Non-Fiction: Psychoanalytic Bisexuality to Bisexual Psychoanalysis: Desiring in the Real by Esther Rapoport, Routledge
Memoir/Biography: In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado, Graywolf Press
Fiction: Naamah by Sarah Blake, Riverhead Books/Penguin Random House
Romance: Tie: Out of the Shade by S.A. McAuley, Independently Published; and Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston, St. Martin’s Griffin / Macmillan
Erotic Fiction: Three For All by Elia Winters, Cecaelia Press
(Note that BWQ author Lara Zielinsky was the other finalist for this category for her book We Three: One and One and One Makes Three.)
Speculative Fiction [Bi-fi/Sci-fi/Fantasy/Paranormal/ Horror/Etc.]: Shatter the Sky by Rebecca Kim Wells, Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster
Teen/Young Adult Fiction: Deposing Nathan by Zack Smedley, Page Street Kids
Mystery: Blood & Bitcoin by L.A. Witt, Independently Published
Poetry: turn around BRXGHT XYXS by Rosebud Ben-Oni, Get Fresh Books
Publisher of the Year: Simon & Schuster
Bi Writer of the Year: Rosalind Chase, Lot’s Wife: An Erotic Retelling, Under Hill Press