Elisa Rolle setting up her own Readers’ Rainbow Awards
In reaction to the business with the Lambda Literary Awards, Elisa Rolle has started the process of setting up a separate award (tentatively christened the Rainbow Award) which will be open to all writers regardless of gender or orientation, and judged by a panel of volunteers from amongst the readers of m/m and other GBTL lit.
She’s still in the process of thrashing out the categories and sub-categories, and deciding whether it’s going to be a Romance/Erotica competition only, or whether it’s going to be for all LBGT lit, including non-romance and non-fiction.
If you think this is a good idea, do head over there and offer her some help!
http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/799266.html
This is my first stab at a possible structure for the entries. I haven’t filled in anything in some of the columns because I’m too unfamiliar with those genres to know what the sub-sections would be.
Romance | Erotica | Mystery | SF/F | Horror | Action-Adventure | Western | Literary | Non-Fiction |
Contemporary | Contemporary | Contemporary | Hard SF | Contemp | Memoirs | |||
Historical | Historical | Historical | Space Opera | Historical | Biography | |||
Paranormal | Paranormal | Crime | Myth | Scholarship | ||||
SF | SF | Hard-boiled | Urban
fantasy |
History | ||||
Fantasy | Fantasy | Cozy | AU | |||||
Comedy | Comedy | Comedy | High fantasy | |||||
Bisexual | Menage | Noir | Steampunk | |||||
Transsexual/Transgender | Transsexual/Transgender | |||||||
Poly/Menage | Poly/Menage | |||||||
Inspirational |