Bisexual Book Awards

	Bisexual Book Awards The Bisexual Book Awards are an annual literary award program, presented by the Bi Writers Association to honour the year's best works of literature addressing themes of bisexuality. The awards were presented for the first time in 2013. Awards are presented in 11 categories, where any writer who has addressed bisexual themes in their work may be submitted for consideration regardless of their own sexual orientation. Two special awards are also presented: the Bi Book Publisher Award to the publishing company that has submitted the most books to the awards program that year, and the Bi Writer Award for the best book by an out bisexual writer. 2013 Bisexual Fiction * John Irving, '' In One Person'' Ellis Avery, ''The Last Nude'' Annette Lapointe, ''Whitetail Shooting Gallery'' * Catherine Lundoff, ''Silver Moon'' * Lee Mandelo, ''Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction'' * Richard Mason, ''History of a Pleasure Seeker'' * Basil Papademos, ''Mount Royal'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Literary Award A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. Organizations Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony. Many awards are structured with one organization (usually a non-profit organization) as the presenter and public face of the award, and another organization as the financial sponsor or backer, who pays the prize remuneration and the cost of the ceremony and public relations, typically a corporate sponsor who may sometimes attach their name to the award (such as the Orange Prize). Types of awards There are awards for various writing formats including poetry and novels. Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing (such as science fiction or politics). There are also awards dedicated to works in individual languages, such as the Miguel de Cervantes Prize (Spanish), the Camões Prize (Portuguese), the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Mykola Dementiuk Mykola Dementiuk (born 1949) is an American author. A graduate of Columbia University, his work has appeared in ''Pink Pages'', ''Atom Mind'', ''Paramour'', and ''EIDOS Magazine''. He was a member of the road crew for Lollapalooza, the Big Apple Circus, and Cirque du Soleil before being partially incapacitated by a stroke in 1997. Dementiuk received a Lambda Literary Award in 2010 for his novel ''Holy Communion'', and again in 2013 for ''The Facialist''. His collection ''Times Square Queer: Tales of Bad Boys in the Big Apple'' was a finalist for the 2013 Bisexual Book Awards The Bisexual Book Awards are an annual literary award program, presented by the Bi Writers Association to honour the year's best works of literature addressing themes of bisexuality. The awards were presented for the first time in 2013. Awards are .... Bibliography ''Vienna Dolorosa'' (2007) ''Holy Communion'' (2008) ''100 Whores: Memories of a John'' (2010) ''Dee Dee Day'' (2010) ''Variety, the Spice of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Arlene Schindler Arlene may refer to: * Arleen, a feminine name, also spelled Arlene * "Arlene" (song), the 1985 debut single by American country music artist Marty Stuart * Arlene, a Beanie Baby cat produced by Ty, Inc. * Hurricane Arlene, the name of several tropical storms in the Atlantic Ocean * Arlene, a cat character in the Garfield ''Garfield'' is an American comic strip created by Jim Davis. Originally published locally as ''Jon'' in 1976, then in nationwide syndication from 1978 as ''Garfield'', it chronicles the life of the title character Garfield the cat, his human ... cartoon series. {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Bushra Rehman Bushra Rehman is a Pakistani Muslim-American novelist best known for her Lambda Literary Award-nominated novel Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion and short story Corona. Early life Bushra Rehman grew up in Corona, Queens close to one of the first Sunni masjids in NYC. She says the first book that made an impact on her is A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. She originally began her writing career as a poet and has worked as a poetry teacher. Rehman identifies as queer. Selected works In 2002, Rehma co-created the anthology ''Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism'' with Daisy Hernández, as a response to the hate crimes against people of color she and her co-creator witnessed in NYC post 9/11. Rehman's novel Roses in the Mouth, is loosely based on her own experience growing up in Corona, Queens in the 1980s and learning more about her own queer identity. Inspired by the strength of the friendships with other girls she had growng up, she set out writing Roses in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Frank Anthony Polito Frank or Franks may refer to: People * Frank (given name) * Frank (surname) * Franks (surname) * Franks, a medieval Germanic people * Frank, a term in the Muslim world for all western Europeans, particularly during the Crusades - see Farang Currency * Liechtenstein franc or frank, the currency of Liechtenstein since 1920 * Swiss franc or frank, the currency of Switzerland since 1850 * Westphalian frank, currency of the Kingdom of Westphalia between 1808 and 1813 * The currencies of the German-speaking cantons of Switzerland (1803–1814): Appenzell frank Argovia frank Basel frank Berne frank Fribourg frank Glarus frank Graubünden frank Luzern frank Schaffhausen frank Schwyz frank Solothurn frank St. Gallen frank Thurgau frank Unterwalden frank Uri frank Zürich frank Places * Frank, Alberta, Canada, an urban community, formerly a village * Franks, Illinois, United States, an unincorporated community * Franks, Missouri, Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	David Leavitt David Leavitt (; born June 23, 1961) is an American novelist, short story writer, and biographer. Biography Leavitt was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Harold and Gloria Leavitt. Harold was a professor who taught at Stanford University and Gloria was a political activist. Leavitt graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in English in 1983. After his first book's success, he spent much of the 1990s living in Italy working and restoring an old house in Semproniano in Tuscany with his partner. He has also taught at Princeton University. While a student at Yale, Leavitt published two stories in The New Yorker, "Territory" and "Out Here", both of which were included in his first collection, ''Family Dancing'' (nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award). Other published fiction includes the short-story collections ''A Place I've Never Been'', ''Arkansas: Three Novellas'' and ''The Marble Quilt'' and the novels ''The Lost Language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Hild (novel) ''Hild'' is a 2013 historical novel and the sixth novel by British author Nicola Griffith. ''Hild'' is a fictionalized telling of the life of Hilda of Whitby, also known as Hild of Streoneshalh, a significant figure in Anglo-Saxon Britain. The book includes a map, a glossary of terms, and a pronunciation guide. The novel was first published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on November 12, 2013 and in the United Kingdom on October 4, 2014 through Blackfriars Books. Griffith has stated that the book will be the first in a trilogy and that the second book will be titled ''Menewood''. Novel summary In seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging. Edwin of Northumbria plots to become the king of all the Angles through force, bribery, and religious coercion. The king's niece Hild grows up bright, curious, and willful in this world of violence and mysticism. She learns to fight with staff and sword and to speak several languages. Although her father has been a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Nicola Griffith Nicola Griffith (; born 30 September 1960) is a British-American novelist, essayist, and teacher. She has won the Washington State Book Award, Nebula Award, James Tiptree, Jr. Award, World Fantasy Award and six Lambda Literary Awards. Personal life Early life Griffith was born 30 September 1960 in Leeds, to Margaret Mary and Eric Percival Griffith.Griffith, Nicola (2007). ''And Now We Are Going to Have a Party, Volume 1: Limb of Satan''. Seattle: Payseur & Schmidt. Her parents—whom she describes as wanting "to belong to the middle of the middle class … to fit in" —reared Griffith and her four sisters in the Catholic faith. Griffith's earliest surviving literary efforts include an illustrated booklet she was encouraged to create to prevent her from making trouble among her fellow nursery school students. At age eleven she won a BBC student poetry prize and read aloud her winning work for radio broadcast. As a pre-teen, Griffith felt same-sex attractions, and by some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Susan Choi Susan Choi (born 1969) is an American novelist. Early life and education Choi was born in South Bend, Indiana to a Korean father and a Jewish mother. She attended public schools. When she was nine years old, her parents divorced. She and her mother moved to Houston, Texas. Choi earned a B.A. in Literature from Yale University (1990) and an M.F.A. from Cornell University. Career After receiving her graduate degree, she worked for ''The New Yorker'' as a fact checker. At this job she met her husband, Pete Wells, now the ''New York Times'' restaurant critic. They reside in Brooklyn. Choi published her first novel, ''The Foreign Student'' (1998). It won the Asian American Literary Award for Fiction and was a finalist of the Discover Great New Writers Award at Barnes & Noble. Her second novel, ''American Woman'' (2003), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in literature. In 2010, she won the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award for '' A Person of Interest'', which was also a finalist for the P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Manil Suri Manil Suri (born July 1959) is an Indian-American mathematician and writer of a trilogy of novels all named for Hindu gods. His first novel, '' The Death of Vishnu'' (2001), which was long-listed for the 2001 Booker Prize, short-listed for the 2002 PEN/Faulkner Award and won the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize that year. Since then, he has published two more novels, ''The Age of Shiva'' (2008) and ''The City of Devi'' (2013), completing the trilogy. Biography Suri was born in Bombay, the son of R.L. Suri, a Bollywood music director, and Prem Suri, a schoolteacher. He attended the University of Bombay before moving to the United States, where he attended Carnegie Mellon University. He received a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1983, and became a mathematics professor at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Suri began writing short stories in the 1980s during his spare time, but none were published. In 1995 he began writing ''The Death of Vishnu'', a novel about social and religio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Sibling Rivalry Press Sibling Rivalry Press is a small press publishing house based in Little Rock, Arkansas founded by Bryan Borland in 2010. It features both online and print components as well as the non-profit SRP Foundation, which financially supports the arts. History Bryan Borland originally conceived of Sibling Rivalry Press as a vanity press through which to disseminate his personal collection of poetry, but decided to expand it to encompass other authors whose work focused on similar themes. Authors since published by Sibling Rivalry Press include Ocean Vuong, Michael Klein, Saeed Jones, Kaveh Akbar, Kazim Ali, Franny Choi, Matthew Hittinger, Dorothy Allison, Raymond Luczak, Bushra Rehman, and "Lambda Literary Award Winner and Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry Finalist" Stephen S. Mills. Accolades The SRP website describes its purpose as catering to queer writers of poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Riptide Publishing A rip tide, or riptide, is a strong offshore current that is caused by the tide pulling water through an inlet along a barrier beach, at a lagoon or inland marina where tide water flows steadily out to sea during ebb tide. It is a strong tidal flow of water within estuaries and other enclosed tidal areas. The riptides become the strongest where the flow is constricted. When there is a falling or ebbing tide, the outflow water is strongly flowing through an inlet toward the sea, especially once stabilized by jetties. During these falling and ebbing tides, a riptide can carry a person far offshore. For example, the ebbing tide at Shinnecock Inlet in Southampton, New York, extends more than offshore. Because of this, riptides are typically more powerful than rip currents. During slack tide, the water is motionless for a short period of time until the flooding or rising tide starts pushing the sea water landward through the inlet. Riptides also occur at constricted areas in bays a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]