Bryan Borland (My Life as Adam, Less Fortunate Pirates, founding editor of Assaracus) and JP Howard (SAY/MIRROR) were announced as Lambda Literary's Emerging Writer Award winners.The award consists of two cash prizes of $1,000. In a joint statement, this year's judges, award-winning authors Reginald Harris and Lee Lynch, had this to say about the two winners: "Bryan Borland is the very epitome of literary activism. A prolific and engaging poet, he is the founder of Sibling Rivalry Press and Founding Editor of the literary journal Assaracus. His press also publishes a quarterly of queer and trans women's poetry called Adrienne. Mr. Borland has demonstrated that he is energetic and ambitious not only for his own beautiful work, but for his community of LGBTQ poets." They continued, "JP Howard stands out both for her fine poetry and for her passionate, unrelenting involvement with and on behalf of lesbians of color, all lesbians, and the LGBTQ literary community. She reverently celebrates our forebears. A poet, a teacher, and a curator, Ms. Howard has shown an ongoing commitment to nurturing our writers and to writing and publishing from her heart." Borland and Howard will be recognized for their achievements at the 28th Annual Lambda Literary Awards ceremony in New York on June 6th. Bryan Borland, a 2015 Lambda Fellow in Poetry, is the founder and publisher of Sibling Rivalry Press. He is the author of two books of poetry, My Life as Adam, which was selected by the American Library Association for its first annual "Over the Rainbow" list of recommended LGBT-themed publications, and Less Fortunate Pirates: Poems from the First Year Without My Father, both from Sibling Rivalry Press. He is also the founding editor of Assaracus: A Journal of Gay Poetry, which was honored in its first year by Library Journal as a "Best New Magazine." JP Howard aka Juliet P. Howard is a Cave Canem graduate fellow. She is the author of SAY/MIRROR, a debut poetry collection published by The Operating System and a chaplet "bury your love poems here." SAY/MIRROR has been nominated as a Lambda Literary Awards Finalist. Her poems and/or essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Apogee Journal, The Feminist Wire, Split this Rock, Nepantla: A Journal for Queer Poets of Color, Muzzle Magazine, PLUCK! Journal of Affrilachian Arts and Culture, Adrienne: A Poetry Journal of Queer Women, The Best American Poetry Blog, MiPOesias, The Mom Egg, Talking Writing, Connotation Press and the anthology, Stand Our Ground: Poems for Trayvon Martin and Marissa Alexander. Lambda Literary is the nation's leading nonprofit organization promoting LGBTQ literature. For more information about the Emerging Writers Award, visit their website.