Literary award · United States · since 1971
Stonewall Book Award
Literary prize from the American Library Association Rainbow Round Table for meritorious LGBTQ+ English-language literature. Established 1971 in United States.
About Stonewall Book Award
The Stonewall Book Award is a set of three literary awards that annually recognize "exceptional merit relating to the LGBTQIA+ experience" in English-language books, primarily focusing on those published in the U.S. As of 2026, the award categories are the Barbara Gittings Literature Award, Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award, and Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children's and Young Adult Literature Award. They are sponsored by the Rainbow Round Table (RRT) of the American Library Association (ALA). The Stonewall Book Award began as the Gay Book Award in 1971, when the Rainbow Round Table was a grassroots group called the Task Force on Gay Liberation. The program has been an official American Library Association award since 1986.
From the Wikipedia article “Stonewall Book Award”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Recent winners
| Year | Winner | Winning work |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | The Skin and Its Girl | — |
| 2022 | A Psalm for the Wild-Built | — |
| 2021 | Beetle & the Hollowbones | — |
| 2020 | Gender Queer | — |
| 2019 | Hurricane Child | — |
| 2010 | Unfriendly Fire | — |
| 2003 | Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods—My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine | — |
| 1981 | Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality | — |
| — | Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy | — |
| — | The Dyke and the Dybbuk | — |
| — | Julián is a Mermaid | — |
From Wikidata; the list may be incomplete for some years.
Eligibility and entering
Check the official rules of the Stonewall Book Award for the current eligibility window, accepted formats, residency or language requirements and any entry fee. For most established prizes the publisher submits on the author's behalf, often with a limit on entries per imprint.
If you are self-published, look for an explicit statement that independently published books are accepted, and budget for entry fees and copies for judges.
Sources & data
- Structured data from Wikidata Q2005272 (CC0).
- Summary text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).