Stonewall Book Awards 2018

     

The Stonewall Book Award winner in fiction is the anthology Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers edited by Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett (Topside Press). 

Four Stonewall fiction honor books are:

• Marriage of a Thousand Lies by SJ Sindu (Soho)
• A Place Called No Homeland by Kai Cheng Thom (Arsenal Pulp)
• An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon (Akashic)
• When I Grow Up I Want To Be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen (BOA Editions)

The Stonewall Book Award winner in nonfiction is Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community by John Chaich and Todd Oldham (Ammo Books). Based on a 2014 exhibition at the Leslie-Lohman gallery, the book collects 30 queer global artists who work in fiber and textile arts.

Three Stonewall nonfiction honor books:

• Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton (University of Minnesota)
• The Black Penguin by Andrew Evans (University of Wisconsin)
• LGBTQ Stats: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer People by the Numbers by Bennett Singer and David Deschamps, (New Press)

The Stonewall Children's/YA winners are Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert (Little, Brown) and The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater (Farrar Straus)

Two Stonewall children's/YA honor books are:

• As the Crow Flies by Melanie Gillman (Iron Circus Comics)
• The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee and published by (Katherine Tegen/Harper)

 The ALA's GLBT Roundtable also released The Rainbow List 2018. Among its top ten are They Both Die at the End and The 57 Bus. 

The Laura Ingalls Wilder Award is presented every other year to honor a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children. The 2018 winner is Jacqueline Woodson.

Comments

[John Zinsmeister]

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[Malaga]

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[Gyorgy]

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[Jack]

After traveling abroad for much of the past two years, I am back in the U.S. and depressed beyond belief to find myself in the current U.S. cultural and political milieu. I spent much of the weekend sorting out my library in my much-neglected house, and I reacquainted myself with volumes that have given me so much pleasure. It cheered me up, and reminded me that I first came across many of them on your blog. I'm sure the blog became a chore at some point, particularly as you moved on to authorship and parenthood. But it gave so much pleasure. And (with the archives) still does. I'm not writing to persuade you to re-start the blog (OK, a girl can hope--gay men have perfected the art of delusion), but if you have any recommendations for daily on-line sustenance, I'm (to mix my metaphors) all ears.

[John Zinsmeister]

Do you have any plans to reactivate this fantastic blog?