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". It runs alongside the main Polari Book Prize each year.
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.
In 2025 some of the long-listed authors for the Polari Book Prize objected to a book by John Boyne, an Irish writer, because he has gender-critical views. [1]
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