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Xan West


Born
August 01, 1974

Died
August 13, 2020

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Xan West is the nom de plume of Corey Alexander, an autistic queer fat Jewish genderqueer writer and community activist with multiple disabilities who spends a lot of time on Twitter.

Xan's erotica has been published widely, including in the Best S/M Erotica series, the Best Gay Erotica series, and the Best Lesbian Erotica series. Their work has been described by reviewers as “offering the erotica equivalent of happy ever after”, and “some of the best transgressive erotic fiction to come along in recent years”.

Xan’s story “First Time Since”, won honorable mention for the 2008 National Leather Association John Preston Short Fiction Award. Their recent collection of queer kink erotica, Show Yourself To Me, is out from Go Deeper Press, and ha
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Writing Awards to Consider as an Indie Author of Romance/Erotica

This is a partial list of potential writing awards that indie writers of romance and erotica might consider submitting their work to. I am not specifically endorsing any of these awards, my goal is to share information about them so that you can decide for yourself whether it might be worth submitting your work. If your work is cross-genre, you might consider SFF, children’s literature, or mystery

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“It's kind of like polyamory. I'm often dating several projects at once.”
Xan West, Their Troublesome Crush

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