Congrats to all the winners!
21st LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNERS for BOOKS PUBLISHED IN 2008
TRANSGENDER
Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word), Thea Hillman, Manic D Press
BISEXUAL
Open, Jenny Block, Seal Press
LGBT ANTHOLOGIES
Our Caribbean, edited by Thomas Glave, Duke University Press
LGBT CHILDRENS/YOUNG ADULT
Out of the Pocket, Bill Konigsberg, Dutton
LGBT DRAMA
The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, Carolyn Gage, Outskirts Press
LGBT NONFICTION
Loving The Difficult, Jane Rule, Hedgerow Press
LGBT SCI-FI/FANTASY/HORROR
Turnskin, Nicole Kimberling, Blind Eye Books
LGBT STUDIES
Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality, Regina Kunzel, U. of Chicago Press
LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION
The Bruise, Magdalena Zurawski, Fiction Collective Two/University of Alabama Press
LESBIAN EROTICA
In Deep Waters 2: Cruising the Strip, Radclyffe and Karen Kallmaker, Bold Strokes Books
LESBIAN FICTION (a tie!)
The Sealed Letter, Emma Donoghue, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
All the Pretty Girls, Chandra Mayor, Conundrum Press
LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY
Sex Talks to Girls, Maureen Seaton, University of Arkansas Press
LESBIAN MYSTERY
Whacked, Josie Gordon, Bella Books
LESBIAN POETRY
love belongs to those who do the feeling, Judy Grahn, Red Hen Press
LESBIAN ROMANCE
The Kiss That Counted, Karin Kallmaker, Bella Books
GAY DEBUT FICTION
Finlater, Shawn Ruff, Quote Editions
GAY EROTICA
Best Gay Erotica 2009, Richard Labonte & James Lear, Cleis Press
GAY FICTION
We Disappear, Scott Heim, HarperCollins
GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY
Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love, Sheila Rowbotham, Verso Books
GAY MYSTERY
First You Fall, Scott Sherman, Alyson Books
GAY POETRY (a tie!)
Fire to Fire, Mark Doty, HarperCollins
Now You’re the Enemy, James Allen Hall, University of Arkansas Press
GAY ROMANCE
Got ’til it’s Gone, Larry Duplechan, Arsenal Pulp Press