Lambda Literary Awards

Lambda Literary Awards 2018

Winners and nominees of the 2018 Lambda Literary Awards, by category. πŸ† marks the winner.

Bisexual Fiction

  • πŸ†The Gift β€” Scott Edelman (winner)
  • πŸ†The Gift β€” Barbara Browning (winner)
  • ✦Homecoming Queens β€” J.E. Sumerau (nominee)
  • ✦ The Penalty for Holding (nominee)
  • ✦Next Year, for Sure β€” Zoey Leigh Peterson (nominee)
  • ✦The Penalty for Holding(nominee)

Bisexual Non-fiction

  • ✦ What the Mouth Wants (nominee)
  • ✦ Truth Be Bold: Serenading Life & Death in the Age of AIDS (nominee)
  • ✦What the Mouth Wants(nominee)
  • ✦Truth Be Bold: Serenading Life & Death in the Age of AIDS(nominee)

Children's and Young Adult Literature

  • ✦ Ashes to Asheville (nominee)
  • ✦ Girls Like Me (nominee)
  • ✦ Keith Haring: The Boy Who Just Kept Drawing (nominee)
  • ✦ The Sidekicks (nominee)
  • ✦ Autoboyography (nominee)
  • ✦We Now Return to Regular Life β€” Martin Wilson (nominee)
  • ✦Dreadnought: Nemesis - Book 1(nominee)
  • ✦Ashes to Asheville(nominee)
  • ✦Girls Like Me(nominee)
  • ✦Keith Haring: The Boy Who Just Kept Drawing(nominee)
  • ✦The Sidekicks(nominee)
  • ✦Autoboyography(nominee)

Drama

  • ✦ Composure (nominee)
  • ✦How Black Mothers Say I Love You β€” Trey Anthony (nominee)
  • ✦Composure(nominee)

Erotica

  • πŸ†His Seed β€” Steve Berman (winner)
  • ✦ The Master Will Appear (nominee)
  • ✦ Unspeakably Erotic (nominee)
  • ✦ Witches, Princesses, and Women at Arms (nominee)
  • ✦ Mistletoe Mishap (nominee)
  • ✦The Master Will Appear(nominee)
  • ✦Unspeakably Erotic(nominee)
  • ✦Witches, Princesses, and Women at Arms(nominee)
  • ✦Mistletoe Mishap(nominee)

Gay Fiction

  • πŸ†After the Blue Hour β€” John Rechy(winner)
  • πŸ†Jonny Appleseed β€” Joshua Whitehead (winner)
  • ✦ This Is How It Begins (nominee)
  • ✦ Outside Is the Ocean (nominee)
  • ✦The Clothesline Swing β€” Ahmad Danny Ramadan (nominee)
  • ✦The Heart's Invisible Furies β€” John Boyne(nominee)
  • ✦This Is How It Begins(nominee)
  • ✦Outside Is the Ocean(nominee)

Gay Memoir or Biography

  • ✦ House Built on Ashes (nominee)
  • ✦ The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, and the Year that Changed Literature (nominee)
  • ✦ Night Class: A Downtown Memoir (nominee)
  • ✦Creep: A Life, a Theory, an Apology β€” Jonathan Alexander (nominee)
  • ✦Lives of Great Men: Living and Loving as an African Gay Man β€” Chike Frankie Edozien (nominee)
  • ✦Keeping On Keeping On β€” Alan Bennett (nominee)
  • ✦A Sinner in Mecca: A Gay Muslim's Hajj of Defiance β€” Parvez Sharma (nominee)
  • ✦House Built on Ashes(nominee)
  • ✦The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, and the Year that Changed Literature(nominee)
  • ✦Night Class: A Downtown Memoir(nominee)

Gay Mystery

  • πŸ†Night Drop β€” Marshall Thornton (winner)
  • ✦Boystown 10: Gifts Given β€” Marshall Thornton (nominee)
  • ✦ Long Shadows (nominee)
  • ✦ The Mystery of the Curiosities (nominee)
  • ✦Ring of Silence β€” Mark Richard Zubro(nominee)
  • ✦Street People β€” Michael Nava(nominee)
  • ✦Tramps and Thieves β€” Rhys Ford(nominee)
  • ✦Long Shadows(nominee)
  • ✦The Mystery of the Curiosities(nominee)

Gay Poetry

  • πŸ†While Standing in Line for Death β€” CAConrad (winner)
  • ✦ When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (nominee)
  • ✦ So Far Afield (nominee)
  • ✦Don't Call Us Dead β€” Danez Smith (nominee)
  • ✦Royals β€” Cedar Sigo (nominee)
  • ✦Nature Poem β€” Tommy Pico (nominee)
  • ✦Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing β€” Charif Shanahan (nominee)
  • ✦Proprietary β€” Randall Mann (nominee)
  • ✦When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities(nominee)
  • ✦So Far Afield(nominee)

Gay Romance

  • πŸ† Love and Other Hot Beverages (winner)
  • ✦ Come to The Oaks: The Story of Ben and Tobias (nominee)
  • ✦ Midlife Crisis (nominee)
  • ✦ At the Corner of Rock Bottom & Nowhere (nominee)
  • ✦ Working It (nominee)
  • ✦ Wild (nominee)
  • ✦ Six Neckties (nominee)
  • ✦Come to The Oaks: The Story of Ben and Tobias(nominee)
  • ✦Midlife Crisis(nominee)
  • ✦At the Corner of Rock Bottom & Nowhere(nominee)
  • ✦Working It(nominee)
  • ✦Wild(nominee)
  • ✦Six Neckties(nominee)

LGBT Anthology

  • πŸ†Β‘CuΓ©ntamelo! Oral Histories by LGBT Latino Immigrants β€” JuliΓ‘n Delgado Lopera (winner)
  • ✦Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers β€” Cat Fitzpatrick (nominee)
  • ✦Trans Homo...Gasp! Gay FTM and Cis Men on Sex and Love β€” Pete Bailey (nominee)
  • ✦ Power & Magic: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology (nominee)
  • ✦ Greetings from Janeland: Women Write More About Leaving Men for Women (nominee)
  • ✦Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers β€” Casey Plett(nominee)
  • ✦To My Trans Sisters β€” Charlie Craggs (nominee)
  • ✦Trans Homo...Gasp! Gay FTM and Cis Men on Sex and Love β€” Avi Ben-Zeev (nominee)
  • ✦Queer Africa 2: new stories β€” Karen Martin (nominee)
  • ✦Queer Africa 2: new stories β€” Makhosazana Xaba (nominee)
  • ✦Power & Magic: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology(nominee)
  • ✦Greetings from Janeland: Women Write More About Leaving Men for Women(nominee)

LGBT Graphic Novel

  • ✦ Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home (nominee)
  • ✦Condo Heartbreak Disco β€” Eric Kostiuk Williams (nominee)
  • ✦Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home(nominee)

LGBT Non-fiction

  • πŸ†How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective β€” Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (winner)
  • ✦ After Silence (nominee)
  • ✦ Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community (nominee)
  • ✦ Out for Queer Blood: The Murder of Fernando Rios and the Failure of New Orleans Justice (nominee)
  • ✦Born Both: An Intersex Life β€” Hida Viloria (nominee)
  • ✦Mean β€” Myriam Gurba (nominee)
  • ✦Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes β€” Anne Elizabeth Moore (nominee)
  • ✦After Silence(nominee)
  • ✦Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community(nominee)
  • ✦Out for Queer Blood: The Murder of Fernando Rios and the Failure of New Orleans Justice(nominee)

LGBT Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror

LGBT Studies

  • πŸ†Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness β€” Trevor Hoppe (winner)
  • ✦ Unmaking Love (nominee)
  • ✦ Welcome to Fairyland (nominee)
  • ✦ Lavender and Red (nominee)
  • ✦ Time Slips (nominee)
  • ✦ Behind the Mask (nominee)
  • ✦The Ethics of Opting Out β€” Mari Ruti (nominee)
  • ✦The War on Sex β€” Trevor Hoppe (nominee)
  • ✦Unmaking Love(nominee)
  • ✦Welcome to Fairyland(nominee)
  • ✦Lavender and Red(nominee)
  • ✦Time Slips(nominee)
  • ✦Behind the Mask(nominee)

Lesbian Fiction

  • πŸ†Her Body and Other Parties β€” Carmen Maria Machado(winner)
  • ✦Something Better than Home β€” Leona Beasley (nominee)
  • ✦ Leona Beasley (nominee)
  • ✦The Year of Needy Girls β€” Patricia A. Smith (nominee)
  • ✦ Patricia A. Smith (nominee)
  • ✦Difficult Women β€” Roxane Gay (nominee)
  • ✦Marriage of a Thousand Lies β€” SJ Sindu (nominee)
  • ✦ Anne F. GarrΓ©ta (nominee)
  • ✦We Were Witches β€” Ariel Gore (nominee)
  • ✦Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country β€” Chavisa Woods (nominee)

Lesbian Memoir or Biography

  • πŸ†The Fact of a Body β€” Alex Marzano-Lesnevich (winner)
  • ✦Kiss Me Again, Paris: A Memoir β€” Renate Stendhal (nominee)
  • ✦Abandon Me: Memoirs β€” Melissa Febos (nominee)
  • ✦ Afterglow (nominee)
  • ✦Afterglow(nominee)

Lesbian Mystery

  • πŸ† Huntress (winner)
  • ✦The Last First Time β€” Andrea Bramhall (nominee)
  • ✦ Murder Under the Fig Tree: A Palestine Mystery (nominee)
  • ✦ The Girl on the Edge of Summer (nominee)
  • ✦Repercussions β€” Jessica L. Webb (nominee)
  • ✦Fever in the Dark β€” Ellen Hart(nominee)
  • ✦Murder Under the Fig Tree: A Palestine Mystery(nominee)
  • ✦The Girl on the Edge of Summer(nominee)

Lesbian Poetry

  • πŸ†Rock | Salt | Stone β€” Rosamond S. King (winner)
  • ✦Silk Poems β€” Jen Bervin (nominee)
  • ✦ Rummage (nominee)
  • ✦Kohnjehr Woman β€” Ana-Maurine Lara (nominee)
  • ✦Good Stock Strange Blood β€” Dawn Lundy Martin (nominee)
  • ✦Blind Girl Grunt β€” Constance Merritt (nominee)
  • ✦Common Place β€” Sarah Pinder (nominee)
  • ✦Rummage(nominee)

Lesbian Romance

  • πŸ† Tailor-Made (winner)
  • ✦Close to Home β€” Rachel Spangler(nominee)
  • ✦ Wishing on a Dream (nominee)
  • ✦ Goldenrod (nominee)
  • ✦ You Make Me Tremble (nominee)
  • ✦ Venus and Lysander (nominee)
  • ✦Crescent City Confidential β€” Aurora Rey (nominee)
  • ✦Wishing on a Dream(nominee)
  • ✦Goldenrod(nominee)
  • ✦You Make Me Tremble(nominee)
  • ✦Venus and Lysander(nominee)

Overall

Transgender Fiction

  • ✦Resilience: Surviving in the Face of Everything β€” Larissa Glasser (nominee)
  • ✦Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic β€” Tobi Hill-Meyer (nominee)
  • ✦The Black Emerald β€” Jeanne Thornton (nominee)
  • ✦Long Black Veil β€” Jennifer Finney Boylan (nominee)

Transgender Non-fiction

  • πŸ†Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity β€” C. Riley Snorton (winner)
  • ✦ What About the Rest of Your Life (nominee)
  • ✦ Lou Sullivan: Daring to Be a Man Among Men (nominee)
  • ✦Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray β€” Rosalind Rosenberg (nominee)
  • ✦What About the Rest of Your Life(nominee)
  • ✦Lou Sullivan: Daring to Be a Man Among Men(nominee)

Transgender Poetry

  • πŸ†recombinant β€” Ching-In Chen (winner)
  • ✦What Runs Over β€” Kayleb Rae Candrilli (nominee)
  • ✦ Of Mongrelitude (nominee)
  • ✦ Mucus in My Pineal Gland (nominee)
  • ✦Of Mongrelitude(nominee)
  • ✦Mucus in My Pineal Gland(nominee)

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