31st Lambda Literary Awards

The 31st Lambda Literary Awards were held on June 3, 2019, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2018.[1] The list of nominees was released on March 7.[2]

Special awards

CategoryWinner
Trustee AwardAlexander Chee
Visionary AwardMasha Gessen
Publishing Professional Award Barbara Smith
Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction Karen Tongson
Judith A. Markowitz Emerging Writer AwardHannah Ensor, Robert Fieseler

Nominees and winners

Category Winner Nominated
Bisexual Fiction Négar Djavadi, Disoriental (tr. Tina Kover)
  • Nathan Alling Long, The Origin of Doubt: Fifty Short Fictions
  • Katrina Carrasco, The Best Bad Things
  • Jennifer Natalya Fink, Bhopal Dance
  • Jude Lucens, Behind These Doors: Radical Proposals Book 1
  • Emily Strelow, The Wild Birds
  • J. E. Sumerau, Palmetto Rose
  • Lilah Suzanne, Jilted
Bisexual Non-Fiction Anthony Moll, Out of Step
  • Sophie Lucido Johnson, Many Love: A Memoir of Polyamory and Finding Love(s)
  • Julietta Singh, No Archive Will Restore You
Bisexual Poetry Duy Doan, We Play a Game
  • Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
  • Frances Donovan, Mad Quick Hand of the Seashore: Love Poems
  • Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Cenzontle
  • Xemiyulu Manibusan Tapepechul, My Woman Card Is Anti-Native & Other Two-Spirit Truths
Gay Fiction Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
Gay Memoir/Biography Darnell L. Moore, No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America
Gay Mystery Marshall Thornton, Late Fees
  • John Copenhaver, Dodging and Burning
  • Bud Gundy, Somewhere Over Lorain Road
  • Joseph Olshan, Black Diamond Fall
  • David S. Pederson, Death Checks In
  • Neil S. Plakcy, Survival Is a Dying Art
  • Jeffrey Round, The God Game
  • Marshall Thornton, Boystown 11: Heart’s Desire
Gay Poetry Justin Phillip Read, Indecency
Gay Romance S. C. Wynne, Crashing Upwards
  • Melanie Hansen, Point of Contact
  • Reesa Herberth and Michelle Moore, Detour
  • Jenny Holiday, Undue Influence: A Persuasion Retelling
  • Kris Jacen, Learn with Me
  • Christina Lee and Riley Hart, Of Sunlight and Stardust
  • Angela McCallister, The CEO’s Christmas Manny
  • Kayleigh Sky, No Luck
Lesbian Fiction Larissa Lai, The Tiger Flu
Lesbian Memoir/Biography Zahra Patterson, Chronology'
Lesbian Mystery Claire O'Dell, A Study in Honor
  • Joseph Fink, Alice Isn’t Dead
  • Charlotte Greene, Gnarled Hollow
  • Ellen Hart, A Whisper of Bones
  • Gerri Hill, The Locket
  • Catherine Maiorisi, A Matter of Blood
  • A. Rose Mathieu, Secrets of the Last Castle
  • Linda J. Wright, Stolen
Lesbian Poetry Nina Puro, Each Tree Could Hold a Noose or a House
Lesbian Romance Ann McMan, Beowulf for Cretins
  • Jenny Frame, Charming the Vicar
  • Jae, Just for Show
  • Lola Keeley, The Music and the Mirror
  • Aurora Rey, Autumn’s Light
  • Rachel Spangler, In Development
  • Sheri Lewis Wohl, The Talebearer
  • Erin Zak, Breaking Down Her Walls
LGBTQ Anthology The Other Foundation, As You Like It: The Gerald Kraak Anthology, Volume II [fiction]
Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture [nonfiction]
  • Lexie Bean, Written on the Body: Letters from Trans and Non-Binary Survivors of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence
  • Peter Dickinson, C. E. Gatchalian, Kathleen Oliver and Dalbir Singh, Q2Q: Queer Canadian Performance Texts
  • Sadie Epstein-Fine and Makeda Zook, Spawning Generations: Rants and Reflections on Growing Up with LGBTQ Parents
  • Miah Jefra and Chad Koch, Foglifter Volume 3, Issue 1
  • Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, Rikki Beadle-Blair and John R. Gordon, Sista!: An Anthology of Writing By and About Same Gender Loving Women of African/Caribbean Descent with a UK Connection
  • Taneka Stotts and Sfé R. Monster, Beyond II: The Queer Post-Apocalyptic & Urban Fantasy Comic Anthology
LGBTQ Children's/Young Adult Kheryn Callender, Hurricane Child
LGBTQ Drama Mashuq Mushtaq Deen, Draw the Circle
LGBTQ Erotica Blue Delliquanti and Kazimir Lee, Miles & Honesty in SCFSX!
  • Sacchi Green, Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year, Volume 3
  • Niki Smith, Crossplay
  • Matthew Bright, Gents: Steamy Stories from the Age of Steam
  • Tom Cardamone, The Lurid Sea
LGBTQ Graphic Novel Tommi Parrish, The Lie and How We Told It
LGBTQ Non-Fiction Imani Perry, Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
  • Ria Brodell, Butch Heroes
  • Charlene A. Carruthers, Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
  • Avery Cassell, Resistance: The LGBT Fight Against Fascism in WWII
  • Piper J. Daniels, Ladies Lazarus
  • Martin Duberman, Has the Gay Movement Failed?
  • Jim Elledge, The Boys of Fairy Town: Sodomites, Female Impersonators, Third-Sexers, Pansies, Queers, and Sex Morons in Chicago’s First Century
  • C. J. Janovy, No Place Like Home: Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas
LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Isaac R. Fellman, The Breath of the Sun
  • Margaret Killjoy, The Barrow Will Send What It May
  • J. Y. Yang, The Descent of Monsters
  • Sonya Taaffe, Forget the Sleepless Shores
  • Aliette de Bodard, In the Vanishers’ Palace
  • Clay AD, Metabolize, If Able
  • Fletcher DeLancey, Resilience
  • C. L. Polk, Witchmark
LGBTQ Studies William T. Hoston, Toxic Silence: Race, Black Gender Identity, and Addressing the Violence Against Black Transgender Women in Houston
  • E. Patrick Johnson, Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History
  • Lyndon K. Gill, Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean
  • Myrl Beam, Gay, Inc.: The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics
  • Keridwen N. Luis, Herlands: Exploring the Women’s Land Movement in the United States
  • Andrew Billings and Leigh Moscowitz, Media and the Coming Out of Gay Male Athletes in American Team Sports
  • T. Jackie Cuevas, Post-Borderlandia: Chicana Literature and Gender Variant Critique
  • Anne Balay, Semi Queer: Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers
Transgender Fiction Casey Plett, Little Fish
Transgender Non-Fiction Julian Gill-Peterson, Histories of the Transgender Child
  • Aren Z. Aizura, Mobile Subjects: Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment
  • Joy Ladin, The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective
  • Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man
  • Vivek Shraya, I’m Afraid of Men
Transgender Poetry Raquel Salas Rivera, Lo Terciario / The Tertiary
  • Gwen Benaway, Holy Wild
  • Luna Merbruja, Heal Your Love
  • Sara Mithra, If the Color Is Fugitive
  • Ely Shipley, Some Animal

References

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