Winners of the 2018 Lambda Literary Awards
Winners of the 2018 Lambda Literary Awards have been announced. The announcement was made at a ceremony in New York to mark the 30th annual awards of Lambda Literary as an organization founded on the mission to affirm, celebrate and preserve lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer literature in the United States.
Winners include:
Visionary Award: Edmund White
Trustee Award: Roxane Gay
Lesbian Fiction: Her Body and Other Parties (Graywolf Press), by Carmen Maria Machado
Gay Fiction: After the Blue Hour (Grove Press), by John Rechy
Bisexual Fiction: The Gift (Coffee House Press), by Barbara Browning
Transgender Fiction: Transcendent 2: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction (Lethe Press), by Bogi Takacs (ed)
LGBTQ Nonfiction: How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective (Haymarket Books), by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Bisexual Nonfiction: Hunger (HaperCollins), by Roxane Gay
Transgender Nonfiction: Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity (University of Minnesota Press), by C. Riley Snorton
Lesbian Poetry: Rock | Salt |Stone (Nightboat Books), by Rosamond S. King
Gay Poetry: While Standing in Line for Death (Wave Books), by CA Conrad
Transgender Poetry: recombinant (Kelsey Street Press), by Ching-In Chen
Lesbian Mystery: Huntress (Heartsome Publishing), by A. E. Radley
Gay Mystery: Night Drop (Kenmore Books), by Marshall Thornton
Lesbian Memoir/Biography: The Fact of a Body (Flatiron Books), by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
Gay Memoir/Biography: Lives of Great Men: Living and Loving as an African Gay Man (Team Angelica Publishing), by Chike Frankie Edozien
Lesbian Romance: Tailor-Made (Bold Strokes Books), by Yolanda Wallace
Gay Romance: Love and Other Hot Beverages (Riptide Publishing), by Laurie Loft
LGBTQ Anthology: ¡Cuéntamelo! Oral Histories by LGBT Latino Immigrants (Aunt Lute Books), by Juliana Delgado Lopera
LGBTQ Children’s/Young Adult: Like Water (Balzer + Bray), by Rebecca Podos
LGBTQ Drama: The Gulf (Samuel French), by Audrey Cefaly
LGBTQ Erotica: His Seed (Unzipped Books), by Steve Berman
LGBTQ Graphic Novels: My Favorite Thing is Monsters (Fantagraphics Books), by Emil Ferris
LGBTQ SF/F/Horror: Autonomous (Tor Books), by Annalee Newitz
LGBTQ Studies: Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness (University of California Press), Trevor Hoppe
In her acceptance speech, Roxane Gay said, “As a woman, as a black woman, as a queer woman, writing has offered me salvation and sanctuary.” She added that, “I want queer writers to create work that they want to put into the world, regardless if all of the work does or does not meet the expectations of those who read it.”
Among previous Lambda Literary award winners are: Eileen Myles, Chinelo Okparanta, Dawn Lundy Martin, Carl Phillips, Ana Castillo, Danez Smith, Staccie Cassarino. Luis Cernuda, Beverly Burch.
