Romance centered on love between women or women-aligned characters, spanning all subgenres and heat levels.
Sapphic romance features a love story between women or women-aligned characters (including nonbinary people who align with womanhood). The term has become the preferred umbrella because it's more inclusive than 'lesbian romance' and centers the relationship rather than the identity label. Sapphic romance exists across every subgenre: contemporary, fantasy, historical, sci-fi, paranormal, and everything in between.
Sapphic romance is one of the fastest-growing categories in romance publishing, driven by reader demand for diverse representation. If you're writing sapphic romance, understanding the community's preferences (own-voices expectations, trope popularity, what readers celebrate and what they critique) helps you reach your audience authentically.
Epic fantasy with a sapphic love story woven into the world-saving plot.
A time-displaced woman on a New York subway and the romance that defies temporal logic.
A Hollywood icon's life story revealing the great love she hid for decades, sapphic romance as historical emotional epic.