28th Lambda Literary Awards

Summary

The 28th Lambda Literary Awards were held on June 6, 2016, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2015.[1][2] The list of nominees was released on March 8.[1]

Special awards edit

Category Winner
Pioneer Award Eileen Myles[2]
Judith A. Markowitz Emerging Writer Award Bryan Borland, JP Howard[2]
Trustee Award Hilton Als[2]

Nominees and winners edit

Category Winner Nominated
Bisexual Literature Emily Bingham, Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham[2]
Anna North, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark[2]
Gay Erotica Miodrag Kojadinovic, Érotiques Suprèmes[2]
  • Jennifer Levine and Rian Darcy, Charming: Modern Gay Fairytales
  • Natty Soltesz, College Dive Bar, 1 AM
  • William Holden, Grave Desires
  • Michael Ampersant, Green Eyes — an erotic novel (sort-of)
Gay Fiction Hasan Namir, God in Pink[2]
Gay Memoir/Biography Langdon Hammer, James Merrill: Life and Art[2]
Gay Mystery Marshall Thornton, Boystown 7: Bloodlines[2]
Gay Poetry Nicholas Wong, Crevasse[2]
Carl Phillips, Reconnaissance[2]
Gay Romance Debbie McGowan, When Skies Have Fallen[2]
  • Vanessa North, Blueberry Boys
  • Ralph Josiah Bardsley, Brothers
  • Alexis Hall, For Real
  • L. A. Witt, General Misconduct
  • Garrett Leigh, Misfits
  • Jay Bell, Something Like Stories, Volume One
  • Brad Boney, Yes
Lesbian Erotica Meghan O'Brien, The Muse[2]
  • Salome Wilde and Talon Rihai, Desire Behind Bars: Lesbian Prison Erotica
  • Sinclair Sexsmith, Sweet & Rough: Queer Kink Erotica
Lesbian Fiction Chinelo Okparanta, Under the Udala Trees[2]
Lesbian Memoir/Biography Kate Carroll de Gutes, Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear[2]
Lesbian Mystery Ann Aptaker, Tarnished Gold[2]
Victoria Brownworth, Ordinary Mayhem[2]
Lesbian Poetry Dawn Lundy Martin, Life in a Box is a Pretty Life[2]
  • Melissa Buzzeo, The Devastation
  • Claudia Rodriguez, Everybody’s Bread
  • Sara Jane Stoner, Experience in the Medium of Destruction
  • Margot Douaihy, Girls Like You
  • Jessica Jacobs, Pelvis with Distance
  • J. P. Howard, Say/Mirror: Poems and Histories
  • Stephanie Gray, Shorthand and Electric Language Stars
Lesbian Romance Julie Blair, Making a Comeback[2]
  • Shelley Thrasher, Autumn Spring
  • Andrea Bramhall, The Chameleon’s Tale
  • Dillon Watson, Full Circle
  • Rachel Spangler, Heart of the Game
  • Jackie D. Bold, Infiltration
  • Blythe H. Warren, My Best Friend’s Girl
  • Amy Dunne, The Renegade
LGBT Anthology Damien Luxe, Heather M. Ács and Sabina Ibarrola, Glitter and Grit: Queer Performance from the Heels on Wheels Femme Galaxy[2]
Sfé R. Monster and Taneka Stotts, Beyond: The Queer Sci-Fi & Fantasy Comic Anthology[2]
  • Holly Hughes, Carmelita Tropicana and Jill Dolan, Memories of the Revolution
  • Amy L. Stone and Jaime Cantrell, Out of the Closet, Into the Archives: Researching Sexual Histories
  • Julie Bozza, A Pride of Poppies: Modern GLBTQI Fiction of the Great War
  • Nívea Castro and Geny Cabral, Soy Lesbiana y Que! Out Latina Lesbians
  • Torsten Højer, Speak My Language, and Other Stories: An Anthology of Gay Fiction
  • Merritt k, Videogames for Humans: Twine Authors in Conversation
LGBT Children's/Young Adult Alex Gino, George[2]
LGBT Debut Fiction Victor Yates, A Love Like Blood[2]
  • Austin Bunn, The Brink
  • Mark S. Luckie, Do U.
  • Paul Brownsey, His Steadfast Love and Other Stories
  • Ioannis Pappos, Hotel Living
  • Meliza Bañales, Life is Wonderful, People are Terrific
  • James Driggers, Lovesick
  • Libby Ware, Lum
LGBT Drama Tanya Barfield, Bright Half Life[2]
LGBT Graphic Novel E. K. Weaver, The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ & Amal[2]
LGBT Non-Fiction Marcia M. Gallo, “No One Helped”: Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy[2]
LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Kirsty Logan, The Gracekeepers[2]
  • John Inman, The Boys on the Mountain
  • Fletcher DeLancey, The Caphenon (Chronicles of Alsea – Book #1)
  • Ally Blue, Down
  • Robert Levy, The Glittering World
  • J. A. Rock, Minotaur
  • Kate Sherwood, Sacrati
  • Jude McLaughlin, Wonder City Stories
LGBT Studies Hiram Pérez, A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire[2]
  • Clare Sears, Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
  • L. H. Stallings, Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures
  • Aaron Goodfellow, Gay Fathers, Their Children, and the Making of Kinship
  • Madhavi Menon, Indifference to Difference: On Queer Universalism
  • Jane Ward, Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men
  • Petrus Liu, Queer Marxism in Two Chinas
  • Valerie Traub, Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns
Transgender Fiction Roz Kaveney, Tiny Pieces of Skull, or a Lesson in Manners[2]
Transgender Non-Fiction Willy Wilkinson, Born on the Edge of Race and Gender: A Voice for Cultural Competency[2]
  • Amy Ellis Nutt, Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family
  • Zane Thimmesch-Gill, Hiding in Plain Sight
Transgender Poetry kari edwards, succubus in my pocket[2]

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Who Are the 2016 Lambda Literary Awards Finalists?". Out. March 8, 2016. Retrieved April 7, 2022.
  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 ad ae af King, Anna (June 7, 2016). "The Lambda Literary Awards Honor Hilton Als and Eileen Myles, Name Winners in 26 Categories". Slate. Retrieved April 7, 2022.