Judith A. Markowitz Award

The Judith A. Markowitz Award for Exceptional New LGBTQ Writers, formerly known as the Dr. Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award and established in 2013, is an annual literary award presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation. The award is granted to "LGBTQ-identified writers whose work demonstrates their strong potential for promising careers."^[1] The writers must "have published at least one but no more than two books of fiction, nonfiction or poetry."^[2] Two annual winners each receive a $2,500 cash prize.^[1]

Recipients

Year	Recipient	Ref.
2013	Carter Sickels	^[3]
2013	Sassafras Lowrey	^[3]
2014	Imogen Binnie	^[4]^[5]
2014	Charles Rice-Gonzalez	^[4]^[5]
2015	Anne Balay	^[6]^[7]
2015	Daisy Hernandez	^[6]^[7]
2016	JP Howard	^[2]^[8]
2016	Bryan Borland	^[2]^[8]
2017	H Melt	^[9]^[10]
2017	Victor Yates	^[9]^[10]
2018	Mecca Jamilah Sullivan	^[11]
2018	Jeanne Thornton	^[11]
2019	Robert Fieseler	^[12]
2019	Hannah Ensor	^[12]
2020	Xandria Phillips	^[13]^[14]
2020	Calvin Gimpelevich	^[13]^[14]
2021	T Kira Madden	^[15]^[16]
2021	Taylor Johnson	^[15]^[16]
2022	Ching-In Chen
2022	Morgan Thomas
2023	Naseem Jamnia
2023	Maya Salameh

References

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Recipients

References

See also