The winners of the 26th Annual Lambda Literary Awards - also known as the “Lammys” - were announced on Sunday night.
The Lambda ceremony included over 500 attendees, sponsors, and celebrities who gathered to celebrate excellence in LGBT literature and 26 years of the groundbreaking literary awards.
And the winners?
GAY EROTICA: The Padisah’s Son and the Fox: an erotic novella, Alex Jeffers, Lethe Press.
GAY ROMANCE: Into This River I Drown, TJ Klune, Dreamspinner Press.
GAY GENERAL FICTION: Mundo Cruel: Stories, Luis Negron [translated by Suzanne Jill Levine, Seven Stories Press]
LGBT SF/F/HORROR: Death by Silver, Melissa Scott & Amy Griswold, Lethe Press
LGBT GRAPHIC NOVEL: Calling Dr. Laura: A Graphic Memoir, Nicole J. Georges, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
GAY MYSTERY: The Prisoner of the Riviera: A Francis Bacon Mystery, Janice Law, MysteriousPress.com/Open Road Media.
LGBT CHILDREN’S/YA – TIE
If You Could Be Mine, Sara Farizan, Algonquin Books
Two Boys Kissing, David Levithan, Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY: A Heaven of Words: Last Journals, by Glenway Wescott, Ed. Jerry Rosco, University of Wisconsin Press
LESBIAN GENERAL FICTION: Happiness, Like Water, Chinelo Okparanta, Mariner Books (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
LGBT DEBUT: Descendants of Hagar, Nik Nicholson, AuthorHouse
BISEXUAL FICTION: My Education, Susan Choi, Penguin Group/Viking
TRANSGENDER FICTION: Wanting in Arabic, Trish Salah, TSAR Publications
LGBT NONFICTION: White Girls, Hilton Als, McSweeney’s Publishing
TRANSGENDER NONFICTION: The End of San Francisco, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, City Lights Publishers
BISEXUAL NONFICTION: The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television, Maria San Filippo, Indiana University Press
GAY POETRY:Unpeopled Eden, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Four Way Books
LESBIAN POETRY: Rise in the Fall, Ana Bozicevic, Birds, LLC
LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY: Body Geographic, Barrie Jean Borich, University of Nebraska Press
NON-FICTION: Who’s Yer Daddy?: Gay Writers Celebrate Their Mentors and Forerunners, Eds. Jim Elledge and David Groff, The University of Wisconsin Press
LESBIAN MYSTERY: High Desert, Katherine V. Forrest, Spinsters Ink
LESBIAN ROMANCE: Clean Slate, Andrea Bramhall, Bold Strokes Books
LESBIAN EROTICA: Wild Girls, Wild Nights: True Lesbian Sex Stories, Ed. Sacchi Green, Cleis Press
LGBT ANTHOLOGY FICTION: Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction, Karen Martin and Makhosazana Xaba, MaThoko’s Books
LGBT DRAMA: Tom at the Farm, Michel Marc Bouchard, Talonbooks
LGBT STUDIES: Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence, Christina B. Hanhardt, Duke University Press