Congratulations to Marlon James, Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes, Jac Jemc, Samantha Shannon, Julie C. Day, Craig Laurance Gidney, Matthew Bright, and Nina McLaughlin, this year's finalists for the Science Fiction/Fanasy/Horror category of the Lambda Award! We are, of course, honored that a volume in Aqueduct's Conversation Pieces series, The Rampant, by Julie C. Day made this very fine list.
Wake, Siren, Nina MacLaughlin, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Finalists will be celebrated and winners will be announced at the Awards Ceremony hosted by Saturday Night Live’s Bowen Yang the evening of Monday, June 8, 2020 in New York City.
Here at Aqueduct Press, we're elated that The Breath of the Sun, Isaac R. Fellman's debut novel, which we published last year, has won a Lambda Literary Award. Congratulations, Isaac!
You can find the full list of winners for each category below. I was especially pleased to see that Larissa Lai's Tiger Flu (on this year's Tiptree Honor List, as well) won in the Lesbian Fiction category, and Claire O'Dell's A Study in Honor, a science fiction noir novel that I much enjoyed, won in the Lesbian Mystery category. I'd also like to salute Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry, in the LGBTQ Nonfiction category, as a very fine book that I also enjoyed. In fact, just as the Tiptree Honor Lists are always a good source of titles to search out, so with the entire list of Lambda Award finalists (which can be found at https://www.lambdaliterary.org/31st-annual-lambda-literary-award-finalists-and-winners/ .
31ST ANNUAL LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNERS:
Lesbian Fiction The Tiger Flu, Larissa Lai, Arsenal Pulp Press
Gay Fiction Jonny Appleseed, Joshua Whitehead, Arsenal Pulp Press
Bisexual Fiction Disoriental, Négar Djavadi, Translated by Tina Kover, Europa Editions
Bisexual Nonfiction Out of Step: A Memoir, Anthony Moll, Mad Creek Books / The Ohio State University Press
Transgender Fiction Little Fish, Casey Plett, Arsenal Pulp Press
The 29th Annual Lambda Literary Award finalists have been named, and I'm thrilled to announce that Andrea Hairston's Will Do Magic for Small Change is among them. Congratulations to Andrea and all her co-finalists!
I'll post below the finalists for the science fiction/fantasy/horror category, but will link to the full slate (which is very long, given all its categories), since year after year it's been a source for me of interesting work I'll want to read but that hadn't yet come to my attention. (Among other things, this year, is a biography of Audre Lorde by Gloria Joseph.) You can find the full slate here: http://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/news/03/14/29th-annual-lambda-literary-award-finalists-announced/
LGBTQ Studies
- See more at:
http://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/news/03/14/29th-annual-lambda-literary-award-finalists-announced/#sthash.6s24VfpA.dpuf
LGBTQ Studies
- See more at:
http://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/news/03/14/29th-annual-lambda-literary-award-finalists-announced/#sthash.6s24VfpA.dpuf
In case you haven't heard, the Lambda Literary Foundation has announced the finalists for this year's Lambda Literary Awards. I'm posting the part of the list of finalists of most interest for f/sf readers, but the entire list is always interesting; you can find it here. It includes, for instance, in its "Transgender Fiction" category Roz Kaveney's Dialectic of the Flesh (A Midsummer Night’s 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
The Lambdas have many award categories, so I'm only going to list the sf/f/h categories. You can find the full list (which has, as usual, lots of interesting titles, including Robert Duncan's H.D.) at the URL provided in the following press release:
24th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists Announced
Los Angeles, CA - Finalists for the Lambda Literary Awards were announced today by the Lambda Literary Foundation (LLF) in Los Angeles.Books from major mainstream publishers and from academic presses, from both long-established and new LGBT publishers, as well as from emerging publish-on-demand technologies, make up the 119 finalists for the "Lammys."The finalists were selected from a record number of nominations.
The awards, now in their twenty-fourth year, celebrate achievement in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) writing for books published in 2011. Winners will be announced at a Monday evening, June 4th ceremony in New York at the CUNY Graduate Center (365 Fifth Avenue) with an after-party at Slate (54 West 21st Street).
Lambda set a record in 2010 for both the number of LGBT books nominated (520) and the number of publishers participating (about 230). That record has been surpassed this year, with more than 600 titles represented from about 250 publishers.
"For three consecutive years we have broken the records for both book nominees and publishers, which is extremely heartening in a time of uncertainty for the publishing industry as a whole, and LGBT publishing, in particular," said LLF Board of Trustees Co-Chair, David McConnell.
More than 90 booksellers, book reviewers, librarians, authors, previous Lammy winners and finalists, and other book professionals volunteered many hours of reading time, critical thinking, and invigorating shared discussion to select the finalists in 24 categories.
"The Lambda Literary Awards would not be possible without the time, energy, and intelligence of our volunteer judges who put countless hours of reading into selecting our finalists," said Lambda Executive Director, Tony Valenzuela. "Because of their hard work, this day is a celebration of our finalists, whose outstanding books extend the fabric of our literature and enrich our community.Congratulations to these talented authors on their tremendous achievement."
Pioneer Award honorees, the master of ceremonies, and presenters will be announced the second week of April.
Tickets for the Lambda Literary Awards ceremony and after-party go on sale today.For information visit our website.
LGBT SF/F/H
The German, by Lee Thomas, Lethe Press Paradise Tales: and Other Stories, by Geoff Ryman, Small Beer Press Static, by L.A. Witt, Amber Allure/Amber Quill Press Steam-powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories, edited by JoSelle Vanderhooft, Torquere Press Triptych, by J.M. Frey, Dragon Moon Press
Today the Lambda Literary Foundation announced the finalists for the 22nd Annual Literary Awards. An Aqueduct Press book, Rebecca Ore's Centuries Ago and Very Fast (which is also, as you may recall, a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award), is among the LGBT SF/Fantasy/Horror category finalists. Congratulations, Rebecca!
It's always interesting to see the Lambda Awards final ballot, because I always find titles I hadn't known about to pique my reading appetite. Here's the entire list of finalists for all 23 categories:
Lambda Literary Awards Finalists
LGBT Anthologies
* Gay American Autobiography: Writings from Whitman to Sedaris, edited by David Bergman (University of Wisconsin Press) * Moral Panics, Sex Panics: Fear and the Fight Over Sexual Rights, edited by Gilbert Herdt (NYU Press) * My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them, edited by Michael Montlack (University of Wisconsin Press) * Portland Queer: Tales of the Rose City, edited by Ariel Gore (Lit Star Press) * Smash the Church, Smash the State! The Early Years of Gay Liberation, edited by Tommi Avicolli Mecca (City Lights)
LGBT Children’s/Young Adult
* Ash, by Malinda Lo (Little, Brown) * How Beautiful the Ordinary, edited by Michael Cart (HarperCollins) * In Mike We Trust, by P.E. Ryan (HarperCollins) * Sprout, by Dale Peck (Bloomsbury USA) * The Vast Fields of Ordinary, by Nick Burd (Penguin Books)
LGBT Drama
* The Beebo Brinker Chronicles, by Kate Moira Ryan & Linda S. Chapman (Dramatists Play Service) * The Collected Plays Of Mart Crowley, by Mart Crowley (Alyson Books) * Revenge of the Women’s Studies Professor, by Bonnie L. Morris (Indiana University Press)
LGBT Nonfiction
* The Golden Age of Gay Fiction, edited by Drewey Wayne Gunn (MLR Press) * The Greeks and Greek Love, by James Davidson (Random House) * I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde, edited by Rudolph P. Byrd, Johnnetta Betsch Cole & Beverly Guy-Sheftall (Oxford University Press) * Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences, by Sarah Schulman (The New Press) * Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America, by Nathaniel Frank (St. Martin’s Press)
LGBT SF/Fantasy/Horror
* Centuries Ago and Very Fast, by Rebecca Ore (Aqueduct Press) * Fist of the Spider Woman, by Amber Dawn (Arsenal Pulp Press) * In the Closet, Under the Bed, by Lee Thomas (Dark Scribe Press) * Palimpsest, by Catherynne M. Valente (Bantam/Spectra Books) * Pumpkin Teeth, by Tom Cardamone (Lethe Press)
LGBT Studies
* Metropolitan Lovers: The Homosexuality of Cities, by Julie Abraham (University of Minnesota Press) * Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP’s Fight Against AIDS, by Deborah B. Gould (University of Chicago Press) * The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century, by Kathryn Bond Stockton (Duke University Press) * The Resurrection of the Body: Pier Paolo Pasolini from Saint Paul to Sade, by Armando Maggi (University of Chicago Press) * The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth Century America, by Margot Canaday (Princeton University Press)
Bisexual Fiction
* Arusha, by J.E. Knowles (Spinsters Ink) * Holy Communion, by Mykola Dementiuk (Synergy Press) * The Janeid, by Bobbie Geary (The Graeae Press) * Love You Two, by Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli (Random House Australia) * Torn, by Amber Lehman (Closet Case Press)
Bisexual Nonfiction
* Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life, by Edna O’Brien (W. W. Norton) * Cheever: A Life, by Blake Bailey (Alfred A. Knopf) * Leaving India: My Family’s Journey From Five Villages to Five Continents, by Minal Hajratwala (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) * Map, by Audrey Beth Stein (Lulu.com) * Vincente Minnelli: Hollywood’s Dark Dreamer, by Emanuel Levy (St. Martin’s Press)
Transgender
* Bharat Jiva, by Kari Edwards (Litmus Press) * Lynnee Breedlove’s One Freak Show, by Lynn Breedlove (Manic D Press) * The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You, by S Bear Bergman (Arsenal Pulp Press) * Transmigration, by Joy Ladin (Sheep Meadow Press) * Troglodyte Rose, by Adam Lowe (Cadaverine Publications)
Lesbian Debut Fiction
* The Creamsickle, by Rhiannon Argo (Spinsters Ink) * The Bigness of the World, by Lori Ostlund (University of Georgia Press) * Land Beyond Maps, by Maida Tilchen (Savvy Press) * More of This World or Maybe Another, by Barb Johnson (Harper Perennial) * Verge, by Z Egloff (Bywater Books)
Gay Debut Fiction
* Blue Boy, by Rakesh Satyal (Kensington Books) * God Says No, by James Hannaham (McSweeneys) * Pop Salvation, by Lance Reynald (HarperCollins) * Shaming the Devil: Collected Short Stories, by G. Winston James (Top Pen Press) * Sugarless, by James Magruder (University of Wisconsin Press)
Lesbian Erotica
* Flesh and Bone, by Ronica Black (Bold Strokes Books) * Lesbian Cowboys, edited by Sacchi Green & Rakelle Valencia (Cleis Press) * Punishment with Kisses, by Diane Anderson-Minshall (Bold Strokes Books) * Where the Girls Are, by D.L. King (Cleis Press) * Women of the Bite, Edited by Cecilia Tan (Alyson Books)
Gay Erotica
* Rough Trade: Dangerous Gay Erotica, edited by Todd Gregory (Bold Strokes Books) * Impossible Princess, by Kevin Killian (City Lights) * I Like It Like That: True Tales of Gay Desire, edited by Richard Labonté & Lawrence Schimel (Arsenal Pulp Press) * The Low Road, by James Lear (Cleis Press) * Eight Inches, by Sean Wolfe (Kensington Books)
Lesbian Fiction
* Dismantled, by Jennifer McMahon (HarperCollins) * A Field Guide to Deception, by Jill Malone (Bywater Books) * Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory, by Emma Pérez (University of Texas Press) * Risk, by Elana Dykewomon (Bywater Books) * This One’s Going to Last Forever, by Nairne Holtz (Insomniac Press)
Gay Fiction
* Lake Overturn, by Vestal McIntyre (HarperCollins) * The River In Winter, by Matt Dean (Queens English Productions) * Said and Done, by James Morrison (Black Lawrence Press) * Salvation Army, by Abdellah Taia (Semiotext(e)) * Silverlake, by Peter Gadol (Tyrus Books)
Lesbian Memoir/Biography
* Called Back: My Reply to Cancer, My Return to Life, by Mary Cappello (Alyson Books) * Mean Little deaf Queer, by Terry Galloway (Beacon Press) * My Red Blood: A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming Onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, and Coming Out in the Feminist Movement, by Alix Dobkin (Alyson Books) * Likewise: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag, by Ariel Schrag (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone Fireside) * The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith, by Joan Schenkar (St. Martin’s Press)
Gay Memoir/Biography
* Ardent Spirits: Leaving Home, Coming Back, by Reynolds Price (Scribner Books) * City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960’s and 70’s, by Edmund White (Bloomsbury USA) * Deflowered: My Life in Pansy Division, by Jon Ginoli (Cleis Press) * Once You Go Back, by Douglas A. Martin (Seven Stories Press) * The Pure Lover: A Memoir of Grief, by David Plante (Beacon Press)
Lesbian Mystery
* Command of Silence, by Paulette Callen (Spinsters Ink) * Death of a Dying Man, by J.M. Redmann (Bold Strokes Books) * From Hell to Breakfast, by Joan Opyr (Blue Feather Books) * The Mirror and the Mask, by Ellen Hart (St. Martin’s/Minotaur) * Toasted, by Josie Gordon (Bella Books)
Gay Mystery
* All Lost Things, by Josh Aterovis (P.D. Publishing) * The Killer of Orchids, by Ralph Ashworth (State Street Press) * Murder in the Garden District, by Greg Herren (Alyson Books) * Straight Lies, by Rob Byrnes (Kensington Books) * What We Remember, by Michael Thomas Ford (Kensington Books)
Lesbian Poetry
* Bird Eating Bird, by Kristin Naca (HarperCollins) * Gospel: Poems, by Samiya Bashir (Red Bone Press) * Names, by Marilyn Hacker (W.W. Norton) * Stars of the Night Commute, by Ana Bozicevic (Tarpaulin Sky Press) * Zero at the Bone, by Stacie Cassarino (New Issues Poetry & Prose)
Gay Poetry
* Breakfast with Thom Gunn, by Randall Mann (University of Chicago Press) * The Brother Swimming Beneath Me, by Brent Goodman (Black Lawrence Press) * The First Risk, by Charles Jensen (Lethe Press) * Sweet Core Orchard, by Benjamin S. Grossberg (University of Tampa Press) * What the Right Hand Knows, by Tom Healy (Four Way Books)
Lesbian Romance
* It Should Be a Crime, by Carsen Taite (Bold Strokes Books) * No Rules of Engagement, by Tracey Richardson (Bella Books) * The Sublime and Spirited Voyage of Original Sin, by Colette Moody (Bold Strokes Books) * Stepping Stone, by Karin Kallmaker (Bella Books) * Worth Every Step, by KG MacGregor (Bella Books)
Gay Romance
* Drama Queers!, by Frank Anthony Polito (Kensington Books) * A Keen Edge, by H. Leigh Aubrey (iUniverse) * The Rest of Our Lives, by Dan Stone (Lethe Press) * Time After Time, by J.P. Bowie (MLR Press) * Transgressions, by Erastes (Running Press)
I'm a little slow to have seen this, so maybe others have been, too. In case you hadn't heard, an Aqueduct author and a couple of Aqueduct's friends were awarded Lammies two nights ago:
Nicola Griffith's And Now We Are Going to Have a Party won in the Women's Memoir/Biography category and Richard Labonte and Lawrence Schimel's First Person Queer won in the LGBT anthology category. (The complete list of winners can be found here.
Congratulations, Nicola! Congratulations Lawrence and Richard!
