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Edition 27 (2015)

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

Alexis De Veaux's Yabo is an inventive novella centered on Black lesbian experience. Desire, memory, and spirituality intersect in a layered narrative that lets voices crossing boundaries come forward.

An inventive novella centered on Black lesbian experience.

168 pages
lesbian fictionmemorydesirespiritualityBlack women

The Delectable Negro is a scholarly book that examines the relationship between consumption and desire under slavery. Through questions of cannibalism and homoeroticism, it illuminates the intersection of Black studies and LGBTQ scholarship.

A scholarly examination of consumption and desire under slavery.

311 pages
slaveryBlack studiesLGBTQ studiescultural studieshistory
Jeff Mann Winner

Jeff Mann's Salvation is a gay romance novel set near the end of the Civil War. It follows a deserter and his former prisoner-lover as they try to survive a dangerous journey home.

A gay romance novel set during the final days of the Civil War.

290 pages
gay romanceCivil Warflightlovehistorical fiction