Year
|
Category
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Author
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Title
|
Result
|
Ref.
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1989
|
Gay Debut Fiction
|
Alan Hollinghurst
|
The Swimming-Pool Library
|
Winner
|
|
Joe Keenan
|
Blue Heaven
|
Finalist
|
|
Stan Levanthal
|
Mountain Climbing In Sheridan Square
|
C.F. Borgman
|
River Road
|
Russell A. Brown
|
Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of O. Wilde
|
1990
|
Gay Debut Fiction
|
John Weir
|
The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket
|
Winner
|
|
Randall Kenan
|
A Visitation of Spirits
|
Finalist
|
|
Mickey C. Fleming
|
About Courage
|
David B. Feinberg
|
Eighty-Sixed
|
M.S. Hunter
|
The Buccaneer
|
Roz Perry
|
Rose Penski
|
1991
|
Gay Debut Fiction
|
Lev Raphael
|
Dancing On Tisha B’av
|
Winner
|
|
Bo Huston
|
Horse and Other Stories
|
Finalist
|
|
Matthew Stadler
|
Landscape: Memory
|
Allen Barnett
|
The Body and Its Dangers
|
Patrick Moore
|
This Every Night
|
Lesbian Debut Fiction
|
Cherry Muhanji
|
Her
|
Winner
|
|
Patricia R. Schwartz
|
The Names of the Moons of Mars
|
Nisa Donnelly
|
Bar Stories: A Novel After All
|
Finalist
|
|
Ruthann Robson
|
Eye of a Hurricane
|
Vickie Sears
|
Simple Songs
|
Renee Hansen
|
Take Me to the Underground
|
Karen Marie Christa Minns
|
Virago
|
Paula Martinac and Carla Tomaso
|
Voyages Out
|
Julie Blackwomon and Nona Caspers
|
Voyages Out 2
|
1992-2006
|
No award presented
|
2005
|
Gay Debut Fiction
|
Blair Mastbaum
|
Clay’s Way
|
Winner
|
|
Damian McNicholl
|
A Son Called Gabriel
|
Finalist
|
|
Aaron Krach
|
Half-Life
|
Mar Acito
|
How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship, and Musical Theater
|
Brian Leung
|
World Famous Love Acts
|
Lesbian Debut Fiction
|
Judith Frank
|
Crybaby Butch
|
Winner
|
|
Mary Vermillion
|
Death by Discount
|
Finalist
|
|
Kristie Helms
|
Dish It Up, Baby!
|
Laurinda D. Brown
|
Fire & Brimstone
|
Bridget Bufford
|
Minus One: A Twelve-Step Journey
|
2006
|
Gay Debut Fiction
|
Vestal McIntyre
|
You Are Not the One
|
Winner
|
|
Sulyman X
|
Bilal’s Bread
|
Finalist
|
|
Richard McCann
|
Mother of Sorrows
|
Mack Friedman
|
Setting the Lawn on Fire
|
Barry McCrea
|
The First Verse
|
Lesbian Debut Fiction
|
Ali Leibegott
|
The Beautifully Worthless
|
Winner
|
|
Fiona Zedde
|
Bliss
|
Finalist
|
|
Katia Noyes
|
Crashing America
|
Ronica Black
|
In Too Deep
|
Michelle Embree
|
Manstealing for Fat Girls
|
2007
|
Gay Debut Fiction
|
Robert Westfield
|
Suspension
|
Winner
|
|
Timothy Williams
|
5 Minutes & 42 Seconds
|
Finalist
|
|
Martin Hyatt
|
A Scarecrow’s Bible
|
Patrick Ryan
|
Send Me
|
Alex MacLennan
|
The Zookeeper
|
Lesbian Debut Fiction
|
Ellis Avery
|
The Teahouse Fire
|
Winner
|
|
Kirsten Dinnall Hoyte
|
Black Marks
|
Finalist
|
|
Ana-Maurine Lara
|
Erzulie’s Skirt
|
Peggy Munson
|
Origami Striptease
|
Leslie Larson
|
Slipstream
|
2008
|
Gay Debut Fiction
|
Christopher Kelly
|
A Push and a Shove
|
Winner
|
|
James St. James
|
Freak Show
|
Finalist
|
|
Kemble Scott
|
SoMa
|
James Canon
|
Tales from the Town of Widows
|
Michael Quadland
|
That Was Then
|
Lesbian Debut Fiction
|
Aoibheann Sweeney
|
Among Other Things, I’ve Taken Up Smoking
|
Winner
|
|
Lu Vickers
|
Breathing Underwater
|
Finalist
|
|
Myriam Gurba
|
Dahlia Season
|
Holly Farris
|
Lockjaw
|
Corrina Wycoff
|
O Street
|
2009
|
Gay Debut Fiction
|
Shawn Stewart Ruff
|
Finlater
|
Winner
|
|
Evan Fallenberg
|
Light Fell
|
Finalist
|
|
Daniel Allen Cox
|
Shuck
|
Drew Ferguson
|
The Screwed-Up Life of Charlie The Second
|
Mike Hoolboom
|
The Steve Machine
|
Lesbian Debut Fiction
|
Magdalena Zurawski
|
The Bruise
|
Winner
|
|
Meri Weiss
|
Closer to Fine
|
Finalist
|
|
Chavisa Woods
|
Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind
|
Linda Villarosa
|
Passing for Black
|
Jill Malone
|
Red Audrey & the Roping
|
2010
|
Gay Debut Fiction
|
Rakesh Satyal
|
Blue Boy
|
Winner
|
|
James Hannaham
|
God Says No
|
Finalist
|
|
Lance Reynald
|
Pop Salvation
|
G. Winston James
|
Shaming the Devil: Collected Short Stories
|
James Magruder
|
Sugarless
|
Lesbian Debut Fiction
|
Rhiannon Argo
|
The Creamsickle
|
Winner
|
|
Maida Tilchen
|
Land Beyond Maps
|
Finalist
|
|
Barb Johnson
|
More of This World or Maybe Another
|
Lori Ostlund
|
The Bigness of the World
|
Z Egloff
|
Verge
|
2011
|
Gay Debut Fiction
|
David Pratt
|
Bob the Book
|
Winner
|
|
Rob Stephenson
|
Passes Through
|
Finalist
|
|
Tom Mendicino
|
Probation
|
Tom Schabarum
|
The Palisades
|
Chris Corkum
|
XOXO Hayden
|
Lesbian Debut Fiction
|
Amber Dawn
|
Sub Rosa
|
Winner
|
|
Katharine Beutner
|
Alcestis
|
Finalist
|
|
Georgeann Packard
|
Fall Asleep Forgetting
|
Lois Walden
|
One More Stop
|
Michael Sledge
|
The More I Owe You
|
2012
|
Gay Debut Fiction
|
Rahul Mehta
|
Quarantine: Stories
|
Winner
|
|
Justin Chin
|
98 Wounds
|
Finalist
|
|
Michael Graves
|
Dirty One
|
|
Katherine Scott Nelson
|
Have You Seen Me
|
|
Garth Greenwell
|
Mitko
|
|
Lesbian Debut Fiction
|
Laurie Weeks
|
Zipper Mouth
|
Winner
|
|
Sarah Toshiko Hasu
|
Megume and the Trees
|
Finalist
|
|
Lara Fergus
|
My Sister Chaos
|
|
Christine Stark
|
Nickels: A Tale of Dissociation
|
|
Sally Bellerose
|
The Girls Club
|
|
2013
|
Debut Fiction
|
Mia McKenzie
|
The Summer We Got Free
|
Winner
|
|
William Sterling Walker
|
Desire: Tales of New Orleans
|
Finalist
|
|
Lydia Perovic
|
Incidental Music
|
E.J. Levy
|
Love, In Theory: Ten Stories
|
Kristen Ringman
|
Makara: A novel
|
Lysley Tenorio
|
Monstress
|
Alex Leslie
|
People Who Disappear
|
Jeanne Thornton
|
The Dream of Doctor Bantam
|
Carter Sickels
|
The Evening Hour
|
Lania Knight
|
Three Cubic Feet
|
2014
|
Debut Fiction
|
Nik Nicholson
|
Descendants of Hagar
|
Winner
|
|
Abigail Tarttelin
|
Golden Boy
|
Finalist
|
|
Derek Palacio
|
How to Shake the Other Man
|
Jane Hoppen
|
In Between
|
Charles L. Ross
|
Inside
|
Andrea Routley
|
Jane and the Whales
|
Laura Krughoff
|
My Brother’s Name: A Novel
|
Ronald Palmer
|
Prick Queasy
|
Amy Grace Loyd
|
The Affairs of Others: A Novel
|
Guy Mark Foster
|
The Rest of Us: Stories
|
2015
|
Debut Fiction
|
Abdi Nazemian
|
The Walk-In Closet
|
Winner
|
|
Elizabeth Earley
|
A Map of Everything
|
Finalist
|
|
Vinton Rafe McCabe
|
Death in Venice, California
|
Megan Milks
|
Kill Marguerite and Other Stories
|
Dia Felix
|
Nochita
|
Dan Lopez
|
Part the Hawser, Limn the Sea
|
Bob Sennett
|
The Music Teacher
|
Alden Jones
|
Unaccompanied Minors
|
2016
|
Debut Fiction
|
Victor Yates
|
A Love Like Blood
|
Winner
|
|
Mark S. Luckie
|
Do U.
|
Finalist
|
|
Paul Brownsey
|
His Steadfast Love and Other Stories
|
Ioannis Pappos
|
Hotel Living
|
Meliza Bañales
|
Life is Wonderful, People are Terrific
|
James Driggers
|
Lovesick
|
Libby Ware
|
Lum: A Novel
|
Austin Bunn
|
The Brink
|