2023
GOLDIE
WINNERS
2023
GOLDIE
WINNERS
Ann Bannon
Popular Choice
Ann Bannon
Popular Choice
Thanks to a five-year, $500,000 grant from the Aronson-Besthoff Fund of the Greater New Orleans Foundation, award-winning authors of lesbian, Sapphic, and women-loving-women literature received $22,000 in total prize money from the Golden Crown Literary Awards (the Goldies) in 2023.The recipients of these monetary prizes are notated within each category below.
The largest Goldie prizes – $3,000 for first, $2,000 for second, and $1,000 for third place – went to winners of the Ann Bannon Popular Choice Award, In addition to the Ann Bannon Awards, $1,000 prizes will be awarded to authors of top-scoring books in 12 genre-specific novel categories and in three “non-novel” categories, as well as to first-time authors of books scoring highest in the Debut Novel competition.
Gold ($3,000)
If I Don't Ask
E. J. Noyes
Bella Books
Silver ($2,000)
Just a Touch Away
Jae
Ylva Publishing
Bronze ($1,000)
Broken Beyond Repair
Emily Banting
Sapphfic Publishing
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Audiobook Narrator
Narrator: Abby Craden
Tantor Media
Narrator: Christine Williams
Susie Bright, Audible Studios
Narrator: Rebecca Lowman
OrangeSky Audio
Contemporary Romance: Short Novel
Radclyffe
Bold Strokes Books
Top Score ($1,000)
Carsen Taite
Bold Strokes Books
J.J. Hale
Bold StrokesBooks
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Contemporary Romance: Mid-Length Novel
Elle Spencer
Bold Strokes Books
Rachel Spangler
Brisk Press
Lori G. Matthews
Bella Books
Rachel Lacey
Self-Published
Top Score ($1,000)
Melissa Brayden
Bold Strokes Books
Georgia Beers
Bold Strokes Books
Contemporary Romance: Long Novel
Chemistry
Rachael Sommers
Ylva Publishing
Over the Moon with You
Jaime Clevenger
Bella Books
Top Score ($1,000)
Plain English
Rachel Spangler
Bywater Books
Purposefully Accidental
G Benson
Self-Published
Something's Different
Quinn Ivins
Ylva Publishing
Debut Novel
Emily Waters
Ylva Publishing
Catherine Young
Bold Strokes Books
Observations on the Danger of Female Curiosity
Suzanne Moss
Aesculus Books
Top Score ($1,000)
Kurt Johnson and Ellie Johnson
Arcade - Skyhorse
J.J. Hale
Bold Strokes Books
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Erotic Novel
Fiction Anthology/Collection
General Fiction
Top Score ($1,000)
Ann McMan
Bywater Books
Kurt Johnson and Ellie Johnson
Arcade - Skyhorse
General Non-Fiction
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Historical Fiction
Observations on the Danger of Female Curiosity
Suzanne Moss
Aesculus Books
Top Score ($1,000)
Jo Havens
Self-Published
Mystery/Thriller/Crime
Top Score ($1,000)
Katherine V. Forrest
Spinsters Ink
Ann Aptaker
Bywater Books
Diana DiGangi
Bywater Books
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Paranormal/Occult/Horror
Siri Caldwell
Brussels Sprout Press
Top Score ($1,000)
Lianyu Tan
Shattered Scepter Press
Poetry Collection
Romantic Blend
Stacy Lynn Miller
Bella Books
Top Score ($1,000)
Suzie Clarke
Bold Strokes Books
Michelle Larkin
Bold Strokes Books
Science Ficiton/Fantasy
Top Score ($1,000)
Elaine Burnes
Mindancer Press/Bedazzled Ink
Barbara Ann Wright
Bold Strokes Books
Tee Corinne Award for Outstanding Cover Design
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Young Adult Fiction
Lee Lynch Classic Award
Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology
Barbara Smith (Ed.)
Trailblazer Award
Alison Bechdel