We're thrilled to welcome back to the store, three Santa Fe authors whose books are finalists for Lambda Literary Awards — or the Lammys as they’re affectionately known. 

Lambda Literary is the nation’s oldest and largest literary arts organization advancing LGBTQ literature. The finalists were chosen from nearly 1,000 submissions and over 300 publishers. The winners will be announced at a gala ceremony on Monday, June 4th in New York City, where authors Roxane Gay and Edmund White will be honored.

 “This year.... another stellar list of authors demonstrate through their work that LGBTQ books tell richly textured stories about who we are in all our incredible diversity." -- Lambda Literary Executive Director Tony Valenzuela

Listen to the authors on this past Saturday's morning radio show Brave Space, hosted by Collected Works' Event Curator, Cecile Lipworth

From award-winning novelist Mary Morris comes the remarkable story of a remote New Mexican town coming to grips with a dark history it never imagined.

"Gateway to the Moon catalogs a slice of Jewish history which is both startling and deeply moving. This is a story about exploration–between the past and the present, between faith and truth, between the heavens and the earth. If you haven’t read Mary Morris yet, start here. Now. Immediately.”

Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of Small Great Things

May 13 to June 21 will be 40 days of direct action in Santa Fe at the Roundhouse on the issues of racism, poverty, environmental destruction, and war and the effects of militarism. 

50 years ago, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and others called for a “revolution of values” in America, inviting people who had been divided to stand together against the “triplets of evil”--militarism, racism, and economic injustice--to insist that people need not die from poverty in the richest nation to ever exist. At this time of intensifying political, economic, and moral crisis, with the lives of the most vulnerable and the spirits of all under vicious attack, people in growing numbers around the country are fighting back for their lives, communities and deepest values. There is a resounding call to the very soul of this nation: A new Poor People’s Campaign for a Moral Revival in America. Read more about Reverand Barber and the Poor People's Campaign in The New Yorker