Bywater Prize for Fiction

Bywater Prize for Fiction

by | Dec 30, 2009 | Contests

Deadline: All entries for the 2015 Bywater Prize for Fiction must be submitted online no later that June 30, 2015. Focus: The Bywater Prize for Fiction seeks to highlight and promote novels written for and about lesbians. The competition is open to all authors,...
Marcia Finical

Marcia Finical

by | Dec 14, 2009 | Bywater Authors

Marcia Finical won the first annual Bywater Prize for Fiction for her first novel, Last Chance at the Lost And Found, and the 2009 Golden Crown Literary Society “Goldie” for best General Dramatic Fiction. Originally from Seattle, she has worked in a fish...

Review: Verge | Lambda Book Report

by | Dec 14, 2009 | Bywater News, On the web

In November, Lambda Literary News reviewed Verge, the first novel by Z Egloff, published earlier this year (and featured in our August newsletter). The verdict? A book that begins quietly before picking up pace and “sweeping the reader up in a whirlwind.”...

Val in Curve and HuffPo

by | Dec 14, 2009 | Bywater News, On the web

Curve features an article with Val McDermid, who describes her childhood growing up in a mining community. The interview coincides with publication of A Darker Domain featuring a new character, DI Karen Pirie “as fascinating and nuanced as any McDermid character...