Firecracker Alternative Book Awards
		The Award
		Nominees
		Previous Winners

FICTION
Distorture
by Rob Hardin

NONFICTION
Transgender Warriors
by Leslie Feinberg

POETRY
Home in Three Days. Don't Wash.
by Linda Smukler

POLITICS
Censored 1997
by Peter Phillips, Project Censored, et al.

SEX
The Guide to Getting It On!
by Paul Joannides

DRUGS
Everything I Know I Learned on Acid
by Coco Pekelis

MUSIC
I Need More
by Iggy Pop

ART/PHOTO
Nothing But the Girl
by Susie Bright (ed.), Jill Posener (ed.)

GRAPHIC NOVEL
Real Americans Admit: "The Worst Thing I've Ever Done!"
by Ted Rall

'ZINE
Bust
by Celina Hex

KIDS
The Palm of My Heart
by Davida Adedjouma (ed.), Lucille Clifton (intro.), Gregory Christie (illus.)

OUTSTANDING INDEPENDENT PRESS OF THE YEAR
AK Cleis Incommunicado

SPECIAL RECOGNITION/WILDCARD CATEGORIES
Intercourses
by Martha Hopkins

Death Scenes
by Katherine Dunn, Sean Tejaratchi (ed.)

RECALL HOEKSTRA AWARD FOR SPECIAL MERIT IN LITERARY PUBLISHING
FC2/Black Ice