Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Literature explained

Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Literature
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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.

Criteria

Bisexual fiction

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."

Bisexual nonfiction

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."

Bisexual poetry

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.

Bisexual/Transgender literature

In 2001, the Lambda Literary Foundation presented one award for books with bisexual and/or transgender themes.

Recipients

Winners and finalists of the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Literature
YearCategoryAuthorWorkResultRef.
2002Bisexual/Transgender LiteratureOmnigender: A Trans-religious ApproachWinner[2]
Synthetic Bi Products Finalist
and Carol Queen (editors) Best Bisexual Erotica, Volume 2
Crossing Over: Liberating the Transgendered Christian
Dragged!To His Senses
2007Bisexual Literature and Nicole KristalThe Bisexual’s Guide to the UniverseWinner[3]
and Pete Chvany (editors)Bi MenFinalist
Affirmative Psychotherapy with Bisexual Women & Bisexual Men
Eros
(editor)Bi Guys
Three Sides to Every Story
2008Bisexual LiteratureSplit ScreenWinner[4] [5]
The TouristsFinalist
(editor)Becoming Visible
Look Both Ways
Stray
2009Bisexual LiteratureOpenWinner[6]
Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women’s Love & DesireFinalist
Kinsey Zero Through Sixty: Bisexual Perspectives on Kinsey
Rimbaud
The Bishop’s Daughter
2010Bisexual FictionHoly CommunionWinner[7]
Love You TwoFinalist
The Janeid
Arusha
Torn
Bisexual NonfictionLeaving India: My Family’s Journey From Five Villages to Five ContinentsWinner
MapFinalist
Cheever: A Life
Vincente Minnelli: Hollywood’s Dark Dreamer
Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life
2011Bisexual FictionThe Lunatic, the Lover, and the PoetWinner[8]
Krakow MeltFinalist[9]
Fall Asleep Forgetting
If You Follow Me
Pride/Prejudice: A Novel of Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth Bennet, and Their Forbidden Lovers
Bisexual NonfictionBorder Sexualities, Border Families in SchoolsWinner
and Laura Andre (editors)Dear John, I Love Jane: Women Write about Leaving Men for WomenFinalist
Sal Mineo
Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead
Just Kids
2012Bisexual FictionThe Correspondence ArtistWinner[10] [11]
The Two KrishnasFinalist
Have You Seen Me
Boyfriends With Girlfriends
Triptych
Bisexual NonfictionThe Horizontal PoetWinner
Daniel Heath Justice, Deborah Miranda, and Lisa Tatonetti (editors)Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit LiteratureFinalist
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
2013Bisexual LiteratureMy Awesome Place: The Autobiography of Cheryl BWinner[12] [13]
In One PersonWinner
Girlfag: A Life Told In Sex and MusicalsFinalist
History of a Pleasure Seeker
Axel Hooley’s Death Watch List
2014Bisexual FictionMy EducationWinner[14] [15]
In His Secret LifeFinalist
Hild: A Novel
The Two Hotel Francforts: A Novel
Corona
Bisexual NonfictionThe B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and TelevisionWinner
The Soundtrack of My LifeFinalist
Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution
2015Bisexual FictionGive It to MeWinner[16]
(editor)Best Bi Short Stories: Bisexual FictionFinalist[17]
Extraordinary Adventures of Mullah Nasruddin
Finder of Lost Objects
She of the Mountains
Bisexual NonfictionFire Shut Up In My BonesWinner
Not My Father’s SonFinalist
and H. Sharif Williams (editors)Recognize: The Voices of Bisexual Men
2016Bisexual LiteratureIrrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta BinghamWinner (tie)[18] [19]
The Life and Death of Sophie Stark
My RiastradFinalist[20]
Eat My Heart Out
The Gap of Time
2017Bisexual FictionMouth to MouthWinner[21]
Beautiful GravityFinalist[22]
Marrow Island
When Watched
Bisexual NonfictionBlack Dove: Mamá, Mi’jo, and MeWinner
and Sara LubowitzWomen in Relationships With Bisexual Men: Bi Men By WomenFinalist
I Have Devoted My Life to the Clitoris
The Body’s Alphabet
2018Bisexual FictionThe GiftWinner[23] [24]
Next Year, for SureFinalist[25]
The Penalty for Holding
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
Homecoming Queens
Bisexual NonfictionHungerWinner
Truth Be Bold: Serenading Life & Death in the Age of AIDSFinalist
What the Mouth Wants
2019Bisexual Fiction, with Tina Kover (trans.)DisorientalWinner[26]
Bhopal Dance: A NovelFinalist [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 NonfictionOut of Step: A MemoirWinner
No Archive Will Restore YouFinalist
Many Love: A Memoir of Polyamory and Finding Love(s)
Bisexual PoetryWe Play a GameWinner
If They Come for UsFinalist
Cenzontle
My Woman Card Is anti-Native & Other Two-Spirit Truths
Mad Quick Hand of the Seashore: Love Poems
2020Bisexual FictionExquisite MariposaWinner[28] [29] [30]
, with Sophie Hughes (trans.)The RemainderFinalist[31] [32]
Jude
The Man Who Saw Everything
Just Pervs
Big Familia
The Not Wives
Deposing Nathan
Bisexual NonfictionSocialist RealismWinner
IMPERVIOUS: Confessions of a Semi-Retired DeviantFinalist
A World Without Martha: A Memoir of Sisters, Disability, and Difference
Bisexual PoetryPet SoundsWinner
Moira of Edges, Moira the TartFinalist
Revenge of the Asian Woman
Build Yourself a Boat
HoodWitch
A Sand Book
ROMANS/SNOWMARE
water/tongue
2021Bisexual FictionYou Exist Too MuchWinner[33] [34] [35]
Silence Is My Mother TongueFinalist[36]
Take a Hint, Dani Brown
Catherine House
How Much of These Hills is Gold
Bisexual NonfictionWow, No Thank You.: EssaysWinner
The Wanting Was a Wilderness: Cheryl Strayed’s Wild and the Art of MemoirFinalist
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 PoetrySalt Body ShimmerWinner
sickFinalist
Wild Peach
Birthright
One God at a Time
2022Bisexual FictionWe Want What We WantWinner[37] [38]
Blue-Skinned GodsFinalist[39]
Milk Fed
Monster in the Middle
We Play Ourselves
Bisexual NonfictionBorealisWinner
Dark Tourist: EssaysFinalist
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 PoetryAurielle MarieGumbo Ya YaWinner
Imagine Us, The SwarmFinalist
Master Suffering
The Best Prey
The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void
2023Bisexual FictionGwendolyn KisteReluctant ImmortalsWinner[40]
A. J. BermudezStories No One Hopes Are About ThemFinalist[41]
Akil KumarasamyMeet Us by the Roaring Sea
Roses, In the Mouth of a Lion
Mother Ocean Father Nation
Bisexual NonfictionAppropriate BehaviorWinner
Carrying It ForwardFinalist[42] [43]
Never Simple
Open
The Crane Wife
Bisexual PoetryReal Phonies and Genuine FakesWinner
DerelictionFinalist
indecent hours
50 Things Kate Bush Taught Me About the Multiverse
Meat Lovers
2024Bisexual FictionNatural BeautyWinner[44]
All-Night Pharmacy: A NovelFinalist[45]
Endpapers
Last Night at the Hollywood Canteen
Old Enough
Bisexual Non-fictionCreep: Accusations and ConfessionsWinner
Bisexual Men Exist: A Handbook for Bisexual, Pansexual and M-Spec MenFinalist
Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto
Crying Wolf
Nimrods: a fake-punk self-hurt anti-memoir
Bisexual PoetryDesire MuseumWinner
A Film in Which I Play EveryoneFinalist
Ephemera
Good Grief, the Ground
Impersonal Rainbow & The Bisexual Purge

Notes and References

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  15. Web site: bent. 2014-06-03. Full List of 2014 Lambda Literary Award Winners. live. 2022-01-11. IndieWire. en. 2022-01-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20220112003115/https://www.indiewire.com/2014/06/full-list-of-2014-lambda-literary-award-winners-214124/.
  16. Web site: Bennett. Karma. 2015-06-04. Lambda Literary Award 2015 Winners Announced. live. 2022-01-11. Alibris. 2022-01-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20220112001731/https://www.alibris.com/blog/lambda-literary-award-2015-winners-announced/.
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  18. Web site: 2016-06-07. 28th Annual Lammy Award Winners Announced. 2022-01-11. Lambda Literary. en. 2022-01-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20220108170932/https://lambdaliterary.org/2016/06/28th-annual-lammy-award-winners-announced/. live.
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  20. Web site: 2016-03-08. Lambda Literary Awards Finalists Revealed: Carrie Brownstein, Hasan Namir, 'Fun Home' and Truman Capote Shortlisted. 2022-01-11. www.out.com. en. 2021-12-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20211208012803/https://www.out.com/art-books/2016/3/08/lambda-literary-awards-finalists-revealed-carrie-brownstein-hasan-namir-truman. live.
  21. Web site: Veron. Luis Damian. 2017-06-14. 29th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced: FULL LIST. live. 2022-01-11. Towleroad Gay News. en-US. 2022-03-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20220320095220/https://www.towleroad.com/2017/06/lambda-literary-award-winners/.
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  28. Web site: 2020 Winners. 2022-01-11. Lambda Literary. en. 2022-02-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20220206094210/https://lambdaliterary.org/awards/2020-winners/. live.
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  45. Web site: 2024-03-27 . Announcing the Finalists for the 36th Annual Lambda Literary Awards . 2024-04-05 . . 2024-04-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240405165014/https://www.them.us/story/lambda-literary-awards-2024-shortlist-announcement . live .