All the winners of the 25th Annual Lambda Literary Awards were revealed in New York City. We’ve included the complete list of winners below.
John Irving took the bisexual fiction award for In One Person. Cheryl Burke took the bisexual nonfiction award for My Awesome Place: The Autobiography of Cheryl B. Comedian Kate Clinton hosted the ceremony at the Great Hall at Cooper Union. Here’s more from the release:
the Lambda ceremony brought together almost 500 attendees, sponsors, and celebrities to celebrate excellence in LGBT literature and 25 years of the groundbreaking literary awards. Legendary performer Janis Ian took to the stage at the ceremony, and the VIP After-Party at the New Museum was hosted by super-hot DJ Honey Dijon making a quarter century of the “Lammys” a night to remember.
25th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners
Bisexual (2 winners; 1 fiction, 1 nonfiction)
In One Person, John Irving, Simon & Schuster
My Awesome Place: The Autobiography of Cheryl B, Cheryl Burke, Topside Signature
Gay General Fiction
Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club, Benjamin Alire Saenz, Cinco
Puntos Press
Gay Memoir/Biography
Fire in the Belly, Cynthia Carr, Bloomsbury
Gay Mystery
Lake on the Mountain: A Dan Sharp Mystery, Jeffrey Round, Dundurn
Gay Poetry
He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices, Stephen S. Mills, Sibling Rivalry Press
Gay Romance
Kamikaze Boys, Jay Bell, Jay Bell Books
Gay Erotica
The Facialist, Mykola Dementiuk, JMS Books
Lesbian General Fiction
The World We Found: A Novel, Thrity Umrigar, HarperCollins Publishers/Harper
Lesbian Memoir/Biography
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Jeanette Winterson, Grove/Atlantic
Lesbian Mystery
Ill Will, J.M. Redmann, Bold Strokes Books
Lesbian Poetry
Sea and Fog, Etel Adnan, Nightboat Books
Lesbian Romance
Month of Sundays, Yolanda Wallace, Bold Strokes Books
Lesbian Erotica
The Harder She Comes: Butch/Femme Erotica, D.L. King, Cleis Press
LGBT Anthology
No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics, Justin Hall – Editor, Fantagraphics Books
LGBT Children’s/Young Adult
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Benjamin Alire Saenz, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
LGBT Debut Fiction
The Summer We Got Free, Mia McKenzie, BGD Press
LGBT Drama
The Myopia and Other Plays by David Greenspan, Marc Robinson, University of Michigan Press
LGBT Nonfiction
Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas, Dale Carpenter, W. W. Norton & Company
LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror
Green Thumb, Tom Cardamone, Lethe Press
LGBT Studies
Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics, Ramón H. Rivera-Servera, University of Michigan Press
Transgender Fiction
The Collection: Short Fiction From The Transgender Vanguard, Edited by Tom Léger and Riley MacLeod, Topside Press
Transgender Nonfiction
Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies, edited by Finn Enke, Temple University Press
Dr. James Duggins Mid-Career Novelist Prize
Nicola Griffith
Trebor Healey
Dr. Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Awards
Sassafras Lowrey
Carter Sickels