Category: Award Winner

Posted in Award Winner Historical Romance Mystery

The Madonna of the Sorrows by Nene Adams

Nene Adams | The Madonna of the Sorrows | May 1889 – A chance meeting in the Turkish baths leads consulting detective Lady Evangeline St. Claire and her lover, Rhiannon Moore, to a mystery – t

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

Lover by Bertha Harris

Bertha Harris | Lover | A wonder…I was seduced by its tantalizing elusiveness, its audacity, its sheer brio…a spellbinding, verbal sleight of hand as satisfying as it is

Posted in Award Winner Literary Criticism

Seduction and Betrayal by Elizabeth Hardwick

Elizabeth Hardwick | Seduction and Betrayal | Nominee for the National Book Award, this collection of literary criticism considers the careers of women writers as well as the representation of wom

Posted in Anthology - Nonfiction Award Winner Canadian Eh

In A Queer Country by Terry Goldie

Terry Goldie | In A Queer Country | Publication Date: February 1, 2002

In terms of rights and freedoms for queers, Canada holds an international reputation as among the most lib

Posted in Award Winner Fiction Historical Fiction

Patience and Sarah by Isabel Miller

Isabel Miller | Patience and Sarah |

Winner of the 1971 American Library Assoc.’s first Gay Book Award, later called Stonewall Book Award

Set in the nineteenth century, Isabel M

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

The Names of the Moons of Mars by Patricia Roth Schwartz

Patricia Roth Schwartz | The Names of the Moons of Mars | Poignant stories about our lives as women and as lesbians. Winner of 1990 Lambda Literary Award.

Posted in Award Winner History

Hidden From History by Martin Duberman; Martha Vicinus; George Chauncey

Martin Duberman; Martha Vicinus; George Chauncey | Hidden From History | Without peer, Hidden from History gathers together the works of the most exciting scholars in the dynamic field of homosexual studies, making this a g

Posted in Award Winner History Lesbian Studies

Between Women by Sharon Marcus

Sharon Marcus | Between Women | Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other’s hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

Licking Our Wounds by Elise D’Haene

Elise D’Haene | Licking Our Wounds | Timothy Leary extolled this first novel as ‘poignant and hilarious . . . rowdy sexual expression rarely seen in literary works by women.’ Maria finds

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

Play Things by Peter Prince

Peter Prince | Play Things | Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award

‘An agreeably readable first novel . . . light-hearted throughout, and altogether the book is a promisin