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
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Narrator: Christine Williams
Susie Bright, Audible Studios
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Narrator: Rebecca Lowman
OrangeSky Audio
Contemporary Romance: Short Novel
Radclyffe
Bold Strokes Books
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Top Score ($1,000)
Carsen Taite
Bold Strokes Books
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J.J. Hale
Bold StrokesBooks
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Contemporary Romance: Mid-Length Novel
Elle Spencer
Bold Strokes Books
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Rachel Spangler
Brisk Press
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Lori G. Matthews
Bella Books
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Rachel Lacey
Self-Published
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Top Score ($1,000)
Melissa Brayden
Bold Strokes Books
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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
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Catherine Young
Bold Strokes Books
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Observations on the Danger of Female Curiosity
Suzanne Moss
Aesculus Books
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Top Score ($1,000)
Kurt Johnson and Ellie Johnson
Arcade - Skyhorse
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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
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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
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Top Score ($1,000)
Jo Havens
Self-Published
Mystery/Thriller/Crime
Top Score ($1,000)
Katherine V. Forrest
Spinsters Ink
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Ann Aptaker
Bywater Books
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Diana DiGangi
Bywater Books
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Paranormal/Occult/Horror
Siri Caldwell
Brussels Sprout Press
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Top Score ($1,000)
Lianyu Tan
Shattered Scepter Press
Poetry Collection
Romantic Blend
Stacy Lynn Miller
Bella Books
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Top Score ($1,000)
Suzie Clarke
Bold Strokes Books
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Michelle Larkin
Bold Strokes Books
Science Ficiton/Fantasy
Top Score ($1,000)
Elaine Burnes
Mindancer Press/Bedazzled Ink
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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