8th Lambda Literary Awards

The 8th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 1996 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 1995.[1]

Special awards

CategoryWinner
Editor's ChoicePatrick Califia and Janine Fuller, Forbidden Passages: Writings Banned in Canada
Pioneer AwardL. Page “Deacon” Maccubbin, Lambda Rising
Publisher's ServiceNancy Bereano, Firebrand Press
Janine Fuller and Stuart Blackley, Restricted Entry: Censorship on Trial

Nominees and winners

Category Winner Nominated
Anthologies/Fiction E. J. Levy, ed., Tasting Life Twice
Anthologies/Non-Fiction Claude J. Summers, ed., Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage
Children's/Young Adult Jacqueline Woodson, From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun
  • Francesca Lia Block, Baby Bebop
  • Judith Vinga, My Two Uncles
  • Kurt Chandler, Passages of Pride
  • Daniel Vilmure, Toby’s Lie
Drama Tony Kushner, Slavs (Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness)
Guinevere Turner and Rose Troche, Go Fish
Gay Biography/Autobiography Lyle Leverich, Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams
Gay Fiction Michael Cunningham, Flesh and Blood
Gay Mystery R. D. Zimmerman, Closet
Gay Poetry Mark Doty, Atlantis
Gay Studies Joseph Carrier, De Los Otros
Humor Ellen Orleans, The Butches of Madison County
Lesbian Biography/Autobiography Erica Fischer, Aimee & Jaguar
  • Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
  • Claudia Brenner and Hannah Ashley, Eight Bullets: One Woman's Story of Surviving Anti-Gay Violence
  • Deb Price and Joyce Murdoch, And Say Hi to Joyce
  • Susan E. Cayliff, Babe
Lesbian Fiction Jacqueline Woodson, Autobiography of a Family Photo
Lesbian Mystery Jean M. Redmann, Intersection of Law and Desire
Lesbian Poetry Adrienne Rich, Dark Fields of the Republic
Lesbian Studies Karla Jay, Dyke Life
  • Urvashi Vaid, Virtual Equality
  • Minnie Bruce Pratt, S/he
  • Lynn Yamaguchi and Karen Barber, Tomboys
  • Julie Glamuzina and Alison J. Laurie, Parker and Hulme
Photography/Visual Arts Andrea Weiss, Paris Was a Woman
Science fiction, fantasy or horror Melissa Scott, Shadow Man
Nicola Griffith, Slow River
Small Press Eileen Myles and Liz Kotz, The New Fuck You
Spirituality Brian Bouldrey, Wrestling with the Angel

References

  1. Cerna, Antonio Gonzalez (14 July 1996). "8th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary. Lambdaliterary.org. Archived from the original on 4 March 2012. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
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