21st Lambda Literary Awards explained

The 21st Lambda Literary Awards were held in 2009, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2008.

Nominees and winners

CategoryWinnerNominated
Bisexual LiteratureJenny Block, Open
Gay Debut FictionShawn Stewart Ruff, Finlater
Gay EroticaRichard Labonté and James Lear, eds., Best Gay Erotica 2009
Gay FictionScott Heim, We Disappear
Gay Memoir/BiographySheila Rowbotham, Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love
Gay MysteryScott Sherman, First You Fall
Gay PoetryMark Doty, Fire to Fire
James Allen Hall, Now You're the Enemy
Gay RomanceLarry Duplechan, Got 'til it's Gone
  • Laura Baumbach and Josh Lanyon, Mexican Heat
  • N. L. Gassert, The Protector
Lesbian Debut FictionMagdalena Zurawski, The Bruise
  • Jill Malone, Red Audrey & the Roping
  • Linda Villarosa, Passing for Black
  • Meri Weiss, Closer to Fine
  • Chavisa Woods, Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind
Lesbian EroticaRadclyffe and Karin Kallmaker, In Deep Waters 2: Cruising the Strip
  • Sacchi Green and Rakelle Valencia, Lipstick on Her Collar
  • Lynne Jamneck, Periphery: Erotic Lesbian Futures
Lesbian FictionEmma Donoghue, The Sealed Letter
Chandra Mayor, All the Pretty Girls
  • Ivan Coyote, The Slow Fix
  • Stephanie Grant, Map of Ireland
  • Ruth Perkinson, Breaking Spirit Bridge
Lesbian Memoir/BiographyMaureen Seaton, Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir
Lesbian MysteryJosie Gordon, Whacked
Lesbian PoetryJudy Grahn, love belongs to those who do the feeling
Lesbian RomanceKarin Kallmaker, The Kiss That Counted
LGBT AnthologyThomas Glave, Our Caribbean
  • Peter Burton, ed., A Casualty of War: Gay Short Fiction
  • Sabrina Chapadjiev, ed., Live Through This
  • Chris Freeman and James J. Berg, eds., Love, West Hollywood
  • Raphael Kadushin, ed., Big Trips: More Good Gay Travel Writing
LGBT Children's/Young AdultBill Konigsberg, Out of the Pocket
LGBT DramaCarolyn Gage, The Second Coming of Joan of Arc
  • Dan Bernitt, Phi Alpha Gamma
  • Martin Duberman, Radical Acts: Collected Political Plays
  • Scott Schofield, Two Truths and a Lie
  • Vanda, Vile Affections
LGBT Non-FictionJane Rule, Loving the Difficult
LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/HorrorNicole Kimberling, Turnskin
  • Astrid Amara, The Archer’s Heart
  • Barth Anderson, The Magician and the Fool
  • Steve Berman, Wilde Stories 2008
  • Craig Laurance Gidney, Sea, Swallow Me and Other Stories
LGBT StudiesRegina Kunzel, Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality
  • Michelle Ann Abate, Tomboys: A Literary & Cultural History
  • Amin Ghaziani, The Dividends of Dissent: How Conflict and Culture Work in Lesbian and Gay Marches on Washington
  • Kevin P. Murphy, Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, & the Politics of Progressive Reform
  • Linda Williams, Screening Sex
Transgender LiteratureThea Hillman, Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word)

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