Please take a moment this weekend and buy yourself one or two titles from this year’s winners. There is something for everybody. I put the poetry winners in bold because, well…I think you should read some poetry. Congrats to the authors and presses that put these great books out!
Lesbian Fiction: A Field Guide to Deception by Jill Malone
Lesbian Debut Fiction: The Creamsickle by Rhiannon Argo
Gay Fiction: Lake Overturn by Vestal McIntyre
Gay Debut Fiction: Blue Boy by Rakesh Satyal
LGBT Nonfiction: The Greeks and Greek Love by James Davidson
Lesbian Biography: The Talented Miss Highsmith by Joan Schenkar
Gay Memoir: Ardent Spirits by Reynolds Price
Transgender: Lynnee Breedlove’s One Freak Show by Lynn Breedlove
Bisexual Fiction: (tie)
+ Holy Communion by Mykola Dementiuk
+ Love You Two by Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli
Bisexual Nonfiction: Leaving India by Minal Hajratwala
LGBT Anthology: Portland Queer edited by Ariel Gore
LGBT Drama: The Collected Plays of Mart Crowley by Mart Crowley
LGBT SF/Fantasy/Horror: Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente
LGBT Studies: The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America by Margot Canaday
LGBT YA: Sprout by Dale Peck
Lesbian Mystery: Death of a Dying Man by J.M. Redmann
Gay Mystery: What We Remember by Michael Thomas Ford
Lesbian Romance: The Sublime and Spirited Voyage of Original Sin by Colette Moody
Gay Romance: Drama Queers! by Frank Anthony Polito
Lesbian Poetry: Zero at the Bone by Stacie Cassarino
Gay Poetry: Sweet Core Orchard by Benjamin S Grossberg
Lesbian Erotica: Lesbian Cowboys edited by Sacchi Green & Rakelle Valencia
Gay Erotica: Impossible Princess by Kevin Killian