Contact:
Sheela Lambert
Director, Bi Writers Association
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Phone: 212-928-3558
Bisexual Book Awards Announces Finalists
New York NY: The Bi Writers Association (BWA) announces the finalists for our
Third Annual Bisexual Book Awards today in 10 book categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Romance, Erotic Fiction/Erotica, Speculative Fiction [Sci-fi/Fantasy/Horror],
Teen/Young Adult Fiction, Mystery and two special categories: Publisher of the Year
and Bi Writer of the Year. The awards are for books published in 2014.
This year we have an unprecedented 72 books with 10 book categories in our third
annual Bisexual Book Awards. By comparison, last year we had 60 books and six
book categories. “We are thrilled the Bisexual Book Awards continues to grow every
year," says Sheela Lambert, Director of the Bi Writers Association. “By providing
more bisexual categories, we have been attracting more bisexual books than any
other awards. It’s always been the goal of BWA to increase awareness of bisexual
books, to inspire authors to write more bi-themed books and to encourage more
publishers to publish them. Since we launched our Bisexual Book Awards we have
had the opportunity to reward authors and publishers for their efforts, says
Lambert.”
A team of judges for each category has been working away for months to read and
assess all the books and these are the finalists they have chosen. The number of
finalists for each category were based on a combination of the number of books in
the category and the number of books the judges felt were deserving; larger
categories had five or six finalists and smaller categories had two. Winners will be
announced at the Bisexual Book Awards Ceremony on Sat May 30, following our
annual reading and multi-arts celebration of bisexual writing, to be held in New
York City at Westbeth, in the West Village at 55 Bethune St., corner Washington
6:30-10pm, followed by an afterparty, location TBA. Join one of our email lists or
keep checking the Bi Writers Association website, FB page or Twitter for program
details and updates.
Finalists for the Bisexual Book Awards: (listed alphabetically by title)
Bisexual Fiction
 Best Bi Short Stories edited by Sheela Lambert, Gressive Press/Circlet Press
 Frog Music by Emma Donoghue, Little, Brown/Little, Brown and Company
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In Case of Emergency by Courtney Moreno, McSweeney’s Publishing
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters, Riverhead Books /Penguin Random
House
She of the Mountains by Vivek Shraya, Arsenal Pulp Press
Bisexual Non-fiction
 A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir by Daisy Hernández, Beacon Press
 Fire Shut Up In My Bones by Charles M. Blow, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
 Queerly Beloved: A Love Story Across Gender by Jacob and Diane AndersonMinshall, Bold Strokes Books
 Recognize: The Voices of Bisexual Men edited by Robyn Ochs & H. Sharif
Williams, Bisexual Resource Center
 The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America By
Edward White, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
 Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM (and Shot
Andy Warhol) By Breanne Fahs, The Feminist Press
Bisexual Romance
 Climbing the Date Palm by Shira Glassman, Prizm Books/Torquere Press
 Crying in the Rain by Debbie McGowan, Beaten Track Publishing
 Heart of the Hurricane by May Woodworth, Big World Network
 Let It Ride by LC Chase, Riptide Publishing
 One Kiss with a Rock Star by Shari Slade and Amber Lin, self-published
 The Prince of Punk Rock (Radical Rock Stars Book One) by Jenna Galicki,
Beau to Beau Publishing
Bisexual Erotic Fiction/Erotica
 Bound to Be a Groom: An Erotic Historical Novel by Megan Mulry,
Riptide Publishing
 Capricious: A Texan Tale of Love and Magic by Julie Cox, Circlet Press
 Memoirs of a Gigolo, Second Omnibus, Volumes 5-7 by Livia Ellis, Riverdale
Avenue Books
 Murder on the Mountain by Jaime Fessenden, Dreamspinner Press
 One Kiss with a Rock Star by Shari Slade and Amber Lin, self-published
Bisexual Speculative Fiction [Sci-fi/Fantasy/Horror]
 Capricious: A Texan Tale of Love and Magic by Julie Cox, Circlet Press
 Climbing the Date Palm by Shira Glassman, Prizm Books/Torquere Press
 Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis, Amulet/Abrams
 The Pendragon Legacy [Book 1-Sons of Camelot series] by Sarah Luddington,
Mirador Publishing
 That Door is a Mischief by Alex Jeffers, Lethe Press
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Bisexual Memoir/Biography
 Bad Dyke by Allison Moon, Lunatic Ink
 A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir by Daisy Hernández, Beacon Press
 Fire Shut Up In My Bones by Charles M. Blow, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
 Not My Father’s Son: A Memoir by Alan Cumming
 Susan Sontag: A Biography by Daniel Schreiber, Northwestern University
Press
 The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America By
Edward White, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Bisexual Teen/Young Adult Fiction
 Frenemy of the People by Nora Olsen, Soliloquy/Bold Strokes Books
 Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis, Amulet/Abrams
Bisexual Mystery
 The Book of Joel by AR Fiano, Astrid Fiano
 Murder on the Mountain by Jamie Fessenden, Dreamspinner Press
Bisexual Poetry
 Directing Herbert White: Poems by James Franco, Graywolf Press
 Joy Street by Laura Foley, Headmistress Press
Bisexual Anthology
 Big Book of Submission: 69 Kinky Tales edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel,
Cleis Press
 Recognize: The Voices of Bisexual Men edited by Robyn Ochs & H. Sharif
Williams, Bisexual Resource Center
Bisexual Book Publisher of the Year
 Bisexual Resource Center
 Circlet Press
 Cleis Press
 Riverdale Avenue Books
Bi Writer of the Year
 Best Bi Short Stories edited by Sheela Lambert, Gressive Press/Circlet Press
 A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir by Daisy Hernández, Beacon Press
 Fire Shut Up In My Bones by Charles M. Blow, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
 Memoirs of a Gigolo, Second Omnibus, Volumes 5-7 by Livia Ellis, Riverdale
Avenue Books
 Not My Father’s Son: A Memoir by Alan Cumming
 Recognize: The Voices of Bisexual Men edited by Robyn Ochs & H. Sharif
Williams, Bisexual Resource Center
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