30th Lambda Literary Awards

The 30th Lambda Literary Awards were held on June 4, 2018, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2017.^[1] The list of nominees was released on March 6.^[2]

Special awards[]

Category	Winner
Visionary Award	Edmund White
Judith A. Markowitz Emerging Writer Award	Jeanne Thornton,
Trustee Award	Roxane Gay

Nominees and winners[]

Category	Winner	Nominated
Bisexual Fiction	Barbara Browning, The Gift^[1]	, Homecoming Queens Zoey Leigh Peterson, Next Year, for Sure , Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl , The Penalty for Holding
Bisexual Non-Fiction	Roxane Gay, Hunger^[1]	, Truth Be Bold: Serenading Life & Death in the Age of AIDS , What the Mouth Wants
Gay Fiction	John Rechy, After the Blue Hour^[1]	Ahmad Danny Ramadan, The Clothesline Swing Édouard Louis, The End of Eddy Nnanna Ikpo, Fimí Sílè Forever John Boyne, The Heart’s Invisible Furies Andrew Sean Greer, Less , Outside Is the Ocean , This Is How It Begins
Gay Memoir/Biography	Chike Frankie Edozien, Lives of Great Men: Living and Loving as an African Gay Man^[1]	Parvez Sharma, A Sinner in Mecca: A Gay Muslim’s Hajj of Defiance Jonathan Alexander, Creep: A Life, a Theory, an Apology , House Built on Ashes Kenny Fries, In the Province of the Gods Alan Bennett, Keeping On Keeping On , Night Class: A Downtown Memoir , The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, and the Year that Changed Literature
Gay Mystery	, Night Drop^[1]	, Boystown 10: Gifts Given , Long Shadows , Love is Heartless , The Mystery of the Curiosities Mark Zubro, Ring of Silence Michael Nava, Street People Rhys Ford, Tramps and Thieves
Gay Poetry	C. A. Conrad, While Standing in Line for Death^[1]	Danez Smith, Don’t Call Us Dead , Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing Tommy Pico, Nature Poem Randall Mann, Proprietary Cedar Sigo, Royals , So Far Afield Chen Chen, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
Gay Romance	, Love and Other Hot Beverages^[1]	, At the Corner of Rock Bottom & Nowhere , Come to The Oaks , Midlife Crisis Johnny Diaz, Six Neckties , Stealing Home , Wild , Working It
Lesbian Fiction	Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties^[1]	Roxane Gay, Difficult Women SJ Sindu, Marriage of a Thousand Lies Anne Garréta, Not One Day , Something Better than Home Chavisa Woods, Things to Do When You’re Goth in the Country Ariel Gore, We Were Witches , The Year of Needy Girls
Lesbian Memoir/Biography	, The Fact of a Body^[1]	Melissa Febos, Abandon Me Eileen Myles, Afterglow, Eileen Myles Renate Stendhal, Kiss Me Again, Paris Anne-Christine d'Adesky, The Pox Lover: An Activist’s Decade in New York and Paris
Lesbian Mystery	, Huntress^[1]	, A Quiet Death Ellen Hart, Fever in the Dark , The Girl on the Edge of Summer Andrea Bramhall, The Last First Time , 'Murder Under the Fig Tree Anne Holt, Odd Numbers Jessica L. Webb, Repercussions
Lesbian Poetry	Rosamond S. King, Rock \| Salt \| Stone^[1]	Constance Merritt, Blind Girl Grunt Sarah Pinder, Common Place Dawn Lundy Martin, Good Stock Strange Blood Ana-Maurine Lara, Kohnjehr Woman Sina Queyras, My Ariel , Rummage , Silk Poems
Lesbian Romance	, Tailor-Made^[1]	, Close to Home Aurora Rey, Crescent City Confidential , Goldenrod , Vagabond Heart , Venus and Lysander , Wishing on a Dream , You Make Me Tremble
LGBTQ Anthology	Juliana Delgado Lopera, ¡Cuéntamelo! Oral Histories by LGBT Latino Immigrants^[1]	and , Greetings from Janeland: Women Write More About Leaving Men for Women and Casey Plett, Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers , Power & Magic: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology Makhosazana Xaba and , Queer Africa 2: new stories Charlie Craggs, To My Trans Sisters and , Trans Homo…Gasp! Gay FTM and Cis Men on Sex and Love Reina Gossett, and , Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility
LGBTQ Children's/Young Adult	Rebecca Podos, Like Water^[1]	, Ashes to Asheville Christina Lauren, Autoboyography April Daniels, Dreadnought: Nemesis , Girls Like Me and , Keith Haring: The Boy Who Just Kept Drawing Will Kostakis, The Sidekicks Martin Wilson, We Now Return to Regular Life
LGBT Drama	Audrey Cefaly, The Gulf^[1]	, Composure Tom MacRae, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie Trey Anthony, How Black Mothers Say I Love You Paula Vogel, Indecent
LGBTQ Erotica	Steve Berman, His Seed^[1]	, The Master Will Appear , Mistletoe Mishap , Unspeakably Erotic Sacchi Green, Witches, Princesses, and Women at Arms
LGBTQ Graphic Novel	Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters^[1]	Eric Kostiuk Williams, Condo Heartbreak Disco Nicole J. Georges, Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home Gengoroh Tagame, My Brother’s Husband, Volume 1 Tillie Walden, Spinning
LGBTQ Non-Fiction	Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective^[1]	Avram Finkelstein, After Silence , Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left: A History of the Impossible Anne Elizabeth Moore, Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes Hida Viloria, Born Both: An Intersex Life Myriam Gurba, Mean , Out for Queer Blood: The Murder of Fernando Rios and the Failure of New Orleans Justice and Todd Oldham, Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community
LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror	Annalee Newitz, Autonomous^[1]	Lara Elena Donnelly, Amberlough , An Excess Male Rivers Solomon, An Unkindness of Ghosts , I Stole You , Night Visitors Lindsey Drager, The Lost Daughter Collective , The Prey of Gods
LGBTQ Studies	, Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness^[1]	, Behind the Mask Mari Ruti, The Ethics of Opting Out , Lavender and Red , Time Slips , Unmaking Love David M. Halperin and , The War on Sex , Welcome to Fairyland
Transgender Fiction	Bogi Takács, ed., Transcendent 2: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction^[1]	Jeanne Thornton, The Black Emerald Jennifer Finney Boylan, Long Black Veil , ed., Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic , and , eds., Resilience: Surviving in the Face of Everything
Transgender Non-Fiction	C. Riley Snorton, Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity^[1]	Rosalind Rosenberg, Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray , Lou Sullivan: Daring to Be a Man Among Men Janet Mock, Surpassing Certainty , What About the Rest of Your Life
Transgender Poetry	Ching-In Chen, recombinant^[1]	Kai Cheng Thom, a place called No Homeland Juliana Huxtable, Mucus in My Pineal Gland , Of Mongrelitude , What Runs Over

References[]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x "Lambda Literary awardees include Carmen Maria Machado, John Rechy, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor". Windy City Times, June 5, 2018.
^ "Paula Vogel, Avram Finkelstein Finalists For Lambda Literary Awards". The Forward, March 6, 2018.

[windy-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x "Lambda Literary awardees include Carmen Maria Machado, John Rechy, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor". Windy City Times, June 5, 2018.

[2] "Paula Vogel, Avram Finkelstein Finalists For Lambda Literary Awards". The Forward, March 6, 2018.

[1]

[2]