Lambda Literary Award noms Montreal writers

WOWOWOWOWOWOWOW. One of my two fav books of last year got nominated for Lambda Literary Book Awards, an ‘Merican rights org that honours people for gay stuff. Montrealers Daniel Allen Cox, Mark Ambrose Harris and Christopher DiRaddo, (buds of mine I’m proud to say) contributed to one of the nominated anthologies, I Like It Like That. Other cool-ass Montrealer Nairne Holtz is nominated for her book of short stories, This One Is Going To Last Forever.

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