Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Debut Fiction explained
The Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation to a debut work of fiction on LGBT themes. Formerly presented in two separate categories for gay male and lesbian debut fiction, beginning the 25th Lambda Literary Awards in 2013 a single award, inclusive of both male and female writers, was presented. The award was, however, discontinued after the 28th Lambda Literary Awards in 2016.
The award was presented based on themes in the work, not the sexuality or gender of the writer; heterosexual writers were eligible for the award, and writers could be nominated in the "cross-gender" category based on the work.
Winners and nominees
Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction winners and finalists!Year!Category!Author!Title!Result!Ref.| 1989 | Gay Debut Fiction | | The Swimming-Pool Library | Winner | [1] |
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| Blue Heaven | Finalist | |
| Mountain Climbing In Sheridan Square |
| River Road |
| Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of O. Wilde |
| 1990 | Gay Debut Fiction | | The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket | Winner | [2] |
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| A Visitation of Spirits | Finalist | |
| About Courage |
| Eighty-Sixed |
| The Buccaneer |
| Rose Penski |
| 1991 | Gay Debut Fiction | | Dancing On Tisha B’av | Winner | [3] |
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| Horse and Other Stories | Finalist | |
| Landscape: Memory |
| The Body and Its Dangers |
| This Every Night |
| Lesbian Debut Fiction | | Her | Winner | |
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| The Names of the Moons of Mars |
| Bar Stories: A Novel After All | Finalist | |
| Eye of a Hurricane |
| Simple Songs |
| Take Me to the Underground |
| Virago |
| and Carla Tomaso | Voyages Out |
| and Nona Caspers | Voyages Out 2 |
| 1992-2006 | No award presented |
|---|
| 2005 | Gay Debut Fiction | | Clay’s Way | Winner | [4] |
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| A Son Called Gabriel | Finalist | |
| Half-Life |
| |
| World Famous Love Acts |
| Lesbian Debut Fiction | | Crybaby Butch | Winner | |
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| Death by Discount | Finalist | |
| Dish It Up, Baby! |
| Fire & Brimstone |
| Minus One: A Twelve-Step Journey |
| 2006 | Gay Debut Fiction | | You Are Not the One | Winner | [5] |
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| Bilal’s Bread | Finalist | |
| Mother of Sorrows |
| Setting the Lawn on Fire |
| The First Verse |
| Lesbian Debut Fiction | | The Beautifully Worthless | Winner | |
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| Bliss | Finalist | |
| Crashing America |
| In Too Deep |
| Manstealing for Fat Girls |
| 2007 | Gay Debut Fiction | | Suspension | Winner | [6] |
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| 5 Minutes & 42 Seconds | Finalist | |
| A Scarecrow’s Bible |
| Send Me |
| The Zookeeper |
| Lesbian Debut Fiction | | The Teahouse Fire | Winner | |
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| Black Marks | Finalist | |
| Erzulie’s Skirt |
| Origami Striptease |
| Slipstream |
| 2008 | Gay Debut Fiction | | A Push and a Shove | Winner | [7] [8] |
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| Freak Show | Finalist | |
| SoMa |
| Tales from the Town of Widows |
| That Was Then |
| Lesbian Debut Fiction | | Among Other Things, I’ve Taken Up Smoking | Winner | |
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| Breathing Underwater | Finalist | |
| Dahlia Season |
| Lockjaw |
| O Street |
| 2009 | Gay Debut Fiction | | Finlater | Winner | [9] |
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| Light Fell | Finalist | |
| Shuck |
| The Screwed-Up Life of Charlie The Second |
| The Steve Machine |
| Lesbian Debut Fiction | | The Bruise | Winner | |
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| Closer to Fine | Finalist | |
| Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind |
| Passing for Black |
| Red Audrey & the Roping |
| 2010 | Gay Debut Fiction | | Blue Boy | Winner | [10] |
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| God Says No | Finalist | |
| Pop Salvation |
| Shaming the Devil: Collected Short Stories |
| Sugarless |
| Lesbian Debut Fiction | | The Creamsickle | Winner | |
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| Land Beyond Maps | Finalist | |
| More of This World or Maybe Another |
| The Bigness of the World |
| Verge |
| 2011 | Gay Debut Fiction | | Bob the Book | Winner | [11] [12] |
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| Passes Through | Finalist | [13] |
| Probation |
| The Palisades |
| XOXO Hayden |
| Lesbian Debut Fiction | | Sub Rosa | Winner | |
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| Alcestis | Finalist | |
| Fall Asleep Forgetting |
| One More Stop |
| The More I Owe You |
| 2012 | Gay Debut Fiction | | Quarantine: Stories | Winner | [14] |
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| 98 Wounds | Finalist | |
| Dirty One | |
| Have You Seen Me | |
| Mitko | |
| Lesbian Debut Fiction | | Zipper Mouth | Winner | |
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| Megume and the Trees | Finalist | |
| My Sister Chaos | |
| Nickels: A Tale of Dissociation | |
| The Girls Club | |
| 2013 | Debut Fiction | | The Summer We Got Free | Winner | [15] |
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| Desire: Tales of New Orleans | Finalist | |
| Incidental Music |
| Love, In Theory: Ten Stories |
| Makara: A novel |
| Monstress |
| People Who Disappear |
| The Dream of Doctor Bantam |
| The Evening Hour |
| Three Cubic Feet |
| 2014 | Debut Fiction | | Descendants of Hagar | Winner | [16] [17] |
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| Golden Boy | Finalist | |
| How to Shake the Other Man |
| In Between |
| Inside |
| Jane and the Whales |
| My Brother’s Name: A Novel |
| Prick Queasy |
| The Affairs of Others: A Novel |
| The Rest of Us: Stories |
| 2015 | Debut Fiction | | The Walk-In Closet | Winner | [18] [19] [20] [21] |
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| A Map of Everything | Finalist | |
| Death in Venice, California |
| Kill Marguerite and Other Stories |
| Nochita |
| Part the Hawser, Limn the Sea |
| The Music Teacher |
| Unaccompanied Minors |
| 2016 | Debut Fiction | | A Love Like Blood | Winner | [22] [23] |
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| Do U. | Finalist | [24] |
| His Steadfast Love and Other Stories |
| Hotel Living |
| Life is Wonderful, People are Terrific |
| Lovesick |
| Lum: A Novel |
| The Brink | |
External links
Notes and References
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- Web site: 1990-07-13. 2nd Annual Lambda Literary Awards. 2022-02-26. Lambda Literary. en. 2022-03-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20220315070210/https://lambdaliterary.org/1990/07/lambda-literary-awards-1989/. live.
- Web site: 1991-07-13. 3rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards. 2022-02-26. Lambda Literary. en. 2022-03-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20220315070209/https://lambdaliterary.org/1991/07/lambda-literary-awards-1990/. live.
- Web site: Gonzalez Cerna. Antonio. 2005-07-09. 17th Annual Lambda Literary Awards: Gay Men's Debut Fiction. Lambda Literary Foundation. 18 July 2015. 2020-01-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20200105091813/http://www.lambdaliterary.org/winners-finalists/07/09/lambda-literary-awards-2004/. live.
- Web site: Gonzalez Cerna. Antonio. 2005-04-09. 18th Annual Lambda Literary Awards. Lambda Literary. en. 2022-02-15. 2019-02-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20190216145959/http://www.lambdaliterary.org/winners-finalists/04/09/lambda-literary-awards-2005/. live.
- Web site: Gonzalez Cerna. Antonio. 2006-04-30. 19th Annual Lambda Literary Awards. Lambda Literary. en. 2022-02-15. 2020-08-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20200809234519/https://www.lambdaliterary.org/2006/04/lambda-literary-awards-2006-2/. live.
- Web site: Gonzalez Cerna. Antonio. 2007-04-30. 20th Annual Lambda Literary Awards. Lambda Literary. en. 2022-02-15. 2019-05-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20190522010244/https://www.lambdaliterary.org/winners-finalists/04/30/lambda-literary-awards-2007-2/. live.
- Web site: 2008-06-08. 2008 Lambda Award Winners Announced. 2022-02-16. McNally Robinson Booksellers. en. 2022-08-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20220819055254/https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/editorial-818/2008-Lambda-Award-Winners-Announced. live.
- Web site: Gonzalez Cerna. Antonio. 2010-02-18. 21st Annual Lambda Literary Awards. Lambda Literary. en. 25 September 2020. 2020-01-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20200105091101/http://www.lambdaliterary.org/winners-finalists/02/18/lambda-literary-awards-2008-2/. live.
- Web site: Valenzuela. Tony. 2010-05-10. 22nd Annual Lambda Literary Awards. Lambda Literary. en. 2022-02-15. 2022-03-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20220320095341/https://lambdaliterary.org/2010/05/2010-awards-finalists-winners/. live.
- Web site: Lee. Stephan. 2011-05-27. Lambda Literary Awards. 2022-02-04. EW.com. en. 2022-02-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20220204151803/https://ew.com/article/2011/05/27/lambda-literary-awards/. live.
- Web site: 2011-05-27. 23rd Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners. 2022-01-12. Lambda Literary. en. 2022-01-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20220123125313/https://lambdaliterary.org/2011/05/23rd-annual-lambda-literary-award-winners/. live.
- Web site: Johnson. William. 2011-06-27. 23rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards. Lambda Literary. en. 2022-02-15. 2018-04-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20180402101332/https://www.lambdaliterary.org/winners-finalists/06/27/22nd-annual-lambda-literary-awards/. live.
- Web site: 2012-06-05. 24th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced in New York. Lambda Literary. en. 2022-02-15. 2018-11-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20181118161014/https://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/06/05/24th-annual-lambda-literary-award-winners-announced-in-new-york/. live.
- Web site: 2013-06-04. 25th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced!. Lambda Literary. en. 2022-02-15. 2022-01-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20220125022209/https://lambdaliterary.org/2013/06/25th-annual-lambda-literary-award-winners-announced/. live.
- Web site: 2014-06-03. Winners of the 26th Annual Lambda Literary Awards Announced. Lambda Literary. en. 2022-02-15. 2022-01-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20220123112616/https://lambdaliterary.org/2014/06/winners-of-the-26th-annual-lambda-literary-awards-announced/. live.
- Web site: bent. 2014-06-03. Full List of 2014 Lambda Literary Award Winners. 2022-02-16. 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/. live.
- Web site: Kellogg. Carolyn. 2015-06-02. Lambda Literary Awards laud best gay, lesbian and transgender books. 2022-02-26. Los Angeles Times. en-US. 2022-02-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20220217143157/https://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-lambda-literary-awards-20150602-story.html. live.
- Web site: 2015-06-02. 27th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced!. Lambda Literary. en. 2022-02-15. 2022-02-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20220211221732/https://lambdaliterary.org/2015/06/27th-annual-lambda-literary-award-winners/. live.
- Web site: Bennett. Karma. 2015-06-04. Lambda Literary Award 2015 Winners Announced. 2022-02-16. Alibris. 2022-02-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20220216025835/https://www.alibris.com/blog/lambda-literary-award-2015-winners-announced/?doing_wp_cron=1644979749.1168560981750488281250. live.
- Web site: Thrasher. Steven W. 2015-06-02. John Waters receives 'crown of queer royalty' at 27th Lambda literary awards. live. 2021-12-24. the Guardian. en. 2021-12-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20211222013644/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/02/lambda-literary-awards-lgbt-literature-john-waters.
- Web site: King. Anna. 2016-06-07. The Lambda Literary Awards Crown the Best Queer Books of 2015. 2022-02-26. Slate Magazine. en. 2022-02-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20220204151802/https://slate.com/human-interest/2016/06/lambda-literary-awards-the-best-lgbtq-books-of-2015.html. live.
- Web site: 2016-06-07. 28th Annual Lammy Award Winners Announced. Lambda Literary. en. 2022-02-15. 2022-01-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20220120191853/https://lambdaliterary.org/2016/06/28th-annual-lammy-award-winners-announced/. live.
- Web site: 2016-03-08. Lambda Literary Awards Finalists Revealed: Carrie Brownstein, Hasan Namir, 'Fun Home' and Truman Capote Shortlisted. 2022-01-11. Out Magazine. 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.
