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[]

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	,

Nominees and winners[]

Category	Winner	Nominated
Bisexual Fiction	*Négar Djavadi, Disoriental* (tr. Tina Kover)**	, The Origin of Doubt: Fifty Short Fictions , The Best Bad Things Jennifer Natalya Fink, Bhopal Dance , Behind These Doors: Radical Proposals Book 1 , The Wild Birds , Palmetto Rose , Jilted
Bisexual Nonfiction	, Out of Step	, Many Love: A Memoir of Polyamory and Finding Love(s) , No Archive Will Restore You
Bisexual Poetry	, We Play a Game	Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us , Mad Quick Hand of the Seashore: Love Poems Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Cenzontle , My Woman Card Is Anti-Native & Other Two-Spirit Truths
Gay Fiction	Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed	, State of the Nation Joseph Cassara, The House of Impossible Beauties Martin Duberman, Luminous Traitor: The Just and Daring Life of Roger Casement John R. Gordon, Drapetomania, or the Narrative of Cyrus Tyler and Abednego Tyler Uzodinma Iweala, Speak No Evil Édouard Louis, History of Violence , Some Hell
Gay Memoir/Biography	Darnell L. Moore, No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America	Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel Lillian Faderman, Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death , There Will Be No Miracles Here DeRay Mckesson, On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope Jeffrey C. Stewart, The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke Jerry Torre and , The Marble Faun of Grey Gardens: A Memoir of the Beales, the Maysles Brothers and Jacqueline Kennedy Edmund White, The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading
Gay Mystery	, Late Fees	, Dodging and Burning , Somewhere Over Lorain Road Joseph Olshan, Black Diamond Fall , Death Checks In Neil S. Plakcy, Survival Is a Dying Art Jeffrey Round, The God Game , Boystown 11: Heart’s Desire
Gay Poetry	, Indecency	Kazim Ali, Inquisition , Stereo(TYPE) Brane Mozetič, Unfinished Sketches of a Revolution (tr. ) Hieu Minh Nguyen, Not Here Carl Phillips, Wild Is the Wind Tommy Pico, Junk , ESL or You Weren’t Here
Gay Romance	, Crashing Upwards	, Point of Contact and , Detour , Undue Influence: A Persuasion Retelling , Learn with Me and , Of Sunlight and Stardust , The CEO’s Christmas Manny , No Luck
Lesbian Fiction	Larissa Lai, The Tiger Flu	Lucy Jane Bledsoe, The Evolution of Love , The Fifth Woman Amber Dawn, Sodom Road Exit , Pretend We Live Here Trifonia Melibea Obono, La Bastarda (tr. Lawrence Schimel) Sarah Schulman, Maggie Terry , Two Moons
Lesbian Memoir/Biography	, Chronology'	Marusya Bociurkiw, Food Was Her Country: The Memoir of a Queer Daughter Barrie Jean Borich, Apocalypse, Darling , A Certain Loneliness Esther Newton, My Butch Career Lindsay Nixon, nîtisânak , Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography Sarah Viren, MINE
Lesbian Mystery	Claire O'Dell, A Study in Honor	, Alice Isn’t Dead , Gnarled Hollow Ellen Hart, A Whisper of Bones , The Locket , A Matter of Blood , Secrets of the Last Castle , Stolen
Lesbian Poetry	, Each Tree Could Hold a Noose or a House	Etel Adnan, Surge Kristin Chang, Past Lives Tess Liem, Obits. Jane Miller, Who Is Trixie the Trasher? And Other Questions Eileen Myles, Evolution Emilia Nielsen, Body Work , Gaze Back
Lesbian Romance	, Beowulf for Cretins	, Charming the Vicar Jae, Just for Show , The Music and the Mirror Aurora Rey, Autumn’s Light , In Development , The Talebearer , Breaking Down Her Walls
LGBTQ Anthology	, As You Like It: The Gerald Kraak Anthology, Volume II [fiction] Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture [nonfiction]	, Written on the Body: Letters from Trans and Non-Binary Survivors of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence , C. E. Gatchalian, and , Q2Q: Queer Canadian Performance Texts and , Spawning Generations: Rants and Reflections on Growing Up with LGBTQ Parents and , Foglifter Volume 3, Issue 1 Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, Rikki Beadle-Blair and John R. Gordon, Sista!: An Anthology of Writing By and About Same Gender Loving Women of African/Caribbean Descent with a UK Connection and , Beyond II: The Queer Post-Apocalyptic & Urban Fantasy Comic Anthology
LGBTQ Children's/Young Adult	Kacen Callender, Hurricane Child	, Anger Is a Gift Angelo Surmelis, The Dangerous Art of Blending In , Darius the Great Is Not Okay Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls Kacen Callender, This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story
LGBTQ Drama	, Draw the Circle	Daniel Alexander Jones, Black Light Jen Silverman, Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties , Plot Points in Our Sexual Development Erin Markey, Singlet
LGBTQ Erotica	Blue Delliquanti and , Miles & Honesty in SCFSX!	Sacchi Green, Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year, Volume 3 , Crossplay , Gents: Steamy Stories from the Age of Steam Tom Cardamone, The Lurid Sea
LGBTQ Graphic Novel	, The Lie and How We Told It	Mark Russell, , , Howard Porter, , Exit, Stage Left!: The Snagglepuss Chronicles Paige Braddock, Love Letters to Jane’s World Tillie Walden, On a Sunbeam Eric Kostiuk Williams, Our Wretched Town Hall and , The Pervert Steve MacIsaac, Unpacking Jeanne Thornton and , We’re Still Here: An All-Trans Comics Anthology
LGBTQ Nonfiction	Imani Perry, Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry	Ria Brodell, Butch Heroes , Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements , Resistance: The LGBT Fight Against Fascism in WWII , Ladies Lazarus Martin Duberman, Has the Gay Movement Failed? , The Boys of Fairy Town: Sodomites, Female Impersonators, Third-Sexers, Pansies, Queers, and Sex Morons in Chicago’s First Century , No Place Like Home: Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas
LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror	, The Breath of the Sun	Margaret Killjoy, The Barrow Will Send What It May J. Y. Yang, The Descent of Monsters Sonya Taaffe, Forget the Sleepless Shores Aliette de Bodard, In the Vanishers’ Palace , Metabolize, If Able Fletcher DeLancey, Resilience C. L. Polk, Witchmark
LGBTQ Studies	, Toxic Silence: Race, Black Gender Identity, and Addressing the Violence Against Black Transgender Women in Houston	E. Patrick Johnson, Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History , Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean , Gay, Inc.: The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics , Herlands: Exploring the Women’s Land Movement in the United States Andrew Billings and , Media and the Coming Out of Gay Male Athletes in American Team Sports , Post-Borderlandia: Chicana Literature and Gender Variant Critique , Semi Queer: Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers
Transgender Fiction	Casey Plett, Little Fish	Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Sketchtasy Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater , Invasions , Confessions of the Fox
Transgender Nonfiction	, Histories of the Transgender Child	, Mobile Subjects: Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment Joy Ladin, The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man Vivek Shraya, I’m Afraid of Men
Transgender Poetry	Raquel Salas Rivera, Lo Terciario / The Tertiary	Gwen Benaway, Holy Wild , Heal Your Love , If the Color Is Fugitive Ely Shipley, Some Animal

References[]

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

[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.

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