Best Lesbian Erotica 2013

Andrea Dale, Kathleen Warnock, Maggie Veness, Anamika, Rachel Charman, Kirsty Logan, Jewelle Gomez, Nikki Adams, Valerie Alexander, Zoe Amos, Sally Bellerose, Tenille Brown, V. C. Clark, Rebecca Lynne Fullan, Penny Gyokeres, Sonya Herzog, Sid March, Anna Meadows, Maggie Morton, Helen Sandler, BD Swain, Amelia Thornton, Fiona Zedde

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Santayana said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” I would like to add that those who do remember it will come up with a great guest judge for Best Lesbian Erotica.

Among her many smart decisions, Tristan Taormino, the founder of this series, asked Jewelle Gomez to edit the 1997 volume. It was the second year of Best Lesbian Erotica, and getting Jewelle to select the stories was a major step in the growth and visibility of the book and the genre. This year, when we were discussing possible guest judges, I asked the folks at Cleis: “Could we do repeats?”

I’d had a chance to meet and work with Jewelle earlier in the year, when TOSOS (the LGBT theater company in New York, of which I am a proud member) produced a staged reading of her new play, Waiting for Giovanni. It’s a beautiful and challenging piece about James Baldwin, one of our great American writers, by an artist whose own voice is more powerful than ever. So we asked Jewelle to select this year’s stories and were thrilled when she said yes.

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