Now in their 26th year, the Lambda Literary Awards celebrate achievement in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender writing for books published in 2013. Winners will be announced during a ceremony on June 2 in New York City. A full list of finalists follows.
Transgender Fiction: Nevada, a novel, Imogen Binnie, Topside Press; Tiresias, Devon Llywelyn Jones, self-published; Wanting in Arabic, Trish Salah, TSAR Publications
Bisexual Fiction: Corona, Bushra Rehman, Sibling Rivalry Press; Hild: A Novel, Nicola Griffith, Farrar, Straus and Giroux; In His Secret Life, Mel Bossa, Bold Strokes Books; My Education, Susan Choi, Penguin Group/Viking; The Two Hotel Francforts: A Novel, David Leavitt, Bloomsbury
Gay General Fiction: A Visit to Priapus and Other Stories, Glenway Wescott, ed. Jerry Rosco, University of Wisconsin Press; An Honest Ghost, Rick Whitaker, Jaded Ibis Press; The City of Devi, Manil Suri, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.; Damn Love, Jasmine Beach-Ferrara, Ig Publishing; The Desperates, Greg Kearney, Cormorant Books; Fire Year, Jason K. Friedman, Sarabande Books; Local Souls, Allan Gurganus, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.; Mundo Cruel: Stories, Luis Negron, translated by Suzanne Jill Levine, Seven Stories Press; Necessary Errors, Caleb Crain, Penguin Books; The Red Shoes, John Stewart Wynne, Riverdale Ave Books/Magnus
Lesbian General Fiction: The Albino Album, Chavisa Woods, Seven Stories Press; Bodies of Water, T. Greenwood, Kensington; Cha-Ching!, Ali Liebegott, City Lights; Cream, Christiana Harrell, Createspace; The Daylight Gate, Jeanette Winterson, Grove/Atlantic Inc./Grove Press; Fat Angie, E.E. Charlton-Trujillo, Candlewick Press; Happiness, Like Water, Chinelo Okparanta, Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; She Rises: A Novel, Kate Worsley, Bloomsbury; Survival Skills, Jean Ryan, Ashland Creek Press; We Are Water, Wally Lamb, HarperCollins/Harper
LGBT Debut Fiction: The Affairs of Others: A Novel, Amy Grace Loyd, Picador; Descendants of Hagar, Nik Nicholson, AuthorHouse; Golden Boy, Abigail Tarttelin, Simon & Schuster/Atria Books; How to Shake the Other Man, Derek Palacio, Nouvella; In Between, Jane Hoppen, Bold Strokes Books; Inside, Charles L. Ross, Ink; Jane and the Whales, Andrea Routley, Caitlin Press; My Brother's Name: A Novel, Laura Krughoff, Scarletta Press; Prick Queasy, Ronald Palmer, Publication Studio; The Rest of Us: Stories, Guy Mark Foster, Tincture/Lethe Press
Transgender Nonfiction: Blood, Marriage, Wine & Glitter, S. Bear Bergman, Arsenal Pulp Press; The End of San Francisco , Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, City Lights; Testo Junkie, Beatriz Preciado, Feminist Press
Bisexual Nonfiction: The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television, Maria San Filippo, Indiana Univ. Press; Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution, Shiri Eisner, Seal Press; The Soundtrack of My Life, Clive Davis, Simon & Schuster
LGBT Nonfiction: Among the Bloodpeople, Thomas Glave, Akashic Books; Does Jesus Really Love Me?, Jeff Chu, Harper Collins; The End of the Homosexual?, Dennis Altman, Univ. of Queensland Press; Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims, Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle, NYU Press; Meet Grindr: How One App Changed The Way We Connect, Jamie Woo, self-published; Plane Queer: Labor, Sexuality, and AIDS in the History of Male Flight Attendants, Phil Tiemeyer, Univ. of CA Press; The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution, Matt Richardson, Ohio State Univ. Press; Radical Relations: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and Their Children in the United States since World War II, Daniel Winunwe Rivers, Univ. of North Carolina Press; Tom Bianchi: Fire Island Pines. Polaroids 1975-1983, Ben Smales, Tom Bianchi, Edmund White, Damiani; White Girls, Hilton Als, McSweeney's; You Can Tell Just by Looking: and 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People, Michael Bronski, Ann Pellegrini and Michael Amico, Beacon Press
Gay Poetry: Alternative Medicine, Rafael Campo, Duke Univ. Press; The Apartment of Tragic Appliances, Michael D. Snediker, Peanut Books/Punctum Books; Clay, David Groff, Trio House Press; Companion Grasses, Brian Teare, Omnidawn; Metaphysical Dog, Frank Bidart, Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Obscenely Yours, Angelo Nikolopoulos, Alice James Books; Silverchest, Carl Phillips, Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Straight Razor, Randall Mann, Persea Books; The Talking Day, Michael Klein, Sibling Rivalry Press; Unpeopled Eden, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Four Way Books
Lesbian Poetry: A Wild Surmise: New & Selected Poems & Recordings, Eloise Klein Healy, Red Hen Press; Chopper! Chopper! Poetry from Bordered Lives, Veronica Reyes, Red Hen Press/Arktoi Books; Chord Box, Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers, Univ. of Arkansas Press; The Collected Poems of Ai, Ai, W.W. Norton & Co.; The Exchange, Sophie Cabot Black, Graywolf Press; Proxy, R. Erica Doyle, Belladonna Collaborative; Rise in the Fall, Ana Bozicevic, Birds; She Has a Name, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Four Way Books; Viral, Suzanne Parker, Alice James Books; We Come Elemental, Tamiko Beyer, Alice James Books
Gay Mystery: Baton Rouge Bingo, Greg Herren, Bold Strokes Books; Boystown 5: Murder Book, Marshall Thornton, MLR Press; Fierce, David Lennon, Blue Spike; Foxed, Garry Ryan, NeWest Press; The General and the Elephant Clock of Al-Jazari, Sarah Black, Dreamspinner Press; How to Greet Strangers: A Mystery, Joyce Thompson, Lethe Press; In Real Life, The 3rd Gemini & Flowers Mystery, Jonathan Gregory, Amazon Digital Services; Pawn of Satan, Mark Zubro, MLR Press; Pretty Boy Dead, Jon Michaelsen, Wilde City Press; The Prisoner of the Riviera: A Francis Bacon Mystery, Janice Law, MysteriousPress.com/Open Road Media
Lesbian Mystery: Cross and Burn, Val McDermid, Grove/Atlantic/Atlantic Monthly Press; Death of the Demon, Anne Holt, Scribner; High Desert, Katherine V. Forrest, Spinsters Ink; The Killer Wore Leather: A Mystery, Laura Antoniou, Cleis Press; Point of Betrayal, Ann Roberts, Bella Books; The Rainey Season, R.E. Bradshaw, self-published; She Overheard Murder, Jean Sheldon, Wellworth Publishing/Bast Press; Taken by the Wind, Ellen Hart, St. Martin's Press/Minotaur Books; Turning on the Tide, Jenna Rae, Bella Books; Web of Obsessions, Diane Wood, Bella Books; The Wild Beasts of Wuhan: An Ava Lee Novel, Ian Hamilton, Picador
Gay Memoir/Biography: A Heaven of Words: Last Journals by Glenway Wescott, ed. Jerry Rosco, Univ. of Wisconsin Press; The AIDS Generation: Stories of Survival and Resilience, Perry N. Halkitis, Oxford Univ. Press; American Hipster: A Life of Herbert Huncke, The Times Square Hustler Who Inspired the Beat Movement, Hilary Holladay, Riverdale Ave Books/Magnus; Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography, Richard Rodriguez, Penguin Group/Viking; Dreadful: The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns, David Margolick, Other Press; Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, Alysia Abbott, W.W. Norton & Co.; Farther and Wilder: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson, Blake Bailey, Alfred A. Knopf; Henry Darger, Throwaway Boy: The Tragic Life of an Outsider Artist, Jim Elledge, Overlook Duckworth; In Bed with Gore Vidal, Tim Teeman, Riverdale Ave Books/Magnus; Returning to Reims, Didier Eribon, Semiotext(e)
Lesbian Memoir/Biography: Body Geographic, Barrie Jean Borich, Univ. of Nebraska Press; Growing Up Golem, Donna Minkowitz, Riverdale Ave Books/Magnus; How Poetry Saved My Life, Amber Dawn, Arsenal Pulp Press; L Is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir, Annie Rachel Lanzillotto, SUNY Press, Excelsior Editions; Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology, Caroline Paul and Wendy MacNaughton, Bloomsbury
Gay Romance: Covet Thy Neighbor, L.A. Witt, Riptide; Glitterland, Alexis Hall, Riptide; Into This River I Drown, TJ Klune, Dreamspinner Press; King Mai, Edmond Manning, Pickwick Ink; My Dear Watson, L.A. Fields, Lethe Press; Pickup Men, L.C. Chase, Riptide; Play Me, I'm Yours, Madison Parker, Harmony Ink Press; Rocky's Road, Lynley Wayne, MLR Press; Unbroken, Larry Benjamin, Beaten Track; Where You Are, J.H. Trumble, Kensington
Lesbian Romance: All That Lies Within, Lynn Ames, Phoenix Rising Press; At Seventeen, Gerri Hill, Bella Books; Broken Trails, D. Jordan Redhawk, Bella Books; Clean Slate, Andrea Bramhall, Bold Strokes Books; Date with Destiny, Mason Dixon, Bold Strokes Books; Hold Me Forever, D. Jackson Leigh, Bold Strokes Books; Hoosier Daddy, Ann McMan, Salem West, Bedazzled Ink /Nuance; Last Salute, Tracey Richardson, Bella Books; Love by the Numbers, Karin Kallmaker, Bella Books; The Princess Affair, Nell Stark, Bold Strokes Books
Gay Erotica: Capture & Surrender, Aleksandr Voinov & L.A. Witt, Riptide; The Padisah's Son and the Fox: an erotic novella, Alex Jeffers, Lethe Press; Sensual Travels: Gay Erotic Stories, Michael Luongo (ed.), Bruno Gmuender; Show-Offs: Gay Erotic Stories, Richard Labonte (ed.), Cleis Press; Team Players: Gay Erotic Stories, Winston Gieseke (ed.), Bruno Gmuender
Lesbian Erotica: At Her Feet, Rebekah Weatherspoon, Bold Strokes Books; Best Lesbian Erotica 2014, Kathleen Warnock (ed.), Cleis Press; Wild Girls Wild Nights: True Lesbian Sex Stories, Sacchi Green (ed.), Cleis Press
LGBT Anthology: An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings, Harvey Milk, Jason Edward Black, Charles E. Morris, Univ. of CA Press; The Feminist Porn Book, Tristan Taormino, Constance Penley, Celine Parrenas Shimizu & Mireille Miller-Young, Feminist Press; Flicker and Spark: A Contemporary Queer Anthology of Spoken Word and Poetry, Brittany Fonte and Regie Cabico, (eds.), Lowbrow Press; Ghosts in Gaslight. Monsters in Steam. Gay City: Vol. 5, Evan J Peterson & Vincent Kovar, Gay City Anthologies; Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction, Karen Martin and Makhosazana Xaba, MaThoko's Books; Queer in Aztlan: Chicano Male Recollentions of Consciousness and Coming Out, Adelaida R. Del Castillo and Gibran Guido (eds.), Cognella Academic; This Assignment Is So Gay: LGBTIQ Poets on the Art of Teaching, Megan Volpert, Sibling Rivalry Press; Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, T.C. Tolbert and Tim Trace Peterson, Nightboat Books; What I LOVE about being QUEER, Vivek Shraya, George Brown College; Who's Yer Daddy?: Gay Writers Celebrate Their Mentors and Forerunners, Jim Elledge and David Groff (eds.), Univ. of Wisconsin Press
LGBT Children's/Young Adult: Better Nate Than Ever, Tim Federle, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers; Boy in Box, Christopher R. Michael, Hubbub; Girls I've Run Away With, Rhiannon Argo, Moonshine Press; If You Could Be Mine, Sara Farizan, Algonquin Books; Openly Straight, Bill Konigsberg, Arthur A. Levine Books; Rapture Practice, Aaron Hartzler, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Secret City, Julia Watts, Bella Books; The Secret Ingredient, Stewart Lewis, author; Rebecca Short, ed., Delacorte Press/Penguin/Random House; The Summer Prince, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Arthur A. Levine Books; Two Boys Kissing, David Levithan, Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers; What Makes a Baby, Cory Silverberg, illustrated by Fiona Smyth, Seven Stories Press/Triangle Square
LGBT Drama: Las Hociconas: Three Locas with Big Mouths and Even Bigger Brains, Adelina Anthony, Korima Press; sash & trim and other plays, Djola Branner, RedBone Press; Tom at the Farm, Michel Marc Bouchard, Talonbooks
LGBT Graphic Novel: Artifice, Alex Woolfson, author; Winona Nelson, illustrator, AMW Comics; Calling Dr. Laura: A Graphic Memoir, Nicole J. Georges, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Duck! Second Chances, Tana Ford, Bang a Left; The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story, Vivek J. Tiwary, Andrew C. Robinson, Kyle Baker, Steve Dutro, M Press
LGBT SF/F/Horror: Collaborators, Deborah Wheeler, Dragon Moon Press; Death by Silver, Melissa Scott & Amy Griswold, Lethe Press; Deprivation; or, Benedetto furioso: an oneiromancy, Alex Jeffers, Lethe Press; Dragon Slayer, Isabella Carter, Less Than Three Press; Dust Devil on a Quiet Street, Richard Bowes, Lethe Press; Hell's Belle, Marie Castle, Bella Books; Invisible Soft Return, Roberta Degnore, Digital Fabulists; Light, Nathan Burgoine, Bold Strokes Books; Like Light for Flies, Lee Thomas, Lethe Press; The Stars Change, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Circlet Press
LGBT Studies: Butch Queens Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance and Ballroom Culture in Detroit, Marlon M. Bailey, Univ. of Michigan Press; Feeling Women's Liberation, Victoria Hesford, Duke Univ. Press; Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America, Colin R. Johnson, Temple Univ. Press; Love and Money: Queers, Class, and Cultural Production, Lisa Henderson, NYU Press; Oye Loca: From the Mariel Boatlift to Gay Cuban Miami, Susana Pena, Univ. of Minnesota Press; Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran, Afsaneh Najmabadi, Duke Univ. Press; Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence, Christina B. Hanhardt, Duke Univ. Press; Shanghai Lalas, Lucetta Yip Lo Kam, Hong Kong Univ. Press; Tomorrow's Parties: Sex and the Untimely, Peter M. Coviello, NYU Press; Transforming Citizenships: Transgender Articulations of the Law, Isaac West, NYU Press
More info: www.lambdaliterary.org