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	Bisexual	Noir	Steampunk
Transsexual/Transgender	Transsexual/Transgender
Poly/Menage	Poly/Menage
Inspirational

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