This year, our Literary Art Exhibition will feature 26 poems and 12 short stories. Accepted work came from poets across the nation and world, from as far away as France and Austria.

The Literary Art Exhibition will be presented in a lush and intimate boudoir setting, and will feature readings by many of Seattle’s hottest erotic spoken word artists, throughout all three days of the Festival. The evening hours will feature Dr. Sketchy’s art installation, where you can sketch live models while listening to spoken word!

We are thrilled to offer an exciting special feature for the first time: selected poets will choose a work of art from the visual art exhibition, and write a piece inspired by it. They will then conduct a daily “Poet’s Favorite” walking tour, where you can be led to each work of art and listen to the poem it inspired, read by the author.

Additionally, you’ll be able to take the work of our literary artists home with you! For the first time we’ll be featuring all selected poems and short stories in an anthology, which will be on display and for sale in the Festival Store and online.

Some of the featured writers have made waves in the erotic literature community.

The erotica of Jen Cross has appeared in over 30 anthologies and other publications, and she regularly performs at the National Queer Arts Festival and LitQuake’s LitCrawl.

David Jones has been a Festival favorite, performing his erotic poetry at the Festival in many previous years.

Jae Carlsson aka Vivien Lim is a local playwright of some renown, having presented work at the Balagan Theater.

Layla Tromble has been published in an interesting book called Spirit of Desire: Personal Explorations of Sacred Kink.

Maureen Betita has several books published and had some of her work placed in the Festival’s top 10 last year.

Ted D’Leyo had work on display at this year’s Detroit Dirty Show.

We hope you’ll come enjoy the work of these and many other enchanting writers during this year’s festivities, and take a copy of the anthology home with you!