Category: Award Winner

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

Bhopal Dance by Jennifer Natalya Fink

Jennifer Natalya Fink | Bhopal Dance | An imaginative, erotic rethinking of Bhopal’s disaster–and perhaps our own

On the night of December 2, in the midst of the Reaganomic era, a

Posted in Award Winner Mystery

Good Bad Woman by Elizabeth Woodcraft

Elizabeth Woodcraft | Good Bad Woman | 2002 Lambda Literary Award Finalist, Lesbian Mystery

Frankie Richmond is a London Barrister long on attitude and short on lucrative work. Her

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Award Winner Black Interest Memoir

Hunger by Roxane Gay

Roxane Gay | Hunger | In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, using her o

Posted in Award Winner Poetry

Play Dead by Francine J. Harris

Francine J. Harris | Play Dead | ‘This book talks smack. This book chews with its open mouth full of the juiciest words, the most indigestible images. This book undoes me. Francine J.

Posted in Award Winner Poetry

Directed By Desire by June Jordan

June Jordan | Directed By Desire | “Jordan . . . is among the bravest of us, the most outraged. She feels for all. She is the universal poet.”–Alice Walker “Always urgent, inspiring, a

Posted in Award Winner Play

The Gulf by Audrey Cefaly

Audrey Cefaly | The Gulf | Winner of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Drama. The divide between Kendra and Betty mimics the very world that devours them: a vast and polarizing

Posted in Award Winner Black Interest Fiction

Yabo by Alexis De Veaux

Alexis De Veaux | Yabo | Alexis De Veaux laces together the past and the present with poetic elegance in an intricate and delicate pattern of call and response. …Echoing the

Posted in Award Winner Fiction Movie/Media Tie-In

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins

Tom Robbins | Even Cowgirls Get the Blues | Starring Sissy Hanshaw–flawlessly beautiful, almost. A small-town girl with big-time dreams and a quirk to match–hitchhiking her way into your heart

Posted in Award Winner Mystery

Scorpion by Gerri Hill

Gerri Hill | Scorpion | Poking a sleeping bear with a sharp stick is foolish. Marty Edwards is about to be very foolish. Investigative reporter Marty Edwards has found her ni

Posted in Award Winner Black Interest Chicana/Latina/Latinx Interest Poetry

Body Language by C. C. Carter

C. C. Carter | Body Language | Body Language’ a celebration of all things woman by award-winning performance-poet C.C.Carter, was a 2002 Lambda Literary Award finalist.

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