Category: Award Winner

Posted in Award Winner Fiction Short Story Collection (Single Author)

Bar Stories by Nisa Donnelly

Nisa Donnelly | Bar Stories | From Publishers Weekly

Subtitled A Novel After All , these polished and smartly paced stories about lesbians in love loosely revolve around B

Posted in Award Winner Speculative Fiction

Les Guerilleres by Monique Wittig

Monique Wittig | Les Guerilleres |

One of the most widely read feminist texts of the twentieth century, and Monique Wittig’s most popular novel, Les Guérillères imagines the

Posted in Award Winner Historical Romance Romance

The Heart’s Desire by Anna Furtado

Anna Furtado | The Heart’s Desire | Travel back in time to the early Renaissance town of Willowglen Township. Catherine Hawkins, a spice merchant and healer, prepares for the autumn fair

Posted in Award Winner Speculative Fiction

The Female Man by Joanna Russ

Joanna Russ | The Female Man | The Female Man is a classic feminist science fiction novel by American writer Joanna Russ, published in 1975. Four women, Joanna, Jeannine, Janet and

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Award Winner

Truly Wilde by Joan Schenkar

Joan Schenkar | Truly Wilde | Born a scant three months after her uncle Oscar’s notorious arrest, raised in the shadow of the greatest scandal of the turn of the twentieth century,

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

Play Things by Peter Prince

Peter Prince | Play Things | The 27-year-old hero of Play Things recently graduated and landed a job at a top architectural firm, but, he says, “I got tired.” Now he’s dropped out

Posted in Award Winner Fiction Romance

Olivia by Dorothy Strachey

Dorothy Strachey | Olivia |

Considered one of the most subtle and beautifully written lesbian novels of the century, this 1949 classic returns to print in a Cleis Press edit

Posted in Award Winner Fiction Romance

Shy Girl by Elizabeth Stark

Elizabeth Stark | Shy Girl | ‘Alta Corral is a distinctive character in contemporary fiction … a young woman confident, even nonchalant, about her sexual conquests of other wome

Posted in Award Winner Grier Rated Romance

The Friendly Young Ladies by Mary Renault

Mary Renault | The Friendly Young Ladies | Set in 1937, The Friendly Young Ladies is a romantic comedy of off-Bloomsbury bohemia. Sheltered, naïve, and just eighteen, Elsie leaves the st

Posted in Anthology - Fiction Award Winner Coming Out

A Woman Like That by Joan Larkin

Joan Larkin | A Woman Like That |

The act of ‘coming out’ has the power to transform every aspect of a woman’s life: family, friendships, career, sexuality, spirituality. An essenti