Category |
Winner |
Nominated |
Bisexual Fiction |
Négar Djavadi, Disoriental (tr. Tina Kover) |
- Nathan Alling Long, The Origin of Doubt: Fifty Short Fictions
- Katrina Carrasco, The Best Bad Things
- Jennifer Natalya Fink, Bhopal Dance
- Jude Lucens, Behind These Doors: Radical Proposals Book 1
- Emily Strelow, The Wild Birds
- J.E. Sumerau, Palmetto Rose
- Lilah Suzanne, Jilted
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Bisexual Nonfiction |
Anthony Moll, Out of Step |
- Sophie Lucido Johnson, Many Love: A Memoir of Polyamory and Finding Love(s)
- Julietta Singh, No Archive Will Restore You
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Bisexual Poetry |
Duy Doan, We Play a Game |
- Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
- Frances Donovan, Mad Quick Hand of the Seashore: Love Poems
- Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Cenzontle
- Xemiyulu Manibusan Tapepechul, My Woman Card Is Anti-Native & Other Two-Spirit Truths
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Gay Fiction |
Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed |
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Gay Memoir/Biography |
Darnell L. Moore, No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America |
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Gay Mystery |
Marshall Thornton, Late Fees |
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Gay Poetry |
Justin Phillip Read, Indecency |
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Gay Romance |
S. C. Wynne, Crashing Upwards |
- Melanie Hansen, Point of Contact
- Reesa Herberth and Michelle Moore, Detour
- Jenny Holiday, Undue Influence: A Persuasion Retelling
- Kris Jacen, Learn with Me
- Christina Lee and Riley Hart, Of Sunlight and Stardust
- Angela McCallister, The CEO’s Christmas Manny
- Kayleigh Sky, No Luck
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Lesbian Fiction |
Larissa Lai, The Tiger Flu |
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Lesbian Memoir/Biography |
Zahra Patterson, Chronology |
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Lesbian Mystery |
Claire O'Dell, A Study in Honor |
- Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead
- Charlotte Greene, Gnarled Hollow
- Ellen Hart, A Whisper of Bones
- Gerri Hill, The Locket
- Catherine Maiorisi, A Matter of Blood
- A. Rose Mathieu, Secrets of the Last Castle
- Linda J. Wright, Stolen
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Lesbian Poetry |
Nina Puro, Each Tree Could Hold a Noose or a House |
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Lesbian Romance |
Ann McMan, Beowulf for Cretins |
- Jenny Frame, Charming the Vicar
- Jae, Just for Show
- Lola Keeley, The Music and the Mirror
- Aurora Rey, Autumn’s Light
- Rachel Spangler, In Development
- Sheri Lewis Wohl, The Talebearer
- Erin Zak, Breaking Down Her Walls
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LGBTQ Anthology |
The Other Foundation, As You Like It: The Gerald Kraak Anthology, Volume II [fiction] Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture [nonfiction] |
- Lexie Bean, Written on the Body: Letters from Trans and Non-Binary Survivors of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence
- Peter Dickinson, C. E. Gatchalian, Kathleen Oliver and Dalbir Singh, Q2Q: Queer Canadian Performance Texts
- Sadie Epstein-Fine and Makeda Zook, Spawning Generations: Rants and Reflections on Growing Up with LGBTQ Parents
- Miah Jefra and Chad Koch, Foglifter Volume 3, Issue 1
- Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, Rikki Beadle-Blair and John R. Gordon, Sista!: An Anthology of Writing By and About Same Gender Loving Women of African/Caribbean Descent with a UK Connection
- Taneka Stotts and Sfé R. Monster, Beyond II: The Queer Post-Apocalyptic & Urban Fantasy Comic Anthology
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LGBTQ Children's/Young Adult |
Kacen Callender, Hurricane Child |
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LGBTQ Drama |
Mashuq Mushtaq Deen, Draw the Circle |
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LGBTQ Erotica |
Blue Delliquanti and Kazimir Lee, Miles & Honesty in SCFSX! |
- Sacchi Green, Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year, Volume 3
- Niki Smith, Crossplay
- Matthew Bright, Gents: Steamy Stories from the Age of Steam
- Tom Cardamone, The Lurid Sea
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LGBTQ Graphic Novel |
Tommi Parrish, The Lie and How We Told It |
- Mark Russell, Sean Parsons, Mark Morales, Howard Porter, Mike Feehan, Exit, Stage Left!: The Snagglepuss Chronicles
- Paige Braddock, Love Letters to Jane’s World
- Tillie Walden, On a Sunbeam
- Eric Kostiuk Williams, Our Wretched Town Hall
- Michelle Perez and Remy Boydell, The Pervert
- Steve MacIsaac, Unpacking
- Jeanne Thornton and Tara Madison Avery, We’re Still Here: An All-Trans Comics Anthology
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LGBTQ Nonfiction |
Imani Perry, Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry |
- Ria Brodell, Butch Heroes
- Charlene A. Carruthers, Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
- Avery Cassell, Resistance: The LGBT Fight Against Fascism in WWII
- Piper J. Daniels, Ladies Lazarus
- Martin Duberman, Has the Gay Movement Failed?
- Jim Elledge, The Boys of Fairy Town: Sodomites, Female Impersonators, Third-Sexers, Pansies, Queers, and Sex Morons in Chicago’s First Century
- C. J. Janovy, No Place Like Home: Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas
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LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror |
Isaac R. Fellman, The Breath of the Sun |
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LGBTQ Studies |
William T. Hoston, Toxic Silence: Race, Black Gender Identity, and Addressing the Violence Against Black Transgender Women in Houston |
- E. Patrick Johnson, Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History
- Lyndon K. Gill, Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean
- Myrl Beam, Gay, Inc.: The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics
- Keridwen N. Luis, Herlands: Exploring the Women’s Land Movement in the United States
- Andrew Billings and Leigh Moscowitz, Media and the Coming Out of Gay Male Athletes in American Team Sports
- T. Jackie Cuevas, Post-Borderlandia: Chicana Literature and Gender Variant Critique
- Anne Balay, Semi Queer: Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers
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Transgender Fiction |
Casey Plett, Little Fish |
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Transgender Nonfiction |
Jules Gill-Peterson, Histories of the Transgender Child |
- Aren Z. Aizura, Mobile Subjects: Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment
- Joy Ladin, The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective
- Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man
- Vivek Shraya, I’m Afraid of Men
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Transgender Poetry |
Raquel Salas Rivera, Lo Terciario / The Tertiary |
- Gwen Benaway, Holy Wild
- Luna Merbruja, Heal Your Love
- Sara Mithra, If the Color Is Fugitive
- Ely Shipley, Some Animal
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