Launched yesterday, 29 July 2010, by Paul Magrs, the Man Fooker Prize is a literary award for works of fiction and memoirs by gay men.
As it says on the official website
It was literary award season again and longlists were getting bandied about like crazy. And it’s annoying because those lists seem a bit ready-made, middlebrow, monotonous and obvious. Anyway, late July 2010 and there’s the usual palaver about the Booker Longlist. It was obviously going to be the same old gubbins and some of the same old names. And the same nonsense about ‘literary’ fiction being a separate, rarefied preserve, quite apart from other genres. Anyway, we thought – wouldn’t it be fun and great to do something a bit different?
Fun and different is something we’re very keen on here at the Obverse Towerblock – it’d be great if this prize took off a bit…
http://manfookerprize.wordpress.com/
[ETA: Apparently, due to a terrible horse frightening incident, the prize is now to be called The Green Carnation]
