31st Lambda Literary Awards

The 31st Lambda Literary Awards were held on June 3, 2019,[1] to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2018.[2] The list of nominees was released on March 7.[3]

Special awards

edit
Category Winner
Trustee Award Alexander Chee
Visionary Award Masha Gessen
Publishing Professional Award Barbara Smith
Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction Karen Tongson
Judith A. Markowitz Emerging Writer Award Hannah Ensor, Robert Fieseler

Nominees and winners

edit
Category Winner Nominated
Bisexual Fiction Négar Djavadi, Disoriental (tr. Tina Kover)
Bisexual Nonfiction Anthony Moll, Out of Step
Bisexual Poetry Duy Doan, We Play a Game
Gay Fiction Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
Gay Memoir/Biography Darnell L. Moore, No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America
Gay Mystery Marshall Thornton, Late Fees
Gay Poetry Justin Phillip Read, Indecency
Gay Romance S. C. Wynne, Crashing Upwards
Lesbian Fiction Larissa Lai, The Tiger Flu
Lesbian Memoir/Biography Zahra Patterson, Chronology
Lesbian Mystery Claire O'Dell, A Study in Honor
Lesbian Poetry Nina Puro, Each Tree Could Hold a Noose or a House
Lesbian Romance Ann McMan, Beowulf for Cretins
LGBTQ Anthology The Other Foundation, As You Like It: The Gerald Kraak Anthology, Volume II [fiction]
Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture [nonfiction]
LGBTQ Children's/Young Adult Kacen Callender, Hurricane Child
LGBTQ Drama Mashuq Mushtaq Deen, Draw the Circle
LGBTQ Erotica Blue Delliquanti and Kazimir Lee, Miles & Honesty in SCFSX!
LGBTQ Graphic Novel Tommi Parrish, The Lie and How We Told It
LGBTQ Nonfiction Imani Perry, Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Isaac R. Fellman, The Breath of the Sun
LGBTQ Studies William T. Hoston, Toxic Silence: Race, Black Gender Identity, and Addressing the Violence Against Black Transgender Women in Houston
Transgender Fiction Casey Plett, Little Fish
Transgender Nonfiction Jules Gill-Peterson, Histories of the Transgender Child
Transgender Poetry Raquel Salas Rivera, Lo Terciario / The Tertiary

References

edit
  1. ^ "31st Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced". Lambda Literary Award. June 4, 2019. Retrieved October 27, 2021.
  2. ^ "31st Annual Lambda Awards Finalists". Locus, March 7, 2019.
  3. ^ Ryan Porter, "Vivek Shraya, Joshua Whitehead among Canadian finalists for Lambda Literary Awards". Quill & Quire, March 7, 2019.