Saints & Sinners 2013 honors Marianne K. Martin

The Saints & Sinners Literary Festival is recognised by the publishing industry as the best and brightest gay literary gathering. This year was its tenth anniversary and so particularly exciting. Our own Marianne K. Martin (right) was inducted into the Saints and...

Goldie Finalists 2013

Congratulations to Jesse Blackadder and Hilary Sloin! The Golden Crown Literary Society has just announced the 2013 Finalists. Jesse has been nominated in the Dramatic/General Fiction category for The Raven’s Heart. And Hilary Sloin has been nominated for Art on...

ForeWord Book Awards

The finalists have been announced for the ForeWord Book of the Year Awards 2012. And congratulations are due to both Hilary Sloin and Jesse Blackadder: Hilary’s debut novel Art on Fire has been nominated alongside Jesse’s The Raven’s Heart. ForeWord...

Raven’s Heart twice nominated

Congratulations to Jesse Blackadder! The Raven’s Heart is a finalist for both the Lambda Literary Awards and the ForeWord Book of the Year Awards. The Lambda Literary Awards are now 25 years old, and this year a record number of books were submitted for...

Hedgebrook honors Hilary Sloin

Hilary Sloin was accepted to attend Hedgebrook as one of the alums invited back for a second residency. She is thrilled “since part of what makes Hedgebrook so unique is that it offers women writers paid residencies only once in a lifetime. It is the most...

Lambda Praises Art on Fire

Writing for Lambda Literary, Julie Harthill Clayton offered Hilary Sloin a rave review for Art on Fire, her first novel and the recipient of the Bywater Prize for Fiction. Here it is in full: “…I had created my dream lover: a cowboy in girl’s clothing, the one who...