28th Lambda Literary Awards

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

Special awards

CategoryWinner
Pioneer Award
Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award
Trustee Award

Nominees and winners

Category Winner Nominated
Bisexual Literature Blue ribbon TBA
  • Emily Bingham, Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham
  • Anna North, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark
  • Jeanette Winterson, The Gap of Time
  • Zoe Pilger, Eat My Heart Out
  • Kevin Hogan, My Riastrad
Gay Erotica Blue ribbon TBA
  • Jennifer Levine and Rian Darcy, Charming: Modern Gay Fairytales
  • Natty Soltesz, College Dive Bar, 1 AM
  • Miodrag Kojadinovic, Érotiques Suprèmes
  • William Holden, Grave Desires
  • Michael Ampersant, Green Eyes — an erotic novel (sort-of)
Gay Fiction Blue ribbon TBA
Gay Memoir/Biography Blue ribbon TBA
  • Jean Findlay, Chasing Lost Time: The Life of C. K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy, and Translator
  • Arsham Parsi and Marc Colbourne, Exiled for Love: The Journey of an Iranian Queer Activist
  • Matthew Spender, The House in St. John’s Wood
  • Langdon Hammer, James Merrill: Life and Art
  • Bernard Cooper, My Avant-Garde Education
  • Michael V. Smith, My Body Is Yours
  • Brad Gooch, Smash Cut
  • Jameson Currier, Until My Heart Stops
Gay Mystery Blue ribbon TBA
  • Jeffrey Round, After the Horses
  • Tom Mendicino, The Boys from Eighth and Carpenter
  • Marshall Thornton, Boystown 7: Bloodlines
  • Jon Wilson, Cheap as Beasts
  • Wallace Godfrey, Introducing Sunfish & Starfish: Tropical Drag Queen Detectives
  • Rhys Ford, Murder and Mayhem
  • Christopher Bollen, Orient
  • Robert Karjel, The Swede
Gay Poetry Blue ribbon TBA
  • Roberto F. Santiago, Angel Park
  • Rickey Laurentiis, Boy with Thorn
  • Francisco X. Alarcón, Canto Hondo/Deep Song
  • Nicholas Wong, Crevasse
  • Ben Ladouceur, Otter
  • Carl Phillips, Reconnaissance
  • Jee Leong Koh, Steep Tea
  • Ralph Hamilton, Teaching a Man to Unstick His Tail
Gay Romance Blue ribbon TBA
  • Vanessa North, Blueberry Boys
  • Ralph Josiah Barsley, Brothers
  • Alexis Hall, For Real
  • L. A. Witt, General Misconduct
  • Garrett Leigh, Misfits
  • Jay Bell, Something Like Stories, Volume One
  • Debbie McGowan, When Skies Have Fallen
  • Brad Boney, Yes
Lesbian Erotica Blue ribbon TBA
  • Salome Wilde and Talon Rihai, Desire Behind Bars: Lesbian Prison Erotica
  • Meghan O'Brien, The Muse
  • Sinclair Sexsmith, Sweet & Rough: Queer Kink Erotica
Lesbian Fiction Blue ribbon TBA
Lesbian Memoir/Biography Blue ribbon TBA
  • Cat Cora, Cooking as Fast as I Can: A Chef’s Story of Family, Food, and Forgiveness
  • Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Dirty River
  • Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
  • Kate Carroll de Gutes, Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear
  • Allison Gruber, You’re Not Edith
Lesbian Mystery Blue ribbon TBA
  • Ellen Hart, The Grave Soul
  • Stevie Mikayne, Illicit Artifacts
  • Victoria Brownworth, Ordinary Mayhem
  • Cari Hunter, No Good Reason
  • Lee Winter, The Red Files
  • R. E. Bradshaw, Relatively Rainey
  • Ann Aptaker, Tarnished Gold
  • Debra Hyde, The Tattered Heiress
Lesbian Poetry Blue ribbon TBA
  • Melissa Buzzeo, The Devastation
  • Claudia Rodriguez, Everybody’s Bread
  • Sara Jane Stoner, Experience in the Medium of Destruction
  • Margot Douaihy, Girls Like You
  • Dawn Lundy Martin, Life in a Box is a Pretty Life
  • Jessica Jacobs, Pelvis with Distance
  • J. P. Howard, Say/Mirror: Poems and Histories
  • Stephanie Gray, Shorthand and Electric Language Stars
Lesbian Romance Blue ribbon TBA
  • Shelley Thrasher, Autumn Spring
  • Andrea Bramhall, The Chameleon’s Tale
  • Dillon Watson, Full Circle
  • Rachel Spangler, Heart of the Game
  • Jackie D. Bold, Infiltration
  • Julie Blair, Making a Comeback
  • Blythe H. Warren, My Best Friend’s Girl
  • Amy Dunne, The Renegade
LGBT Anthology Blue ribbon TBA
  • Sfé R. Monster and Taneka Stotts, Beyond: The Queer Sci-Fi & Fantasy Comic Anthology
  • Damien Luxe, Heather M. Ács and Sabina Ibarrola, Glitter and Grit: Queer Performance from the Heels on Wheels Femme Galaxy
  • 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 Kopas, Videogames for Humans: Twine Authors in Conversation
LGBT Children's/Young Adult Blue ribbon TBA
  • Sarah McCarry, About a Girl
  • Will Walton, Anything Could Happen
  • Jerome Pohlen, Gay and Lesbian History for Kids: The Century-Long Struggle for LGBT Rights
  • Alex Gino, George
  • Brian Selznick, The Marvels
  • Adam Silvera, More Happy Than Not
  • I. W. Gregorio, None of the Above
  • Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
LGBT Debut Fiction Blue ribbon TBA
  • 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
  • Victor Yates, A Love Like Blood
  • James Driggers, Lovesick
  • Libby Ware, Lum
LGBT Drama Blue ribbon TBA
LGBT Graphic Novel Blue ribbon TBA
LGBT Non-Fiction Blue ribbon TBA
LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Blue ribbon TBA
  • John Inman, The Boys on the Mountain
  • Fletcher DeLancey, The Caphenon (Chronicles of Alsea – Book #1)
  • Ally Blue, Down
  • Robert Levy, The Glittering World
  • Kirsty Logan, The Gracekeepers
  • J. A. Rock, Minotaur
  • Kate Sherwood, Sacrati
  • Jude McLaughlin, Wonder City Stories
LGBT Studies Blue ribbon TBA
  • 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
  • Hiram Pérez, A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire
  • Valerie Traub, Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns
Transgender Fiction Blue ribbon TBA
  • Michael Scott Monje, Jr., Defiant
  • Sassafras Lowrey, Lost Boi
  • Roz Kaveney, Tiny Pieces of Skull, or a Lesson in Manners
Transgender Non-Fiction Blue ribbon TBA
  • Amy Ellis Nutt, Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family
  • Willy Wilkinson, Born on the Edge of Race and Gender: A Voice for Cultural Competency
  • Zane Thimmesch-Gill, Hiding in Plain Sight
Transgender Poetry Blue ribbon TBA

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