Category: Award Winner

Posted in Anthology - Fiction Award Winner

Same-Sex Love in India by Ruth Vanita; Saleem Kidwai

Ruth Vanita; Saleem Kidwai | Same-Sex Love in India | Lambda literary award finalist, Same-Sex Love in Indiapresents a stunning array of writings on same-sex love from over 2000 years of Indian literature

Posted in Award Winner Romance

Family Affair by Saxon Bennett

Saxon Bennett | Family Affair | Oops…is an understatement. Chase Banter thought her life couldn’t get any weirder. Her mother has taken up private investigating, her writer’s group

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

Trash by Dorothy Allison

Dorothy Allison | Trash | Trash, Allison’s landmark collection, laid the groundwork for her critically acclaimed Bastard Out of Carolina, the National Book Award finalist that

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Award Winner History

Alice + Freda Forever by Alexis Coe

Alexis Coe | Alice + Freda Forever | In 1892, America was obsessed with a teenage murderess, but it wasn’t her crime that shocked the nation–it was her motivation. Nineteen-year-old Alic

Posted in Award Winner Canadian Eh Fiction

The Young in One Another’s Arms by Jane Rule

Jane Rule | The Young in One Another’s Arms | Winner of the 1978 Best Novel of the Year Award from the Canadian Authors Association.

Posted in Award Winner Black Interest Fiction

Erzulíe’s Skirt by Ana-Mauríne Lara

Ana-Mauríne Lara | Erzulíe’s Skirt | Fiction. African American Studies. LGBT Studies. Set in the age of urbanization in the Dominican Republic over the course of several lifetimes, ERZULI

Posted in Award Winner Romance

Laughing Down The Moon by Eva Indigo

Eva Indigo | Laughing Down The Moon | Allura Satou is in a funk. She’s tried to keep up appearances, but the post-breakup blues are dragging her down. Writing no longer holds much joy, tho

Posted in Award Winner Romance

In Broad Daylight by Jane Vollbrecht

Jane Vollbrecht | In Broad Daylight | Colleen McCrady, an aspiring writer, is on the verge of having her first novel accepted for publication. Elizabeth Albright, owner and managing editor

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

The Gifts of the Body by Rebecca Brown

Rebecca Brown | The Gifts of the Body | An emotionally wrenching work of fiction about a health-care worker who tenders compassion and love to victims of AIDS, by an author who ‘strips her l

Posted in Award Winner YA Fiction (Young Adult)

High And Outside by Linnea A. Due

Linnea A. Due | High And Outside | Star of her school softball team and with the highest point average in her class, Niki nonetheless has a severe drinking problem, and after nearly sel