We Love New Voices & Want to Hear Yours!

Esoterotica, Erotica from New Orleans, is always seeking sensual, sexual, or simply scandalous poetry, flash, confessions, and narrative nonfiction for our Live Show at The AllWays Lounge & Cabaret. So, if you live in the New Orleans area and have something sexy to share, email us to submit your original erotica or learn more at info@esoterotica.com.

Please Review our general writing guidelines prior to submission. We do also recommend you attend at least one of our shows before reading with us to get a feel for our format, style, and atmosphere. Esoterotica is not an open mic. Submissions are required in advance to be performed on our stage.

Our General Guidelines

There are endless methods of arousing desire, and we’re always eager to be touched in new ways. That being said, we have a few ground rules to help ensure your erotica is right for us and our audiences:

1. Consent is sexy. Erotica can sometimes straddle the line between sex and violence, but sex without consent is simply violence and not something we allow to be performed at our shows. And remember: children, animals, and corpses cannot give consent.
2. Esoterotica strives to be a safe and inclusive space. We are not interested in and will not respond to pieces containing: racism, homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, misandry, objectification, humiliation, or ridicule of specific people or groups in any way.
3. We use trigger warnings. Sometimes the erotic is or involves highly personal, emotional, or even traumatic content. If your piece addresses anything possibly triggering, please include a content warning note in the body of your email before your submission. We also use trigger warnings on stage at the beginning of our shows and before pieces with sensitive content are performed. We will discuss any warnings your piece may need with you prior to the show.
4. No fanfic please. We respect copyright to the best of our ability and are most interested in original content, stories, experiences, etc.
5. We respectfully request that you avoid scat, urine, vomit, humiliation scenes, graphic violence (even consensual), bait and switch scenarios, and clowns.
6. We have a soft five-minute, and a hard seven-minute time limit. Please be considerate of this when you submit your writing.
7. Ask if you’re unsure. If you’re not sure whether your piece meets our guidelines, reach out and ask at info@esoterotica.com.

How to Submit

Send your original erotica to info@esoterotica.com either pasted into the body of an email or attached as a .doc(x), .prf, or .rtf file. We prefer attachments to Drive links.

Include your name and what show you are submitting for as well as any trigger warnings or other information about your piece in your email before your submission.

Please do not submit multiple pieces or send links to your online blog or portfolio. Submit one piece at a time for the show at which you are planning to perform.

The Deadline to Submit for any show is the Sunday evening prior to that show, by 8pm. For instance, if the show is on Wednesday, March 4th, pieces must be emailed by 8pm Sunday, March 1st.

We will respond to your submission as soon as possible. However, if you do not hear from us within 3 days, you may want to check in to make sure we did receive your submission and it was not accidentally sent to the ‘spam’ folder.

Be Advised

Esoterotica does not use or condone the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in the creation or writing of pieces submitted or performed at our shows and expressly prohibits any use of works, including images, submitted or performed at our shows from being used to “train” generative artificial intelligence (AI) to generate text or images, without limiting the author’s exclusive rights under copyright.