Author Past winners
I Geoff Mains Award
Our list of all Geoff Mains winners.
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2008
Geoff Mains Book Award - Lee Harrington - Shabari You Can Use: Japanese Rope Bondage and Erotic Macrame
2009
Geoff Mains Nonfiction Book Award - Jack Fritscher - Gay San Francisco: Eyewitness Drummer
2010
Geoff Mains Nonfiction Book Award - David Stein and David Schachter - Ask the Man Who Owns Him
2011
Geoff Mains Nonfiction Book Award - Justin Spring - Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade
2012
Geoff Mains Nonfiction Book Award - Gayle Rubin - Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader
2013
Geoff Mains Nonfiction Book Award - Mollena Williams & Lee Harrington - Playing Well With Others: Your Field Guide to Discovering, Exploring and Navigating the Kink, Leather and BDSM Communities
2014
Geoff Mains Nonfiction Book Award (tie) - John Huxley - The Artisan's Book of Fetishcraft: Patterns and Instructions for Creating Professional Fetishwear, Restraints and Sensory Equipment
Geoff Mains Nonfiction Book Award (tie) -F.R.R. Mallory - The Kinky Feminist
2015
Geoff Mains Nonfiction Book Award - Peter Masters - A Year of Dominance
2016
Geoff Mains Nonfiction Book Award - Lee Harrington - More Shibari You Can Use
2017
Geoff Mains Nonfiction Book Award - Peter Tupper and David Stein (ed.) - Our Lives, Our History
2018
Geoff Mains Nonfiction Book Award - Jack Fritscher - Gay Pioneers: How Drummer Magazine Shaped Gay Popular Culture 1965-1999
2019
Geoff Mains Nonfiction Book Award (tie) - Janet M. Hardy - The Sexually Dominant Woman: An Illustrated Guide for Nervous Beginners
Geoff Mains Nonfiction Book Award (tie) - Peter Tupper - A Lover's Pinch: A Cultural History of Sadomasochism
2020 - NAME CHANGE TO LIL AWARDS
Awards will be pushed to 2020 to ensure all award nominations and selections take place at the same time.
2020
Geoff Mains Nonfiction Book Award - Janet Hardy - Impervious: Confessions of Semi-Retired Deviant
I SAMOIS Award
SAMOIS Changed from Anthology to Poetry only in 2020. COMING SOON, visitors will be able to click on the names of the winners to see their profile page with bio and photos.
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2009
Samois Anthology Award - Alison Tyler - Hurts So Good: Unrestrained Erotica
2010
Samois Anthology Award - Cecilia Tan and Sarah Desautels - Like a Thorn
2011
Samois Anthology Award - Tristan Taormino (ed.) - Sometimes She Lets Me: Best Butch/Femme Erotica
2012
Samois Anthology Award - Rachel Kramer Bussel (ed.) - Surrender: Erotic Tales of Female Pleasure and Submission
2013
Samois Anthology Award - Elizabeth Coldwell (ed.) - Lipstick Lovers
2014
Samois Anthology Award - Laura Antoniou (ed.) - No Safewords
2015
Samois Anthology Award - Alison Tyler (ed.) - Twisted: Bondage With An Edge
2016
Samois Anthology Award - Rachel Kramer Bussel (ed.) - Dirty Dates: Erotic Fantasies For Couples
2017
Samois Anthology Award - There were no submissions this year
2018
Samois Anthology Award - D.L. King (ed.) - Unspeakably Erotic: Lesbian Kink
2019
Samois Anthology Award - Rachel Kramer Bussel (ed.) - The Big Book Of Submission Volume 2
2020
Samois Anthology Award - Dr. Jack Fritscher - Mapplethorpe Movie
2021 - NAME CHANGE TO LIL AWARDS - Also will now become the award for Poetry.
I John Preston Award
The John Preston Short Story Awards.
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2009
John Preston Short Fiction Award - Jeff Mann - "Kidnapping Chris"2010
John Preston Short Fiction Award - Keiran Wyn DeWhurst - "The Last Mistress of the Chatelaine"
2011
John Preston Short Fiction Award - Laura Antoniou - "That's Harsh"2012
John Preston Short Fiction Award - Laura Antoniou - "The Man with the Phoenix Tattoo"
2013
John Preston Short Fiction Award - Annie Cox - "Muriel"
2014
John Preston Short Fiction Award - Peter Masters - "Imperfect Journeys"
2015
John Preston Short Fiction Award - D.L. King - "Grace Under Pressure"
2016
John Preston Short Fiction Award - Sinclair Sexsmith - "Awakening: Mistress Elise Winter & morgan"
2017
John Preston Short Fiction Award - D.L. King - "Cupcakes and Steel"
2018
John Preston Short Fiction Award - J. Belle - "Pygmalion"
2019
John Preston Short Fiction Award (tie) - Sinclair Sexsmith - “Brutal”
John Preston Short Fiction Award (tie) - Nicole Field - “Possibilities”
John Preston Short Fiction Award (tie) - Xan West - “Trying Submission”
John Preston Short Fiction Award (tie) - Xan West - “Trying Submission”
2020 - NAME CHANGE TO LIL AWARDS
Awards will be pushed to 2020 to ensure all award nominations and selections take place at the same time.
2020
John Preston Short Fiction Award (tie) - Xan West - "Cave"
John Preston Short Fiction Award (tie) - LM Somerton - "Helter Skelter"
I Cynthia Slater Award
Our list of all Cynthia Slater Article Awards
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2008
Cynthia Slater Non-Fiction Article Award - Jack Rinella - "Leather Views" Issue 6, Jan 28, 2007 Online blog.
2009
Cynthia Slater Non-Fiction Article Award - Jack Fritscher - "Spill a Drop for Lost Brothers: the Legendary Larry Townsend"
2010
Cynthia Slater Non-Fiction Article Award - Gloria Brame - "Transformation and Transcendence in BDSM"
2011
Cynthia Slater Non-Fiction Article Award - M. Svairini - "Kaliyuga Yoni"
2012
Cynthia Slater Non-Fiction Article Award - Mollena Williams - "Tables Briefly Turned"
2013
Cynthia Slater Non-Fiction Article Award - Mollena Williams - "On Collars And Closure and Owning Myself"
2014
Cynthia Slater Non-Fiction Article Award - I.G. Frederick - "What Some Women Tops and Bottoms Have in Common"
2015
Cynthia Slater Non-Fiction Article Award - Sinclair Sexsmith - "To All The Tops Afraid To Make The First Move"
2016 (two winners)
Cynthia Slater Non-Fiction Article Award - Jaco Lourens & Jack Fritscher - "Conversations With Leather"
2017
Cynthia Slater Non-Fiction Article Award - Erica Mena - "(K)ink #5 – Writing While Deviant"
2018
Cynthia Slater Non-Fiction Article Award - Jeff Mann - "A Defense of Erotica"
2019
Cynthia Slater Non-Fiction Article Award - Xan West - "Why I Care About Depicting Survivors of Abusive BDSM Continuing to Do Kink”
2020 - NAME CHANGE TO LIL AWARDS
2020
Cynthia Slater Non-Fiction Article Award - Dr. Jack Fritscher- "Thom Gunn (1929-2004)"
I Pauline Reage Award
Our list of all Cynthia Slater Article Awards
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2009
Pauline Reage Novel Award - Anneke Jacob - As She's Told
2010
Pauline Reage Novel Award - Claire Thompson - SubmissionTimes Two
2011
Pauline Reage Novel Award - Cherise Sinclair - The Dom’s Dungeon
2012
Pauline Reage Novel Award - Jeff Mann - Fog: A Novel of Desire and Reprisal
2013
Pauline Reage Novel Award - L. M. Somerton - The Portrait
2014
Pauline Reage Novel Award -Laura Antoniou - The Killer Wore Leather
2015
Pauline Reage Novel Award - Jeff Mann - Salvation: A Novel of the Civil War
2016
Pauline Reage Novel Award - J.A. Rock - The Sub's Club
2017
Pauline Reage Novel Award - Angela Hamm - The Gambler's Lady
2018
Pauline Reage Novel Award - L.A. Witt - The Master Will Appear
2019
Pauline Reage Novel category winner is Nicole Field - From The Same Star
2020 - NAME CHANGE TO LIL AWARDS
2020
Pauline Reage Novel category winner is Avery Cassell - The Solstice Gift