Category: Award Winner

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

Amnesty by Louise A. Blum

Louise A. Blum | Amnesty | When her father dies, Maura Jaegar emerges from seclusion in rural Pennsylvania and returns to her small hometown, where she must come to terms with h

Posted in Award Winner Pulp

Room to Swing by Ed Lacy

Ed Lacy | Room to Swing | Plot Summary

Toussaint Marcus Moore, private eye, is hired by Kay Robbens to keep an eye on Robert Thomas, the man who is going to premiere Kay’s

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

The Singing of Swans by Mary Saracino

Mary Saracino | The Singing of Swans | 19th Annual Lambda Literary Awards finalist in the Spirituality Category. Madalene Ross’s complacent life is about to be turned upsde down. Never one

Posted in Award Winner Fiction Movie/Media Tie-In

Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing by May Sarton

May Sarton | Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing | Hilary Stevens is an aging writer asked to recount her poetic inspirations, and we are taken along on this journey of rediscovery. Both subtle and int

Posted in Award Winner Literary Criticism

The Safe Sea Of Women by Bonnie Zimmerman

Bonnie Zimmerman | The Safe Sea Of Women | Written for scholars, writers, activists, and the general reader, The Safe Sea of Women is an indispensable survey of an important area of lesbian cul

Posted in Award Winner Pulp

The Mesh by Lucie Marchal

Lucie Marchal | The Mesh | ”I hated her when I first saw her. She was so passive, so voluptuous, so unlike me. Then something changed me. Alone with her I was filled with a joy

Posted in Award Winner Fiction Jewish Interests

Days of Awe by Achy Obejas

Achy Obejas | Days of Awe | “RICH AND SONOROUS PROSE . . . There’s plenty of reason to hope for the future of a fiction that welcomes writers with such a passionate sense of the

Posted in Anthology - Fiction Award Winner Chicana/Latina/Latinx Interest

Chicana Lesbians by Carla Trujillo

Carla Trujillo | Chicana Lesbians | Literary Nonfiction. LGBT Studies. ‘CHICANA LESBIANS is a love poem, a bible, a dictionary, nothing so simple as a manifesto–this book is yet another

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

Outsiders by Lynn Ames; Georgia Beers; Susan Smith; Susan X Meagher; JD Glass

Lynn Ames; Georgia Beers; Susan Smith; Susan X Meagher; JD Glass | Outsiders | What happens when you take five beloved, powerhouse authors, each with a unique voice and style, give them one word to work with, and put them between

Posted in Award Winner Erotica

Best Lesbian Erotica by Rachel Windsor

Rachel Windsor | Best Lesbian Erotica | Lusty and Fun Better set aside some ‘me time’ once you have your hands on this award-winning collection of hot, sheet-twisting erotic stories that wil