BTW News Briefs

Clara Villarosa Among 100 Women Who Shape New York

This week, one of New York City's most popular newspapers, the Daily News, named Clara Villarosa, co-owner of Hue-Man Books, the largest African-American-owned bookstore in the U.S., among the ranks of their "100 Women Who Shape Our City." The News described its ranking as an "honor roll of New Yorkers who are leaving an imprint on the way we live."

SEBA Book Awards Dinner Set for June 26

This year's Southeast Booksellers Association (SEBA) Book Awards Dinner will take place on June 26 at the Park Hotel in Charlotte, North Carolina. The SEBA 2004 Award Winners -- who will be announced in early June --will attend the dinner. SEBA's independent bookstore members should return their voting ballots by June 1. Tickets for the dinner are $40 and are limited. To order tickets, call (800) 331-9617. For a full listing of the award nominees, go to http://www.sebaweb.org/Awards/SEBABook/sebabook.htm.

Publishing Triangle Announces Award Winners

The 16th Annual Triangle Awards, honoring the best lesbian and gay fiction, nonfiction, and poetry published in 2003, were presented on Wednesday, May 12, at an evening celebration at the Tishman Auditorium of the New School for Social Research. The Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction went to Lillian Faderman for Naked in the Promised Land (Houghton Mifflin) and the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction went to John D'Emilio for Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin (Free Press). The Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction went to Nina Revoyr for Southland (Akashic) and Trebor Healy won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Gay Fiction for Through It Came Bright Colors (Harrington Park).