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Inkitt's Love Out Loud Contest
Let’s declare our love for each other loud and proud! Celebrating our diverse backgrounds and inclusive communities, let’s bring more visibility and representation to all shapes, sizes, and colors to our characters and stories.
Submit your romance, erotica, thriller, horror or mystery novel, where the main protagonists are members of the LGBTQI+ community, for the chance to win a publishing contract, social media spotlights, and more!
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The Hungry Bunch
A trip to Italy, what could possibly go wrong? Isabella and her three best friends have been in the limelight since they were twelve years old, but that was then, and this is now. No amount of mon...
The G. Warming 2060
A satirical novel about global warming in the far future. Libecrat and Demoral are two sides of New York. To stayd alive and leave the Earth, two friends who haven't spoken in ten years must coop...
Spilt Milk
Everything was going great for Asher for the first time in decades…until it wasn’t and when he killed the wrong man, his entire life is turned upside down and he doesn’t know who he can trust. His ...
CEO's subject of love
The new CEO, once just a high ranking member of a secret human trafficking market for the elites, falls in love with one of the women being sold. He does everything he can to try to find her again ...
The Desert Within
#THIS IS A PREVIEW# Isaac McKenzie moves back to the US after five years abroad. His next-door neighbor has been tasked with keeping an eye on him till his parents arrive. Steven never expected Isa...
Theo's Gift | Perfect Pose | Night Sleeper | Legacy Talent
#THIS IS A PREVIEW# Theo's Gift: Andrew is still recovering from a major loss when he finds himself in a totally unexpected situation during his summer vacation. Perfect Pose: Art School is the pla...
When The Rain Stops
Jackson Rivera hates summer for three good reasons - three months of social isolation at his family's summer cottage, three months of dealing with the family who shares the cottage, and three month...
The Things We Fear
Magic users, werewolves, vampires, and countless other supernatural creatures stalk the small town of Breckon Heights. Despite looking like a sleepy town, there is a lot happening beneath the surfa...
The Last Monster
As a performer, you must understand that sometimes you must leave the stage to perform on another bigger platform. but what if this platform can be your last? this book will take you through a jour...
Confession
Buried secrets come to life at an anniversary party gone awry
Saudade
Getting lost within the folds of the years can seem terrifying. Especially when a person is hunted by what they are not. Memories keep evoking a sense of nostalgia that is always accompanied by mel...
Selah’s Song
Eyes like pools of dried blood. Sharp teeth. When his friend is dragged out to sea by a strange and terrifying creature, Elliot must do whatever it takes to rescue him.
The Sound of You
Amari is cold and distant, yet sings straight from his soul. Yangyang has a deep, kind voice, and plays guitar as if he were music itself. They are instantly attracted to each other’s sound, but fo...
The Magpie's Death
The Magpie is a rumor and a legend. Cold. Ruthless. The best freelance criminal in the city's underworld. But when a simple job leads to a dead mark, a toddler, and a secret, the Magpie is forced i...
Long Way Home
After a fateful car accident, Jackie and Oren decide to run away together. But the further they travel from the city, the weirder things start to become. Follow them as they fight monsters, make ne...
Unstable
Unstable and Cold my heart was too sore my breathing is too fast I can't take this anymore........... Zander White. Trauma has made him the villain in his own small story. Kim Suho. Another charact...
About the contest
Inkitt's Love Out Loud Contest
Let’s declare our love for each other loud and proud! Celebrating our diverse backgrounds and inclusive communities, let’s bring more visibility and representation to all shapes, sizes, and colors to our characters and stories.
Submit your romance, erotica, thriller, horror or mystery novel, where the main protagonists are members of the LGBTQI+ community, for the chance to win a publishing contract, social media spotlights, and more!
What you win
Publishing Contract up for Grabs
The top 3 winners will receive a publishing contract and a social media spotlight across all of the Inkitt platforms1st place: A Galatea publishing contract, a social media spotlight across all of the Inkitt platforms and an exclusive book cover design
2nd place: A Galatea publishing contract, a social media spotlight across all of the Inkitt platforms and year-long free Galatea subscription
3rd prize: A Galatea publishing contract and a social media spotlight across all of the Inkitt platforms
Judged by our algorithm, winners will be chosen by our unique algorithm based on 1200 reader behaviors designed to detect the next best seller!
Contest Terms
- The contest will run from July 18th to September 18th 2022. Winners will be chosen no later than September 25th 2022.
- Entering the contest is free; all that is required is to upload your book onto Inkitt and submit it on the contest page.
- Stories can be in any language and must be original works. No plagiarism will be tolerated.
- Entries must be brand new stories to Inkitt.
- Stories must be written within the genres of Romance, Erotica, Thriller, Horror or Mystery. However, other genres can also be involved in the story-line,
- Main protagonists must be a member of the LGBTQI+ community.
- Winners will be chosen by our unique algorithm based on 1200 reader behaviors.
- Authors cannot enter the contest more than once with the same story, but an author may submit as many books as they want.
- The minimum word count per submission is 10,000 words. There is no maximum word limit.
- We collect data on your submission from the day it's received.
- You must own the rights to the novel. You retain all rights to your stories while posted on Inkitt.
- Previously or currently self-published books are accepted
- Stories must abide by Inkitt’s community guidelines. No glorification of non-consensual sexual acts. Please check the Terms of Service on our website first.
