Category: Award Winner

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

Sister Gin by June Arnold

June Arnold | Sister Gin | Aging, lesbian consciousness, the difficulty of escaping from alcoholism-these are the themes of June Arnold’s extraordinary novel, first published by

Posted in Autobiographical Fiction Award Winner

Sita by Kate Millett

Kate Millett | Sita | ‘A wrenching and intimate autobiography, Sita is an unsparing, moment-by-moment record of the fading of love, with all of its agony and false-dawn res

Posted in Award Winner Speculative Fiction

Slow River by Nicola Griffith

Nicola Griffith | Slow River | Slow River won both the Nebula Award and the Lambda Literary Award for author Nicola Griffith. The book’s near-future setting and devices place

Posted in Anthology - Nonfiction Award Winner

First Person Queer by Richard Labonte ; Lawrence Schimel

Richard Labonte ; Lawrence Schimel | First Person Queer |

In this amazing, wide-ranging anthology of nonfiction essays, contributors write intimate and honest first-person accounts of queer experience, fro

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 Poetry

Wonder by Nicole Pollifrone

Nicole Pollifrone | Wonder | For the days when you walk alone in darkness… it is you who must be the light… ‘Our humanity is our commonality. During the darkest and the bright

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

Leaving Earth by Helen Humphreys

Helen Humphreys | Leaving Earth | Leaving Earth is a first novel marked by its perceptive, lyrical language and rich, fascinating characters. On August 1, 1933, two young women, the fa

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 Award Winner Fiction

The Unlit Lamp by Radclyffe Hall

Radclyffe Hall | The Unlit Lamp | The Unlit Lamp, is the story of Joan Ogden, a young girl who dreams of setting up a flat in London with her friend Elizabeth (a so-called Boston marri

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