Appalachia

• Sugar Run by Mesha Maren
• Jericho by Ann McMan

Bible Belt

Arkansas

• Cottonmouths by Kelly J. Ford
• Real Bad Things by Kelly J. Ford

California

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Kissed a Girl by Jennet Alexander
• The Kill Club by Wendy Heard
• How to Be a Movie Star by TJ Klune
• Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour
• Kept Animals by Kate Milliken
• Just by Looking at Him by Ryan O’Connell
• The Guncle by Steven Rowley
• Something to Talk About by Meryl Wilsner

Bay Area/San Francisco

• The Evolution of Love by Lucy Jane Bledsoe
• The IHOP Papers by Ali Liebegott
• Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
• Valencia by Michelle Tea

Deep South

• *Scorched Cross by Margot Douaihy (New Orleans)
• Thrall by Avon Gale and Roan Parrish (New Orleans)
• Boys of Alabama by Genevieve Hudson
• Things We Lost to the Water by Eric Nguyen (New Orleans)
• Jilted by Lilah Suzanne (New Orleans)

Southeast

Florida

• Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett
• With Teeth by Kristen Arnett
• Fiebre Tropical by Juliana Delgado Lopera
• A Tiny Piece of Something Greater by Jude Sierra

Georgia (Atlanta)

Louisiana (New Orleans)

• Things We Lost to the Water by Eric Nguyen
• Jilted by Lilah Suzanne
• Things We Lost to the Water by Eric Nguyen
• Jilted by Lilah Suzanne

North Carolina

• Tack & Jibe by Lilah Suzanne (OBX, NC)

Mid-Atlantic

DC

• Let’s Get Back to the Party by Zak Salih
• Bath Haus by P.J. Vernon

Midwest

• Roxane Weary by Kristen Lepionka – B (Ohio)
• Tell Me How to Be by Neel Patel (Illinois)
• Blue Boy by Rakesh Satyal (Cincinnati, OH)
• Real Life by Brandon Taylor

Chicago

• Right After the Weather by Carol Anshaw

New England

• The Disappearance Boy by Neil Bartlett
• The Whale by Mark Beauregard
• The Companion by Kim Taylor Blakemore
• The Girl Next Door by Chelsea M. Cameron
• Belladonna by Anbara Salam
• Sketchtasy by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Northeast

Central and Upstate New York

• Out on Good Behavior by Dahlia Adler
• American Dreamer by Adriana Herrera

NYC

• The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara
• The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar
• Who is Vera Kelly? by Rosalie Knecht
• American Fairytale by Adriana Herrera
• Dancer From the Dance by Andrew Holleran
• One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
• Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
• Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers
• Rat Bohemia by Sarah Schulman
• After Delores by Sarah Schulman

Ozarks

• Cottonmouths by Kelly J. Ford (Arkansas)

Pacific Northwest

• Tangle Valley by Melissa Brayden (Oregon)
• The Best Bad Things by Katrina Carrasco (Washington Territory)
• How to Be a Normal Person by TJ Klune (Oregon)

Portland

• Stray City by Chelsey Johnson

Seattle

Texas

• The Bright Lands by John Fram
• Perpetual West by Mesha Maren
• Memorial by Bryan Washington

West