Winners of the 26th Annual Lambda Literary Awards presented on June 2 included this genre collaboration:

LGBT SF/F/HORROR
Death By Silver, Melissa Scott & Amy Griswold, Lethe Press

Winners of the 25th Annual Lambda Literary Awards presented on June 3 included these genre writers:

LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror
Green Thumb by Tom Cardamone

Dr. James Duggins Mid-Career Novelist Prize
Nicola Griffith
Trebor Healey

[Thanks to Andrew Porter for the story.]

The Lambda Literary Foundation has announced that the James Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize winners are Nicola Griffith and Trebor Healey, who will each receive $5,000.

Griffith is a Westercon 66 GoH.

Griffith and Healey will be honored along with winners of the Lambda Literary Awards — including one from the LGBT SF/Fantasy/Horror category — at a ceremony June 3 in New York City. The awards celebrate achievement in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) writing.

[Thanks to Michael J. Walsh for the story.]

Finalists for the Lambda Literary Awards were announced March 6. Now in their 25th year, the awards celebrate achievement in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) writing for books published in 2012. Winners will be announced June 3.

Lambda Literary Foundation set a new record in 2013 for both the number of LGBT books submitted for Lammy consideration, 687, and the number of publishers participating, 332. The previous record, set just last year, was 600 titles by over 250 publishers.

Categories of particular interest to followers of sf/fantasy genre are —

         Transgender Fiction
1.      Being Emily, Rachel Gold, Bella Books
2.      The Collection: Short Fiction From The Transgender Vanguard, Edited by Tom Léger and   Riley MacLeod, Topside Press
3.      Dialectic of the Flesh, Roz Kaveney, A Midsummer Night’s Press
4.      First Spring Grass Fire, Rae Spoon, Arsenal Pulp Press
5.      Offspring, Michael Quadland, Red Hen Press

          LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror
1.      Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction, Brit Mandelo, Lethe Press
2.      Chocolatiers of the High Winds: A Gay Steampunk Romance, H.B. Kurtzwilde, Clasp Editions; An Imprint of Circlet Press
3.      Green Thumb, Tom Cardamone, Lethe Press
4.      Heiresses of Russ 2012: the Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction, Connie Wilkins and Steve Berman, Lethe Press
5.      In the Now, Kelly Sinclair, Blue Feather Books
6.      Night Shadows: Queer Horror, Greg Herren and J.M. Redmann, eds., Bold Strokes Books
7.      The Survivors, Sean Eads, Lethe Press

[Thanks to Andrew Porter for the story.]