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Sugarbutch Star: WINNER!

Posted on by Sinclair Sexsmith

I’m back from Salt Lake City & my short Southwest roadtrip! Lots of catching up to do.  

By a landslide: the winner of the 2007 Sugarbutch Star Contest is Essin’ Em, who submitted the scenario for the story The Diner on the Corner.

Congratulations! And thank you, for the fabulous … submission.

Your prize, darling, consists of the following:

  1. Smut books! A particularly fabulous sex toy store has donated On Our Backs Volume 2 and Best Lesbian Erotica 2007 (in which I have a story).
  2. “I was a Sugarbutch Star” tee shirt!
  3. Chapbook containing all of the Sugarbutch Star stories
  4. Last but not least … a night on the town with me, should you chose to accept it, when you visit this ol’ city next … rest assured, there will be dinner and debauchery.

Shannon’s story The Photo Shoot was the second favorite, and I’ve got a few little things for her, too …

  1. Copy of Switch Hitters, a book of smut stories where gay men write lesbian erotica and lesbians write gay male erotica – one of my personal favorite collections
  2. Chapbook containing the Sugarbutch Star stories

Thank you, so much, to all the folks who sent in story outlines, to all the stories I chose to write up: Lady Brett Ashley, bird, Avah, Grey, the Femme Top, Jennifer, Bad bad girl, Madeline, Jefferson. This was a really fun contest, and though it took me way too long to finish up, I think I may just do it again!

Published by Sinclair Sexsmith

Sinclair Sexsmith (they/them) is "the best-known butch erotica writer whose kinky, groundbreaking stories have turned on countless queers" (AfterEllen), who "is in all the books, wins all the awards, speaks at all the panels and readings, knows all the stuff, and writes for all the places" (Autostraddle). ​Their short story collection, Sweet & Rough: Queer Kink Erotica, was a 2016 finalist for a Lambda Literary Award, and they are the current editor of the Best Lesbian Erotica series. They identify as a white non-binary butch dominant, a survivor, and an introvert, and they live outside Seattle as an uninvited settler on traditional, ancestral, & unceded Snoqualmie land.

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8 thoughts on “Sugarbutch Star: WINNER!”

  1. Rona says:

    You should sell those chapbooks :)

    [Definitely will be! All the Sugarbutch Star finalists will get a fancy one, and then I'll have copies available on the site soon. – ss]

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  2. Essin' Em says:

    Yay! I'm so excited :)

    Thanks for putting this on, and again, wonderful stories, all of them. The chap book will be read quite often, I assure you.

    We'll have to arrange for June :)

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  3. Shannon says:

    Such a wonderful project.. I hope you decide to do it again ~

    Reply
  4. muse says:

    I just read winning entry again, and fuck if that isn't the hottest. story. ever. Sin, you really are the bee's knees of smut.

    and really, they're all that good. I want a chapbook, like, now.

    Reply
  7. lady brett says:

    congrats essin' em!! a very well deserved win =)

    and congrats to all y'all!

    and, well, what muse said. couldn't say it better!

    Reply
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