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Edition 10 (1998)

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
Lisa C. Moore りさ・しー・むーあ Winner

An anthology of stories, poems, interviews, and essays about black lesbian coming out. Personal testimony and community experience overlap, and the diversity of voices becomes the book’s strength.

Not one confession, but many voices overlapping into a shared form.

314 pages
anthologycoming outBlack womenLGBTQ
Rafael Campo らふぁえる・かんぽ Winner

A reflective essay collection by a doctor and poet that explores the intersections of medicine, poetry, care, and desire. It reconsiders how language works around healing.

From the space between medicine and poetry, it rethinks the meaning of body and care.

122 pages
medicinepoetryhealingidentitydesire
Eileen Myles あいりーん・まいるず Winner

A contemporary poetry collection made of images that rise out of the city’s flow, carrying loss and desire together. Lightness and urgency coexist throughout.

It gathers poems and prose in search of light, passion, and decency.

193 pages
poetryurban lifelossdesirelesbian perspective