WELCOME TO THE GOLDIES
The Golden Crown Literary Awards are presented annually during the Annual Conference and recognize excellence in women-loving-women and sapphic literature.
The Goldies reward quality literature, cover design, and individuals in 19 categories, 2 popular choice categories, and 3 special categories. The Board of Directors constantly reviews proposals for new categories. The Goldies have been the annual event of the women-loving-women and sapphic literature calendar since 2005.
If you have questions about the Goldie Awards, please fill out our form or email Awards@goldencrown.org. (Please do not use the contact function on this website for Awards related questions.)
TEE CORINNE - ROUND 2
Round 2 voting for the 2023 Tee Corinne Award for Outstanding Cover Design is now open.
Round 2 voting is open from March 5 through March 30, 2023. Voting is open to all. This is the final round of voting for the Tee Corinne Award and will determine the winner.
This award sets a professional bar for the look of our books by offering an award for best or "favorite" cover design; provides recognition for cover designs that create a beautiful representation of the story; and provides recognition for artistic work that contributes to the promotion of a quality product in our marketplace. Cover design goes beyond the art and includes the typography and layout of the printed words as well as how the visual elements are arranged.
The finalists:
A Game of Two Hearts | A Whisper of Solace | Dead Letters from Paradise | Defiant Hearts
Fall Into Me | Observations on the Danger of Female Curiosity | Take Two | The Forever and the Now
2023 GOLDIE AWARDS
Nominations are now closed.
Nominations are no longer being accepted for the 2023 Goldie Awards.
While there will likely be some changes to the guidelines for the next awards season, please feel free to review the AWARDS GUIDELINES and the 2023 AWARDS CHANGES as you prepare for the 2024 Goldie Awards to ensure ELIGIBILITY. All nominations must be submitted via the appropriate online Nomination Forms. Review the NOMINATION DEADLINES to ensure that you submit your nominations within the appropriate timeline.
PREVIOUS WINNERS & FINALISTS
Winners in all categories for 2022
Shortlisted nominations from 2022
All winners from 2005 through 2021
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
Since being a writer is mostly a very solitary job, winning a Goldie was a wonderful recognition of a job well done. Knowing judges and readers alike enjoy my work keeps me trying harder to write the best books I possibly can.
Jae
At a time when our culture is growing increasingly hostile to queer lives and queer stories, I think it’s vital to have organizations like the GCLS that not only promote queer women’s writing, but celebrate its excellence.
Rachel Spangler
I'm proud, grateful and deeply honored to have been recognized with several Goldie Awards over my career. I treasure them all because I treasure the amazing GCLS community that inspired my stories and nurtured me as I wrote.
KG MacGregor
When I got my Goldie I was a newly published author who struggled for years to find a publisher without success. A Goldie meant acceptance by my peers. It was a high only a Nobel prize winner can describe. Even the glow in my photograph could light up a city.
Victoria Avilan
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