2018 Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced

2018 Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced Last night the 30th annual Lambda Literary Award winners were announced. Lambda Literary is the United States’ leading organisation advancing LGBTQ literature. Listed below are this years winning LGBTQ books and writers. An [*] denotes an author/contributors of colour, and a [#] denotes a transgender author/contributors. Lambda Trustee Award Winner: Roxanne Gay *. Roxanne Gay is an African-American bisexual writer, professor, editor, and commentator. Her books include Hunger and An Untamed State. Lambda Visionary Award Winner: Edmund White. Edmund White is a white American gay novelist, essayist, and memoirist. His works include A Boy’s Own Story and The Joy of Gay Sex. Lesbian Fiction Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado * (Magical Realism; Short Stories) Gay Fiction After the Blue Hour by John Rechy (Literary Fiction) Bisexual Fiction The Gift by Barbara Browning (Contemporary Fiction) TRANSGender Fiction Transcendent 2: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction edited by Bogi Takács * # (Speculative Fiction; Short Stories) LGBTQ Nonfiction How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor * (Historical Non-fiction) Transgender Nonfiction Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton * # (Historical Non-fiction) Lesbian Poetry Rock / Salt / Stone by Rosamond S. King * (Poetry) Gay Poetry While Standing in Line for Death by C.A. Conrad (Poetry) Transgender Poetry recombinant by Ching-In Chen * # (Poetry) Lesbian Mystery Huntress by A.E. Radley (Mystery, Humour) Gay Mystery Night Drop by Marshall Thornton (Mystery, Suspense) Lesbian Memoir/Biography The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich (Memoir, True Crime) Gay Memoir/Biography Lives of Great Men: Living and Loving as an African Gay Man by Chike Frankie Edozien * (Memoir) Lesbian Romance Tailor-Made by Yolanda Wallace * (Romance, Contemporary) Gay Romance Love and Other Hot Beverages by Laurie Loft (Romance, Contemporary, M/M written by a woman) LGBTQ Erotica His Seed: An Arboretum of Erotica edited by Steve Berman (Erotica; Short Stories) LGBTQ Anthology ¡Cuéntamelo! Oral Histories by LGBT Latino Immigrants by Juliana Delgado Lopera * (Non-fiction) LGBTQ Children’s/Young Adult Like Water by Rebecca Podos (YA, Romance) LGBTQ Drama The Gulf by Audrey Cefaly and Samuel French (Play) LGBTQ Graphic Novels My Favourite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris (Horror) LGBTQ SF/F/Horror Autonomous by Annalee Newitz # (Science fiction; Dystopia) LGBTQ Studies Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalisation of Sickness by Trevor Hoppe (Non-fiction, History) Sign up to Today In Books to receive  daily news and miscellany from the world of books. Thank you for signing up! Keep an eye on your inbox.