26th Lambda Literary Awards

Summary

The 26th Lambda Literary Awards were held on June 2, 2014, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2013.[1] The list of nominees was released on March 6.[1]

The ceremony was held at Cooper Union, in conjunction with Book Expo America.[2]

Special awards edit

Category Winner
Pioneer Award Kate Bornstein[2]
Trustee Award Alison Bechdel[2]
Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award Imogen Binnie, Charles Rice-González[2]
Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize Michael Thomas Ford, Radclyffe[2]

Nominees and winners edit

Category Winner Nominated
Bisexual Fiction Susan Choi, My Education[2]
Bisexual Non-Fiction Maria San Filippo, The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television[2]
Gay Erotica Alex Jeffers, The Padisah's Son and the Fox[2]
  • Winston Gieseke, ed., Team Players: Gay Erotic Stories
  • Richard Labonté, ed., Show-Offs: Gay Erotic Stories
  • Michael Luongo, ed., Sensual Travels: Gay Erotic Stories
  • Aleksandr Voinov and L. A. Witt, Capture & Surrender
Gay Fiction Luis Negrón (tr. Suzanne Jill Levine), Mundo Cruel[2]
Gay Memoir/Biography Glenway Wescott (ed. Jerry Rosco), A Heaven of Words: Last Journals[2]
  • Alysia Abbott, Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father
  • Blake Bailey, Farther and Wilder: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson
  • Jim Elledge, Henry Darger, Throwaway Boy: The Tragic Life of an Outsider Artist
  • Didier Eribon, Returning to Reims
  • Perry N. Halkitis, The AIDS Generation: Stories of Survival and Resilience
  • Hillary Holladay, American Hipster: A Life of Herbert Huncke, The Times Square Hustler Who Inspired the Beat Movement
  • David Margolick, Dreadful: The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns
  • Richard Rodriguez, Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography
  • Tim Teeman, In Bed With Gore Vidal
Gay Mystery Janice Law, The Prisoner of the Riviera[2]
  • Sarah Black, The General and the Elephant Clock of Al-Jazari
  • Jonathan Gregory, In Real Life
  • Greg Herren, Baton Rouge Bingo
  • David Lennon, Fierce
  • John Michaelsen, Pretty Boy Dead
  • Garry Ryan, Foxed
  • Joyce Thompson, How to Greet Strangers
  • Marshall Thornton, Boystown 5: Murder Book
  • Mark Zubro, Pawn of Satan
Gay Poetry Rigoberto González, Unpeopled Eden[2]
Gay Romance TJ Klune, Into This River I Drown[2]
  • Larry Benjamin, Unbroken
  • L. C. Chase, Pickup Men
  • L. A. Fields, My Dear Watson
  • Alexis Hall, Glitterland
  • Edmond Manning, King Mai
  • Madison Parker, Play Me, I’m Yours
  • J. H. Trumble, Where You Are
  • Lynley Wayne, Rocky’s Road
  • L. A. Witt, Covet Thy Neighbor
Lesbian Erotica Sacchi Green, ed., Wild Girls Wild Nights: True Lesbian Sex Stories[2]
Lesbian Fiction Chinelo Okparanta, Happiness, Like Water[2]
Lesbian Memoir/Biography Barrie Jean Borich, Body Geographic[2]
Lesbian Mystery Katherine V. Forrest, High Desert[2]
  • Laura Antoniou, The Killer Wore Leather
  • R.E. Bradshaw, The Rainey Season
  • Ian Hamilton, The Wild Beasts of Wuhan
  • Ellen Hart, Taken by the Wind
  • Anne Holt, Death of the Demon
  • Val McDermid, Cross and Burn
  • Jenna Rae, Turning on the Tide
  • Ann Roberts, Point of Betrayal
  • Jean Sheldon, She Overheard Murder
  • Diane Wood, Web of Obsessions
Lesbian Poetry Ana Božičević, Rise in the Fall[2]
  • Ai, The Collected Poems of Ai
  • Tamiko Beyer, We Come Elemental
  • Sophie Cabot Black, The Exchange
  • R. Erica Doyle, Proxy
  • Eloise Klein Healy, A Wild Surmise: New & Selected Poems & Recordings
  • Kamilah Aisha Moon, She Has a Name
  • Suzanne Parker, Viral
  • Veronica Reyes, Chopper! Chopper! Poetry From Bordered Lives
  • Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers, Chord Box
Lesbian Romance Andrea Bramhall, Clean Slate[2]
  • Lynn Ames, All That Lies Within
  • Mason Dixon, Date with Destiny
  • Gerri Hill, At Seventeen
  • Karin Kallmaker, Love by the Numbers
  • D. Jackson Leigh, Hold Me Forever
  • Ann McMan and Salem West, Hoosier Daddy
  • D. Jordan Redhawk, Broken Trails
  • Tracey Richardson, Last Salute
  • Nell Stark, The Princess Affair
LGBT Anthology Karen Martin and Makhosazana Xaba, Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction
Jim Elledge and David Groff, Who's Yer Daddy?: Gay Writers Celebrate Their Mentors and Forerunners[2]
  • Jason Edward Black and Charles E. Morris, An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk’s Speeches and Writings
  • Adelaida R. Del Castillo and Gibran Guido, Queer in Aztlan: Chicano Male Recollentions of Consciousness and Coming Out
  • Brittany Fonte and Regie Cabico, Flicker and Spark: A Contemporary Queer Anthology of Spoken Word and Poetry
  • Evan J. Peterson and Vincent Kovar, Ghosts in Gaslight. Monsters in Steam. Gay City: Volume 5
  • Vivek Shraya, What I LOVE about being QUEER
  • Tristan Taormino, Constance Penley, Celine Parrenas Shimizu and Mireille Miller-Young, The Feminist Porn Book
  • T. C. Tolbert and Tim Trace Peterson, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics
  • Megan Volpert, This Assignment Is So Gay: LGBTIQ Poets on the Art of Teaching
LGBT Children's/Young Adult Sara Farizan, If You Could Be Mine
David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing[2]
LGBT Debut Fiction Nik Nicholson, Descendants of Hagar[2]
  • Guy Mark Foster, The Rest of Us
  • Jane Hoppen, In Between
  • Laura Krughoff, My Brother’s Name
  • Amy Grace Loyd, The Affairs of Others
  • Derek Palacio, How to Shake the Other Man
  • Ronald Palmer, Prick Queasy
  • Charles L. Ross, Inside
  • Andrea Routley, Jane and the Whales
  • Abigail Tarttelin, Golden Boy
LGBT Drama Michel Marc Bouchard, Tom at the Farm[2]
  • Adelina Anthony, Las Hociconas: Three Locas with Big Mouths and Even Bigger Brains
  • Djola Branner, sash & trim and other plays
LGBT Graphic Novel Nicole Georges, Calling Dr. Laura: A Graphic Memoir[2]
LGBT Non-Fiction Hilton Als, White Girls[2]
  • Dennis Altman, The End of the Homosexual?
  • Michael Bronski, Ann Pellegrini and Michael Amico, You Can Tell Just By Looking: And 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People
  • Jeff Chu, Does Jesus Really Love Me?
  • Thomas Glave, Among the Bloodpeople
  • Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle, Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims
  • Matt Richardson, The Queer Limit of Black Memory Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution
  • Daniel Winunwe Rivers, Radical Relations: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and Their Children in the United States since World War II
  • Ben Smales, Tom Bianchi and Edmund White, Tom Bianchi: Fire Island Pines. Polaroids 1975-1983
  • Phil Tiemeyer, Plane Queer: Labor, Sexuality, and AIDS in the History of Male Flight Attendants
  • Jaime Woo, Meet Grindr: How One App Changed the Way We Connect
LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold, Death by Silver[2]
LGBT Studies Christina B. Hanhardt, Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence[2]
  • Marlon M. Bailey, Butch Queens Up in Pumps Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit
  • Peter M. Coviello, Tomorrow’s Parties: Sex and the Untimely
  • Lisa Henderson, Love and Money: Queers, Class, and Cultural Production
  • Victoria Hesford, Feeling Women’s Liberation
  • Colin R. Johnson, Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America
  • Lucetta Yip Lo Kam, Shanghai Lalas
  • Afsaneh Najmabadi, Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran
  • Susana Pena, Oye Loca: From the Mariel Boatlift to Gay Cuban Miami
  • Isaac West, Transforming Citizenships: Transgender Articulations of the Law
Transgender Fiction Trish Salah, Wanting in Arabic[2]
Transgender Non-Fiction Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, The End of San Francisco[2]

References edit

  1. ^ a b "26th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists Announced". Lambda Literary Foundation, March 6, 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac "Looking for summer reading? Lambda Literary Awards rain down a host of choices". Times-Picayune, June 3, 2014.