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Edition 24 (2012)

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

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Colm Tóibín Winner

A short story collection that traces return, loss, and desire across Ireland and Spain. It captures the ache that remains when people try to go back to the past, along with the loneliness that resists easy language.

A short story collection where return and loss quietly echo each other.

288 pages
short storiesgay fictionreturnlossdesire

An erotica anthology that links transgender and genderqueer bodies and desire to the affirmation of being seen and desired. Through a wide range of voices, it explores visibility and self-recognition in sexual expression.

An anthology that opens overlooked desire into the pleasure of being seen.

310 pages
transgender literaturegenderqueereroticaanthologyvisibilitydesire

A sweeping history that rereads LGBTQ+ life in the United States from the colonial era to the present. It reframes people pushed to the margins of history by connecting their lives to political and cultural change.

A sweeping history of the United States reorganized through a queer lens.

312 pages
LGBTQ+ historyAmerican historynonfictionsocial historyreinterpretation