- Award of $50 per month for best story or $100 per month for best series.
- Maximum of $250 per year per author.
- Prize payment transmitted through PayPal.
- Using multiple names, email addresses or aliases disqualifies author.
- Awarded to completed story or series.
- Additional chapters will be accepted and published after the award, but the story will not be eligible for another award.
- A story may win the award once.
- Sequels that are published as independent stories instead of a series are not eligible for multiple awards.
- A wholly new sequel can be considered for a separate award.
- The prize will be awarded to romantic stories depicting adult relationships in the Adult-Friends, Beginnings, Relationships, and College categories of the Gay, Bisexual, Lesbian or Transgender Sections of the Nifty Archive.
- Extreme content (incest, raunch, urination, scat, authoritarian, BDSM, torture, rape, etc.) will disqualify a story from consideration.
- Playful, light bondage or watersports can be present.