The Romance Awards 2026. (Entries Closed) ✍️✨ Want recognition for your work, honest encouragement, and a helping hand with your writing goals? It doesn't matter if you're just starting out or you've been writing for a while. These awards are for everyone. Take a look inside at the categories you can enter, from sweet to dark, spicy, and everything in between. Submit as many stories (not AI-generated) as you wish in English. Your work will be judged by an award-winning author contracted with two romance publishers, and two books reaching Amazon bestseller status in 2025. Now, she wants to pay it forward by supporting other romance writers. ⭐️ First prize winners will receive: - A winner's sticker 🏅 - A shout-out on the awards host/judge's Wattpad Conversations. - A shout-out on the host/judge's social media. - A short announcement and review in the winners' section (why the judge loved your story, potential improvements, and what made your story stand out). 🏆 One grand prize winner (Top prize for all genres) will get: - All of the above-mentioned first prize winnings, plus... - An invite to a one-on-one session to help with their writing goal and light editing/private feedback for their first chapter. Submit your story and let your romance writing shine.📚 Good luck! ♥️

While we wait for the TEGSA prompts to drop on July 1st, let's keep our nimble fingers busy. Introducing a mini-contest, well---a musical mini-contest. It is on the TEGSA profile after all. Let's see how this works...

Allies, curious, queer and questioning writers and readers! Pride Month is around the corner! @FreeTheLGBT presents our new event running every day of Pride Month (1 June to 30 June): The HUNDRED WORD LOTTERY. Wattpad writers of queer fiction can post a quote of up to *100 words* from one of your books as an inline comment into this book. Every day during June we'll spin the randomiser wheel to select one story per day of Pride Month to be showcased (1) in this event book itself, (2) on our message board, (3) on this profile's Discord server, and (4) in a dedicated reading list that we will promote during Pride Month! What amazing prizes! If you don't enter contests but want a chance for your book to be in the spotlight this Pride Month, join in! Even if your book doesn't get chosen by the wheel, your 100-word quote might pique the interest of other competitors looking for some fresh summer reads! ENTRY FORM QUESTIONS: 1. Book link 2. Chapter that the 100 word snippet/quote is from 3. 100 word snippet/quote

The biggest, brightest, rainbowest interactive LGBTQ+ Pride Fiesta has arrived! Grab all your friends and allies and let's fly our flags together as one! COMING JUNE 1st! ♥︎Claim a free Pride Month Fiesta cover sticker ♥︎Win amazing shoutouts ♥︎Raise awareness for the LGBTQ+ movement ♥︎Meet fellow LGBTQ+ themed writers and ask them anything ♥︎Get to know your community ♥︎Enjoy mini-games, challenges, prompts, and mini-contests ♥︎Bring out the artist in you and share it with all of us ♥︎Get ready for amazing videos too!

The Open Novella Contest is back for 2026! Join fellow storytellers and plant the seed of a tale that will blossom into a 20,000+ word novella within 12 weeks! Your epic quest begins February 1st, 2026, so mark your calendars with this date!

Our very own contest, the Pride Awards, is here! All writers and readers in the LGBTQIAP+ Family are officially invited to join us on a month-long adventure to create completely new stories in the best of company!

Welcome to the underworld's most scorching showdown. A realm where glory is forged in flames and only the wickedly worthy survive. Will you rise from the ashes with the 𝐁𝐚𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐬, or will you crumble, cursed and forgotten, in the 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐚𝐦𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧? The judges don't blink. The flames don't forgive. This isn't just an award show- It's a reckoning. 𝘋𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳? 𝘋𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘯?

The Pride Awards are an annual event hosted by the Rainbow Bookclub, a community dedicated to creating a safe space for all writers, with the goal of recognizing the writing of positive representation for LGBTQIA characters and stories.

The Aro Ace Awards are an annual event hosted by the Triple A Community, a community dedicated to spotlighting stories featuring characters across the aromantic and asexual spectrums