Awards
In 2004, Soft Skull won the 2004 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender/GenderQueer with Charlie Anders' book Choir Boy. Several other Soft Skull book were nominated for 2004 Lambdas, including That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation ("Anthologies/Nonfiction"), The Haunted Hillbilly ("Gay Men's Fiction"), Skels ("Lesbian Fiction"), Juicy Mother ("Humor"), Manstealing for Fat Girls ("Debut Lesbian Fiction") and Deliver Me from Nowhere ("Transgender/GenderQueer"), among others.
In 2005, publisher Nash was the recipient of the Miriam Bass Award for Creativity in Independent Publishing.
In 2007, Michael McColly's The After-Death Room won the 2007 Lambda Award for Spirituality. The same year, Matthew Sharpe's Jameston was nominated for a 2007 Quill Award for Fiction (losing to Cormac McCarthy's The Road), Lydia Millet's Oh Pure and Radiant Heart was shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke Award for Science Fiction writing and Alain Mabanckou's African Psycho was on the 2007 Believer Book Award shortlist.
During Denise Oswald's tenure as editorial director, Hos, Hookers, Call Girls and Rent Boys received a cover review in The New York Times, and two titles were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction (by Lydia Millet) and drama (by Rajiv Joseph).
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