The award recognizes and promotes LGBT mid-career novelists of extraordinary talent and service to the LGBT community. They are made possible by James Duggins, PhD, a retired educator who taught history at San Francisco State University. Two annual cash awards of $5,000 each are made to one man and one woman. Eligibility is open to any author who has written and published at least three novels, or at least two novels and substantial additional literary work, including poems, short stories, or essays.
One of this year's winner is Noel Alumit, a novelist born in Baguio, Philippines, and raised in Los Angeles, USA.
Noel Alumit’s novels are Letters to Montgomery Clift and Talking to the Moon. He has won the Stonewall Book Award, the Violet Quill Award, and the Global Filipino Literary Award. He was nominated for others including the PEN Center USA West Literary Award, the Lambda Literary Award, the Southern California Book Award and the Asian American Literary Award. His theatre pieces include Mr. and Mrs. La Questa Go Dancing, The Rice Room: Scenes from a Bar, and Master of the (miss) Universe. The San Francisco Bay Guardian named The Rice Room one of the best solo productions of the year. Master of the (miss) Universe was named Best Bet by the Los Angeles Times. His writing has been published in Tilting the Continent: Southeast Asian American Writing; Take Out, Queer Writing from Asian Pacific America; DisOrient; the Asian Pacific American Journal; 50 Gay and Lesbian Books Everybody Must Read; USA Today; The Advocate; Frontiers Magazine; Filipinas; A&U, America‚ AIDS Magazine and others. Noel also curates an LGBT reading series at Skylight Books in Los Angeles. He has spent 20 years doing AIDS work and sits on the steering committee for Asian Pacific Islander Equality-LA, a marriage equality organization.
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One of this year's winner is Noel Alumit, a novelist born in Baguio, Philippines, and raised in Los Angeles, USA.
Noel Alumit’s novels are Letters to Montgomery Clift and Talking to the Moon. He has won the Stonewall Book Award, the Violet Quill Award, and the Global Filipino Literary Award. He was nominated for others including the PEN Center USA West Literary Award, the Lambda Literary Award, the Southern California Book Award and the Asian American Literary Award. His theatre pieces include Mr. and Mrs. La Questa Go Dancing, The Rice Room: Scenes from a Bar, and Master of the (miss) Universe. The San Francisco Bay Guardian named The Rice Room one of the best solo productions of the year. Master of the (miss) Universe was named Best Bet by the Los Angeles Times. His writing has been published in Tilting the Continent: Southeast Asian American Writing; Take Out, Queer Writing from Asian Pacific America; DisOrient; the Asian Pacific American Journal; 50 Gay and Lesbian Books Everybody Must Read; USA Today; The Advocate; Frontiers Magazine; Filipinas; A&U, America‚ AIDS Magazine and others. Noel also curates an LGBT reading series at Skylight Books in Los Angeles. He has spent 20 years doing AIDS work and sits on the steering committee for Asian Pacific Islander Equality-LA, a marriage equality organization.
(More information HERE.)
