2018 Stonewall Book Award Winners and Honorees
transgender experience.
Sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table (GLBTRT) of the American Library Association (ALA), they have been part of the American Library Association awards program since 1986, when they were known as the Gay Book Award since its inception in 1971. In 2002 the awards (fiction and nonfiction categories only at that time) were renamed Stonewall Book Award after the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York, demonstrations and sometimes violent confrontations by individuals in the gay/lesbian/transgender community against the New York Police Department after a police raid on a gay bar in Manhattan's West Village.
A panel of librarians selects finalists in each category, and then selects a winner. The winners are announced in January and each receives a plaque and $1000 cash prize during the ALA Annual Conference in June or July. Winners are expected to attend and to give acceptance speeches. This year's conference is being held in New Orleans, Louisiana.
And the winners are...
Winner
Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers by Cat Fitzpatrick
Honor Books
Marriage of a Thousand Lies by SJ Sindu
A Place Called No Homeland by Kai Cheng Thom
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
When I Grow Up I Want To Be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen
Winner
Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community by John Chaich and Todd Oldham
Honor Books
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton
The Black Penguin by Andrew Evans
LGBTQ Stats: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer People by the Numbers by Bennett Singer and David Deschamps
Winner
Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert
Honor Book
As the Crow Flies by Melanie Gillman
Winner
The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater
Honor Book
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
Winners 1971-2017
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