'The Green Carnation Prize was born in late July 2010 when the literary award season kicked off and author Paul Magrs tweeted about the “scandalous lack of prizes for gay men” in the UK. Journalist and blogger Simon Savidge saw this and then contacted Paul about making an actual prize for gay men’s writing together. From there a team of judges (including fellow co-founder Nick Campbell, author Lesley Cookman and actress Katy Manning) was formed and a prize was born. The prize is named after the green carnation historically sometimes worn as an emblem of homosexuality and is a tribute to Oscar Wilde who often carried one on his lapel. In 2012 the prize opened its submission criteria to include all LGBT writers, in 2015 it widened its submission criteria even further including all ‘works of translation’.'
Source: Green Carnation Prize (https://greencarnationprize.com/about/). Sighted: 27/03/2017
