Cynthia Slater Nonfiction Article Award [Edit]
In 2007 the National Leather Association – International created awards for excellence in SM/fetish/leather writing, including the Cynthia Slater Nonfiction Article Award. Winners of the Cynthia Slater Nonfiction Article Award are:
2008
Jack Rinella – “Leather Views” Issue 6, Jan 28, 2007 Online blog.
2009
Jack Fritscher – “Spill a Drop for Lost Brothers: the Legendary Larry Townsend“
2010
Gloria Brame – “Transformation and Transcendence in BDSM“
2011
M. Svairini – “Kaliyuga Yoni”
2012
Mollena Williams – “Tables Briefly Turned”
2013
Mollena Williams – “On Collars And Closure and Owning Myself”
2014
I.G. Frederick – “What Some Women Tops and Bottoms Have in Common”
2015
Sinclair Sexsmith – “To All The Tops Afraid To Make The First Move”
2016 (two winners)
Jaco Lourens and Jack Fritscher – “Conversations With Leather”
2017
Erica Mena – “(K)ink #5 – Writing While Deviant”
2018
Jeff Mann – “A Defense of Erotica”
2019
Xan West – “Why I Care About Depicting Survivors of Abusive BDSM Continuing to Do Kink”
2020
Jack Fritscher – “Thom Gunn (1929-2004)”