This may be super last minute, but I'm willing to bribe you with prizes if we get enough participants. Two years ago the Dirty 31 brought me out of a writing and creative slump and made me feel incredibly accomplished, and I would love to see it revived. Here's my offer:

• If 3 people participate I will provide 7 themes.
• If 5 people participate I will gild 1 lucky story.
• If 10 people participate I will provide 1 lucky finisher with an Amazon gift card.

If you're in reply to let me know and create yourself a thread!

Sorry I've sucked this year. That pack of smokes took a little bit longer to grab than expected.

I'll keep it short and sweet. Would anyone be interested in reviving this? Maybe planning for a big October, to celebrate D31's birthday?

I'msosorrypleaseforgiveme

Distantoranges was such a bad mod...

How bad was she?

She was so bad, that she completely didn't run the October contest.

So we're doing it now! It'll be in three rounds, and each round will be a separate post. Here's how it works:

• Round one: Every October participant has their name posted in a thread. For each participants, you can nominate one story. Do this by adding a subcomment under their username, stating the story name.

• Round two: The nominated stories for each participant face off with that same participants other stories. Vote on this by liking the subcomment of the story you prefer.

• Round three: Free for all. May the best story of all the participants win. However, in this round, you get up to three votes. Don't vote for yourself though. That's not cool.

The winners will win for glory, bragging rights, and a sick ass flair. Winners will be announced January 1st.

Round one thread should be up shortly after the posting of this thread.

December 5th: Repeal Day! Chug-a-lug!
December 15th: Underdog Day OR Ugly Sweater Day, maybe ugly dog under sweater day?
December 21st: Humbug Day. Bah!
December 25th: Christmas! Uh.
December 31st: New Year's Eve, celebrate the time for 2017 to leave.

12/1: Green Things, Grey Things /r/shortstories 12/2: The Goddess in the Bar on 6th Avenue /r/shortstories 12/3: Equinoxes /r/DrabbleRousers 12/4: July 18th, 64AD. /r/DrabbleRousers 12/5: Barrow /r/DrabbleRousers 12/6: Easy /r/LGBTQwrites 12/7: Howl /r/youpoetried 12/8: Tangles /r/LibraryArcanum - day late, my bad! Using one of my appeals. 12/9: The Thing About Forgiveness /r/DrabbleRousers 12/10: Atlantis /r/DrabbleRousers 12/11:
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12/1: The Leaves Cover My Sins - /r/DrabbleRousers

12/2: Turning Leaves - /r/youpoetried

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12/1: Punk Rock Chick - /r/youpoetried

12/2: Rupert LeClaw Cattorney at Law - /r/LibraryArcanum

12/3: Gameshark - /r/ShortSweetStories

12/4: Tyriel - /r/youpoetried

12/5: Drunk and Disorderly - /r/ShortSillyStories/

12/6: Dad and Gone - /r/youpoetried

12/7: Challenge Accepted - /r/SexyShortStories/

12/8: Just Close Your Eyes - /r/youpoetried

12/9: Stars and Lights - /r/youpoetried

12/10: December Day <3 - /r/youpoetried

12/11: Asshole - /r/youpoetried

12/12: SPHL - /r/youpoetried

12/13: [NF]Unhappy - /r/shortstories/

12/14: Funky Chunky - /r/youpoetried

12/15: Underdog - /r/youpoetried

12/16: [NFQuestions] - /r/shortstories/

12/17: Butterflies - /r/youpoetried

12/18: 925 - /r/youpoetried

12/19: Robin Hood - /r/youpoetried

12/20: Broken - /r/youpoetried

12/21: Bah Humbug - /r/youpoetried

12/22: Silent type - /r/youpoetried

12/23: 12/23/17 - /r/youpoetried

12/24: Future Artist - /r/youpoetried

12/25: Christmas - /r/youpoetried

12/26: Temporal Anomaly - /r/SexyShortStories

12/27: Shower - /r/SexyShortStories

12/28: [NF]Journal - /r/shortstories/

12/29: [NF]F' MOVING - /r/shortstories/

12/30: Deserve Better - /r/youpoetried

12/31: 2017 - /r/youpoetried

We'll continue taking sign ups until midnight PST, special cases will be allowed for an additional 24 hours, with the use of an appeal.

I'll update this post with this months themes over the next couple days. Today, tomorrow, and Sunday are all themeless. Requests for theme ideas are always considered.

Contests from October are in the process of being handled and will be completed by the end of December.

Those thinking about going for their Double Whammy, and doing both December and January, hold fast. I'll have a fun treat for you guys in January. ;)

Also, as a sidebar, taking applications for another modmin to help the lovely /u/distantoranges and I with running the sub. You can send a personal PM to me or go through modmail, just let us know how you think you could help make this crazy challenge even bigger and dirtier in 2018.

Good luck and may your sanity remain mostly intact.

u/definitelynotnic

12/1: [Best Worst Thing] (https://www.reddit.com/r/DrabbleRousers/comments/7gyxgi/best_worst_thing/) - r/drabblerousers

12/2: [Good Catholic Boys] (https://www.reddit.com/r/DrabbleRousers/comments/7h6c7y/good_catholic_boys/) -r/drabblerousers

12/3: Ghost - r/drabblerousers

12/4: [Waiting] (https://www.reddit.com/r/ShortSadStories/comments/7hmdkc/waiting/) - r/shortsadstories

12/5: repeal day [I Need a Drink] (https://www.reddit.com/r/youpoetried/comments/7hstjn/i_need_a_drink/) - r/youpoetried

12/6: [SAHM] (https://www.reddit.com/r/youpoetried/comments/7i3qvd/sahm/) - r/youpoetried

12/7: [Safe] (https://www.reddit.com/r/youpoetried/comments/7ibtyw/safe/) - r/youpoetried
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Working on finishing up things for October, but a tiny bit behind. We can't let that stop December, though! If you're looking to push yourself to the extreme, discover a self hate you didn't think possible, and kickstart your writing... You're in the right place. If you've made it this far and feel ready to take the next step, sign below in blood.

Themes will be released on the first. Don't worry, no Boxing Day this time. Prepare to get riggity riggity wrecked, folks. 🙃

The votes are all in, and here are the results!

• First place: Packrat by /u/Painshifter

• Second place: Mirrors by /u/distantoranges

• Third place: Sparkling Sea, Heavenly Sigh by /u/Polar_Starburst

Congratulations! You'll be receiving special flairs and some sweet animal pictures.

Keep your eye out towards the end of October for the announcement of this month's best-of contest!

u/anony-meow-s

October 2017

1/10 - Kateřina's Song - r/shortsweetstories

2/10- [Happy Birthday to Me!] (https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/73s5q3/happy_birthday_to_me/?st=J8A303KE&sh=1d247341) - r/nosleep

3/10- [Zombie...sort of] (https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/741203/zombiesort_of/?st=j8bqzors&sh=9efc948d) - r/nosleep (Admin removal)

[Zombie...Sort Of] (https://www.reddit.com/r/libraryofshadows/comments/74gpu3/zombiesort_of/?st=J8EMF1BX&sh=d2376714) - r/libraryofshadows (Repost)

4/10- [Catch Up] (https://www.reddit.com/r/shortscarystories/comments/747wl2/catch_up/?st=J8D12CK1&sh=067f4238) - r/shortscarystories

5/10- [Love] (https://www.reddit.com/r/Macabrerotica/comments/74fnxd/love/?st=J8EG8FQF&sh=a9f127bc) - r/Macabrerotica

6/10- The Sirens - r/shortscarystories

7/10- The Family Business - r/shortscarystories

8/10- Native Tongue - r/shortscarystories

9/10- What's Wrong with Her? - r/nosleep

10/10- Zombie...Sort Of - Part Two - r/libraryofshadows

11/10- RSPCSC - r/libraryofshadows

12/10- One Soul - r/shortscarystories

13/10- My Lucky Unlucky Day - r/wellrested

14/10- The Beginning - r/libraryofshadows

15/10- I Visited the Barn Today - r/nosleep

16/10- Subject: That thing in the break room - r/nosleep

17/10- Zombie...Sort Of - Part Three - r/libraryofshadows

18/10- Paradise - r/nosleep

19/10- Soul Train - Prologue - r/libraryofshadows

20/10- It's Him, Not Me! - r/nosleep

21/10- The Sacrifice - r/shortscarystories

22/10- Soul Train - Ariel - Part One - r/libraryofshadows

23/10- The Emoji Killer - r/nosleep

24/10- Woken Up - r/shortscarystories

25/10- Me and My Shadows - r/shortscarystories

26/10- My Big Brother - r/shortsadstories

27/10- Hunting - Research - r/libraryofshadows (admin removed)

Hunting - Research - r/shortstories (repost)

28/10- The Babysitter - r/shortsweetstories

29/10- Dead and Buried - r/shortscarystories

30/10- Wolf - Kathryn’s Dream - r/libraryofshadows

31/10- As Real as Possible - r/nosleep

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10/01: Good Feelings - /r/DrabbleRousers
10/02: Not All Stories Are Fiction - /r/DarkTales
10/03: Goodnight Johnny - /r/MotherGrues
10/04: The Computer Story - /r/WellRested
10/05: Don't Sleep At The Edge Of The Parking Lot - /r/shortscarystories
10/06: The Pumpkin Spice Massacre - /r/Nosleep
10/07: Thomas Smith's Last Stand - /r/SLEEPSPELL
10/08: A Warm Embrace - /r/DrabbleRousers
10/09: ¢няιѕт-¢υяισυѕ - /r/Macabrerotica
10/10: The Devil Made Me Do It - /r/shortscarystories
10/11: I want to believe - /r/DrabbleRousers
10/12: Bailey's Bad Day - /r/shortscarystories
10/13: The Black Kitty - /r/MotherGrues
10/14: Squid vs. The Plushie Room - /r/Nosleep
10/15: The Monsters In My Room - /r/shortscarystories
10/16: She's allergic to pumpkins - /r/Macabrerotica
10/17: Mister Pumpkin - /r/shortscarystories
10/18: Pizza Cat - /r/WellRested
10/19: James The Pumpkin Fucker - /r/Nosleep
10/20: Taunted By Death - /r/DarkTales
10/21: Twenty-One - /r/shortscarystories
10/22: Corey's Wish - /r/SLEEPSPELL
10/23: My Private Viewing Of The Emoji Movie Was Awesome - /r/Macabrerotica
10/24: The Problem With Pooping In Jack-O-Lanterns - /r/Nosleep
10/25: Unicorn Jizm - /r/Macabrerotica
10/26: A Free Ride In The Party Van - /r/DarkTales
10/27: My Puppy - /r/ShortSadStories
10/28: People Are So Judgmental - /r/Macabrerotica
10/29: The Last Ghost - /r/cryosleep
10/30: The Dreams Of A Slave - /r/DrabbleRousers
10/31: Goodbye Halloween - /r/shortscarystories

Reddit | Tumblr | Twitter

12/1 - The Stained Shirt - /r/ShortScaryStories

12/2 - Paper Glee - /r/YouPoetried

12/3 - all you can stomach - /r/YouPoetried

12/4 - Muah❣️ - /r/YouPoetried

10/1 - Bystanders - /r/ShortSeriousStories

10/2 - Tied to Tongue - /r/SexyShortStories

10/3 - (Virus Appreciation Day) - Appreciating Viral Daymare - /r/YouPoetried

10/4 - Nite Nite - /r/YouPoetried

10/5 - Work Ethic Time Sink - /r/YouPoetried

10/6 - My Little Constant - /r/YouPoetried

10/7 - A Questioning at the Core - /r/YouPoetried

10/8 - No connection - /r/YouPoetried

10/9 - Curious Events Day - Eyeing the Uncanny - /r/YouPoetried

10/10 - Ask Yourself - /r/YouPoetried

10/11 - Many Tiny Deaths - NSFW 18+ - /r/SexyShortStories

10/12 - This Poppy - /r/ShortSillyStories

10/13 - Friday the 13th/Superstition - Crossroads at 13th Street - /r/LibraryofShadows

10/14 - Lucky in Numbers - /r/NoSleep

10/15 - Hot Shower, Warm Bliss - /r/SexyShortStories

10/16 - Aurora Fatum (Aurora Aliena, part 4, finale) - /r/ShortSciFiStories

10/17 - Through a Darkened Mirror, Impossibly - /r/SleepSpell

10/18 - Home in My Pocket - /r/YouPoetried

10/19 - A Violent Sounding - /r/MacabrErotica

10/20 - Seeing with Feeling - /r/YouPoetried

10/21 - Did Not See It Coming - /r/DrabbleRousers

10/22 - D31er - I Will Do Anything with My Beloved - /r/LibraryofShadows

10/23 - Emojis - Chocolate Rain - /r/MacabrErotica

10/24 - Serious at Play - /r/YouPoetried

10/25 - Imprints - /r/YouPoetried

10/26 - A Storm Is Just a Storm? - /r/YouPoetried

10/27 - Aspire - /r/DrabbleRousers

10/28 - My New Bed - /r/YouPoetried

10/29 - My Dead Girlfriend Has Been Bringing Me Snacks - /r/NoSleep

10/30 - Contemplation - /r/WellRested

10/31 - Halloween - [Ages 11-13] All Hallows Mischief - /r/MotherGrues

December 2017

12/01: Doors Go Two Ways - r/shortscarystories

12/02: Oof - r/youpoetried

12/03: Morning Light - r/youpoetried

12/04: Something - r/youpoetried

12/05: (Repeal Day)

It's October first, that means the first day of a month of insanity. Get your threads made! If you need help with formatting, you can use this premade form. It already includes a top link and spacing, so edit as needed. :)

This month's themes:

• October 3rd: Virus Appreciation Day

• October 9th: Curious Events Day

• October 13th: Friday the 13th/Superstition

• October 22nd: D31er as a story character. You'll be randomly assigned a fellow participant and must include them in your story. Please include a small blurb about yourself in a comment here for this.

• October 31st: Halloween.

Themes are open to interpretation, but still mandatory. Missing a theme counts as missing that day. Please keep that in mind.

As always, you'll have three appeals. Prizes have changed, you can check out some of those changes here. Be sure to review the rules and approved subs.

Bonus Mini-Contest
In celebration of the birthday of one of our Dirty OGs, October 23rd will be an optional theme day with the chance to win prizes. Theme will be Emojis. Like all themes, this is open to interpretation. Entries for this will be judged by myself, /u/distantoranges, and the birthday boy, /u/Polar_Starburst.

Prizes:

• Special flair for all participants
• $5 Amazon giftcard

🗑️ First and foremost, I'll be cleaning up the sub over the next couple days. I finally created an archives sub that any past participants may post their threads in if they'd like. You can find it at /r/D31Archives/. Please make sure you make any saves or transfers you need to within the next 24 hours.

🎉 Second, we've added a few new subs to our Approved Subs! You can now submit works to /r/Essays, /r/FlashFiction, and /r/ShortStories. This hopefully helps fill the gaps we've discussed a bit better. They cover essay style pieces, general short fiction, and general stories that are both fiction and nonfiction. We're still on the lookout for a children's fiction sub, so if you know of one or would like to run one, please get at us! Also! Please make sure to review each sub's rules before posting.

👍 A general reminder that we now have a Facebook group for the sub. You can ask for or post prompts, post your works, bitch about how hellish D31 is, or just chat with each other. Authors AND readers are welcome to join.

☑️ Second reminder. Please go vote in our monthly contest if you haven't already! Voting ends October 5th. And all participants this month will be eligible for October's contest.

🌱💜 Lastly, for those wondering where/how Sade has been... I recently sat down with him for an interview for /r/30Press, with plenty of profanity and chain smoking. I'll have pictures uploaded soon, but for now you can read all about how he's doing and what he's been up to here. While we all miss our daddy dearly, he's been living the dream and doing well. :)

Edited to add:
🏆 If ANYONE is interested in possibly sponsoring prizes, please let us know. We're open to hearing any offer. We'll add you as a sponsor in the sidebar and Wiki, as well.

This is it folks! Vote for your favorites down below. In this round, you have up to three votes to spread out among the stories. However, you still cannot vote for yourself.

Voting closes October 5th, 11:59 pm.

The days are getting shorter, the weather is getting cooler, the leaves are changing, and Dirty 31 is a year old now!

Some of you have been along for this wild ride since the beginning, some of you are new, all of you are batshit crazy for even attempting this. But we're sure glad you do!

Sign ups go the same. Comment here or fill out a thread request in the sidebar. Sign ups will close at 11:59 on the 30th. Themes will be released then.

Good luck.

Hey all!

Based on the community input discussion thread it sounded like a lot of people were interested in the Dirty 31 eBook, so I wanted to make a proposal on what I think that would look like and get some community feedback.

The Dirty 31 eBook: The 3-Month Prize

• Frequency: Given that the eBook is supposed to be a prize for those who complete three months of stories, and we only write for six months out of the year, I think we should put it out once a year (January?) or twice a year (January and July?).

• Stories included: Each author who completes the 3 month requirement gets to choose up to three stories OR one or two stories that add up to ten thousand words to be included in the eBook. So you can have three stories that are each 3,333.3333 words long, two five thousand word stories, or one ten thousand word story included in the book. Hopefully this will provide a nice balance of authors. Also, mods get final say in what’s included in the book.

• When you qualify: Whatever month you finish your three, you’ll be included in the next book. So, if you finish in December of 2017 and we put out the next book in January 2018, that’s when your stories will be included. This is entirely dependent on how much time and effort it takes to put together an eBook, which I have no knowledge about.

• Bonus proposal: In the community thread we discussed themes or challenges to keep authors writing even if they don’t finish the whole 31. I’d like to do a weekly or monthly theme/prompt during each 31, and anyone who completes a story pertaining to that theme or prompt gets entered into a voting thread at the end of the month (a la the hospital challenge). In addition to whatever other prizes we decide on, the winning story of that month gets automatically included in the 31 eBook even if the author doesn’t complete three months of the Dirty 31. Hopefully this would help entice people to continue writing even if they don’t want/can’t do three months in a row.

What does everyone think?

I'm hoping for thoughts on the current approved subs, as well as any other opinions pertaining to adding to or removing from what we currently have.

Are there any other subreddits, either already in existence or that could be created, that you would like to see? D31 started with fairly heavy horror fiction leanings, but I'd really like to see it grow into a general encouragement of writing, in all forms. Do you feel there are any writing styles or genres that aren't included that should be?

Lately I have been toying with the idea, and possibility, of adding a sub for news style and op-ed writing. Is this something that would be well received?

TL;DR: Any of you interested in doing something similar for next month, except you only have to write between 1 and 3 stories per week?

Background: I'm infinitely more productive when I have structure and a challenge to keep me writing. I also really enjoy r/cryosleep, r/libraryofshadows, and r/sleepspell. So, I figured why not combine them!

The Plan: In the off-months of The Dirty 31 (April, June, etc.) I'd be willing to host a Dirty 31 inspired but much lighter contest. The goal would be to post one story per week to one of these subs:

• r/cryosleep

• r/libraryofshadows

• r/sleepspell

Special recognition will go to the participants who post in all three each week.

Why: You crazy people are good writers. I like those subs and they cover a variety of genres. I also need some motivation to keep writing. So, y'know, why not?

Even if your response is a resounding "hell no" I'd like to know your thoughts. Let me know what you think!

Edit: I've made a subreddit for the challenge - [The Dirty 12] (https://www.reddit.com/r/TheDirty12/). Let me know if you want to participate by either commenting here or sending me a mod message and I'll approve you to make a thread.

#What is The Dirty 31?

Founded in September of 2016, The Dirty 31 was born from a personal goal that NoSleep writer S.A. Decomprosed (/u/Decomprosed) set for himself: write 31 stories in the 31 days of October. In the announcement thread (posted to serve as an accountability gravemarker), a handful of other users came forth to state that they would like to join in. Inspired by a request for a place to keep track of the challenge from /u/Thequietestwhisper, The Dirty 31 was born.

#How Does It Work?

You can find the comprehensive Posting Guidelines here

There are 7 months in the year with 31 days. To make it even, we're gonna cut out July so everyone can focus on getting drunk, falling into grills, and blowing shit up. Thus, six months out of the year, you'll have the opportunity to hit the Dirty 31.

Once you're a Dirty 31er, you'll be required to stick to the schedule. One new story every 24 hours posted to an approved subreddit (the stories can be hosted wherever you'd like, but they must be posted to Reddit as well). You can find a list of approved subreddits on the Wiki page. Once posted, you just come to your thread in The Dirty 31 and update it with the link.

If for some reason you can't make the cut, you'll need to send an appeal. With an appeal, you have an additional 24 hours to make the post, along with the new post for that day. Use them sparingly - you only get three. Failing this, you will be disqualified.

More than just bragging rights and a false sense of self-worth, there are also Prizes available for competin' and completin', so stay strong and power through even your worst 3 AM tears of mental anguish.

#Prizes

Besides bragging rights and a massive headache, users who complete the Dirty 31 will be crowned with the following tiers and receive the related prizes. To qualify for a higher tier, you must complete the tiers consecutively.

Dirty Birdy (1 month completed)

• "Dirty Birdy" flair

Piss Piglet (3 months completed)

• "Piss Piglet" flair
• a short flash piece of erotica written about a topic of your choice by The Jizz Ensemble
• inclusion in The Dirty 31 eBook

Monarch of Filth (all 6 months completed)

• "Monarch of Filth" flair
• a free ad on The Dirty 31 website (run for 3 months, site coming soon)
• a short flash piece of erotica written about a topic of your choice by The Jizz Ensemble
• inclusion in the Dirty 31 anthology eBook and the Dirty 31 anthology physical book
• a golden puppy that shits money, maybe (probably not)

#Helpful Guides & Links

Approved Dirty 31 Subs

Appeal

Posting Guidelines

Reddit Formatting

Reddiquette