Lambda Literary Awards

Lambda Literary Awards 2019

Winners and nominees of the 2019 Lambda Literary Awards, by category. πŸ† marks the winner.

Bisexual Fiction

  • ✦Palmetto Rose β€” J.E. Sumerau (nominee)
  • ✦ The Origin of Doubt: Fifty Short Fictions (nominee)
  • ✦ The Best Bad Things: A Novel (nominee)
  • ✦ The Wild Birds (nominee)
  • ✦ Jilted (nominee)
  • ✦ Behind These Doors: Radical Proposals Book 1 (nominee)
  • ✦Bhopal Dance: A Novel(nominee)
  • ✦The Origin of Doubt: Fifty Short Fictions(nominee)
  • ✦The Best Bad Things: A Novel(nominee)
  • ✦The Wild Birds(nominee)
  • ✦Jilted(nominee)
  • ✦Behind These Doors: Radical Proposals Book 1(nominee)

Bisexual Non-fiction

  • πŸ†Out of Step: A Memoir(winner)
  • ✦ Many Love: A Memoir of Polyamory and Finding Love(s) (nominee)
  • ✦Many Love: A Memoir of Polyamory and Finding Love(s)(nominee)

Bisexual Poetry

  • πŸ†We Play a Game β€” Duy Doan (winner)
  • ✦ Mad Quick Hand of the Seashore: Love Poems (nominee)
  • ✦ My Woman Card Is anti-Native & Other Two-Spirit Truths (nominee)
  • ✦Cenzontle(nominee)
  • ✦If They Come for Us β€” Fatimah Asghar (nominee)
  • ✦Mad Quick Hand of the Seashore: Love Poems(nominee)
  • ✦My Woman Card Is anti-Native & Other Two-Spirit Truths(nominee)

Children's and Young Adult Literature

  • πŸ†Hurricane Child β€” Kacen Callender (winner)
  • ✦ Darius the Great Is Not Okay (nominee)
  • ✦The Dangerous Art of Blending In β€” Angelo Surmelis (nominee)
  • ✦This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story β€” Kacen Callender (nominee)
  • ✦Darius the Great Is Not Okay(nominee)

Drama

  • πŸ†Draw the Circle β€” Mashuq Mushtaq Deen (winner)
  • ✦ Plot Points in Our Sexual Development (nominee)
  • ✦Singlet β€” Erin Markey (nominee)
  • ✦Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties β€” Jen Silverman (nominee)
  • ✦Black Light β€” Daniel Alexander Jones (nominee)
  • ✦Plot Points in Our Sexual Development(nominee)

Erotica

  • πŸ†Miles & Honesty in SCFSX! β€” Blue Delliquanti (winner)
  • ✦Crossplay β€” Niki Smith (nominee)
  • ✦ Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year, Volume 3 (nominee)
  • ✦The Lurid Sea(nominee)
  • ✦Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year, Volume 3(nominee)

Gay Fiction

  • πŸ†Jonny Appleseed β€” Joshua Whitehead (winner)
  • ✦Some Hell: A Novel(nominee)
  • ✦Luminous Traitor: The Just and Daring Life of Roger Casement, a Biographical Novel β€” Martin Duberman (nominee)
  • ✦ State of the Nation (nominee)
  • ✦Drapetomania, or the Narrative of Cyrus Tyler and Abednego Tyler, Lovers β€” John R. Gordon (nominee)
  • ✦The House of Impossible Beauties: A Novel β€” Joseph Cassara (nominee)
  • ✦State of the Nation(nominee)

Gay Memoir or Biography

  • ✦The Marble Faun of Grey Gardens: A Memoir of the Beales, the Maysles Brothers and Jacqueline Kennedy β€” Tony Maietta (nominee)
  • ✦ The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading (nominee)
  • ✦On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope β€” DeRay Mckesson (nominee)
  • ✦The Marble Faun of Grey Gardens: A Memoir of the Beales, the Maysles Brothers and Jacqueline Kennedy β€” Jerry Torre (nominee)
  • ✦Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death β€” Lillian Faderman(nominee)
  • ✦How to Write an Autobiographical Novel β€” Alexander Chee(nominee)
  • ✦There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir β€” Casey Gerald (nominee)
  • ✦The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading(nominee)

Gay Mystery

  • πŸ†Late Fees: A Pinx Video Mystery β€” Marshall Thornton (winner)
  • ✦Boystown 11: Heart's Desire β€” Marshall Thornton (nominee)
  • ✦ Somewhere Over Lorain Road (nominee)
  • ✦ Black Diamond Fall (nominee)
  • ✦ Death Checks In (nominee)
  • ✦ Survival Is a Dying Art: An Angus Green Novel (nominee)
  • ✦The God Game: A Dan Sharp Mystery β€” Jeffrey Round (nominee)
  • ✦Dodging and Burning: A Mystery β€” John Copenhaver (nominee)
  • ✦Somewhere Over Lorain Road(nominee)
  • ✦Black Diamond Fall(nominee)
  • ✦Death Checks In(nominee)
  • ✦Survival Is a Dying Art: An Angus Green Novel(nominee)

Gay Poetry

  • πŸ†Indecency β€” Justin Philip Reed (winner)
  • ✦ ESL or You Weren’t Here (nominee)
  • ✦Not Here β€” Hieu Minh Nguyen (nominee)
  • ✦Unfinished Sketches of a Revolution β€” Brane Mozetič (nominee)
  • ✦Wild Is the Wind: Poems β€” Carl Phillips (nominee)
  • ✦Junk β€” Tommy Pico (nominee)
  • ✦Inquisition β€” Kazim Ali (nominee)
  • ✦ESL or You Weren’t Here(nominee)

Gay Romance

  • πŸ† Crashing Upwards (winner)
  • ✦ No Luck (nominee)
  • ✦ Of Sunlight and Stardust (nominee)
  • ✦ Undue Influence: A Persuasion Retelling (nominee)
  • ✦ Point of Contact (nominee)
  • ✦ The CEO's Christmas Manny (nominee)
  • ✦ Detour (nominee)
  • ✦ Learn with Me (nominee)
  • ✦No Luck(nominee)
  • ✦Of Sunlight and Stardust(nominee)
  • ✦Undue Influence: A Persuasion Retelling(nominee)
  • ✦Point of Contact(nominee)
  • ✦The CEO's Christmas Manny(nominee)
  • ✦Detour(nominee)
  • ✦Learn with Me(nominee)

LGBT Anthology

  • πŸ†As You Like It: The Gerald Kraak Anthology Volume II β€” The Other Foundation (winner)
  • ✦Foglifter Volume 3, Issue 1 β€” Miah Jeffra (nominee)
  • ✦ Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture (nominee)
  • ✦ Spawning Generations: Rants and Reflections on Growing Up with LGBTQ Parents (nominee)
  • ✦Q2Q: Queer Canadian Performance Texts β€” Dalbir Singh (nominee)
  • ✦Q2Q: Queer Canadian Performance Texts β€” C. E. Gatchalian (nominee)
  • ✦Beyond II: The Queer Post-Apocalyptic & Urban Fantasy Comic Anthology β€” Taneka Stotts (nominee)
  • ✦Sista!: An Anthology of Writing By and About Same Gender Loving Women of African/Caribbean Descent with a UK Connection β€” John R. Gordon (nominee)
  • ✦Sista!: An Anthology of Writing By and About Same Gender Loving Women of African/Caribbean Descent with a UK Connection β€” Rikki Beadle-Blair (nominee)
  • ✦Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture(nominee)
  • ✦Spawning Generations: Rants and Reflections on Growing Up with LGBTQ Parents(nominee)

LGBT Graphic Novel

  • πŸ† The Lie and How We Told It (winner)
  • ✦We're Still Here: An All-Trans Comics Anthology β€” Tara Madison Avery (nominee)
  • ✦ The Pervert (nominee)
  • ✦We're Still Here: An All-Trans Comics Anthology β€” Jeanne Thornton (nominee)
  • ✦Love Letters to Jane's World(nominee)
  • ✦Our Wretched Town Hall β€” Eric Kostiuk Williams (nominee)
  • ✦Unpacking β€” Steve MacIsaac (nominee)
  • ✦The Pervert(nominee)

LGBT Non-fiction

  • πŸ†Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry β€” Imani Perry (winner)
  • ✦The Boys of Fairy Town: Sodomites, Female Impersonators, Third-Sexers, Pansies, Queers, and Sex Morons in Chicago's First Century β€” Jim Elledge (nominee)
  • ✦Has the Gay Movement Failed? β€” Martin Duberman (nominee)
  • ✦ No Place Like Home: Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas (nominee)
  • ✦ Ladies Lazarus (nominee)
  • ✦ Resistance: The LGBT Fight Against Fascism in WWII (nominee)
  • ✦Butch Heroes β€” Ria Brodell (nominee)
  • ✦No Place Like Home: Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas(nominee)
  • ✦Ladies Lazarus(nominee)
  • ✦Resistance: The LGBT Fight Against Fascism in WWII(nominee)

LGBT Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror

  • ✦ Metabolize, If Able (nominee)
  • ✦ Jac Jemc (nominee)
  • ✦Metabolize, If Able(nominee)

LGBT Studies

  • πŸ†Toxic Silence: Race, Black Gender Identity, and Addressing the Violence Against Black Transgender Women in Houston β€” William T. Hoston (winner)
  • ✦Semi Queer: Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers β€” Anne Balay (nominee)
  • ✦Media and the Coming Out of Gay Male Athletes in American Team Sports β€” Leigh Moscowitz (nominee)
  • ✦Gay, Inc. β€” Myrl Beam (nominee)
  • ✦ Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean (nominee)
  • ✦ Herlands: Exploring the Women's Land Movement in the United States (nominee)
  • ✦Post-Borderlandia: Chicana Literature and Gender Variant Critique β€” T. Jackie Cuevas (nominee)
  • ✦Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History β€” E. Patrick Johnson (nominee)
  • ✦Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean(nominee)
  • ✦Herlands: Exploring the Women's Land Movement in the United States(nominee)

Lesbian Fiction

  • πŸ†The Tiger Flu β€” Larissa Lai (winner)
  • ✦The Fifth Woman β€” Nona Caspers (nominee)
  • ✦Pretend We Live Here β€” Genevieve Hudson (nominee)
  • ✦ Genevieve Hudson (nominee)
  • ✦ Krystal A. Smith (nominee)
  • ✦ Two Moons: Stories (nominee)
  • ✦ The Fifth Woman (nominee)
  • ✦Sodom Road Exit β€” Amber Dawn(nominee)
  • ✦Sarah Schulman(nominee)
  • ✦La Bastarda β€” Melibea Obono (nominee)
  • ✦The Evolution of Love β€” Lucy Jane Bledsoe (nominee)
  • ✦ Lucy Jane Bledsoe (nominee)
  • ✦Two Moons: Stories(nominee)
  • ✦The Fifth Woman(nominee)

Lesbian Memoir or Biography

  • πŸ† Chronology (winner)
  • ✦ A Certain Loneliness: A Memoir (nominee)
  • ✦Apocalypse, Darling β€” Barrie Jean Borich (nominee)
  • ✦Food Was Her Country: The Memoir of a Queer Daughter β€” Marusya Bociurkiw (nominee)
  • ✦Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography β€” Julia Van Haaften (nominee)
  • ✦My Butch Career: A Memoir β€” Esther Newton (nominee)
  • ✦MINE: Essays β€” Sarah Viren (nominee)
  • ✦A Certain Loneliness: A Memoir(nominee)

Lesbian Mystery

  • πŸ†A Study in Honor: A Novel β€” Claire O'Dell (winner)
  • ✦The Locket β€” Gerri Hill (nominee)
  • ✦ Gnarled Hollow (nominee)
  • ✦ Stolen: A Kieran Yeats Mystery (nominee)
  • ✦ Secrets of the Last Castle (nominee)
  • ✦ Alice Isn’t Dead: A Novel (nominee)
  • ✦ A Matter of Blood (nominee)
  • ✦A Whisper of Bones: A Jane Lawless Mystery β€” Ellen Hart(nominee)
  • ✦Gnarled Hollow(nominee)
  • ✦Stolen: A Kieran Yeats Mystery(nominee)
  • ✦Secrets of the Last Castle(nominee)
  • ✦Alice Isn’t Dead: A Novel(nominee)
  • ✦A Matter of Blood(nominee)

Lesbian Poetry

  • πŸ† Each Tree Could Hold a Noose or a House (winner)
  • ✦Past Lives, Future Bodies β€” K-Ming Chang (nominee)
  • ✦Gaze Back β€” Marylyn Tan (nominee)
  • ✦Surge β€” Etel Adnan (nominee)
  • ✦Evolution β€” Eileen Myles(nominee)
  • ✦Who Is Trixie the Trasher? And Other Questions β€” Jane Miller (nominee)
  • ✦Body Work β€” Emilia Nielsen (nominee)

Lesbian Romance

  • πŸ† Beowulf For Cretins: A Love Story (winner)
  • ✦In Development β€” Rachel Spangler(nominee)
  • ✦ The Music And The Mirror (nominee)
  • ✦ Just For Show (nominee)
  • ✦ Breaking Down Her Walls (nominee)
  • ✦ The Talebearer (nominee)
  • ✦ Charming the Vicar (nominee)
  • ✦Autumn’s Light β€” Aurora Rey (nominee)
  • ✦The Music And The Mirror(nominee)
  • ✦Just For Show(nominee)
  • ✦Breaking Down Her Walls(nominee)
  • ✦The Talebearer(nominee)
  • ✦Charming the Vicar(nominee)

Overall

Transgender Fiction

  • ✦Invasions β€” Calvin Gimpelevich (nominee)
  • ✦Sketchtasy β€” Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (nominee)

Transgender Non-fiction

  • ✦Histories of the Transgender Child β€” Jules Gill-Peterson (nominee)
  • ✦ I'm Afraid of Men (nominee)
  • ✦The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective β€” Joy Ladin (nominee)
  • ✦Mobile Subjects: Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment β€” Aren Aizura (nominee)
  • ✦I'm Afraid of Men(nominee)

Transgender Poetry

  • πŸ† lo terciario / the tertiary (winner)
  • ✦ If the Color Is Fugitive (nominee)
  • ✦ Heal Your Love (nominee)
  • ✦Holy Wild β€” Gwen Benaway (nominee)
  • ✦Some Animal(nominee)
  • ✦If the Color Is Fugitive(nominee)
  • ✦Heal Your Love(nominee)

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