For this competition, we want you to get creative with creativity itself. Maybe dance performers get rid of pre-show jitters in a fun and physical way. Maybe someone takes up pole dancing as a new exercise regime and enjoys the benefits of additional flexibility. Or perhaps an artist and their muse act out erotic acts to really cement the visuals in the artist’s head.

As always, we invite you to choose from the vast array of categories Lush has to offer. The word limit for this competition is a healthy 5,000 words. We will accept Flash stories for this competition, but they must be 800-1000 words long. No poetry or micros, please.

This competition will run through Sunday August 9th and winners will be announced on Monday August 17th

Lush competitions bring out the best in our authors. Unfortunately, cash prizes also attract fraudsters. If we deem you to have submitted a story to the competition which uses AI for writing or editing, you will be banned from this, and all future competitions, so we would recommend keeping any working notes and drafts as you go. If you have used AI to translate, edit or enhance your work in the past, we would strongly advise against. We will treat this the same as using AI to create and you may be banned for cheating