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[[FILE:POLARIpinkLARGE.jpg|thumb|Polari First Book Prize logo]]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".<ref name=polari>http://www.polariliterarysalon.co.uk/Polari/Polari_First_Book_Prize.html</ref>.

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''.<ref name=polari />

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