This can be an excerpt to a larger piece or a standalone work. Maximum of 20 pages for Prose and 10 pages for Poetry.

Applicants must submit a Core Writing Sample, their strongest representative work.

For example, reviewing LGBTQ literature, conducting relevant research, participating in LGBTQ literary events, contributing to LGBTQ journals and reviews, membership in on-line LGBTQ literary forums, etc.

The applicant’s contributions to the LGBTQ literary field beyond their writings and publications will also be considered.

The applicant must show meaningful engagement with LGBTQ literary communities.

The applicant must be of demonstrated ability and show promise for continued growth.

The applicant must have written and published at least one but no more than two books (including chapbooks) of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry.The application must therefore focus on the qualifications of the writer, not the qualities of a book. This award is for a writer, not a book.The applicant must self-identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer.Markowitz Award for Exceptional New LGBTQ Writers

More recently her band of guerilla activists-LEX (the Lesbian Exploratory)-created political, art and history events, including “GenderPlay in Lesbian Culture” and the Lesbian Legacy Wall at ONE Archives. Major conferences she organized ranged from the first National Lesbian Conference in 1973 to Butch Voices LA in 2010. Her long life of activism included founding many key LGBTQ rights organizations including the LA Gay Press Association, and serving as President of Stonewall Democratic Club and as Media Director for the campaigns to defeat anti-LGBTQ Propositions 6 & 64 in California. Córdova also founded and published The Lesbian Tide, the national newsmagazine of the lesbian feminist 1970’s, and she created the Community Yellow Pages, the nation’s largest LGBTQ business directory. In addition, she was a columnist for many publications, among them the L.A. Her work also appeared in numerous award-winning anthologies including Persistent Desire: a Femme-Butch Reader and Lesbian Nuns: Breaking the Silence. Her writing and journalism included the Lammy award-winning memoir When We Were Outlaws: A Memoir of Love & Revolution. Jeanne Córdova, author, activist & publisher, was a pioneer of the West Coast LGBTQ Movement.

Kicking the Habit by Jeanne Cordova