The Polari Prize 2022 Winners

It is our great pleasure to confirm C+nto & Othered Poems by Joelle Taylor as the winner of the 2022 Polari Book Prize and Deep Sniff by Adam Zmith as the winner of the 2022 Polari First Book Prize, while Nen and the Lonely Fisherman by Ian Eagleton and James Mayhew wins the inaugural Polari Children’s and YA Prize.

The Polari Prize is the UK’s first and largest LGBTQ+ book award. Established to promote writing that explores the LGBTQ+ experience, Polari also focuses on amplifying diverse voices through a series of literary events, including the regularly touring Polari Salon.

The Polari Book Prize 2022 Winner

Uncovering underground communities forged by women, Joelle Taylor’s imagist and intimate cantos explore sexuality, gender and protest through the lens of the counterculture of the 1990s.

 

'Joelle Taylor has a Midas touch with words. Here is poetry that defends our right to walk without fear, wear what we choose, be who we uniquely are. A clear Polari Prize winner.'

DIANA SOUHAMI, JUDGE OF THE 2022 POLARI BOOK PRIZE

The Polari Book Prize 2022 Shortlist

Address Book
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£10.99
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Valentine Ackland
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The Origins of Iris
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£9.99
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Rocksong
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£10.99
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C+nto
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£10.99
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The Polari Book Prize 2022 Longlist

Address Book
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£10.99
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Valentine Ackland
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Scent
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£8.99
Paperback
Baggage
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£9.99
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Lullaby Beach
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£8.99
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The Great Good Time
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£5.99
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The Origins of Iris
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£9.99
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Rocksong
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£10.99
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C+nto
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£10.99
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The Dinner Guest
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£8.99
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Records of an Incitement to Silence
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All of You Every Single One
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The Polari First Book Prize 2022 Winner

A fascinating deep dive into the history of poppers and their relationship to LGBTQ+ culture, Zmith’s impressive debut delivers an expansive popular history of desire across time.

 

'The judges all agreed that this was a witty, well researched and ground-breaking book which honours our queer past while also looking to the future.'

PAUL BURSTON, JUDGE OF THE 2022 POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE

The Polari First Book Prize 2022 Shortlist

These Great Athenians
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Lessons in Love and Other Crimes
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All The Things She Said
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This Much is True
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£10.99   £8.99
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Deep Sniff
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£10.99
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The Polari First Book Prize 2022 Longlist

Camp Fear
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£10.00
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These Great Athenians
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Lessons in Love and Other Crimes
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The Transgender Issue
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£10.99
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All The Things She Said
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The Split
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£8.99
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Fetch Your Mother's Heart
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This Much is True
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£10.99   £8.99
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The Right to Sex
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Rotten Days in Late Summer
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The Go-Between
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£16.99
Hardback
Deep Sniff
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£10.99
Paperback

The Polari Children's & Young Adult Prize 2022 Winner

Recounting the spark ignited between a merman and the titular angler, Eagleton and Mayhew's stunning picture book is a celebration of love and acceptance with a vital conservationist message rippling throughout.

 

'This book does something important and radical by centring a queer love story in a picture book for young children. The story is innovative and moving, and the artwork truly stunning.'

JODIE LANCET-GRANT, JUDGE OF THE 2022 POLARI CHILDREN’S & YA PRIZE

The Polari Children's & Young Adult Prize 2022 Shortlist

The Accidental Diary of B.U.G.
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Nen and the Lonely Fisherman
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Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating
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Not My Problem
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Grandad's Camper
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£7.99
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The Polari Children's & Young Adult Prize 2022 Longlist

Ace of Spades
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The Accidental Diary of B.U.G.
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Wranglestone
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£8.99
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Stay Another Day
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£7.99
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What's the T?
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£10.99
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Nen and the Lonely Fisherman
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Queerly Autistic
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£12.99
Paperback
Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating
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Loveless
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£9.99
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Not My Problem
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£8.99
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Grandad's Camper
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£7.99
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Adam-2
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£7.99
Paperback

Previous Winners

No Modernism Without Lesbians
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A Dutiful Boy
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£9.99
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In at the Deep End
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£8.99
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Life as a Unicorn
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playtime
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£12.00
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XX
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XX
£9.99
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Elmet
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£9.99
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Guapa
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£8.99
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The Good Son
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£8.99
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The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales
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Fairytales for Lost Children
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The Murder Wall
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£9.99
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Autofellatio
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£9.99
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