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A Love Like Blood by Victor Yates6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() Melt’s commitment to fostering a literary community that is inclusive of trans writers is highlighted by their successful efforts to add a trans poetry category to the Lambda Literary Awards.” Additionally, they are a passionate advocate for the trans literary community, in Chicago and beyond, consistently reviewing new queer work, interviewing trans authors, teaching and hosting events that celebrate queer and trans poets and writers. Their debut poetry collection, The Plural, The Blurring brings forward powerful ideas and imagery around gender, race, borders and bodies. Melt’s work revolves around writing and building literary communities for trans and queer people. ![]() In a joint statement they said of this year’s winners: The judges for the prize were 2016 Emerging Writer winner JP Howard and queer scholar and activist Theodore Kerr. Markowitz Award for Emerging LGBTQ Writers. Lambda Literary, the nation’s leading national nonprofit organization promoting LGBTQ literature, is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2017 Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging LGBTQ Writers Melt and Victor Yates Named Winners of Lambda Literary’s Judith A. ![]()
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