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31st Lambda Literary Awards

The 31st Lambda Literary Awards were held on June 3, 2019, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2018. The list of nominees was released on March 7.


The 31st Lambda Literary Awards were held on June 3, 2019, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2018. The list of nominees was released on March 7.

CategoryWinner
Trustee AwardAlexander Chee
Visionary AwardMasha Gessen
Publishing Professional AwardBarbara Smith
Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer NonfictionKaren Tongson
Judith A. Markowitz Emerging Writer AwardHannah Ensor, Robert Fieseler
CategoryWinnerNominated
Bisexual FictionNégar Djavadi, Disoriental (tr. Tina Kover)Nathan Alling Long, The Origin of Doubt: Fifty Short Fictions
Katrina Carrasco, The Best Bad Things
Jennifer Natalya Fink, Bhopal Dance
Jude Lucens, Behind These Doors: Radical Proposals Book 1
Emily Strelow, The Wild Birds
J.E. Sumerau, Palmetto Rose
Lilah Suzanne, Jilted
Bisexual NonfictionAnthony Moll, Out of StepSophie Lucido Johnson, Many Love: A Memoir of Polyamory and Finding Love(s)
Julietta Singh, No Archive Will Restore You
Bisexual PoetryDuy Doan, We Play a GameFatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
Frances Donovan, Mad Quick Hand of the Seashore: Love Poems
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Cenzontle
Xemiyulu Manibusan Tapepechul, My Woman Card Is Anti-Native & Other Two-Spirit Truths
Gay FictionJoshua Whitehead, Jonny AppleseedDavid Jackson Ambrose, State of the Nation
Joseph Cassara, The House of Impossible Beauties
Martin Duberman, Luminous Traitor: The Just and Daring Life of Roger Casement
John R. Gordon, Drapetomania, or the Narrative of Cyrus Tyler and Abednego Tyler
Uzodinma Iweala, Speak No Evil
Édouard Louis, History of Violence
Patrick Nathan, Some Hell
Gay Memoir/BiographyDarnell L. Moore, No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in AmericaAlexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
Lillian Faderman, Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death
Casey Gerald, There Will Be No Miracles Here
DeRay Mckesson, On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope
Jeffrey C. Stewart, The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
Jerry Torre and Tony Maietta, The Marble Faun of Grey Gardens: A Memoir of the Beales, the Maysles Brothers and Jacqueline Kennedy
Edmund White, The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading
Gay MysteryMarshall Thornton, Late FeesJohn Copenhaver, Dodging and Burning
Bud Gundy, Somewhere Over Lorain Road
Joseph Olshan, Black Diamond Fall
David S. Pederson, Death Checks In
Neil S. Plakcy, Survival Is a Dying Art
Jeffrey Round, The God Game
Marshall Thornton, Boystown 11: Heart’s Desire
Gay PoetryJustin Phillip Read, IndecencyKazim Ali, Inquisition
Jonah Mixon-Webster, Stereo(TYPE)
Brane Mozetič, Unfinished Sketches of a Revolution (tr. Barbara Jursa)
Hieu Minh Nguyen, Not Here
Carl Phillips, Wild Is the Wind
Tommy Pico, Junk
Aldrin Valdez, ESL or You Weren’t Here
Gay RomanceS. C. Wynne, Crashing UpwardsMelanie Hansen, Point of Contact
Reesa Herberth and Michelle Moore, Detour
Jenny Holiday, Undue Influence: A Persuasion Retelling
Kris Jacen, Learn with Me
Christina Lee and Riley Hart, Of Sunlight and Stardust
Angela McCallister, The CEO’s Christmas Manny
Kayleigh Sky, No Luck
Lesbian FictionLarissa Lai, The Tiger FluLucy Jane Bledsoe, The Evolution of Love
Nona Caspers, The Fifth Woman
Amber Dawn, Sodom Road Exit
Genevieve Hudson, Pretend We Live Here
Trifonia Melibea Obono, La Bastarda (tr. Lawrence Schimel)
Sarah Schulman, Maggie Terry
Krystal A. Smith, Two Moons
Lesbian Memoir/BiographyZahra Patterson, ChronologyMarusya Bociurkiw, Food Was Her Country: The Memoir of a Queer Daughter
Barrie Jean Borich, Apocalypse, Darling
Sandra Gail Lambert, A Certain Loneliness
Esther Newton, My Butch Career
Lindsay Nixon, nîtisânak
Julia Van Haaften, Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography
Sarah Viren, MINE
Lesbian MysteryClaire O'Dell, A Study in HonorJoseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead
Charlotte Greene, Gnarled Hollow
Ellen Hart, A Whisper of Bones
Gerri Hill, The Locket
Catherine Maiorisi, A Matter of Blood
A. Rose Mathieu, Secrets of the Last Castle
Linda J. Wright, Stolen
Lesbian PoetryNina Puro, Each Tree Could Hold a Noose or a HouseEtel Adnan, Surge
Kristin Chang, Past Lives
T. Liem, Obits.
Jane Miller, Who Is Trixie the Trasher? And Other Questions
Eileen Myles, Evolution
Emilia Nielsen, Body Work
Marylyn Tan, Gaze Back
Lesbian RomanceAnn McMan, Beowulf for CretinsJenny Frame, Charming the Vicar
Jae, Just for Show
Lola Keeley, The Music and the Mirror
Aurora Rey, Autumn’s Light
Rachel Spangler, In Development
Sheri Lewis Wohl, The Talebearer
Erin Zak, Breaking Down Her Walls
LGBTQ AnthologyThe Other Foundation, As You Like It: The Gerald Kraak Anthology, Volume II [fiction] Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture [nonfiction]Lexie Bean, Written on the Body: Letters from Trans and Non-Binary Survivors of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence
Peter Dickinson, C. E. Gatchalian, Kathleen Oliver and Dalbir Singh, Q2Q: Queer Canadian Performance Texts
Sadie Epstein-Fine and Makeda Zook, Spawning Generations: Rants and Reflections on Growing Up with LGBTQ Parents
Miah Jefra and Chad Koch, Foglifter Volume 3, Issue 1
Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, Rikki Beadle-Blair and John R. Gordon, Sista!: An Anthology of Writing By and About Same Gender Loving Women of African/Caribbean Descent with a UK Connection
Taneka Stotts and Sfé R. Monster, Beyond II: The Queer Post-Apocalyptic & Urban Fantasy Comic Anthology
LGBTQ Children's/Young AdultKacen Callender, Hurricane ChildMark Oshiro, Anger Is a Gift
Angelo Surmelis, The Dangerous Art of Blending In
Adib Khorram, Darius the Great Is Not Okay
Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars
Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X
Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls
Kacen Callender, This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story
LGBTQ DramaMashuq Mushtaq Deen, Draw the CircleDaniel Alexander Jones, Black Light
Jen Silverman, Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties
Miranda Rose Hall, Plot Points in Our Sexual Development
Erin Markey, Singlet
LGBTQ EroticaBlue Delliquanti and Kazimir Lee, Miles & Honesty in SCFSX!Sacchi Green, Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year, Volume 3
Niki Smith, Crossplay
Matthew Bright, Gents: Steamy Stories from the Age of Steam
Tom Cardamone, The Lurid Sea
LGBTQ Graphic NovelTommi Parrish, The Lie and How We Told ItMark Russell, Sean Parsons, Mark Morales, Howard Porter, Mike Feehan, Exit, Stage Left!: The Snagglepuss Chronicles
Paige Braddock, Love Letters to Jane’s World
Tillie Walden, On a Sunbeam
Eric Kostiuk Williams, Our Wretched Town Hall
Michelle Perez and Remy Boydell, The Pervert
Steve MacIsaac, Unpacking
Jeanne Thornton and Tara Madison Avery, We’re Still Here: An All-Trans Comics Anthology
LGBTQ NonfictionImani Perry, Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine HansberryRia Brodell, Butch Heroes
Charlene A. Carruthers, Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
Avery Cassell, Resistance: The LGBT Fight Against Fascism in WWII
Piper J. Daniels, Ladies Lazarus
Martin Duberman, Has the Gay Movement Failed?
Jim Elledge, The Boys of Fairy Town: Sodomites, Female Impersonators, Third-Sexers, Pansies, Queers, and Sex Morons in Chicago’s First Century
C. J. Janovy, No Place Like Home: Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas
LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/HorrorIsaac R. Fellman, The Breath of the SunMargaret Killjoy, The Barrow Will Send What It May
J. Y. Yang, The Descent of Monsters
Sonya Taaffe, Forget the Sleepless Shores
Aliette de Bodard, In the Vanishers’ Palace
Clay AD, Metabolize, If Able
Fletcher DeLancey, Resilience
C. L. Polk, Witchmark
LGBTQ StudiesWilliam T. Hoston, Toxic Silence: Race, Black Gender Identity, and Addressing the Violence Against Black Transgender Women in HoustonE. Patrick Johnson, Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History
Lyndon K. Gill, Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean
Myrl Beam, Gay, Inc.: The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics
Keridwen N. Luis, Herlands: Exploring the Women’s Land Movement in the United States
Andrew Billings and Leigh Moscowitz, Media and the Coming Out of Gay Male Athletes in American Team Sports
T. Jackie Cuevas, Post-Borderlandia: Chicana Literature and Gender Variant Critique
Anne Balay, Semi Queer: Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers
Transgender FictionCasey Plett, Little FishMattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Sketchtasy
Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
Calvin Gimpelevich, Invasions
Jordy Rosenberg, Confessions of the Fox
Transgender NonfictionJules Gill-Peterson, Histories of the Transgender ChildAren Z. Aizura, Mobile Subjects: Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment
Joy Ladin, The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective
Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man
Vivek Shraya, I’m Afraid of Men
Transgender PoetryRaquel Salas Rivera, Lo Terciario / The TertiaryGwen Benaway, Holy Wild
Luna Merbruja, Heal Your Love
Sara Mithra, If the Color Is Fugitive
Ely Shipley, Some Animal
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