
Best Erotic Story by a New Author:
Any erotic or sex story whose author's first posting ever happened in the award year.
Best Romantic Story:
Love, romance and all that
Best Gay/Lesbian/Gender Bending story:
Self explanatory
Best Erotic Science Fiction Story:
Space, time travel, aliens etc...
Best Erotic Fantasy Story:
Swords and sorcery, vampires, wereanimals, genies, witches and warlocks etc...
Best Erotic MC Story:
Mind Control, hypnotism and other mind manipulation methods
Best BDSM Story:
Bondage, domination and sado/masochism
Best Erotic Horror Story:
Self explanatory
Best Erotic Humor Story:
Funny stuff
Best Erotic Poetry:
Erotic/Sexy Poems
Best Erotic Seasonal Story:
Halloween, Christmas etc...
Best Voyeur/Exhibitionism Story:
Self Explanatory
Best Do-Over Sex Story:
Somebody gets to redo a period of their life
Best Incest Story:
Story's main subject or theme is incest
Best Furry/Best/Zoo Story:
Stories containing sex or love with animals (the non-were kind)
Best Erotic Western Story:
Story set in the old american west
Classic Clitoride:
Any story posted/concluded more than five years ago, that didn't get nominated for a clitorides awards for some reason.
Author Categories
Author of the Year:
Any author who posted or completed the posting of an erotic/sex story in the awards year
Best New Author:
Any author who concluded their first erotic/sex story in the awards year
Lifetime Achievement Award:
For authors who made a significant contribution to the written erotica world. Active or retired, an author must have started posting at least five years prior to the awards year to be eligible, or is deceased.