Being True Gets Prism Award Nomination
BCR’s LGBTQ-themed anthology BEING TRUE has been honored with a nomination for a Prism Award in the Anthology category. We are all bursting with Pride here, for editors Renie Jesanis, Kyri Lorenz, and Steph Rose Glass. BCR’s first major award nomination!
From Prism’s announcement:
PRISM COMICS, THE QUEER COMICS EXPO and the CARTOON ART MUSEUM are excited to announce the Nominees for the THIRD ANNUAL PRISM AWARDS. The Prism Awards and the Prism Award Honorary Mentions will be presented at COMIC-CON INTERNATIONAL: SAN DIEGO, July 18 – 21, 2019 at the San Diego Convention Center. The date and time of the Awards Presentation will be announced with the release of Comic-Con’s programming schedule.
The Prism Awards are presented to comic works by queer authors and works that promote the growing body of diverse, powerful, innovative, positive or challenging representations of LGBTQAI+ characters in fiction or nonfiction comics.
The goal of the Awards is to recognize, promote, and celebrate diversity and excellence in the field of queer comics.
The Nominees and Awards are voted on by diverse panels of comics professionals, educators, librarians, journalists and writers.