Bisexual Book Awards

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

  Bisexual Non-fiction

• Cheryl Burke, My Awesome Place: The Autobiography of Cheryl B
• Janet W. Hardy, Girlfag: A Life Told in Sex and Musicals

  Bisexual Poetry

• 'Erynn Rowan Laurie, Fireflies at Absolute Zero
• Donnelle McGee, Shine
• Yazmin Monet Watkins, Love Without Limits: The Bi-Laws of Love''

  Bisexual Erotic Fiction

• Basil Papademos, Mount Royal
• Mykola Dementiuk, Times Square Queer: Tales of Bad Boys in the Big Apple
• Cecilia Tan, The Poet and the Prophecy: Magic University Book Four

  Bisexual Speculative Fiction Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror

• Lee Mandelo, Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction
• Fiona Glass, Gleams of a Remoter World
• Cecilia Tan, The Poet and the Prophecy: Magic University Book Four
• Catherine Lundoff, Silver Moon

  Bi Writer of the Year

• Cheryl Burke, My Awesome Place: The Autobiography of Cheryl B
• Mykola Dementiuk, Times Square Queer: Tales of Bad Boys in the Big Apple
• Janet W. Hardy, Girlfag: A Life Told in Sex and Musicals
• Annette Lapointe, Whitetail Shooting Gallery
• Erynn Rowan Laurie, Fireflies at Absolute Zero
• Catherine Lundoff, Silver Moon
• Lee Mandelo, Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction
• Basil Papademos, Mount Royal
• Cecilia Tan, The Poet and the Prophecy: Magic University Book Four

  Bisexual Book Publisher of the Year

• Lethe Press, Riptide Publishing and Sibling Rivalry Press

  2014

Bisexual Fiction

• Manil Suri, The City of Devi
• Susan Choi, My Education
• Nicola Griffith, Hild
• David Leavitt, The Two Hotel Francforts
• Frank Anthony Polito, The Spirit of Detroit
• Bushra Rehman, Corona
• Arlene Schindler, The Last Place She’d Look

  Bisexual Non-fiction

• Charles "Zan" Christensen, Anything That Loves: Comics Beyond Gay and Straight
• Shiri Eisner, Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution
• Marina Peralta and Penelope James, Barriers to Love: Embracing a Bisexual Identity
• Maria San Filippo, The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television
• Jade Sylvan, Kissing Oscar Wilde: A Love Story in the City of Light

  Bisexual Speculative Fiction

• Laura Lam, Pantomime
• Francesca Lia Block, Love in The Time of Global Warming
• Alaya Dawn Johnson, The Summer Prince
• Malinda Lo, Inheritance
• Saundra Mitchell, The Elementals
• Mary Anne Mohanraj, The Stars Change
• Emma Trevayne, Coda

  Bisexual Teen/Young Adult Fiction

• Malinda Lo, Inheritance
• Francesca Lia Block, Love in The Time of Global Warming
• M. G. Higgins, Bi-Normal
• Alaya Dawn Johnson, The Summer Prince
• Bill Konigsberg, Openly Straight
• Laura Lam, Pantomime

  Bisexual Biography/Memoir

• Alden Jones, The Blind Masseuse: A Traveler’s Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambodia
• Charles "Zan" Christensen, Anything That Loves: Comics Beyond Gay and Straight
• Marina Peralta and Penelope James, Barriers to Love: Embracing a Bisexual Identity

  Bisexual Erotic Fiction

• Adriana Kraft, The Reunion
• Rachel Kramer Bussel, Twice the Pleasure: Bisexual Women’s Erotica
• Livia Ellis, Memoirs of a Gigolo Omnibus
• Jean Roberta, The Flight of the Black Swan
• Elizabeth Schechter, House of Sable Locks

  Bi Writer of the Year

• Shiri Eisner, Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution
• Rachel Kramer Bussel, Twice the Pleasure: Bisexual Women’s Erotica
• Clive Davis with Anthony DeCurtis, The Soundtrack of My Life
• Livia Ellis, Memoirs of a Gigolo Omnibus
• Ed Kurtz, A Wind of Knives
• Marina Peralta and Penelope James, Barriers to Love: Embracing a Bisexual Identity
• Jean Roberta, The Flight of the Black Swan

  Bisexual Book Publisher of the Year

• Circlet Press and Riverdale Avenue Books

  2015

Bisexual Fiction

• Courtney Moreno, In Case of Emergency
• Emma Donoghue, Frog Music
• Sheela Lambert, Best Bi Short Stories
• Vivek Shraya, She of the Mountains
• Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests

  Bisexual Non-fiction

• Robyn Ochs and H. Sharif Williams, Recognize: The Voices of Bisexual Men
• Jacob Anderson-Minshall and Diane Anderson-Minshall, Queerly Beloved: A Love Story Across Gender
• Charles M. Blow, Fire Shut Up in My Bones
• Breanne Fahs, Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM
• Daisy Hernández, A Cup of Water Under My Bed
• Edward White, The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America

  Bisexual Romance

• Shari Slade and Amber Lin, One Kiss with a Rock Star
• Shira Glassman, Climbing the Date Palm
• Debbie McGowan, Crying in the Rain
• May Woodworth, Heart of the Hurricane
• L. C. Chase, Let it Ride
• Jenna Galicki, The Prince of Punk Rock

  Bisexual Erotic Fiction

• Julie Cox, Capricious: A Texan Tale of Love and Magic
• Megan Mulry, Bound to Be a Groom
• Livia Ellis, Memoirs of a Gigolo, Second Omnibus
• Jamie Fessenden, Murder on the Mountain
• Shari Slade and Amber Lin, One Kiss with a Rock Star

  Bisexual Speculative Fiction

• Corinne Duyvis, Otherbound
• Julie Cox, Capricious: A Texan Tale of Love and Magic
• Shira Glassman, Climbing the Date Palm
• Sarah Luddington, The Pendragon Legacy
• Alex Jeffers, That Door is a Mischief

  Bisexual Memoir/Biography

• Daisy Hernández, A Cup of Water Under My Bed
• Allison Moon, Bad Dyke
• Charles M. Blow, Fire Shut Up in My Bones
• Alan Cumming, Not My Father’s Son
• Daniel Schreiber, Susan Sontag: A Biography
• Edward White, The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America

  Bisexual Teen/Young Adult Fiction

• Nora Olsen, Frenemy of the People
• Corinne Duyvis, Otherbound

  Bisexual Mystery

• Jamie Fessenden, Murder on the Mountain
• A. R. Fiano, The Book of Joel

  Bisexual Poetry

• Laura Foley, Joy Street
• James Franco, Directing Herbert White

  Bisexual Anthology

• Robyn Ochs and H. Sharif Williams, Recognize: The Voices of Bisexual Men
• Rachel Kramer Bussel, Big Book of Submission: 69 Kinky Tales

  Bi Writer of the Year

• Robyn Ochs and H. Sharif Williams, Recognize: The Voices of Bisexual Men
• Sheela Lambert, Best Bi Short Stories
• Daisy Hernández, A Cup of Water Under My Bed
• Charles M. Blow, Fire Shut Up in My Bones
• Livia Ellis, Memoirs of a Gigolo, Second Omnibus
• Alan Cumming, Not My Father’s Son

  Bisexual Book Publisher of the Year

• Bisexual Resource Center, Circlet Press, Cleis Press and Riverdale Avenue Books

  2016

Fiction

• Lidia Yuknavitch, The Small Backs of Children
• Jennifer Steil, The Ambassador’s Wife
• Redfern Jon Barrett, The Giddy Death of the Gays & the Strange Demise of Straights
• Kelly Gardiner, Goddess
• Anna North, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark

  Non-Fiction

• Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, Bisexuality in Education: Erasure, Exclusion and the Absence of Intersectionality
• Surya Monro, Bisexuality: Identities, Politics, and Theories
• Jillian Deri, Love's Refraction: Jealousy and Compersion in Queer Women's Polyamorous Relationships

  Memoir/Biography

• Kate Evans, Call It Wonder: An Odyssey of Love, Sex, Spirit, and Travel
• Chelsey Clammer, BodyHome
• Emily Bingham, Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham

  Romance

• Megan Mulry, Bound with Honor
• Avon Gale, Breakaway
• J. L. Merrow, Caught!
• Amy Jo Cousins, The Girl Next Door
• Tess Bowery, She Whom I Love
• Francis Gideon, A Winter in Rome

  Erotic Fiction

• 'Heidi Belleau and Sam Schooler, Dead Ringer
• Lauren Gallagher, Kneel, Mr. President
• Avon Gale, Let the Wrong Light In
• Tess Bowery, She Whom I Love
• Santino Hassell, Sunset Park
• Lauren E. Mitchell, The Triad Trial''

  Speculative Fiction

• B. R. Sanders, Ariah
• Megan Derr, The Harem Master
• Shira Glassman, A Harvest of Ripe Figs
• Michelle Moore and Reesa Herberth, Peripheral People
• C. B. Lee, Seven Tears at High Tide
• Lori A. Witt, The Tide of War

  Teen/YA Fiction

• Hannah Moskowitz, Not Otherwise Specified
• Erica Yang, Bad Idea
• Casey Lawrence, Out of Order
• C. B. Lee, Seven Tears at High Tide

  Mystery

• Michelle Moore and Reesa Herberth, Peripheral People
• Casey Lawrence, Out of Order

  Poetry

• Jennifer Perrine, No Confession, No Mass
• Maureen Seaton and Denise Duhamel, Caprice

  Bi Writer of the Year

• Kate Evans, Call It Wonder: An Odyssey of Love, Sex, Spirit, and Travel
• B. R. Sanders, Ariah
• Hannah Moscowitz, Not Otherwise Specified

  Publisher of the Year

• Less Than Three Press and Macmillan Publishers

  2017

Fiction

• Susan Wittig Albert, Loving Eleanor
• Georgia Clark, The Regulars
• Erin Judge, Vow of Celibacy

  Non-Fiction

• Tiggy Upland and Jennifer L. Bonardi, Advice from a Wild Deuce: The Best of Ask Tiggy
• Eric Anderson and Mark McCormack, The Changing Dynamics of Bisexual Men's Lives: Social Research Perspectives
• Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, Women in Relationships with Bisexual Men: Bi Men By Women

  Memoir/Biography

• Juliet Nicolson, A House Full of Daughters
• Ira Nadel, Virginia Woolf

  Romance

• Garrett Leigh, What Remains
• Jordan Brock, Change of Address
• J. L. Merrow, Lovers Leap
• Keelan Ellis, Misinformation
• Dahlia Adler, Out on Good Behavior
• Lauren Sattersby, Rock N Soul
• Lauren Gallagher, Stuck Landing

  Erotic Fiction

• Lauren Gallgher, The Best Laid Plans
• J. A. Rock, 24/7
• Nicole Wood, Club Trega
• Vanessa Clark, The Man on Top of the World

  Speculative Fiction

• Megan Derr, The Painted Crown
• Foz Meadows, An Accident of Stars
• Sasha L. Miller, Enchanted Soles
• Archer Kay Leah, For the Clan
• Zoraida Cordova, Labyrinth Lost
• K. C. Alexander, Necrotech
• Julia Ember, The Seafarer's Kiss

  Teen/YA Fiction

• Alison Cherry, Look Both Ways
• Jamie Deacon, Caught Inside
• C. B. Lee, Not Your Sidekick
• Suzanne van Rooyen, Obscura Burning
• Casey Lawrence, Order in the Court
• Dahlia Adler, Out on Good Behavior
• Emily O'Beirne, The Sum of these Things

  Mystery

• Erica Cameron, Assassins: Discord
• Casey Lawrence, Order in the Court

  Poetry

• Ann Tweedy, The Body's Alphabet
• Cathleen Chambless, Nec

  Graphic Novel/Memoir

• Tyler Cohen, Primahood: Magenta
• Jon Macy and Tara Madison Avery, ALPHABET: The LGBTQAIU Creators from Prism Comics

  Anthology

• Sasha L. Miller, Enchanted Soles
• Jon Macy and Tara Madison Avery, ALPHABET: The LGBTQAIU Creators from Prism Comics

  Bi Writer of the Year

• Tiggy Upland and Jennifer L. Bonardi, Advice from a Wild Deuce: The Best of Ask Tiggy
• Lauren Gallgher, The Best Laid Plans
• Ann Tweedy, The Body's Alphabet
• Suzanne van Rooyen, Obscura Burning
• Erin Judge, Vow of Celibacy
• Garrett Leigh, What Remains

  Publisher of the Year

• Dreamspinner Press, Less Than Three Press and Riptide Publishing