The 30th Annual Lambda Literary Award finalists (“Lammys”) have been announced. The awards celebrate achievement in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) writing. Winners will be announced at a ceremony on June 4.
The categories with nominees of genre interest are reported below. The full list of 23 categories is here.
Lesbian Fiction
- Difficult Women, Roxane Gay, Grove Press
- Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado, Graywolf Press
- Marriage of a Thousand Lies, SJ Sindu, Soho Press
- Not One Day, Anne Garréta, Deep Vellum Press
- Something Better than Home, Leona Beasley, Eleven Light City Press
- Things to Do When You’re Goth in the Country, Chavisa Woods, Seven Stories Press
- We Were Witches, Ariel Gore, Feminist Press
- The Year of Needy Girls, Patricia A. Smith, Kaylie Jones Books
Transgender Fiction
- The Black Emerald, Jeanne Thornton, Instar Books
- Long Black Veil, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Crown
- Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic, Tobi Hill-Meyer (ed), Instar Books
- Resilience: Surviving in the Face of Everything, Amy Heart, Sugi Pyrrophyta, and Larissa Glasser (eds.), Heartspark Press
- Transcendent 2: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction, Bogi Takács (ed), Lethe Press
LGBTQ Anthology
- ¡Cuéntamelo! Oral Histories by LGBT Latino Immigrants, Juliana Delgado Lopera, Aunt Lute Books
- Greetings from Janeland: Women Write More About Leaving Men for Women, Candace Walsh & Barbara Straus Lodge, Cleis Press
- Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers, edited by Cat Fitzpatrick & Casey Plett, Topside Press
- Power & Magic: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology, Joamette Gil, P&M Press
- Queer Africa 2: new stories, Makhosazana Xaba & Karen Martin, MaThoko’s Books
- To My Trans Sisters, Charlie Craggs, Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Trans Homo…Gasp! Gay FTM and Cis Men on Sex and Love, Avi Ben-Zeev and Pete Bailey, Transgress Press
- Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility, edited by Reina Gossett, Eric A. Stanley, and Johanna Burton, The MIT Press
LGBTQ Graphic Novels
- Condo Heartbreak Disco, Eric Kostiuk Williams, Koyama Press
- Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home, Nicole J. Georges, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner
- My Brother’s Husband, Volume 1, Gengoroh Tagame, Pantheon
- My Favorite Thing is Monsters, Emil Ferris, Fantagraphics Books
- Spinning, Tillie Walden, Macmillan/First Second Books
LGBTQ SF/F/Horror
- Amberlough, Lara Elena Donnelly, Tor Books
- An Excess Male, Maggie Shen King, HarperCollins
- An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon, Akashic Books
- Autonomous, Annalee Newitz, Tor Books
- I Stole You, Kristen Ringman, Handtype Press
- Night Visitors, Owen Keehnen, OutTales Publishing
- The Lost Daughter Collective, Lindsey Drager, DZANC Books
- The Prey of the Gods, Nicky Drayden, HarperCollins
LGBTQ Studies
- Behind the Mask, Alfredo Mirandé, University of Arizona Press
- The Ethics of Opting Out, Mari Ruti, Columbia University Press
- Lavender and Red, Emily Hobson, University of California Press
- Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness, Trevor Hoppe, University of California Press
- Time Slips, Jaclyn Pryor, Northwestern University Press
- Unmaking Love, Ashley T. Shelden, Columbia University Press
- The War on Sex, David M. Halperin and Trevor Hoppe, Duke University Press
- Welcome to Fairyland, Julio Capó, University of North Carolina Press