Category: Award Winner

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Soul To Keep by Rebekah Weatherspoon

Rebekah Weatherspoon | Soul To Keep | With every commitment comes sacrifice …

College junior Jill Babineux knows where her priorities lie. Between a full course load, her blood pl

Posted in Award Winner Fiction Play

Collective Rage: a Play in Five Betties by Jen Silverman

Jen Silverman | Collective Rage: a Play in Five Betties | ‘Betty is rich; Betty is lonely; Betty’s busy working on her truck; Betty wants to talk about love, but Betty needs to hit something. Meanwhile, Betty

Posted in Award Winner Speculative Fiction

The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan

Kirsty Logan | The Gracekeepers | As a Gracekeeper, Callanish administers shoreside burials, laying the dead to their final resting place deep in the depths of the ocean. Alone on her

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The Child Manuela by Christa Winsloe

Christa Winsloe | The Child Manuela | Winsloe’s 1929 novel became the movie ‘Maedchen In Uniform.’ The story revolves around a young girl who is sent to a repressive Prussian boarding scho

Posted in Award Winner YA Fiction (Young Adult)

Keeping You a Secret by Julie Anne Peters

Julie Anne Peters | Keeping You a Secret | With a steady boyfriend, the position of Student Council President, and a chance to go to an Ivy League college, high school life is just fine for Hol

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The Gift by Barbara Browning

Barbara Browning | The Gift | The Gift by Barbara Browning is a strange novel in a lot of ways. The overall feeling it inspires is one of quiet intimacy–which is fitting, given tha

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Lesbian Empire by Gay Wachman

Gay Wachman | Lesbian Empire | Gay Wachman provides a critical new reading of sexually radical fiction by British women in the years during and after the First World War. She contra

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The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall

Radclyffe Hall | The Well of Loneliness | First published in 1928, this timeless portrayal of lesbian love is now a classic. The thinly disguised story of Hall’s own life, it was banned outrig

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Black Dove by Ana Castillo

Ana Castillo | Black Dove | ‘In this collection of essays, Ana Castillo examines what it means to be a single, brown, feminist parent in a world of mass incarceration, racial pro

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Under The Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta

Chinelo Okparanta | Under The Udala Trees | Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does; born before independence, she is 11 when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Sent away to s