Category: Award Winner

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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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