| Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Literature | |
| Main: | Lambda Literary Award |
| Awarded For: | Bisexual Literature |
| Sponsor: | Lambda Literary Foundation |
| Date: | Annual |
| Winner: | or |
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The Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Literature is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation, that awards books with bisexual content. The award can be separated into three categories: bisexual fiction, bisexual nonfiction, and bisexual poetry.[1] Awards are granted based on literary merit and bisexual content, and therefore, the writer may be homo-, hetero-, or asexual.
The award for bisexual fiction recognizes "[n]ovels, novellas, short story collections, and anthologies with prominent bi/pan ... characters and/or content of strong significance to the bi/pan ... communities." The list "[m]ay include historical novels, comics, cross-genre works of fiction, humor, and other styles of fiction."
The award for bisexual nonfiction recognizes "[n]onfiction works with content of strong significance to members of the bi/[pan] communities," including "a wide range of subjects for the general or academic reader."
The award for bisexual poetry recognizes individual volumes of poems and poem collections with bisexual content. Chapbooks are ineligible for the prize, as well as "[u]pdated editions of previously published works ... unless at least 50% of the poetry (not the supplemental text) is new." If there are not enough eligible titles in any given year to support a dedicated bisexual poetry category, then bisexual poetry titles are considered in the fiction category.
In 2001, the Lambda Literary Foundation presented one award for books with bisexual and/or transgender themes.
| Year | Category | Author | Work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Bisexual/Transgender Literature | Omnigender: A Trans-religious Approach | Winner | [2] | |
| Synthetic Bi Products | Finalist | ||||
| and Carol Queen (editors) | Best Bisexual Erotica, Volume 2 | ||||
| Crossing Over: Liberating the Transgendered Christian | |||||
| Dragged! | To His Senses | ||||
| 2007 | Bisexual Literature | and Nicole Kristal | The Bisexual’s Guide to the Universe | Winner | [3] |
| and Pete Chvany (editors) | Bi Men | Finalist | |||
| Affirmative Psychotherapy with Bisexual Women & Bisexual Men | |||||
| Eros | |||||
| (editor) | Bi Guys | ||||
| Three Sides to Every Story | |||||
| 2008 | Bisexual Literature | Split Screen | Winner | [4] [5] | |
| The Tourists | Finalist | ||||
| (editor) | Becoming Visible | ||||
| Look Both Ways | |||||
| Stray | |||||
| 2009 | Bisexual Literature | Open | Winner | [6] | |
| Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women’s Love & Desire | Finalist | ||||
| Kinsey Zero Through Sixty: Bisexual Perspectives on Kinsey | |||||
| Rimbaud | |||||
| The Bishop’s Daughter | |||||
| 2010 | Bisexual Fiction | Holy Communion | Winner | [7] | |
| Love You Two | Finalist | ||||
| The Janeid | |||||
| Arusha | |||||
| Torn | |||||
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Leaving India: My Family’s Journey From Five Villages to Five Continents | Winner | |||
| Map | Finalist | ||||
| Cheever: A Life | |||||
| Vincente Minnelli: Hollywood’s Dark Dreamer | |||||
| Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life | |||||
| 2011 | Bisexual Fiction | The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet | Winner | [8] | |
| Krakow Melt | Finalist | [9] | |||
| Fall Asleep Forgetting | |||||
| If You Follow Me | |||||
| Pride/Prejudice: A Novel of Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth Bennet, and Their Forbidden Lovers | |||||
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Border Sexualities, Border Families in Schools | Winner | |||
| and Laura Andre (editors) | Dear John, I Love Jane: Women Write about Leaving Men for Women | Finalist | |||
| Sal Mineo | |||||
| Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead | |||||
| Just Kids | |||||
| 2012 | Bisexual Fiction | The Correspondence Artist | Winner | [10] [11] | |
| The Two Krishnas | Finalist | ||||
| Have You Seen Me | |||||
| Boyfriends With Girlfriends | |||||
| Triptych | |||||
| Bisexual Nonfiction | The Horizontal Poet | Winner | |||
| Daniel Heath Justice, Deborah Miranda, and Lisa Tatonetti (editors) | Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature | Finalist | |||
| and Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio (editors) | Bisexuality and Queer Theory: Intersections, Connections and Challenges | ||||
| Big Sex Little Death: A Memoir | |||||
| Surviving Steven: A True Story | |||||
| 2013 | Bisexual Literature | My Awesome Place: The Autobiography of Cheryl B | Winner | [12] [13] | |
| In One Person | Winner | ||||
| Girlfag: A Life Told In Sex and Musicals | Finalist | ||||
| History of a Pleasure Seeker | |||||
| Axel Hooley’s Death Watch List | |||||
| 2014 | Bisexual Fiction | My Education | Winner | [14] [15] | |
| In His Secret Life | Finalist | ||||
| Hild: A Novel | |||||
| The Two Hotel Francforts: A Novel | |||||
| Corona | |||||
| Bisexual Nonfiction | The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television | Winner | |||
| The Soundtrack of My Life | Finalist | ||||
| Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution | |||||
| 2015 | Bisexual Fiction | Give It to Me | Winner | [16] | |
| (editor) | Best Bi Short Stories: Bisexual Fiction | Finalist | [17] | ||
| Extraordinary Adventures of Mullah Nasruddin | |||||
| Finder of Lost Objects | |||||
| She of the Mountains | |||||
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Fire Shut Up In My Bones | Winner | |||
| Not My Father’s Son | Finalist | ||||
| and H. Sharif Williams (editors) | Recognize: The Voices of Bisexual Men | ||||
| 2016 | Bisexual Literature | Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham | Winner (tie) | [18] [19] | |
| The Life and Death of Sophie Stark | |||||
| My Riastrad | Finalist | [20] | |||
| Eat My Heart Out | |||||
| The Gap of Time | |||||
| 2017 | Bisexual Fiction | Mouth to Mouth | Winner | [21] | |
| Beautiful Gravity | Finalist | [22] | |||
| Marrow Island | |||||
| When Watched | |||||
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Black Dove: Mamá, Mi’jo, and Me | Winner | |||
| and Sara Lubowitz | Women in Relationships With Bisexual Men: Bi Men By Women | Finalist | |||
| I Have Devoted My Life to the Clitoris | |||||
| The Body’s Alphabet | |||||
| 2018 | Bisexual Fiction | The Gift | Winner | [23] [24] | |
| Next Year, for Sure | Finalist | [25] | |||
| The Penalty for Holding | |||||
| Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl | |||||
| Homecoming Queens | |||||
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Hunger | Winner | |||
| Truth Be Bold: Serenading Life & Death in the Age of AIDS | Finalist | ||||
| What the Mouth Wants | |||||
| 2019 | Bisexual Fiction | , with Tina Kover (trans.) | Disoriental | Winner | [26] |
| Bhopal Dance: A Novel | Finalist | [27] | |||
| The Origin of Doubt: Fifty Short Fictions | |||||
| The Best Bad Things: A Novel | |||||
| Behind These Doors: Radical Proposals Book 1 | |||||
| The Wild Birds | |||||
| Palmetto Rose | |||||
| Jilted | |||||
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Out of Step: A Memoir | Winner | |||
| No Archive Will Restore You | Finalist | ||||
| Many Love: A Memoir of Polyamory and Finding Love(s) | |||||
| Bisexual Poetry | We Play a Game | Winner | |||
| If They Come for Us | Finalist | ||||
| Cenzontle | |||||
| My Woman Card Is anti-Native & Other Two-Spirit Truths | |||||
| Mad Quick Hand of the Seashore: Love Poems | |||||
| 2020 | Bisexual Fiction | Exquisite Mariposa | Winner | [28] [29] [30] | |
| , with Sophie Hughes (trans.) | The Remainder | Finalist | [31] [32] | ||
| Jude | |||||
| The Man Who Saw Everything | |||||
| Just Pervs | |||||
| Big Familia | |||||
| The Not Wives | |||||
| Deposing Nathan | |||||
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Socialist Realism | Winner | |||
| IMPERVIOUS: Confessions of a Semi-Retired Deviant | Finalist | ||||
| A World Without Martha: A Memoir of Sisters, Disability, and Difference | |||||
| Bisexual Poetry | Pet Sounds | Winner | |||
| Moira of Edges, Moira the Tart | Finalist | ||||
| Revenge of the Asian Woman | |||||
| Build Yourself a Boat | |||||
| HoodWitch | |||||
| A Sand Book | |||||
| ROMANS/SNOWMARE | |||||
| water/tongue | |||||
| 2021 | Bisexual Fiction | You Exist Too Much | Winner | [33] [34] [35] | |
| Silence Is My Mother Tongue | Finalist | [36] | |||
| Take a Hint, Dani Brown | |||||
| Catherine House | |||||
| How Much of These Hills is Gold | |||||
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Wow, No Thank You.: Essays | Winner | |||
| The Wanting Was a Wilderness: Cheryl Strayed’s Wild and the Art of Memoir | Finalist | ||||
| The Third Rainbow Girl The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia | |||||
| This Is Major: Notes of Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope | |||||
| Terroir: Love, Out of Place | |||||
| Bisexual Poetry | Salt Body Shimmer | Winner | |||
| sick | Finalist | ||||
| Wild Peach | |||||
| Birthright | |||||
| One God at a Time | |||||
| 2022 | Bisexual Fiction | We Want What We Want | Winner | [37] [38] | |
| Blue-Skinned Gods | Finalist | [39] | |||
| Milk Fed | |||||
| Monster in the Middle | |||||
| We Play Ourselves | |||||
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Borealis | Winner | |||
| Dark Tourist: Essays | Finalist | ||||
| Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much | |||||
| The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease | |||||
| The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces | |||||
| Bisexual Poetry | Aurielle Marie | Gumbo Ya Ya | Winner | ||
| Imagine Us, The Swarm | Finalist | ||||
| Master Suffering | |||||
| The Best Prey | |||||
| The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void | |||||
| 2023 | Bisexual Fiction | Gwendolyn Kiste | Reluctant Immortals | Winner | [40] |
| A. J. Bermudez | Stories No One Hopes Are About Them | Finalist | [41] | ||
| Akil Kumarasamy | Meet Us by the Roaring Sea | ||||
| Roses, In the Mouth of a Lion | |||||
| Mother Ocean Father Nation | |||||
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Appropriate Behavior | Winner | |||
| Carrying It Forward | Finalist | [42] [43] | |||
| Never Simple | |||||
| Open | |||||
| The Crane Wife | |||||
| Bisexual Poetry | Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes | Winner | |||
| Dereliction | Finalist | ||||
| indecent hours | |||||
| 50 Things Kate Bush Taught Me About the Multiverse | |||||
| Meat Lovers | |||||
| 2024 | Bisexual Fiction | Natural Beauty | Winner | [44] | |
| All-Night Pharmacy: A Novel | Finalist | [45] | |||
| Endpapers | |||||
| Last Night at the Hollywood Canteen | |||||
| Old Enough | |||||
| Bisexual Non-fiction | Creep: Accusations and Confessions | Winner | |||
| Bisexual Men Exist: A Handbook for Bisexual, Pansexual and M-Spec Men | Finalist | ||||
| Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto | |||||
| Crying Wolf | |||||
| Nimrods: a fake-punk self-hurt anti-memoir | |||||
| Bisexual Poetry | Desire Museum | Winner | |||
| A Film in Which I Play Everyone | Finalist | ||||
| Ephemera | |||||
| Good Grief, the Ground | |||||
| Impersonal Rainbow & The Bisexual Purge |