24th Annual Lambda Literary Awards 2011

24th Annual Lambda Literary Awards

Finalists - winners to be updated later

The Lambda Awards by year:

1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 |1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010

2011 Award Categories

Overview of the categories by year
Note: This is the first year that the contest is open to all authors of any orientation. 

• Lesbian

• Debut Fiction, Erotica, General Fiction, Memoir/Biography, Mystery, Poetry, Romance
• Bisexual
• Fiction, Non-fiction
• General LGBT
• Anthology, Children's/ Young Adult, Drama, Non-fiction, Science fiction/ Fantasy/ Horror, LGBT Studies
• Gay Men's
• Debut Fiction, Erotica, General Fiction, Memoir/Biography, Mystery, Poetry, Romance
• Transgender
• Fiction, Non-fiction

Lesbian Debut Fiction

• The Girls Club, by Sally Bellerose, Bywater Books
• Megume and the Trees, by Sarah Toshiko Hasu, Megami Press
• My Sister Chaos, by Lara Fergus, Spinifex Press
• Nickels: A Tale of Dissociation, by Christine Stark, Modern History Press
• Zipper Mouth, by Laurie Weeks, The Feminist Press at CUNY

Lesbian Erotica

• The Collectors, by Lesley Gowan, Bold Strokes Books
• Lesbian Cops: Erotic Investigations, edited by Sacchi Green, Cleis Press
• A Ride to Remember & Other Erotic Tales, by Sacchi Green, Lethe Press
• Story of L, by Debra Hyde, Ravenous Romance

Lesbian General Fiction

• The Dirt Chronicles, by Kristyn Dunnion, Arsenal Pulp Press
• The Necessity of Certain Behaviors, by Shannon Cain, University of Pittsburgh Press
• Six Metres of Pavement, by Farzana Doctor, Dundurn Press
• When She Woke, by Hillary Jordan, Algonquin Books
• Wingshooters, by Nina Revoyr, Akashic Books

Lesbian Memoir/Biography

• How to Get a Girl Pregnant, by Karleen Pendleton Jimenez, Tightrope Books
• Sheepish: Two Women, Fifty Sheep, and Enough Wool to Save the Planet, by Catherine Friend, Da Capo Press/Lifelong Books
• Small Fires: Essays, by Julie Marie Wade, Sarabande
• Taking My Life, by Jane Rule, Talonbooks
• When We Were Outlaws: A Memoir of Love & Revolution, by Jeanne Córdova, Spinsters Ink

Lesbian Mystery

• Dying to Live, by Kim Baldwin & Xenia Alexiou, Bold Strokes Books
• Hostage Moon, by AJ Quinn, Bold Strokes Books
• Rainey Nights: A Rainey Bell Thriller, by R.E. Bradshaw, R.E. Bradshaw Books
• Retirement Plan, by Martha Miller, Bold Strokes Books
• Trick of the Dark, by Val McDermid, Bywater Books

Lesbian Poetry

• 15 Ways to Stay Alive, by Daphne Gottlieb, Manic D Press
• Discipline, by Dawn Lundy Martin, Nightboat Books
• Love Cake, by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, TSAR Publications
• Milk and Honey: A Celebration of Jewish Lesbian Poetry, edited by Julie R. Enszer, A Midsummer Night’s Press
• The Stranger Dissolves, by Christina Hutchins, Sixteen Rivers Press

Lesbian Romance

• For Me and My Gal, by Robbi McCoy, Bella Books
• Ghosts of Winter, by Rebecca S. Buck, Bold Strokes Books
• Rescue Me, by Julie Cannon, Bold Strokes Books
• Storms, by Gerri Hill, Bella Books
• Taken by Surprise, by Kenna White, Bella Books

Bisexual Fiction

• Boyfriends With Girlfriends, by Alex Sanchez, Simon & Schuster (bi/gay male and female couples, YA) [more contemporary lesbian YA fiction]
• The Correspondence Artist, by Barbara Browning, Two Dollar Radio (female bisexual)
• Have You Seen Me, by Katherine Scott Nelson, Chicago Center for Literature and Photography (male bisexual)
• Triptych, by J.M. Frey, Dragon Moon Press (male bisexual, f/m/m polygamy, alien science fiction) 
• The Two Krishnas, by Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla, Magnus Books (male bisexual, female protagonist)

Bisexual Nonfiction

• Big Sex Little Death: A Memoir, by Susie Bright, Seal Press  (female bisexual)
• Bisexuality and Queer Theory: Intersections, Connections and Challenges, edited by Jonathan Alexander & Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, Routledge
• The Horizontal Poet, by Jan Steckel, Zeitgeist Press (lesbian & female bisexual poetry) [available from Zeitgeist Press]
• Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature, edited by Qwo-Li Driskill, Daniel Heath Justice, Deborah Miranda, and Lisa Tatonetti, University of Arizona Press (GLBTQ2, Native American)
• Surviving Steven: A True Story, by Ven Rey, Ven Rey

LGBT Anthology

• Ambientes: New Queer Latino Writing, edited by Lazaro Lima & Felice Picano, University of Wisconsin Press (GLBTQ)
• The Fire in Moonlight: Stories from the Radical Faeries, edited by Mark Thompson, White Crane Books/Lethe Press  (gay male)
• Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader, edited by Michael Hames-García and Ernesto Javier Martínez, Duke University Press (gay male)
• Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme, edited by Ivan E. Coyote & Zena Sharman, Arsenal Pulp Press (lesbian)
• Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature, edited by Qwo-Li Driskill, Daniel Heath Justice, Deborah Miranda, and Lisa Tatonetti, University of Arizona Press (GLBTQ2, Native American) 

LGBT Children’s/Young Adult

• Gemini Bites, by Patrick Ryan, Scholastic (gay male & female co-lead; vampire, YA)
• Huntress, by Malinda Lo, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (lesbian, YA) [review] [more YA lesbian fantasy & scifi]
• I am J, by Cris Beam, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (YA, FtM transgender) [more YA transgender fiction]
• PINK, by Lili Wilkinson, HarperCollins (YA, lesbian) [more contemporary lesbian YA fiction]
• Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy, by Bil Wright, Simon & Schuster (gay male, YA)

LGBT Drama

• Letters to the End of the World, by Anton Dudley, Playscripts, Inc.  (gay male)  [available from Playscripts, Inc.]
• A Menopausal Gentleman: The Solo Performances of Peggy Shaw, by Peggy Shaw, University of Michigan Press (lesbian)
• Secrets of the Trade, by Jonathan Tolins, Samuel French, Inc. (gay male)
• The Temperamentals, by Jon Marans, Chelsea Station Editions  (gay male)
• The Zero Hour, by Madeleine George, Samuel French, Inc. (lesbian)

LGBT Nonfiction

• Gay in America: Portraits by Scott Pasfield, by Scott Pasfield, Welcome Books  (gay male)
• God vs. Gay?: The Religious Case for Equality, by Jay Michaelson, Beacon Press
• The H.D. Book, by Robert Duncan, University of California Press (gay male writer, bisexual female subject)
• A Queer History of the United States, by Michael Bronski, Beacon Press
• Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories, by Wanda M. Corn and Tirza True Latimer, University of California Press (lesbian)

LGBT Science fiction/ Fantasy/ Horror

• The German, by Lee Thomas, Lethe Press (Horror, gay male)
• Paradise Tales: and Other Stories, by Geoff Ryman, Small Beer Press (fantasy, scifi, horror, gender issues, gay male)
• Static, by L.A. Witt, Amber Allure/Amber Quill Press (trans/gay male, gender/shape-shifting)
• Steam-powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories, edited by JoSelle Vanderhooft, Torquere Press (lesbian, science fiction) [more lesbian steampunk]
• Triptych, by J.M. Frey, Dragon Moon Press (male bisexual, f/m/m polygamy, alien science fiction)

LGBT Studies

• Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, edited by Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith, AK Press  (transgender)
• Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State  , by Chandan Reddy, Duke University Press
• Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes, by Lisa L. Moore, University of Minnesota Press (lesbian)
• Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality, by Margot Weiss, Duke University Press
• ¡Venceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-making in Cuba, by Jafari S. Allen, Duke University Press

Gay Debut Fiction

• 98 Wounds, by Justin Chin, Manic D Press
• Dirty One, by Michael Graves, Chelsea Station Editions
• Have You Seen Me, by Katherine Scott Nelson, Chicago Center for Literature and Photography (male bisexual) 
• Mitko, by Garth Greenwell, Miami University Press
• Quarantine: Stories, by Rahul Mehta, Harper Perennial

Gay Erotica

• All Together, by Dirk Vanden, iloveyoudivine Alerotica
• Backwoods, by Natty Soltesz, Rebel Satori Press
• Best Gay Erotica 2012, edited by Richard Labonte, Cleis Press
• George Platt Lynes: The Male Nudes, edited by Steven Haas, Rizzoli New York
• History’s Passions: Stories of Sex Before Stonewall, edited by Richard Labonte, Bold Strokes Books

Gay General Fiction

• The Empty Family, by Colm Tóibín, Scribner
• The Great Night, by Chris Adrian, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
• Leche, by R. Zamora Linmark, Coffee House Press
• The Stranger’s Child, by Alan Hollinghurst, Alfred A.Knopf
• The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov, by Paul Russell, Cleis Press

Gay Memoir/Biography

• Celluloid Activist: The Life and Times of Vito Russo, by Michael Schiavi, University of Wisconsin Press
• For the Ferryman: A Personal History, by Charles Silverstein, Chelsea Station Editions
• Halsted Plays Himself, by William E. Jones, Semiotext(e)
• If You Knew Then What I Know Now, by Ryan Van Meter, Sarabande Books
• The Jack Bank:  A Memoir of a South African Childhood, by Glen Retief, St. Martin’s Press

Gay Mystery

• The Affair of the Porcelain Dog, by Jess Faraday, Bold Strokes Books
• Blue’s Bayou, by David Lennon, Blue Spike Publishing
• Boystown: Three Nick Nowak Mysteries, by Marshall Thornton, Torquere Press
• Malabarista, by Garry Ryan, NeWest Press
• Red White Black and Blue, by Richard Stevenson, MLR Press

Gay Poetry

• Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems, by David Trinidad, Turtle Point Press
• Double Shadow: Poems, by Carl Phillips, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
• A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos, edited by David Trinidad, Nightboat Books
• Kintsugi, by Thomas Meyer, Flood Editions
• The Other Poems, by Paul Legault, Fence Books

Gay Romance

• Every Time I Think of You, by Jim Provenzano, CreateSpace/Myrmidude Press
• Settling the Score, by Eden Winters, Torquere Press
• Something Like Summer, by Jay Bell, Jay Bell Books
• Split, by Mel Bossa, Bold Strokes Books
• Tinseltown, by Barry Brennessel, MLR Press

Transgender Fiction

• The Book of Broken Hymns, by Rafe Posey, Flying Rabbit (anthology)
• The Butterfly and the Flame, by  Dana De Young, iUniverse (YA, MtF, dystopia)  [more YA transgender fiction] 
• I am J, by Cris Beam, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (YA, FtM, contemporary) [more YA transgender fiction] 
• Static, by L.A. Witt, Amber Allure/Amber Quill Press (scifi, gendershifting)
• Take Me There: Trans and Genderqueer Erotica, edited by Tristan Taormino, Cleis Press (anthology)

Transgender Nonfiction

• Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, edited by Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith, AK Press
• Letters For My Brothers: Transitional Wisdom in Retrospect, edited by Megan M. Rohrer and Zander Keig, Wilgefortis Press
• Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law, by Dean Spade, South End Press
• Re-Dressing America’s Frontier Past, by Peter Boag, University of California Press
• Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels, by Justin Vivian Bond, The Feminist Press at CUNY

The previous Lambda Awards by year:

1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 |1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 
2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010

• Overview of all yearly Lambda Award categories 
• The Lesbian Book Awards Page 
• The Stonewall Book Awards
• The Alice B Readers award  
• The GLAAD Media Awards