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Edition 8 (1996)

AnthologyBisexual LiteratureChildren's or Young AdultDramaGay FictionGay Memoir or BiographyGay PoetryGay RomanceJeanne Córdova PrizeJim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' PrizeJudith A. Markowitz AwardLesbian FictionLesbian Memoir or BiographyLesbian PoetryLesbian RomanceLGBTQ+ ComicsLGBTQ+ Romance & EroticaLGBTQ+ StudiesNonfictionPublishing Professional AwardRandall Kenan PrizeScience Fiction, Fantasy and HorrorTransgender LiteratureTrustee AwardVisionary AwardBisexual FictionBisexual NonfictionBisexual PoetryLGBTQ+ AnthologyLGBTQ+ Children's BooksLGBTQ+ DramaLGBTQ+ Middle GradeLGBTQ+ MysteryLGBTQ+ NonfictionLGBTQ+ PoetryLGBTQ+ Speculative FictionLGBTQ+ Young AdultTransgender FictionTransgender NonfictionTransgender Poetry

Winners

3 people
Erica Fischer えりか・ふぃっしゃー Winner

Using documents and testimony, this book traces the love and resistance of two women in Nazi-occupied Berlin. It captures the intimacy and danger that existed under historical repression.

In wartime Berlin, love confronts the violence of history.

274 pages
lesbian literatureBerlinWorld War IIbiography
Jacqueline Amanda Woodson じゃくりーん・うっどそん Winner

A young-adult novel told through Melanin Sun's notebooks as he faces change in his family. Putting feelings into words gradually changes the way he sees the world.

Writing things down makes the shifting family dynamic legible.

160 pages
young adultfamilyself-discoveryrace
Eileen Myles あいりーん・まいるず Winner

An anthology centered on lesbian culture and reading. It brings together short essays, criticism, and experimental writing to show reading as both pleasure and politics.

It foregrounds both the pleasure and the critical force of reading.

320 pages
anthologylesbian literaturecriticismessays