30th Lambda Literary Awards explained

The 30th Lambda Literary Awards were held on June 4, 2018, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2017.[1] The list of nominees was released on March 6.[2]

Special awards

CategoryWinner
Visionary AwardEdmund White
Judith A. Markowitz Emerging Writer Award
Trustee AwardRoxane Gay

Nominees and winners

CategoryWinnerNominated
Bisexual FictionBarbara Browning, The Gift
Bisexual Non-FictionRoxane Gay, Hunger
  • Julene Tripp Weaver, Truth Be Bold: Serenading Life & Death in the Age of AIDS
  • Monica Meneghetti, What the Mouth Wants
Gay FictionJohn Rechy, After the Blue Hour
Gay Memoir/BiographyChike Frankie Edozien, Lives of Great Men: Living and Loving as an African Gay Man
  • Parvez Sharma, A Sinner in Mecca: A Gay Muslim's Hajj of Defiance
  • Jonathan Alexander, Creep: A Life, a Theory, an Apology
  • José Antonio Rodríguez, House Built on Ashes
  • Kenny Fries, In the Province of the Gods
  • Alan Bennett, Keeping On Keeping On
  • Victor Corona, Night Class: A Downtown Memoir
  • Bill Goldstein, The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, and the Year that Changed Literature
Gay MysteryMarshall Thornton, Night Drop
Gay PoetryC. A. Conrad, While Standing in Line for Death
Gay RomanceLaurie Loft, Love and Other Hot Beverages
  • L. A. Witt, At the Corner of Rock Bottom & Nowhere
  • Bryan T. Clark, Come to The Oaks
  • Audra North, Midlife Crisis
  • Johnny Diaz, Six Neckties
  • Tom Mendicino, Stealing Home
  • Adrienne Wilder, Wild
  • Christine D'Abo, Working It
Lesbian FictionCarmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties
Lesbian Memoir/BiographyAlexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, The Fact of a Body
Lesbian MysteryA. E. Radley, Huntress
Lesbian PoetryRosamond S. King, Rock Salt Stone
Lesbian RomanceYolanda Wallace, Tailor-Made
  • Rachel Spangler, Close to Home
  • Aurora Rey, Crescent City Confidential
  • Ann McMan, Goldenrod
  • Ann Roberts, Vagabond Heart
  • Yoshiyuki Ly, Venus and Lysander
  • Julie Cannon, Wishing on a Dream
  • Karis Walsh, You Make Me Tremble
LGBTQ AnthologyJuliana Delgado Lopera, ¡Cuéntamelo! Oral Histories by LGBT Latino Immigrants
  • Candace Walsh and Barbara Straus Lodge, Greetings from Janeland: Women Write More About Leaving Men for Women
  • Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett, Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers
  • Joamette Gil, Power & Magic: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology
  • Makhosazana Xaba and Karen Martin, Queer Africa 2: new stories
  • Charlie Craggs, To My Trans Sisters
  • Avi Ben-Zeev and Pete Bailey, Trans Homo…Gasp! Gay FTM and Cis Men on Sex and Love
  • Reina Gossett, Eric A. Stanley and Johanna Burton, Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility
LGBTQ Children's/Young AdultRebecca Podos, Like Water
  • Sarah Dooley, Ashes to Asheville
  • Christina Lauren, Autoboyography
  • April Daniels, Dreadnought: Nemesis
  • Nina Packebush, Girls Like Me
  • Kay Haring and Robert Neubecker, Keith Haring: The Boy Who Just Kept Drawing
  • Will Kostakis, The Sidekicks
  • Martin Wilson, We Now Return to Regular Life
LGBT DramaAudrey Cefaly, The Gulf
LGBTQ EroticaSteve Berman, His Seed
  • L. A. Witt, The Master Will Appear
  • Siri Caldwell, Mistletoe Mishap
  • D. L. King, Unspeakably Erotic
  • Sacchi Green, Witches, Princesses, and Women at Arms
LGBTQ Graphic NovelEmil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters
LGBTQ Non-FictionKeeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
  • Avram Finkelstein, After Silence
  • Malik Gaines, Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left: A History of the Impossible
  • Anne Elizabeth Moore, Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes
  • Hida Viloria, Born Both: An Intersex Life
  • Myriam Gurba, Mean
  • Clayton Delery, Out for Queer Blood: The Murder of Fernando Rios and the Failure of New Orleans Justice
  • John Chaich and Todd Oldham, Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community
LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/HorrorAnnalee Newitz, Autonomous
LGBTQ StudiesTrevor Hoppe, Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness
  • Alfredo Mirandé, Behind the Mask
  • Mari Ruti, The Ethics of Opting Out
  • Emily Hobson, Lavender and Red
  • Jaclyn Pryor, Time Slips
  • Ashley T. Shelden, Unmaking Love
  • David M. Halperin and Trevor Hoppe, The War on Sex
  • Julio Capó, Welcome to Fairyland
Transgender FictionBogi Takács, ed., Transcendent 2: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction
  • Jeanne Thornton, The Black Emerald
  • Jennifer Finney Boylan, Long Black Veil
  • Tobi Hill-Meyer, ed., Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic
  • Amy Heart, Sugi Pyrrophyta and Larissa Glasser, eds., Resilience: Surviving in the Face of Everything
Transgender Non-FictionC. Riley Snorton, Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
Transgender PoetryChing-In Chen, recombinant
  • Kai Cheng Thom, a place called No Homeland
  • Juliana Huxtable, Mucus in My Pineal Gland
  • Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Of Mongrelitude
  • Kayleb Rae Candrilli, What Runs Over

Notes and References

  1. http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/Lambda-Literary-Awards-honor-Carmen-Maria-Machado-John-Rechy-Keeanga-Yamahtta-Taylor/63080.html "Lambda Literary awardees include Carmen Maria Machado, John Rechy, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor"
  2. https://forward.com/culture/395945/lambda-literary-awards-finalists-vogel-newitz-finkelstein-goldstein-more/ "Paula Vogel, Avram Finkelstein Finalists For Lambda Literary Awards"