2nd Annual Lambda Literary Awards 1989

2nd Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners and Finalists
All annual awards

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1989 Categories

Overview of all yearly categories

• Lesbian
  • Anthologies, Debut Fiction, Fiction, Mystery, Nonfiction (Studies) Science fiction/Fantasy
• General LGBT
  • AIDS, Humour, Poetry, Young Adult/Children's Book Award
• Gay Men's
  • Anthologies, Debut Fiction, Fiction, Mystery, Nonfiction (Studies) Science fiction/Fantasy
• Other Awards
•  Editor's Choice Award, Publisher's Service Award, Small Press Book Award

Lesbian Anthologies

Winners: 

• Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past edited by Martin B. Duberman et. al. (New American Library)
• Intricate Passions edited by Tee Corinne (Banned Books)
• Out the Other Side: Contemporary Lesbian Writing edited by C. McEwen & S. O’Sullivan (Crossing Press)

Finalists:

• Lesbian Bedtime Stories edited by Terry Woodrow (Tough Dove)
• Lesbian Love Stories edited by Irene Zahava (Crossing Press)

Lesbian Debut Fiction

Winner: The Names of the Moons of Mars: Short Fiction by Patricia R. Schwartz (New Victoria Publications)

Finalists:

• The Bar Stories: A Novel After All by Nisa Donnelly (St. Martin’s Press)
• Eye of a Hurricane by Ruthann Robson (Firebrand Books)
• Rose Penski by Roz Perry (Naiad Press)
• Voyages Out 1: Lesbian Short Fiction  by Paula Martinac & Carla Tomaso (Seal Press)

Lesbian Fiction

Winner: The Bar Stories: A Novel After All by Nisa Donnelly (St. Martin’s Press)

Finalists:

• After the Fire by Jane Rule (Naiad Press)
• The Education of Harriet Hatfield by May Sarton (W.W. Norton) (reprinted 1993)
• Trespassing and Other Stories by Valerie Miner (Crossing Press)  (reprinted 2001)
• The Big Mama Stories by Shay Youngblood (Firebrand Books)

Lesbian Mystery

Winner: The Beverly Malibu: A Kate Delafield Mystery by Katherine V. Forrest (Naiad Press)

Finalists:

• The Dog Collar Murders by Barbara Wilson (Seal Press)
• Fatal Reunion (Detective Inspector Carol Ashton Mystery) by Clair McNab (Naiad Press)
• Hallowed Murder (Jane Lawless Mysteries) by Ellen Hart (Seal Press)
• The Contactees Die Young by Antoinette Azolakov (Banned Books)

Lesbian Nonfiction

Winner: Really Reading Gertrude Stein: A Selected Anthology With Essays edited by Judy Grahn (Crossing Press)

Finalists:

• Twice Blessed edited by Christie Balka & Andy Rose (Beacon) (Jewish)
• A Lesbian Love Advisor by Celeste West (Cleis Press)
• There’s Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You edited by Loralee MacPike (Naiad Press)
• Desert Years: Undreaming the American Dream by Cynthia Rich (spinsters/Aunt Lute)

Lesbian Science Fiction/Fantasy

Winner: What Did Miss Darrington See?: An Anthology of Feminist Supernatural Fiction edited by Jessica A. Salmonson (Feminist Press) (supernatural, ghost stories, scifi)

Finalists:

• Clicking Stones by Nancy Tyler Glenn (Naiad Press) (fantasy/paranormal)
• In The Blood by Lauren Wright Douglas (Naiad Press) (science fiction, apocalyptic)
• Memories and Visions: Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction  edited by Susanna J. Sturgis (Crossing Press)
• Sue Slate: Private Eye by Lee Lynch (Naiad) (anthropomorphism - lesbian cats!)

LGBT AIDS

Winner: Reports from the holocaust: The making of an AIDS activist by Larry Kramer (St. Martin’s Press) (gay male)

Finalists:

• AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag (Ferrar Straus & Giroux)
• Epitaphs for the Living: Words and Images in the Time of AIDS edited by Billy Howard (SMU Press) (mostly gay male)
• In Memory of Angel Clare by Christopher Bram (Donald I. Fine) (gay male)
• Personal Dispatches: Writers Confront AIDS edited by John Preston (St. Martin’s Press)

LGBT Humour

Winner: Gay Comics edited by Robert Triptow (New American Library) (gay male)

Finalists:

• Cut-Outs and Cut-Ups: A Lesbian Fun'N'Games Book by Elizabeth Dean et. Al (New Victoria Publications) (lesbian)
• Kvetch by T.R. Witomski (Celestial Arts) (gay male)
• A Lesbian Love Advisor by Celeste West (Cleis Press) (lesbian)
• Run That Sucker at Six!!!: The Second Morgan Calabrese Collection by N. Leigh Dunlap (St. Martin’s Press) (comics, gay male)

LGBT Poetry

Winner: Poets for life; seventy-six poets respond to AIDS essays edited by Michael Klein (Crown Publishers)

Finalists:

• Humid Pitch: Narrative Poetry by Cheryl Clarke (Firebrand Books) (lesbian)
• Naming the Waves: Contemporary Lesbian Poetry edited by Christian McEwen (Crossing Press) (lesbian)
• Reader by Robert Gluck (Lapis Press) (gay male)
• Time’s Power: Poems 1985-1988 by Adrienne Rich (W.W. Norton) (women/some lesbian)

LGBT Young Adult/Children's Book Award

Winner: Losing Uncle Tim by MaryKate Jordan (Whitman, Albert & Co.) (ages 9-12, death, loss, AIDS, gay male)

Finalists:

• Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman, Illustrated by Diane Souza (In Other Words Press) (lesbian parents, picture book)
• Jack by A.M. Homes (Macmillan) (YA, gay male parent)
• Unlived Affections by George Shannon (Harper & Row Juvenile) (YA, gay male parent)
• When Someone You Know Is Gay by Susan and Daniel Cohen (Evans) (YA, nonfiction)

Gay Men's Anthologies

Winner: Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past edited by Martin B. Duberman et. al. (New American Library)

Finalists:

• Collected Plays of Charles Ludlam by Charles Ludlam (Harper & Row)
• Finale: Short Stories Of Mystery & Suspense edited by Michael Nava (Alyson Publications)
• Personal Dispatches: Writers Confront AIDS edited by John Preston (St. Martin’s Press)
• Twice Blessed edited by Christie Balka & Andy Rose (Beacon) (Jewish)

Gay Men's Debut Fiction

Winner: The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket by John Weir (Harper & Row)

Finalists:

• A Visitation of Spirits by Randall Kenan (Grove Press)
• About Courage by Mickey C. Fleming (Holloway House)
• Eighty-Sixed by David B. Feinberg (Viking/Penguin) [Literature Winner, Stonewall Book Awards 1990]
• The Buccaneer by M.S. Hunter (Alyson Publications)

Gay Men's Fiction

Winner: Eighty-Sixed by David B. Feinberg (Viking/Penguin) [Literature Winner, Stonewall Book Awards 1990]

Finalists:

• Closer by Dennis Cooper (Grove)
• In Memory of Angel Clare by Christopher Bram (Donald I. Fine)
• Shy by Kevin Killian (Crossing Press)
• Sure of You (Tales of the City Series, V. 6) by Armistead Maupin (Harper & Row)

Gay Men's Mystery

Winner: A Simple Suburban Murder (Tom & Scott Mysteries) by Mark Richard Zubro (St. Martin’s Press)

Finalists:

• Caravaggio Shawl by Samuel M. Steward (Alyson Publications)
• Faultlines: Stories of Suspense by Stan Leventhal (Banned Books)
• Finale: Short Stories Of Mystery & Suspense edited by Michael Nava (Alyson Publications)
• Somewhere in the Night: Eight Gay Tales of the Supernatural by Jeffrey N. McMahan (Alyson Publications)

Gay Men's Nonfiction

Winner: In Search of Gay America: Women and Men in a Time of Change by Neil Miller (Atlantic Monthly) [Nonfiction Winner, Stonewall Book Awards 1990]

Finalists:

• Accepting Ourselves: The Twelve-Step Journey of Recovery from Addiction for Gay Men and Lesbians by Sheppard B. Kominars (Harper & Row)
• Being Homosexual: Gay Men and Their Development by Richard A. Isay (Farrar Straus & Giroux)
• James Baldwin: Artist on Fire: A Portrait by W.J. Weatherby (Donald I. Fine)
• Memoirs of a Bastard Angel: A Fifty-Year Literary and Erotic Odyssey by Harold Norse (William Morrow)

Gay Men's Science Fiction/Fantasy

Winner: Somewhere in the Night: Eight Gay Tales of the Supernatural by Jeffrey N. McMahan (Alyson Publications) (horror)

Finalists:

• Walking Water/After All This by Thom Nickels (Banned Books) (surreal/magical realism)
• Key West 2720 AD by William K. Eakins (Knights Press) (apocalyptic, scifi)
• Magic's Pawn (The Last Herald-Mage Series, Book 1) by Mercedes Lackey (DAW) (fantasy)
• Gentle Warriors by Geoff Mains (Knights Press) (scifi)

Editor's Choice Award: Lifting Belly by Gertrude Stein edited by Rebecca Mark (Naiad Press) (erotic lesbian poetry)

Publisher's Service Award : Carol Seajay, Feminist Bookstore News (1976-2000)


 Small Press Book Award

Winner: My Life as a Mole & Five Other Stories by Larry Mitchell, illustrated by Bill Rice (Calamus Books)

Finalists:

• Matlovich: The Good Soldier by Mike Hippler (Alyson Publications) (gay male, history, DADT)
• Letting in the Night by Joan Lindau (Firebrand Books) (lesbian, terminal illness)
• Men of Color: An Essay On the Black Male Couple by Vega Studios (Vega Books) (gay male, nonfiction)
• River of Promise: Two Women's Story of Love and Adoption by Judy Dahl (LuraMedia) (lesbian, adoption)

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