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This year’s awards were chosen by a panel of more than sixty industry professionals, who sifted through over a thousand submissions from more than three-hundred publishers. The winners were announced at last night’s virtual awards ceremony. Here are the recipients that fall under the speculative fiction banner this year: Gay Romance LGBTQ Anthology Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction edited by Joshua Whitehead (Arsenal Pulp Press) LGBTQ Comics LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel: Stories by Julian ...

Stories of sex, survival, and identity are up for awards on Tuesday.

Madeline Davis, a mentor, role model and trailblazer in the LGBTQ+ community of Buffalo, N.Y., died April 28 at the age of 80. Born in Buffalo, Davis was an activist there for most of her life. With Elizabeth Kennedy, Davis co-authored “Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: the History of…

Hilton Als has been a contributor to The New Yorker since 1989 and a staff writer there since 1994. He has been the recipient of many awards for his

Northern Light is a book by Kazim Ali.(Goose Lane Editions) Kazim Ali was the child of South Asian immigrants, who unexpectedly spent years of his childhood in the small Manitoba town of Jenpeg, a town that existed because of the hydroelectric dam nearby. As an adult, he found himself wondering about the town: did it even exist anymore? And if it did, what was it like? These questions sent him on a journey, one that looked at the environmental destruction the dam caused, and the local Pimicikamak community that fought against it.  Northern Light is Ali's story, the story of the Pimicik...