Category: Award Winner

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

Amora by Natália Borges Polesso

Natália Borges Polesso | Amora | From an emerging talent comes an exquisite collection of stories exploring the complexity of love between women, each a delicate piece in a mosaic tra

Posted in Award Winner Black Interest Fiction

Blue Talk and Love by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

Mecca Jamilah Sullivan | Blue Talk and Love | The award-wining collection Blue Talk and Love tells the stories of girls and women of color navigating the moods and mazes of urban daily life. Set i

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Award Winner Black Interest

Looking for Lorraine by Perry Imani

Perry Imani | Looking for Lorraine | A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet least understood, Black artists and intellectuals of the twentieth century.

Posted in Award Winner Romance

Out of Love by KG MacGregor

KG MacGregor | Out of Love | Clients and coworkers know Carmen Delallo, owner and CEO of a Chicago consulting firm for the travel industry, as a smart, engaging woman driven to su

Posted in Award Winner YA Fiction (Young Adult)

If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan

Sara Farizan | If You Could Be Mine | In Iran, where homosexuality is punishable by death, seventeen-year-olds Sahar and Nasrin love each other in secret until Nasrin’s parents announce th

Posted in Award Winner Black Interest Fiction Jewish Interests

Happiness, Like Water by Chinelo Okparanta

Chinelo Okparanta | Happiness, Like Water | It is the opposition of expectations, more than opposition of cultures, which affects the characters in Happiness, Like Water, a debut collection of

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Award Winner

The Wind Is Spirit by Gloria L. Joseph

Gloria L. Joseph | The Wind Is Spirit | Across the country and around the world, the bold and powerful Audre Lorde has been a touchstone for generations of writers and activists. And while s

Posted in Award Winner Romance

The Scorpion’s Empress by Yoshiyuki Ly

Yoshiyuki Ly | The Scorpion’s Empress | After years of serving a corrupt government, Ser Videl, an idealistic paladin, learns that her younger sister is tangled in a dark scheme against Raj

Posted in Anthology - Fiction Award Winner Graphic Novel

Beyond II by Taneka Stotts; Sfé R. Monster

Taneka Stotts; Sfé R. Monster | Beyond II | Creators: Alan Capes, Alexxander Dovelin, Aliza Layne, Bishakh K. Som, Cat Parra, Chan Chau, Danae Wilding, Evan Dahm, Genué Revuelta, Ghoulkiss, Jamm

Posted in Award Winner Fiction Romance

Olivia by Olivia

Olivia | Olivia |

Considered one of the most subtle and beautifully written lesbian novels of the century, this 1949 classic returns to print in a Cleis Press edit