Lambda Literary Awards 2016
Winners and nominees of the 2016 Lambda Literary Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Bisexual Literature
- 🏆 The Life and Death of Sophie Stark (winner)
- 🏆 Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham (winner)
- ✦Eat My Heart Out — Zoe Pilger (nominee)
- ✦My Riastrad(nominee)
Children's and Young Adult Literature
- ✦About a Girl: A Novel — Sarah McCarry (nominee)
- ✦Gay and Lesbian History for Kids: The Century-Long Struggle for LGBT Rights — Jerome Pohlen (nominee)
- ✦ The Marvels (nominee)
- ✦ Anything Could Happen (nominee)
- ✦The Marvels(nominee)
- ✦Anything Could Happen(nominee)
Debut Fiction
- 🏆 A Love Like Blood (winner)
- ✦Lovesick — Laurence Senelick (nominee)
- ✦ Hotel Living (nominee)
- ✦ Do U. (nominee)
- ✦ His Steadfast Love and Other Stories (nominee)
- ✦ Lum: A Novel (nominee)
- ✦The Brink — Austin Bunn (nominee)
- ✦Life is Wonderful, People are Terrific — Meliza Bañales (nominee)
- ✦Hotel Living(nominee)
- ✦Do U.(nominee)
- ✦His Steadfast Love and Other Stories(nominee)
- ✦Lum: A Novel(nominee)
Drama
- 🏆 Bright Half Life (winner)
- ✦Love Alone — Deborah Salem Smith (nominee)
- ✦The Mystery of Love and Sex — Bathsheba Doran (nominee)
Gay Erotica
- 🏆Érotiques Suprèmes — Miodrag Kojadinović (winner)
- ✦Grave Desires — William Holden (nominee)
- ✦ Charming: Modern Gay Fairytales (nominee)
- ✦ College Dive Bar, 1 AM (nominee)
- ✦ Green Eyes — an erotic novel (sort-of) (nominee)
- ✦Charming: Modern Gay Fairytales(nominee)
- ✦College Dive Bar, 1 AM(nominee)
- ✦Green Eyes — an erotic novel (sort-of)(nominee)
Gay Fiction
- ✦The Early Stories of Truman Capote — Truman Capote(nominee)
- ✦ Still Life, Las Vegas (nominee)
- ✦ Immaculate Blue (nominee)
- ✦Breathing Lessons — Andy Sinclair (nominee)
- ✦A Poet of the Invisible World — Michael Golding (nominee)
- ✦The Rise and Fall of the Yellow House — John Whittier Treat (nominee)
- ✦JD: A Novel(nominee)
- ✦Still Life, Las Vegas(nominee)
- ✦Immaculate Blue(nominee)
Gay Memoir or Biography
- 🏆James Merrill: Life and Art — Langdon Hammer (winner)
- ✦Chasing Lost Time: The Life of C. K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy, and Translator — Jean Findlay (nominee)
- ✦ My Avant-Garde Education: A Memoir (nominee)
- ✦ A House in St. John’s Wood (nominee)
- ✦Until My Heart Stops — Jameson Currier (nominee)
- ✦Smash Cut — Brad Gooch (nominee)
- ✦My Body Is Yours — Michael V. Smith (nominee)
- ✦Exiled for Love: The Journey of an Iranian Queer Activist — Arsham Parsi (nominee)
- ✦My Avant-Garde Education: A Memoir(nominee)
- ✦A House in St. John’s Wood(nominee)
Gay Mystery
- 🏆Boystown 7: Bloodlines — Marshall Thornton (winner)
- ✦ Introducing Sunfish & Starfish: Tropical Drag Queen Detectives (nominee)
- ✦ Cheap as Beasts (nominee)
- ✦Murder and Mayhem — Rhys Ford(nominee)
- ✦The Swede — Robert Karjel (nominee)
- ✦After the Horses — Jeffrey Round (nominee)
- ✦Introducing Sunfish & Starfish: Tropical Drag Queen Detectives(nominee)
- ✦Cheap as Beasts(nominee)
Gay Poetry
- 🏆Crevasse — Nicholas Wong (winner)
- 🏆Reconnaissance — Carl Phillips (winner)
- ✦ Teaching a Man to Unstick His Tail (nominee)
- ✦ Angel Park (nominee)
- ✦Otter — Ben Ladouceur (nominee)
- ✦Steep Tea — Jee Leong Koh (nominee)
- ✦Teaching a Man to Unstick His Tail(nominee)
- ✦Angel Park(nominee)
Gay Romance
- 🏆 When Skies Have Fallen (winner)
- ✦Yes — Brad Boney (nominee)
- ✦ Blueberry Boys (nominee)
- ✦ General Misconduct (nominee)
- ✦ Misfits (nominee)
- ✦ Brothers (nominee)
- ✦Something Like Stories, Volume One — Jay Bell (nominee)
- ✦For Real — Alexis Hall(nominee)
- ✦Blueberry Boys(nominee)
- ✦General Misconduct(nominee)
- ✦Misfits(nominee)
- ✦Brothers(nominee)
LGBT Anthology
- 🏆Beyond: The Queer Sci-Fi & Fantasy Comic Anthology — Sfé R. Monster (winner)
- 🏆 Glitter and Grit: Queer Performance from the Heels on Wheels Femme Galaxy (winner)
- 🏆Beyond: The Queer Sci-Fi & Fantasy Comic Anthology — Taneka Stotts (winner)
- ✦A Pride of Poppies: Modern GLBTQI fiction of the Great War — Julie Bozza (nominee)
- ✦ Speak My Language, and Other Stories: An Anthology of Gay Fiction (nominee)
- ✦ Soy Lesbiana y Que! Out Latina Lesbians (nominee)
- ✦ Out of the Closet, Into the Archives: Researching Sexual Histories (nominee)
- ✦Memories of the Revolution — Jill Dolan (nominee)
- ✦Memories of the Revolution — Holly Hughes (nominee)
- ✦Speak My Language, and Other Stories: An Anthology of Gay Fiction(nominee)
- ✦Soy Lesbiana y Que! Out Latina Lesbians(nominee)
- ✦Out of the Closet, Into the Archives: Researching Sexual Histories(nominee)
LGBT Graphic Novel
- ✦ Curveball (nominee)
- ✦O Human Star: Volume One — Blue Delliquanti (nominee)
- ✦Curveball(nominee)
LGBT Non-fiction
- 🏆“No One Helped”: Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy — Marcia Gallo (winner)
- ✦ What Color Is Your Hoodie? Essays on Black Gay Identity (nominee)
- ✦ Namibia’s Rainbow Project (nominee)
- ✦ Fading Scars: My Queer Disability History (nominee)
- ✦Considering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture and Politics — Michael Bronski (nominee)
- ✦Modern Families: Stories of Extraordinary Journeys to Kinship — Joshua Gamson (nominee)
- ✦The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle — Lillian Faderman(nominee)
- ✦What Color Is Your Hoodie? Essays on Black Gay Identity(nominee)
- ✦Namibia’s Rainbow Project(nominee)
- ✦Fading Scars: My Queer Disability History(nominee)
LGBT Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror
- ✦The Caphenon (Chronicles of Alsea – Book #1) — Fletcher DeLancey (nominee)
- ✦ Minotaur (nominee)
- ✦ Down (nominee)
- ✦ Wonder City Stories (nominee)
- ✦ The Boys on the Mountain (nominee)
- ✦ Sacrati (nominee)
- ✦Minotaur(nominee)
- ✦Down(nominee)
- ✦Wonder City Stories(nominee)
- ✦The Boys on the Mountain(nominee)
- ✦Sacrati(nominee)
LGBT Studies
- 🏆 A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire (winner)
- ✦Indifference to Difference: On Queer Universalism(nominee)
- ✦Gay Fathers, Their Children, and the Making of Kinship — Aaron Goodfellow (nominee)
- ✦ Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men (nominee)
- ✦ Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures (nominee)
- ✦Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men(nominee)
- ✦Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures(nominee)
Lesbian Erotica
- 🏆 The Muse (winner)
- ✦ Sweet & Rough: Queer Kink Erotica (nominee)
- ✦ Desire Behind Bars: Lesbian Prison Erotica (nominee)
- ✦Sweet & Rough: Queer Kink Erotica(nominee)
- ✦Desire Behind Bars: Lesbian Prison Erotica(nominee)
Lesbian Fiction
- 🏆Under the Udala Trees — Chinelo Okparanta(winner)
- ✦Blue Talk and Love — Mecca Jamilah Sullivan (nominee)
- ✦ Mecca Jamilah Sullivan (nominee)
- ✦Like a Woman — Debra Busman (nominee)
- ✦ Debra Busman (nominee)
- ✦ Thérèse and Isabelle (nominee)
- ✦ The First Bad Man (nominee)
- ✦Jam on the Vine: A Novel — LaShonda Katrice Barnett (nominee)
- ✦ LaShonda Katrice Barnett (nominee)
- ✦ Miranda July (nominee)
- ✦Apocalypse Baby — Virginie Despentes (nominee)
- ✦Violette Leduc(nominee)
- ✦The Cherokee Rose — Tiya Miles (nominee)
- ✦ Tiya Miles (nominee)
- ✦Thérèse and Isabelle(nominee)
- ✦The First Bad Man(nominee)
Lesbian Memoir or Biography
- 🏆 Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear (winner)
- ✦ You’re Not Edith (nominee)
- ✦ Cooking as Fast as I Can: A Chef’s Story of Family, Food, and Forgiveness (nominee)
- ✦Dirty River — Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (nominee)
- ✦You’re Not Edith(nominee)
- ✦Cooking as Fast as I Can: A Chef’s Story of Family, Food, and Forgiveness(nominee)
Lesbian Mystery
- 🏆 Tarnished Gold (winner)
- ✦Relatively Rainey — R. E. Bradshaw (nominee)
- ✦The Red Files — Lee Winter (nominee)
- ✦ No Good Reason (nominee)
- ✦ The Tattered Heiress: Volume Two of the Charlotte Olmes Mystery Series (nominee)
- ✦Illicit Artifacts — Stevie Mikayne (nominee)
- ✦The Grave Soul — Ellen Hart(nominee)
- ✦No Good Reason(nominee)
- ✦The Tattered Heiress: Volume Two of the Charlotte Olmes Mystery Series(nominee)
Lesbian Poetry
- 🏆Life in a Box is a Pretty Life — Dawn Lundy Martin (winner)
- ✦ Experience in the Medium of Destruction (nominee)
- ✦ Say/Mirror: Poems and Histories (nominee)
- ✦ The Devastation (nominee)
- ✦ Pelvis with Distance (nominee)
- ✦Shorthand and Electric Language Stars — Stephanie Gray (nominee)
- ✦Experience in the Medium of Destruction(nominee)
- ✦Say/Mirror: Poems and Histories(nominee)
- ✦The Devastation(nominee)
- ✦Pelvis with Distance(nominee)
Lesbian Romance
- ✦The Chameleon’s Tale — Andrea Bramhall (nominee)
- ✦Heart of the Game — Rachel Spangler(nominee)
- ✦ The Renegade (nominee)
- ✦ Full Circle (nominee)
- ✦ My Best Friend’s Girl (nominee)
- ✦ Infiltration (nominee)
- ✦ Autumn Spring (nominee)
- ✦ Julie Blair (nominee)
- ✦The Renegade(nominee)
- ✦Full Circle(nominee)
- ✦My Best Friend’s Girl(nominee)
- ✦Infiltration(nominee)
- ✦Autumn Spring(nominee)
Overall
- 🏆Under the Udala Trees — Chinelo Okparanta(winner)
- 🏆Small beauty — jia qing wilson-yang (winner)
Transgender Fiction
- 🏆Tiny Pieces of Skull, or a Lesson in Manners — Roz Kaveney(winner)
- ✦Lost Boi — Sassafras Patterdale (nominee)
Transgender Non-fiction
- 🏆Born on the Edge of Race and Gender: A Voice for Cultural Competency — Willy Wilkinson (winner)
- ✦ Hiding in Plain Sight (nominee)
- ✦Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family — Amy Ellis Nutt (nominee)
- ✦Hiding in Plain Sight(nominee)
Transgender Poetry
- 🏆succubus in my pocket — kari edwards (winner)
- ✦Impersonation — Joy Ladin (nominee)
- ✦Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This Soul — Ryka Aoki(nominee)
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