Sapphic Poetry for National Poetry Month
April is National Poetry Month in the United States. What better way to celebrate it than with sapphic poetry?
The word ‘sapphic’ comes from the name, Sappho. Sappho was an ancient Greek poet who lived on the island of Lesbos in the 7th century BC. She is considered one of the greatest lyric poets of all time, and her work has been translated into many languages. Sappho’s poetry is characterized by its beauty, passion, and emotional intensity. She wrote about a wide range of subjects, including love, loss, nature, and music.
Sappho’s poetry is also known for its homoerotic themes. She wrote many poems about her love for other women, and her work has been celebrated by lesbian and bisexual women for centuries.
Sappho’s poetry was widely read and admired in ancient Greece, but it fell out of favor in the Middle Ages. Her work was rediscovered in the 16th century, and it has been the subject of much scholarly debate ever since. Sappho’s poetry is still relevant today, and it continues to inspire and move readers around the world.
A sample of Sappho’s poetry (translated, of course):
“Come, my friends, let us leave the meadow
And go up to the temple of Artemis.
There we will dance and sing
In honor of the goddess of the moon.
Let us crown our heads with garlands
And weave ivy around our arms.
Let us sing of love and beauty
And the joys of springtime.”
Sappho’s poetry is a beautiful and moving testament to the power of love. Her work continues to inspire and resonate with readers centuries after she wrote it.
This translation of her poems and fragments was published in February of this year.
Some other popular Sapphic Poets are:
Adrienne Rich (1929-2012): An American poet, essayist, and feminist. Rich’s poetry often explores themes of love, loss, and the female experience. She is considered one of the most important poets of the 20th century. Her work spanned decades as evidenced by the collection of poems from 1950 to 2012.
Audre Lorde (1934-1992): A Caribbean-American poet, essayist, and activist. Lorde’s work often explores themes of race, gender, and sexuality. She is considered one of the most important writers of the Black feminist movement. The Collected Poems volume of Audre’s poetic work includes more than 300 poems. Her essays in her work, Sister Outsider are also must reads.
Sharon Olds (born 1942): An American poet known for her frank and often erotic poems about love, sex, and the body. Olds has won numerous awards for her work, including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She has several collections of her poetry. The ‘current’ most popular volume is the collection of long-flowing poems and songs, Balladz.
Tracy K. Smith (born 1972): An American poet and former Poet Laureate of the United States (2017-2019), who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2011 for her collection, Life on Mars (Out first in paperback. The eBook came several years later). Smith’s work often explores themes of race, identity, and memory.
Jericho Brown (born 1976): An American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2020 for her 2019 collection, The Tradition. Brown’s work often explores themes of love, loss, and masculinity.
Some of my personal sapphic favorites include Audre Lorde’s work and Ocean Vuong’s (A queer male poet). There are a few more whose work I enjoy, including another ‘Ocean.’
Ocean (Cocco): If you’re on social media, you’ve seen snippets of her poetry. She’s a contradiction, this woman, writing horror one moment and poetic testaments to life, love, and loss the next. I’m not sorry to say I pushed her to put her one published collection, Love you Like a Woman, together! Her work is the reason I started to read poetry again – and sapphic poetry in particular – after many years away. Get the book and/or follow her on Twitter or Facebook.
L’Monique King: Her one, widely available collection, From Collards to Callaloo: Poems & Letters to Assata is not to be missed if you’ve ever been in a relationship with someone you love that has kept you from seeing others you love.
Arhm Choi Wild (Amazon paperback edition), now known as Noah Arhm Choi (they/them) (hardcover editions): The author of Cut to Bloom, winner of the 2019 Write Bloody Prize from Write Bloody Publishing. They received the 2022 Ellen Conroy Kennedy Poetry Prize. Please note: We don’t take dead-naming lightly. We’re simply trying to portray the poet’s work accurately as far as how it is available.
Do you have a favorite sapphic poet I missed? I’d love to hear more! Feel free to comment.
~ Anne
P.S. – Bonus List! These are the works published in 2022 that are finalists for the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry:
- Shelley Wong: As She Appears
- Natalie Wee: Beast at Every Threshold
- Courtney Faye Taylor: Concentrate
- Brynne Rebele-Henry: Prelude
- Rage Hezekiah: Yearn
You can get more information and retailer links in our special Lammy Finalist post, here.
March Madness – Sapphic Love and Basketball
Sports fans in the United States revel all month long every March as high school and college basketball regular seasons come to a close and playoffs and tournaments begin. ‘March Madness’ afflicts millions of fans of college basketball every year.
A men’s March Madness National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) tournament has existed since 1939. Women’s college teams had a tournament sponsored by the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) from 1972 through 1982. There was a smaller association that ran a tournament for women for a only a few years prior to the AIAW. In 1982 the NCAA sponsored a women’s tournament in competition with the AIAW tourney, and took full control of women’s college athletics beginning in 1983.
The women’s tournament for years, did not use the name ‘March Madness’ or the March Madness branding the men’s tournament has always used. Then, in 2021, the NCAA conducted a gender equality review. They found themselves lacking.
After years of women’s college players going into the professional WNBA to play out of college beginning in 1996, and successive years of growth in interest in women’s college basketball fans were following the women too. The NCAA wasn’t keeping pace with their interests. In 2022, the women’s tournament was also branded ‘March Madness,’ officially giving it the name and branding fans, players, and coaches were already feeling.
My wife (this is Anne) is a huge college basketball fan, right down to always rooting for specific teams and rooting against others, no matter how good they are, because she doesn’t care for the head coach. Yeah, it’s petty. It’s also fun to watch her squirm when those teams do well.
We both root for underdogs. Gotta love the underdogs, or in NCAA parlance, the Cinderalla teams! We keep rooting for them until they pose a threat to our favorite teams. Right now, one of our very favorites is in the tournament’s final four, The University of Iowa Hawkeyes with their superstar player, Caitlin Clark. We’ll be watching Friday night as the Hawkeyes take on the defending champion South Carolina team for the rights to play for it all on Sunday night, April 2nd.
Sapphic fiction authors have been giving us great basketball stories for years. Here are some of my romance and basketball favorites, plus the biography of Brittney Griner – one of the most famous collegiate players to go on to the WNBA. It was published in 2014, years before her incarceration in Russia and subsequent release from a gulag style prison.
Simply Connected by Alex Washoe
The first book in a popular multi-sport sapphic series.
Once a celebrated child prodigy, Blaise Noether is now a struggling widowed mom trying to keep her head above water while she pursues her Ph.D. Only two things make her really angry: her kid’s math textbooks and jocks. In her mind, all athletes are like the bullies who terrorized her in high school. So when she crosses paths with rising basketball star Christie Dillard, Blaise’s interest is a null set.
Christie is everything Blaise fears, fiercely competitive, brashly confident, and totally devoted to her game. That she is also endearingly awkward and irresistibly gorgeous is irrelevant data. But when Blaise glimpses a paradigm-shifting epiphany in the geometry of Christie’s jump shot, she begins to suspect this jock might be the missing variable that could balance the equation of her life.
Love on the Basketball Court: Rivals by Scarlet Rose
The first of two books in a series. New adult themed.
It’s always been my dream to play college basketball, but the thought of competing against the girl from my rival high school for a spot on the team feels almost hopeless.
Her name is Sarah Wood and she’s been a thorn in my side ever since middle school. Her school has beaten my school every time we’ve played. Now we’re not only going to try out for the same team, but we’re also going to be roommates? Could life get any worse?
However, just when things couldn’t get any more complicated, I find myself developing feelings for her. Am I gay? If my family found out, what would they think?
To make matters worse, our basketball coach has made it clear that someone is getting cut before the season starts and I’m just a walk-on. What if I’m the one who gets cut?
Am I able to put up with Sarah? Am I developing feelings for her? Will I be able to make the team? Find out by reading the book.
WARNING! This book may not be suitable for everyone and deals with some serious issues that may be hard for many people to read about including but not limited to sexual assault and homophobia. All of these issues are serious and are presented in a manner that is respectful that does not glorify or promote.
Coach Z by q. Kelly
The first book in a three book series.
Caution: This book does not exactly end in a happily ever after. It’s a true series.
Melissa MacKenzie, a basketball star in high school, never wanted to play college ball. The daughter of a legendary women’s coach, she has played since she was in diapers. Basketball was always a chore for Melissa, and she never developed the passion and skills necessary to garner much Division I attention. She hoped that by attending college across the country, she could get a break from basketball and carve out her own place in the world.
Parental interference conspired, and Melissa ended up playing for the Richmond College Ravens, riding the bench for four years.
As Melissa’s last NCAA tournament approaches, she wonders if she wasted the past few years by not giving her all. However, a series of unfortunate events means that Melissa has no more time to dwell on these woes—because she’s being pressed into service. Now she’s a starter, and all eyes are on her and the Ravens’ head coach, Andi Zappa.
Andi is fighting her own demons, and Richmond College is letting her go after the season ends. The two women work together to ensure that the Ravens don’t embarrass themselves too much on the national stage, and they find themselves playing with matters of the heart as well as matters of basketball as the national championship looms.
Will these human frailties doom them or make them stronger?
In My Skin: My Life on and off the Basketball Court by Brittney Griner with Sue Hovey
Hailed by ESPN as the world’s most famous female basketball player, Brittney Griner, the dunking phenom and national sensation who is shattering stereotypes and breaking boundaries, now shares her coming-of-age story, revealing how she found her strength to overcome bullies and to embrace her authentic self.
Brittney Griner, the No. 1 pick in the 2013 WNBA Draft, is a once-in-a-generation player, possessing a combination of size and athleticism never before seen in the women’s game. But “the sport’s most transformative figure” (Sports Illustrated) is equally famous for making headlines off the court, for speaking out on issues of gender, sexuality, body image and self-esteem.
At 6’8”, with an 88-inch wingspan and a size 17 shoe (men’s), the Phoenix Mercury star has heard every vicious insult in the book, enduring years of taunting that began in middle school and continues to this day. Through the highs and lows, Griner has learned to remain true to herself, rising above the haters trying to take her down.
In her heartfelt memoir, she reflects on painful episodes in her life and describes how she came to celebrate what makes her unique—inspiring lessons she now shares. Filled with all the humor and personality Griner has become known for, In My Skin is more than a glimpse into one of the most original personalities in sports; it’s also a powerful call to readers to be true to themselves, to love who they are on the inside and out.
Lammy Finalists Announced
Recently, Lambda Literary unveiled the finalists of their 2023 Lambda Literary Awards, commonly referred to as the Lammy’s or Lammy Awards. Since 1989, this organization has granted awards for LGBTQ+-centered fiction and non-fiction works. The winners are announced in June of the year following when these books were published and submitted for consideration after a judging round. What initially was an award program centered on non-fiction and literary fiction stories with a gay male perspective has changed into an event that now encompasses categories devoted to sapphic/lesbian content, bisexual works, and transgender works.
Please note: This article uses the terms ‘sapphic/lesbian’ because while the literary world is increasingly moving towards a more expansive definition of sapphism, Lambda Literary still uses ‘L’ for lesbian writing in its awards program.
Lesbian/sapphic fiction, memoir/biography, romance and poetry each have their own Lammy categories. This tends to be true for gay, bisexual, and transgender works too. Other categories are combined and presented as ‘LGBTQ+’ including comics, drama, erotica, mystery, spec fiction, YA, Middle Grades, and more.
We’re focusing on this with this post because the Lammy Awards tend to recognize more books from academia, university presses, and major publishers, more so than those from dedicated LGBTQ+ and sapphic specific small presses. Unfortunately, these authors and their works often don’t reach the sapphic reading community that frequents online platforms, sapphic bookstores and coffee houses, and other places where sapphics and sapphic friendly readers gather. They miss the chance of being bought, read, and talked about.
This year, the panel of 65 judges had their hands full when it came to deciding on the Lambda Literary Award nominees – with over 1,350 books to choose from. Eventually, five finalists were chosen in 25 categories. We’ve highlighted those specifically relating to sapphic or lesbian content for you to browse through, and also shared some of our top picks from the LGBTQ+ and bisexual genres that have more sapphic elements.
| Lambda Literary Award Finalists | Category and Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lesbian Fiction | |||
 | Big Girl: A Novel An extraordinary debut novel shot through with remarkable nuance and tenderness, Big Girl traces the intergenerational hungers of the profoundly lovable Malaya Clondon. | Mecca Jamilah Sullivan | W.W. Norton & Company |
 | Gods of Want Startling stories center the bodies, memories, myths, and relationships of Asian American women in “a voracious, probing collection, proof of how exhilarating the short story can be” (The New York Times Book Review) | K-Ming Chang | One World |
 | Jawbone “Was desire something like being possessed by a nightmare?” | Mónica Ojeda, translated by Sarah Booker | Coffee House Press |
 | Nightcrawling NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK • A dazzling novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system.” (Tommy Orange, author of There There). | Leila Mottley | Alfred A. Knopf |
 | Our Wives Under the Sea: A Novel “A deeply strange and haunting novel in the best possible way…An impressive and exciting debut novel that may leave you thinking about your own relationships in a new light.” —NPR | Julia Armfield | Flatiron Books |
| Bisexual Fiction | |||
 | Meet Us by the Roaring Sea New York Times Editors' Choice 2022 An NPR Books We Love 2022 | Akil Kumarasamy, Farrar | Straus and Giroux |
 | Mother Ocean Father Nation A riveting, tender debut novel, following a brother and sister whose paths diverge—one forced to leave, one left behind—in the wake of a nationalist coup in the South Pacific. | Nishant Batsha | Ecco, HarperCollins |
 | Reluctant Immortals "For fans of Mexican Gothic, from three-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a novel inspired by the untold stories of forgotten women in classic literature..." | Gwendolyn Kiste | S&S / Sage Press |
 | Roses, In the Mouth of a Lion: A Novel For fans of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, an unforgettable story about female friendship and queer love in a Muslim-American community | Bushra Rehman | Flatiron Books |
 | Stories No One Hopes Are about Them Stories No One Hopes Are about Them explores convergences of power, privilege, and place. | by A.J. Bermudez | The University of Iowa Press |
| Young Adult | |||
 | Burn Down, Rise Up Mysterious disappearances. An urban legend rumored to be responsible. And one group of friends determined to save their city at any cost. | Vincent Tirado | Sourcebooks Fire |
 | Funny Gyal: My Fight Against Homophobia in Jamaica Angeline Jackson stands up to the culture of homophobia in Jamaica by sharing the story of her sexual and spiritual awakening as well as her traumatic experience of “corrective rape.” | Angeline Jackson with Susan McClelland | Durden Press Ltd |
 | Lakelore Two non-binary teens are pulled into a magical world under a lake - but can they keep their worlds above water intact? | Anna-Marie McLemore, Feiwel & Friends | Macmillan Childrens Publishing Group |
 | The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School A sharply funny and moving debut novel about a queer Mexican American girl navigating Catholic school, while falling in love and learning to celebrate her true self. | Sonora Reyes | HarperCollins: Balzer + Bray |
 | The Summer of Bitter and Sweet A powerful story about rage, secrets, and all the spectrums that make up a person—and the sweetness that can still live alongside the bitterest truth. | Jen Ferguson | HarperCollins: Heartdrum |
| Bisexual Nonfiction | |||
 | Appropriate Behavior Premiering at Sundance in 2014, Desiree Akhavan’s acclaimed debut feature, Appropriate Behavior, introduced the indie film world to the deadpan, irreverent wit that had already won over fans of her trailblazing LGBTQ web series The Slope. | Maria San Filippo | McGill-Queen's University Press |
 | Never Simple: A Memoir This gripping and darkly funny memoir “is a testament to the undeniable, indestructible love between a mother and a daughter” (Isaac Mizrahi). | Liz Scheier | Henry Holt / Macmillan |
 | Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogamy An unprecedented exploration of polyamory and gaslighting. | Rachel Krantz | Harmony Books, Penguin Random House |
 | The Crane Wife A memoir in essays that expands on the viral sensation “The Crane Wife” with a frank and funny look at love, intimacy, and self in the twenty-first century. | CJ Hauser | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| LGBTQ+ NonFicition | |||
 | The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison This singular history of a prison, and the queer women and trans people held there, is a window into the policing of queerness and radical politics in the twentieth century. | Hugh Ryan | Bold Type Books, Hachette Book Group |
| LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction | |||
 | The Book Eaters An International Bestseller An NPR Best Sci Fi, Fantasy, & Speculative Fiction Book of 2022 A Book Riot Best Book of 2022 A Vulture Best Fantasy Novel of 2022 A Goodreads Best Fantasy Choice Award Nominee A Library Journal Best Book of 2022 | Sunyi Dean | Tor Books |
 | Into the Riverlands "A delicious bonbon of a novella about stories and their unreliable narrators, who wink at their...readers fully expecting us to catch on."—The Wall Street Journal | Nghi Vo | Tor.com Publishing |
 | The Paradox Hotel “Time travel, murder, corruption, restless baby dinosaurs, and a snarky robot named Ruby collide in this excellent, noir-inflected, humor-infused, science-fiction thriller.”—The Boston Globe | Rob Hart | Ballentine |
 | The Wicked and the Willing Love demands sacrifice. Her blood. Her body. Even her life. | Lianyu Tan | Shattered Scepter Press |
| Lesbian Poetry | |||
 | As She Appears Paperback Only Shelley Wong's debut, As She Appears, foregrounds queer women of color in their being and becoming. | Shelley Wong | YesYes Books |
 | Beast at Every Threshold Beast at Every Threshold dances between familial hauntings and cultural histories, intimate hungers and broader griefs. | Natalie Wee | Arsenal Pulp Press |
 | Concentrate Courtney Faye Taylor explores the under-told history of the murder of Latasha Harlins―a fifteen-year-old Black girl killed by a Korean shop owner, Soon Ja Du, after being falsely accused of shoplifting a bottle of orange juice. | Courtney Faye Taylor | Graywolf Press |
 | Prelude Prelude delineates the gay female experience through a poetic reconstruction of the girlhood of Catherine of Siena, a Catholic saint who lived in 1300s Italy and disobeyed her parents by refusing marriage to devote her life to God. | Brynne Rebele-Henry | University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Bisexual Poetry | |||
 | 50 Things Kate Bush Taught Me About the Multiverse This is a book of tragicomic gurlesque word-witchery inspired by the Kate Bush cosmos. | Karyna McGlynn | Sarabande Books |
 | Dereliction Gabrielle Octavia Rucker's debut collection of poetry, moves through childhood and into the afterlife with poems that evoke an artful and urgent sense of the author's "insatiable wandering." | Gabrielle Octavia Rucker | The Song Cave |
 | Meat Lovers Meat' is a coming of age in which pony clubs, orphaned lambs and dairy-shed delirium are infused with playful menace and queer longings. | Rebecca Hawkes | Auckland University Press |
 | Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes What is illusion—a deception, or a revelation? What is a poem—the truth, or “a diverting flash, / a mirror showing everything / but itself”? | Nicky Beer | Milkweed Editions |
| Lesbian Memoir/Biography | |||
 | Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place When Neema Avashia tells people where she’s from, their response is nearly always a disbelieving “There are Indian people in West Virginia?” | Neema Avashia | West Virginia University Press |
 | Brown Neon A meditation on southwestern terrains, intergenerational queer dynamics, and surveilled brown artists that crosses physical and conceptual borders. | Raquel Gutiérrez | Coffee House Press |
 | Lost & Found: Reflections on Grief, Gratitude, and Happiness “I will stake my reputation on you being blown away by Lost & Found.”—Anne Lamott, author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Bird by Bird | Kathryn Schulz | Random House |
 | Ma and Me "A nuanced mediation on love, identity, and belonging. This story of survival radiates with resilience and hope." —Publishers Weekly | Putsata Reang | Farrar, Straus and Giroux/MCD |
 | Pretty Baby: A Memoir A queer teen rebel escapes small-town Appalachia and becomes Los Angeles’s Renowned Lesbian Dominatrix in this searing and darkly funny memoir that upends our ideas about desire, class, and power. | Chris Belcher | Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster |
| Lesbian Romance | |||
 | Hard Pressed For Mira Lavigne, cider is about tradition, elegance, and class. | Aurora Rey | Bold Strokes Books |
 | If I Don't Ask Rebecca Keane has it all figured out. | E. J. Noyes | Bella Books |
 | Queerly Beloved A people-pleasing baker tries to find her place as a bridesmaid-for-hire. | Susie Dumond | Dial Press |
 | Southbound and Down Rules will be broken, as well as a number of speed limits and maybe more than one heart … | K.B. Draper | K.B. Draper, LLC. |
 | The Rules of Forever Public school teacher Cara Talarico is determined to pay off her student loans by the time she turns thirty-five and has sworn off everything fun to make it happen—including dating. | Nan Campbell | Bold Strokes Books |
| LGBTQ Romance and Erotica | |||
 | Kiss Her Once For Me: A Novel A festive romantic comedy about a woman who fakes an engagement with her landlord…only to fall for his sister. | Alison Cochrun | Atria Books |
 | Mistakes Were Made A sharp and sexy rom-com about a college senior who accidentally hooks up with her best friend’s mom. | Meryl Wilsner | St. Martin's Griffin |
 | The Romance Recipe Amy Chambers: restaurant owner, micromanager, control freak. Sophie Brunet: grump in the kitchen/sunshine in the streets, took thirty years to figure out she was queer. | Ruby Barrett | Carina Adores |
| LGBTQ+ Mystery | |||
 | Dead Letters from Paradise A spinster postal investigator for the Winston-Salem Dead Letter Office finds herself enmeshed in the mystery of solving who is sending undeliverable love letters to the town’s 18th-century hortus medicus. | Ann McMann | ByWater Books |
 | Dirt Creek Who's lying about what happened at Dirt Creek? | Haley Scrivenor | Flatiron Books |
 | Lavender House Lavender House is Knives Out with a queer historical twist. | Lev AC Rosen | MacMillan |
| LGBTQ+ Comics | |||
 | Mamo Can Orla shoulder the responsibility of quieting her Mamo's spirit, saving her hometown, and will she have to step up as the new witch of Haresden like Mamo always wanted? | Sas Milledge | Boom! Studios |
 | The Greatest Thing It’s the first day of sophomore year, and now that Winifred’s two best (and only) friends have transferred to a private school, she must navigate high school on her own. | Sarah Winifred Searle | First Second |
The Making of Queen Vs Queen
It was way back in March of last year when author and overall cool person KC Luck made a March Madness bracket in the iReadIndies Facebook group spotlighting some of the greatest sapphic tropes. Many readers voted on their favorite one, and after several long days, the winner was finally declared.
Guess what trope won?
Anne Hagan initiated a discussion within a group of authors around the same time, looking to bring together a big, Sapphic, shared universe boxed set project. Most of the authors were intently monitoring the results of the bracket and they began discussing how they could give readers what they desired most.
The readers wanted stories about ice queens. They considered creating multiple characters in the same world, but that would mean pitting ice queens against each other and against groups of people…Until they had a brilliant idea. They would write stories of two ice queens, starting off as enemies, then being forced to collaborate, and ultimately finding their happily ever after.
At first, thirteen authors said they wanted in. Ten of those ultimately committed to writing a 40,000ish word novella each for a boxed set project. Most thought it would be great fun to create two such similar characters.
They divided up additional tropes like age gap, second chance, and, of course, enemies to lovers, and came up with an overall premise; Conferences full of training seminars lead by presenters from the fictitious International Institute for Women in major cities where our queens could meet. They talked about including a lot of diversity. They plotted all sorts of goodies!
Guess what? The writing was not fun. The authors give kudos to Lee Winter and all of the other sapphic fiction authors who do high level ice queens so well. It’s truly hard work writing two very strong willed, opinionated, powerful, independent women in the same story…and then having them fall for each other.
Authors dropped out of the project for various reasons, but a few did because they just couldn’t write a two ice queen dynamic.
Three authors saw the project through to the end, suffering their own bumps, bruises, and rewrites along the way; Barbara Winkes, Alysia D. Evans, and Anne Hagan.
Barbara’s story is based in lovely Quebec City, Canada. Alysia and Anne’s stories share a made up large city venue and a couple of scenes, but their books are drastically different. Alysia’s ‘city’ has a decidedly UK harbor city feel, while Anne’s is based on areas in and around Baltimore Maryland in the United States and the Inner Harbor area there.
Barbara, Alysia, and Anne give you the anthology, ‘Queen Vs. Queen!’ It’s on pre-order now, releasing March 21st, 2023.
Buckle up! It’s going to be a bumpy ride!
eBook Giveaway Winners
Erin and I would like to thank everyone who entered our February eBook Giveaway. Your support means a lot to us and it means the world to the sapphic fiction authors who write the books we all love and advertise them with us.
Without further ado, the winners are:
Grand Prize – 15 eBooks – Nikka – n———3@y—o.com
1st Prize – 10 eBooks – Marthita – s——r@a-l.com
2nd Prize – 5 eBooks – Susy – w———–y@o—–k.com
3rd Prize – 3 eBooks – Allem – a——-9@g—l.com
4th Prize – 1 eBook – Maggie – w—-u@y—o.com
All winners have been notified by email by Anne Hagan. If you think one of these is you, and you have not received an email from Anne, please check your spam/junk mail folder.
Winners will select their books from all the books you can see here. There are 177 books to choose from, in a variety of genres, from both indie and traditionally published authors. This list grows every week with books advertised with MyQueerSapphFic.
Didn’t win? Please consider checking out some of the books we’ve featured, and/or the authors who have worked with us.
Congratulations everyone, and happy reading!
Anne