The Rauxa Prize is not affiliated in any way with the EAA. However, we feel it is important for our members to know about it.
The Rauxa Prize carries an award of $1,000, given annually for an erotic short story of exceptional literary quality. The award is judged by a select jury, and chosen from work nominated by editors and writers. Publications of any type are encouraged to nominate qualifying material. Each publication may nominate up to five stories for inclusion; any individual may nominate a single story.
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Nominations must be received by August 15, 2007. Details are available at the Rauxa Prize Website.
The Obelisk Award for Lifetime Achievement in Erotic Writing or Publishing
Awarded every five years, The Obelisk Award, named for publisher Jack Kahane whose Obelisk Press in Paris published the early works of legendary authors such as Henry Miller, Anais Nin, and James Joyce, honors a lifetime of extraordinary achievement in the writing and or publishing of erotic literature in English or English translation. This category awards multiple winners. Honorees can be living or deceased.
Honorees for the EAA 2007 Lifetime Achievement Awards
To be awarded in Spring 2007
Nan Kinney is the president of Fatale Media and producer of Fatale Videos. She is one of the founding publishers of the highly acclaimed and notorious On Our Backs magazine.
Debi Sundahl, aka Fanny Fatale, is the foremost pioneer and expert in female ejaculation and the G-spot, which she calls ‘Phase II in The Bloom of Female Sexuality’ that began in the 1960’s. Her 23 years of groundbreaking contributions to this field include author of the first popular book on the subject, Female Ejaculation and the G-spot; and as producer, director and writer of a line of DVD's entitled the Female Ejaculation Sex Education Series through her company Isis Media. These include: the first video made on this subject, How to Female Ejaculate; the first video featuring the G-spot massage, Tantric Journey to Female Orgasm; and the first video to actually show visually where the g-spot is located, Female Ejaculation for Couples. She lectures and gives workshops internationally, and has taught thousands of men and women how to integrate the once silenced G-spot and female ejaculation into their erotic life.
Deborah is also a pioneer in the field of women's sexuality, most notably as co-publisher for ten years of the first women's erotica magazine, On Our Backs (1984-95); as co-founder of the the first lesbian erotic video company, Fatale video (1985-1996); and as co-founder of the first women's erotic striptease show in San Francisco, BurLEZk Live! (1985-1988) - all with Nan Kinney. She continues to be a spokesperson for female sexuality, and an advocate for sex education. Currently, she is exploring the realm of sexuality as a healing modality.
Jack Fritscher, PhD. 50 years as published author; 17 books; 400 articles/stories, 1000 photographs in 38 mags; writer-director,162 homomasculine videos: www.PalmDriveVideo.com; world’s first PhD dissertation on Tennessee Williams (1967);1968 novel I Am Curious (Leather) [Leather Blues]; founding San Francisco editor, Drummer magazine. Books: memoir-bio of his bicoastal lover, Mapplethorpe: Assault with a Deadly Camera; Popular Witchcraft (1972 & 2005); and Lambda Award-Nominee, Some Dance to Remember: A Memoir-Novel of 18th and Castro 1970-1982. “Gay Heritage” research. www.JackFritscher.com
Michael Perkins has been at the forefront of serious American erotic writing for three decades. His early erotic novels issued by the legendary avant-garde California publisher Essex House won praise from Samual R. Delaney, Thomas S. Disch, Philip Jose Farmer, Norman Spinrad, Harlon Ellison, Marilyn Hacker and many others. His classic 1968 novel Evil Companions was reprinted in 1992 by Rhinoceros with an introduction by Samuel R. Delaney. His novel, Dark Matter (Titan), appeared in the UK in 1996. He has published a dozen novels, including the million-copy bestselling novelization of Deep Throat.
Since the late 1970s, Patrick Califia has been educating outsiders about sexual minority issues (gay and lesbian, bisexual people, transgendered people, the BDSM community, sex workers, etc.). He has been one of the most prolific and outspoken voices in favor of freedom of sexual expression between consenting adults.
The Erotic Authors' Association Website
can be found at http://www.eroticauthorsassociation.com/ (you'll have to cut and paste due to MySpace Censorship)
“Art or not, dirty books make people uncomfortable. Otherwise sophisticated people snigger at the thought of assigning literary values to them, and find it difficult to understand how one dirty book might be different from the next. Their argument is with sex itself, of course—with the possibility of seduction by a book from a genre of forbidden writing that subversively criticizes social conditioning. In a society in which sex is both a major obsession and a major taboo, dirty books offend because they confront the impulse straight on.”
—Michael Perkins, The Secret Record
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Membership is Currently Closed
Check back in Late Spring 2008.
Membership in EAA opens two to three times per year. Since we are a volunteer organization run by and for writers, requests for membership will only be considered during those times. Otherwise, we'd never get any of our own work done.
Membership in the EAA is free of charge. However, you do need to be a published author in the erotic writing genre to join. We include fiction, poetry, and non-fiction writers among our members, as well as writers of traditional erotica, G/L/B/T/ erotica, sci-fi erotica, BDSM/fetish erotica, paranormal & fantasy erotica, and erotic romance.
We include: print publications (magazine, books, etc.), e-books and zines, and self-published writings as “published” works. If you have a question about whether your work qualifies as published, please e-mail us and we'll be happy to answer your question.
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