Awards - NLA International

Awards Chair/ Candi-Anne

Announcement

Official press release of writing awards for 2019!

National Leather Association - International, a leading organization for activists in the pansexual SM/leather community, announced the winners for excellence in literary works in SM/leather/fetish writing published in 2018. The judges received a great number of nominations this year and judging in most categories was quite difficult with such exemplary pieces of writing.

Geoff Mains Non-Fiction Book Award, the winner's are Janet M. Hardy for The Sexually Dominant Woman: An Illustrated Guide for Nervous Beginners (Greenery Press) and Peter Tupper for A Lover's Pinch: A Cultural History of Sadomasochism (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers).

Honorable mention in this award goes to Mistress Couple for The Ultimate Guide To Bondage (Cleis Press).

John Preston Short Fiction Award, the winner's are Sinclair Sexsmith for "Brutal" (self-published on SugarButch.net), Nicole Field for "Possibilities" (Less Than Three Press) and Xan West for "Trying Submission" from the anthology Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year Vol 3, (ed.) by Sacchi Green (Cleis Press).

Honorable mention for short story goes to Kiki DeLovely for "Fetters of First Love" from the anthology Corrupted: Erotica and Erotic Romance for the Modern Age (ed.) by Charlie Powell (Sexy Little Pages).

Samois Anthology Award, the winner is The Big Book Of Submission Volume 2 (ed.) Rachel Kramer Bussel (Cleis Press). There are no honorable mentions in this category this year.

Pauline Reage Novel Award, the winner is Nicole Field for From The Same Star (Less Than Three Press).

Honorable mentions in this award goes to L.M. Somerton for Serving Him (Pride Publishing) and Dr. Gloria Brame for Champions Of Pleasure (Moons Grove Press)

Cynthia Slater Non-fiction Article Award winner is Xan West for "Why I Care About Depicting Survivors of Abusive BDSM Continuing to Do Kink” which appeared on Kink Praxis at https://xanwest.wordpress.com/2018/11/08/why-i-care-about-depicting-survivors-of-abusive-bdsm-continuing-to-do-kink.

Honorable Mention in this award goes to Sinclair Sexsmith for “Creating A Submissive Training Plan For Yourself” which appeared on SugarButch Chronicles at http://www.sugarbutch.net/2018/12/submissive-training-plan.

Congratulations to our winning writers and our honorable mentions. Our judges thoroughly enjoyed reading your works.

Nominations for literary works published in 2019 for the 2020 awards will open November 1, 2019.

CandiAnne

LIL Awards Chair

Official press release of artist awards for 2019!

NLA-I ARTIST AWARDS ANNOUNCEMENT: (Denver, CO) – The Living In Leather Project is an extension of the NLA International association of leather peoples with a shared philosophy. With a focus on fostering and building clubs and events throughout the world and in communities with a need for education and support of alternative lifestyle relationships. Recognizing the culture of leather through the art, literature, and the recognition of the people who dedicate their lives to the Leather and BDSM world. As we already recognize two of the contributing factors to the culture of Leather/BDSM/fetish, activism, and authors, we are happy to begin the recognition of our artists! We hope to continue these awards into the future and bring attention to the artist of our community as we have authors and activists. Living In Leather LLC is a 501(c)3 Charitable Organization, announcing its new Artist Awards Program. We are excited about this new branch of our awards project, which has been awarding writers since 2007, and activist since 1986.

Please see the information below and send any questions or begin sending in your nominations to awards@livinginleather.net.

Awards and categories are: Details on the award namesake and examples of their work can be found online within our Living In Leather website. (www.livinginleather.net)

• Chéri Hérouard – Realism

• Clovis Trouille – Surrealism

• Gene Bilbrew- Animation (includes illustrations and comics)

• Aubrey Beardsley- Abstract

• Michael Kirwan- Expressionism

Artist Finalist and Winner:

• Winners will be given a page to highlight their work, bio, photo, and links to sell their books through their website links within our website.

• A plaque of the recipient’s name and artwork title being awarded.

• Winners will have the right to use an award graphic for their specific artist award and year to attach to their cover art or websites.

• All finalists have the right sell prints of their nominated artwork at Living In Leather’s gathering and are encouraged to also vend at the host event.

• Living In Leather will circulate postcards with the winning artists' artwork printed on one side, artist and award information published on the reverse to hand out at Living In Leather and ship to chapters for advertisements.

• Winners will receive a one-year free Commercial membership of the NLA-International, and the rights of voting, as well as advertising, included. Example, web banner and use of posts through NLA social media.

• Winners will have a chance to be interviewed for our First Link Magazine and marketed for the year to our membership. This magazine is archived on our site for future reference in PDF. Artwork may be used in the magazine or on the cover for that issue.

• Money raised from the art auction shall be divided up between the winners of each category and Living In Leather Project to help offset the cost of awards and meeting space, just like the writing awards. All money will be placed in one pool, 80% of total funds will be divided equally among winning artists. The remaining 20% will go toward the next year's funding and advertising for awards. Payment will be made within seven days of the auction. Winning Contestants agree to serve on the committee to judge the following year’s nominations and submissions.

Process and Submission Requirements:

• Nominations start November 1st and end January 31st.

• Artists may self-nominate, if they are nominated by the public, they must accept nomination by December 31st.

• Nominations for the Art Awards are FREE.

• What medium the work is made in does not matter; it must only fit the category.

• Artists must submit work that is newly created within 365 days before nomination.

• Artists must provide judges photos of the work they wish to submit for their nomination by no later than February 28th.

• All finalists will be announced before Living In Leather after April 1st.

• Winners will be announced at the Living In Leather meeting.

• Biography, photo of the cover, photo of the artist, and a brief description of works and contact information must accompany the nomination.

• Color CMYK format at 300dpi graphic of art submission and a release must be submitted before judging, this allows us one-time printing rights to recognize the work in our First Link Magazine, and promotional material of the author and the work for the year it is awarded.

• Failure to submit releases will result in disqualification.

• Artists are required to acknowledge original artists of any work they gleam, duplicate in another medium, or recreate. Failure to do so will result in removal from the contest. Should a selected winner be found later to have gleamed and not reported this to the judges, the winner shall repay the entire financial prize and no longer claim their awarded titles.

• All the Finalists must donate to the Living in Leather event the original work that was nominated for the silent auction during the event weekend.

• Prints being sold at Living In Leather shall be smaller in size than the original work to ensure the original work is given the best price at auction.

• Space will be limited to a 3x5 spot area for each finalist and must confirm to guarantee a spot in advance. Spaces are first come first serve.

• All originals are to be shipped to the Living In Leather Coordinator no later than one month before the event if the artist is unable to attend. Attending artists may also pre-ship their artwork if they need it.

• Living In Leather does not assume liability or responsibility for lost or damaged art during shipment. Living In Leather is not responsible for shipping the artwork back, the artist should have a plan in place with the Co-Ordinator should this need to be done.

• The finalists that are not winners understand that the donated works and the money raised in the silent auction for their nominated work will also be divided up for the winners.

CandiAnne
Living In Leather Awards Chair