Thanks to Ashé Journal, Alternaqueerbooks.com, Bloom, Blowsquish Creative, Books to Watch Out For, Chroma, Damron Company, Leonard & Virginia Editorial, Make/shift, Nightsweats and T-cells, Other, Rebel Satori Press, Suspect Thoughts Press, TLA Video, Transform Interactive Media, and Velvet Mafia, for sponsoring the Project: QueerLit 2008 contest.

The PQL 2006 winner is:
Men with Their Hands by Raymond Luczak

READ ABOUT THE PQL 2006 FINALISTS'
AND SEMIFINALISTS' NOVELS HERE.

READ EXCERPTS FROM THE PQL 2006
FINALISTS' NOVELS HERE.

Congratulations also goes out to
PQL 2006 Finalist Tristram Burden
whose PQL novel My Hero: A Wild Boy's Tales
is coming soon through Rebel Satori Press!

And to
PQL 2006 Semi-Finalist Kittredge Cherry
whose PQL novel Jesus Remembers [Jesus in Love]
is now available through AndroGyne Press!

We had two winners from the PQL 2004 contest:

Supervillainz by Alicia E. Gornason
Origami Striptease by Peggy Munson

Both are Lambda Literary Award Finalists!

And both are now available through Suspect Thoughts Press!

Congratulations also goes out to
PQL 2004 Semi-Finalist Justine Saracen
whose PQL novel The 100th Generation
is now available through Bold Strokes Books!

READ ABOUT THE PQL 2004 FINALISTS'
AND SEMIFINALISTS' NOVELS HERE.

READ EXCERPTS FROM THE FIRST
CONTEST'S FINALIST'S NOVELS HERE.

The Project: QueerLit contest celebrates and brings media attention to unpublished authors of queer writing and opens doors for publication of their work. The contest is open to any unpublished author of an English-language novel with queer and/or bent content.

Authors may not be previously published or contracted to be published for a novel in any form. Previously published chapbooks, nonfiction, shorter fiction and collections of short fiction, and other work published in multi-author collections, magazines, etc. does not disqualify them. A novel with queer or bent content refers to a novel of any genre or blending of genres with LGBTIQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, and Queer), or with alternative themes, situations, voice, or characters. The author (and the novel) does not have to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersexed, or queer to be considered. Queer in this context can also mean a bent or outsider worldview.

All novel submissions are "blindly" reviewed (without knowledge of author’s identity) and rated (on originality, storyline, voice, and, characterization) by members of the Project: QueerLit Advisory and Review Committee, and another applicant.

From these ratings, the top-rated group of twenty-five Semi-Finalists, three Finalists, and a Winner(s) are selected and awarded.

Additionally, aside from the ratings, at least one novelist will be selected from all of the submissions as the Grand Prize winner(s) and awarded.