For immediate release | January 27, 2025
'DEED' and 'Some Strange Music Draws Me In' win 2025 Stonewall Barbara Gittings Poetry and Literature Awards
PHOENIX — “DEED” by torrin a. greathouse and published by Wesleyan University Press, and “Some Strange Music Draws Me In” by Griffin Hansbury and published by W.W. Norton & Company are the 2025 recipients of the Stonewall Book Awards – Barbara Gittings Poetry and Literature Awards, respectively. The awards were announced by at the American Library Association’s (ALA) LibLearnX Conference in Phoenix, AZ on Sunday night.
The Barbara Gittings Poetry and Literature Awards are given annually to English-language works that are of exceptional merit relating to the LGBTQIA+ experience.
The award will be presented to the winning authors or editors at the ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition in Philadelphia in June.
The Barbara Gittings Literature Award Winner was named:
- “DEED” by torrin a. greathouse and published by Wesleyan University Press
The Barbara Gittings Literature Award Winner was named:
- “Some Strange Music Draws Me In” written by Griffin Hansbury and published by W.W. Norton & Company
Three Barbara Gittings Literature Award Honor Titles were named:
- “Here We Go Again” written by Alison Cochrun and published by Atria Paperback, an imprint of Simon and Schuster
- “Eli Harpo's Adventure to the Afterlife” written by Eric Schlich and published by The Overlook Press, an imprint of Abrams
- “The Emperor and the Endless Palace” written by Justinian Huang and published by MIRA Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
The members of the 2024 Stonewall Book Awards - Barbara Gittings Literature Award Adult Committee are: April Spisak (Chair), Mariah Elizabeth Busher, Leighton L. Christiansen, Tiffany Day, Katelin Lea Deushane, Samantha Garlock, Emily Anne Grosskopf, Jeremy Gunnoe, Caitlin Harrington, Daniel Kaufman, Avery V. Mead, Ziba Pérez, Hale Polebaum-Freeman, and Talya Sokoll; with significant administrative support from Ahliah J. Bratzler.
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