Green Carnation Prize

The Green Carnation Prize is a literary prize for any form of the written word by an LGBT writer.

In 2010 the writer Paul Magrs tweeted about the “scandalous lack of prizes for gay men” in the UK, which led to the journalist and blogger Simon Savidge approaching Paul about making an actual prize for gay men’s writing. For 2011 the prize was opened to all LGBT writers.

Winners

 * 2010: Paperboy by Christopher Fowler
 * 2011: The Proof of Love by Catherine Hall
 * 2012: A Perfectly Good Man by Patrick Gale (jointly with Moffie by the South African writer André Carl Van Der Merwe)
 * 2013: Far from the Tree by Andrew Solomon

Judges
For 2013 the judges were:
 * Uli Lenart, events press and online manager at Gay's the Word
 * Christopher Bryant, editor and co-founder of Polari Magazine
 * Sarah Henshaw, owner of The Book Barge
 * Kerry Hudson, novelist
 * Clayton Littlewood, performer and writer