Polari First Book Prize

The Polari First Book Prize is an award "for a first book which explores the LGBT experience and is open to any work of poetry, prose, fiction or non-fiction published in the UK in English within the twelve months of the deadline for submissions". .

In 2013 the shortlist was:


 * The Murder Wall by Mari Hannah (Pan Macmillan)
 * Tony Hogan Bought Me An Icecream Float Before He Stole My Ma by Kerry Hudson (Chatto & Windus)
 * The Sitar by Rebecca Idris (self-published ebook)
 * Catching Bullets – Memoirs of a Bond Fan by Mark O’Connell (Splendid Books)
 * The Tale of Raw Head & Bloody Bones by Jack Wolf (Chatto & Windus)

And the winner was Mari Hannah for The Murder Wall.