Season I · entries open
Two ways in
Show your own work, or judge someone else’s. Post-Ost authors send an entry; subscribers write an essay and join the jury. Both are free.
Check you qualify
You are 18+, from a Post-Ost country, and create and publish your own content, in any format.
Gather your links
Every channel and platform where you publish. No need to send the work itself.
Message us
In the awards’ channel direct messages or by email.
Wait for a reply
We will confirm we got your entry and tell you what comes next.
What to send
The key thing is links to all your channels: the jury will use them to see your work as a whole. Any format works — video, photography, GIFs, drawing, digital and 3D art, NFTs — and any mix of them.
- Name or alias
- Country
- Links to all your channels and platforms
- Up to three categories
- A few words about you and your formats
Categories you can enter
Pick up to three. No entry is needed for the Audience Prize or the Jury Grand Prix.
- IAuthor of the Year
- IIBest Channel of the Year
- IIIBest Active Role
- IVBest Versatile Role
- VBest Passive Role
- VIDominant of the Year
Epigraph
“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.”
We are not looking for people to explain “what the author meant”. Sontag wrote that criticism should make the work, and our own experience, more rather than less real to us. A good review of porn does not hide arousal behind jargon. It says how that arousal was made.
Cinema has film critics, painting and photography have art critics, restaurants have food critics. Porn barely has any. A review names a technique, compares, argues, and so builds the context in which a work becomes visible. The GOLDEN HOLE jury are the first authors of that context.
Who we are looking for
Taste over tenure
- I
A trained eye
Film, photography, exhibitions — not just porn. Taste begins with the ability to compare.
- II
Attention to detail
You notice the light, an awkward cut, a precise angle, the line of a drawing — and understand what they do to the viewer.
- III
Language
You can explain why a work works. Beyond “well, it’s hot”, but without academic armour either.
What a juror gets
- 01/ 04
A vote
You decide the six categories and the Grand Prix.
- 02/ 04
Access
A year of access to every entrant’s private channels.
- 03/ 04
Talking to the authors
A direct conversation about how and why they film, photograph and draw.
- 04/ 04
Influence
Your reviews shape the language in which the genre will be discussed.
How to get in
An essay contest
Subscribe
The contest is held among subscribers of the awards’ private channels.
Write an essay
We will announce the topic and deadline in the official channel.
Take a seat
The authors of the best essays join the permanent jury.
Dates Dates to be confirmed
Season one
The awards are running for the first time. The first two stages are under way; we will announce the other dates in the official channel.
Open now
Call for entries
Post-Ost authors send links to all their channels and platforms. Entry is free.
Open now
Jury call
An essay contest among subscribers of the awards’ private channels. The best essays earn a seat on the jury.
Date to be announced
Voting
The jury studies the work in full — video, photography, graphics — and votes by category. Subscribers vote for the Audience Prize.
Date to be announced
Awarding
The laureates are announced online, in the awards’ official channel. The NFT awards are minted on TON and sent to the winners’ wallets — no need to go anywhere.