For more information about Tribal Fire or the National Leather Association, see: and. Contact the award committee chair, Steve Vakesh, for information about the awards at. The winners will be announced at the National Leather Association's Annual General Meeting, which will be held during Tribal Fire (May 4-6, 2012) in Oklahoma City, Okla. Rachel Kramer Bussel, Best Bondage Erotic 2012 (Cleis) Rachel Kramer Bussel, Surrender: Erotic Tales of Female Pleasure and Submission (Cleis) The finalists for the Samois Anthology Award are: Xan West, 'It's My Job,' which appeared in Richard Labonte (ed.), Hot Daddies: Gay Erotic Fiction (Cleis) Burka (ed.), Up for Grabs 2: Exploring More Worlds of Gender (Circlet) Svairini, 'Mouth,' which appeared in Lauren P.

Jeff Mann, ' Jeff and Sam: After the Concert,' which appeared in Shane Allison (ed.), Brief Encounters: 69 Hot Gay Shorts. Laura Antoniou, ' The Man with the Phoenix Tattoo,' which appeared in Tristan Taormino (ed.), Take Me There. Kissiah Aiken, 'Transformative,' which appeared in Nobilis Reed (ed.), 'Coming Together in Flux' (CreateSpace) The finalists for the John Preston Short Fiction Award are: Jeff Mann, Fog: A Novel of Desire and Reprisal (Bear Bones Books)Ĭherise Sinclair, To Command and Collar (Loose Id)Ĭecilia Tan, The Prince's Boy: Volumes 1 & 2 (Circlet) Lauren Gallagher, Reconstructing Meredith (Carnal Passions) The finalists for the Pauline Reage Novel Award are: Jim Stewart, Folsom Street Blues: A Memoir of 1970s SoMa and Leatherfolk in Gay San Francisco (Palm Drive) Gayle Rubin, Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader (Duke University Press) Tracy Baim and Owen Keehnen, Leatherman: The Legend of Chuck Renslow (Prairie Avenue Productions) The finalists for the Geoff Mains Non-fiction Book Award are: Mollena Williams, 'Tables Briefly Turned' (from her blog at: ) Jack Fritscher, 'Leather's Burning Man: The History of the Folsom Street Fair' (Bay Area Reporter) The finalists for the Cynthia Slater Non-fiction Article Award are: Named after activists and writers Geoff Mains, John Preston, Pauline Reage, Cynthia Slater, and the groundbreaking organization Samois, they are awarded annually to recognize excellence in writing and publishing about leather, SM, bondage and fetishes.Ī biography of Chicago leather legend Chuck Renslow is among the finalists for an award. (Columbus, OH) - National Leather AssociationInternational (NLA-I), a leading organization for activists in the pansexual SM/leather/fetish community, announced finalists for its annual writing awards for works published in 2011.

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