26th Lambda Literary Awards

The 26th Lambda Literary Awards were held on June 2, 2014, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2013.[1] The list of nominees was released on March 6.[1]

The ceremony was held at Cooper Union, in conjunction with Book Expo America.[2]

Special awards

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Category Winner
Pioneer Award Kate Bornstein[2]
Trustee Award Alison Bechdel[2]
Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award Imogen Binnie, Charles Rice-González[2]
Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize Michael Thomas Ford, Radclyffe[2]

Nominees and winners

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Category Winner Nominated
Bisexual Fiction Susan Choi, My Education[2]
Bisexual Non-Fiction Maria San Filippo, The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television[2]
Gay Erotica Alex Jeffers, The Padisah's Son and the Fox[2]
Gay Fiction Luis Negrón (tr. Suzanne Jill Levine), Mundo Cruel[2]
Gay Memoir/Biography Glenway Wescott (ed. Jerry Rosco), A Heaven of Words: Last Journals[2]
Gay Mystery Janice Law, The Prisoner of the Riviera[2]
Gay Poetry Rigoberto González, Unpeopled Eden[2]
Gay Romance TJ Klune, Into This River I Drown[2]
Lesbian Erotica Sacchi Green, ed., Wild Girls Wild Nights: True Lesbian Sex Stories[2]
Lesbian Fiction Chinelo Okparanta, Happiness, Like Water[2]
Lesbian Memoir/Biography Barrie Jean Borich, Body Geographic[2]
Lesbian Mystery Katherine V. Forrest, High Desert[2]
Lesbian Poetry Ana Božičević, Rise in the Fall[2]
Lesbian Romance Andrea Bramhall, Clean Slate[2]
LGBT Anthology Karen Martin and Makhosazana Xaba, Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction
Jim Elledge and David Groff, Who's Yer Daddy?: Gay Writers Celebrate Their Mentors and Forerunners[2]
LGBT Children's/Young Adult Sara Farizan, If You Could Be Mine
David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing[2]
LGBT Debut Fiction Nik Nicholson, Descendants of Hagar[2]
LGBT Drama Michel Marc Bouchard, Tom at the Farm[2]
LGBT Graphic Novel Nicole Georges, Calling Dr. Laura: A Graphic Memoir[2]
LGBT Non-Fiction Hilton Als, White Girls[2]
LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold, Death by Silver[2]
LGBT Studies Christina B. Hanhardt, Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence[2]
Transgender Fiction Trish Salah, Wanting in Arabic[2]
Transgender Non-Fiction Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, The End of San Francisco[2]

References

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