2018 Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced
Last night the 30th annual Lambda Literary Award winners were announced. Lambda Literary is the United States’ leading organisation advancing LGBTQ literature. Listed below are this year’s winning LGBTQ books and writers. An [*] denotes an author/contributors of colour, and a [#] denotes a transgender author/contributors.
Lambda Trustee Award
Winner: Roxanne Gay *. Roxanne Gay is an African-American bisexual writer, professor, editor, and commentator. Her books include Hunger and An Untamed State.
Lambda Visionary Award
Winner: Edmund White. Edmund White is a white American gay novelist, essayist, and memoirist. His works include A Boy’s Own Story and The Joy of Gay Sex.
Lesbian Fiction
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado * (Magical Realism; Short Stories)
Gay Fiction
After the Blue Hour by John Rechy (Literary Fiction)
Bisexual Fiction
The Gift by Barbara Browning (Contemporary Fiction)
TRANSGender Fiction
Transcendent 2: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction edited by Bogi Takács * # (Speculative Fiction; Short Stories)
LGBTQ Nonfiction
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor * (Historical Non-fiction)
Transgender Nonfiction
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton * # (Historical Non-fiction)
Lesbian Poetry
Rock / Salt / Stone by Rosamond S. King * (Poetry)
Gay Poetry
While Standing in Line for Death by C.A. Conrad (Poetry)
Transgender Poetry
recombinant by Ching-In Chen * # (Poetry)
Lesbian Mystery
Huntress by A.E. Radley (Mystery, Humour)
Gay Mystery
Night Drop by Marshall Thornton (Mystery, Suspense)
Lesbian Memoir/Biography
The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich (Memoir, True Crime)
Gay Memoir/Biography
Lives of Great Men: Living and Loving as an African Gay Man by Chike Frankie Edozien * (Memoir)
Lesbian Romance
Tailor-Made by Yolanda Wallace * (Romance, Contemporary)
Gay Romance
Love and Other Hot Beverages by Laurie Loft (Romance, Contemporary, M/M written by a woman)
LGBTQ Erotica
His Seed: An Arboretum of Erotica edited by Steve Berman (Erotica; Short Stories)
LGBTQ Anthology
¡Cuéntamelo! Oral Histories by LGBT Latino Immigrants by Juliana Delgado Lopera * (Non-fiction)
LGBTQ Children’s/Young Adult
Like Water by Rebecca Podos (YA, Romance)
LGBTQ Drama
The Gulf by Audrey Cefaly and Samuel French (Play)
LGBTQ Graphic Novels
My Favourite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris (Horror)
LGBTQ SF/F/Horror
Autonomous by Annalee Newitz # (Science fiction; Dystopia)
LGBTQ Studies
Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalisation of Sickness by Trevor Hoppe (Non-fiction, History)