28th Lambda Literary Awards

The 28th Lambda Literary Awards will be held on June 6, 2016, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2015. The list of nominees was released on March 8.

Special awards

Category	Winner
Pioneer Award
Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award
Trustee Award

Nominees and winners

Category	Winner	Nominated
Bisexual Literature	TBA	Emily Bingham, Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham Anna North, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark Jeanette Winterson, The Gap of Time Zoe Pilger, Eat My Heart Out Kevin Hogan, My Riastrad
Gay Erotica	TBA	Jennifer Levine and Rian Darcy, Charming: Modern Gay Fairytales Natty Soltesz, College Dive Bar, 1 AM Miodrag Kojadinovic, Érotiques Suprèmes William Holden, Grave Desires Michael Ampersant, Green Eyes — an erotic novel (sort-of)
Gay Fiction	TBA	Andy Sinclair, Breathing Lessons Truman Capote, The Early Stories of Truman Capote Hasan Namir, God in Pink Paul Russell, Immaculate Blue Mark Merlis, JD Michael Golding, A Poet of the Invisible World John Whittier Treat, The Rise and Fall of the Yellow House James Sie, Still Life, Las Vegas
Gay Memoir/Biography	TBA	Jean Findlay, Chasing Lost Time: The Life of C. K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy, and Translator Arsham Parsi and Marc Colbourne, Exiled for Love: The Journey of an Iranian Queer Activist Matthew Spender, The House in St. John’s Wood Langdon Hammer, James Merrill: Life and Art Bernard Cooper, My Avant-Garde Education Michael V. Smith, My Body Is Yours Brad Gooch, Smash Cut Jameson Currier, Until My Heart Stops
Gay Mystery	TBA	Jeffrey Round, After the Horses Tom Mendicino, The Boys from Eighth and Carpenter Marshall Thornton, Boystown 7: Bloodlines Jon Wilson, Cheap as Beasts Wallace Godfrey, Introducing Sunfish & Starfish: Tropical Drag Queen Detectives Rhys Ford, Murder and Mayhem Christopher Bollen, Orient Robert Karjel, The Swede
Gay Poetry	TBA	Roberto F. Santiago, Angel Park Rickey Laurentiis, Boy with Thorn Francisco X. Alarcón, Canto Hondo/Deep Song Nicholas Wong, Crevasse Ben Ladouceur, Otter Carl Phillips, Reconnaissance Jee Leong Koh, Steep Tea Ralph Hamilton, Teaching a Man to Unstick His Tail
Gay Romance	TBA	Vanessa North, Blueberry Boys Ralph Josiah Barsley, Brothers Alexis Hall, For Real L. A. Witt, General Misconduct Garrett Leigh, Misfits Jay Bell, Something Like Stories, Volume One Debbie McGowan, When Skies Have Fallen Brad Boney, Yes
Lesbian Erotica	TBA	Salome Wilde and Talon Rihai, Desire Behind Bars: Lesbian Prison Erotica Meghan O'Brien, The Muse Sinclair Sexsmith, Sweet & Rough: Queer Kink Erotica
Lesbian Fiction	TBA	Virginie Despentes, Apocalypse Baby Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Blue Talk and Love Tiya Miles, The Cherokee Rose Miranda July, The First Bad Man LaShonda Katrice Barnett, Jam on the Vine Debra Busman, Like a Woman Violette Leduc, Thérèse and Isabelle Chinelo Okparanta, Under the Udala Trees
Lesbian Memoir/Biography	TBA	Cat Cora, Cooking as Fast as I Can: A Chef’s Story of Family, Food, and Forgiveness Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Dirty River Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl Kate Carroll de Gutes, Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear Allison Gruber, You’re Not Edith
Lesbian Mystery	TBA	Ellen Hart, The Grave Soul Stevie Mikayne, Illicit Artifacts Victoria Brownworth, Ordinary Mayhem Cari Hunter, No Good Reason Lee Winter, The Red Files R. E. Bradshaw, Relatively Rainey Ann Aptaker, Tarnished Gold Debra Hyde, The Tattered Heiress
Lesbian Poetry	TBA	Melissa Buzzeo, The Devastation Claudia Rodriguez, Everybody’s Bread Sara Jane Stoner, Experience in the Medium of Destruction Margot Douaihy, Girls Like You Dawn Lundy Martin, Life in a Box is a Pretty Life Jessica Jacobs, Pelvis with Distance J. P. Howard, Say/Mirror: Poems and Histories Stephanie Gray, Shorthand and Electric Language Stars
Lesbian Romance	TBA	Shelley Thrasher, Autumn Spring Andrea Bramhall, The Chameleon’s Tale Dillon Watson, Full Circle Rachel Spangler, Heart of the Game Jackie D. Bold, Infiltration Julie Blair, Making a Comeback Blythe H. Warren, My Best Friend’s Girl Amy Dunne, The Renegade
LGBT Anthology	TBA	Sfé R. Monster and Taneka Stotts, Beyond: The Queer Sci-Fi & Fantasy Comic Anthology Damien Luxe, Heather M. Ács and Sabina Ibarrola, Glitter and Grit: Queer Performance from the Heels on Wheels Femme Galaxy Holly Hughes, Carmelita Tropicana and Jill Dolan, Memories of the Revolution Amy L. Stone and Jaime Cantrell, Out of the Closet, Into the Archives: Researching Sexual Histories Julie Bozza, A Pride of Poppies: Modern GLBTQI Fiction of the Great War Nívea Castro and Geny Cabral, Soy Lesbiana y Que! Out Latina Lesbians Torsten Højer, Speak My Language, and Other Stories: An Anthology of Gay Fiction Merritt Kopas, Videogames for Humans: Twine Authors in Conversation
LGBT Children's/Young Adult	TBA	Sarah McCarry, About a Girl Will Walton, Anything Could Happen Jerome Pohlen, Gay and Lesbian History for Kids: The Century-Long Struggle for LGBT Rights Alex Gino, George Brian Selznick, The Marvels Adam Silvera, More Happy Than Not I. W. Gregorio, None of the Above Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
LGBT Debut Fiction	TBA	Austin Bunn, The Brink Mark S. Luckie, Do U. Paul Brownsey, His Steadfast Love and Other Stories Ioannis Pappos, Hotel Living Meliza Bañales, Life is Wonderful, People are Terrific Victor Yates, A Love Like Blood James Driggers, Lovesick Libby Ware, Lum
LGBT Drama	TBA	Tanya Barfield, Bright Half Life Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron, Fun Home Taylor Mac, Hir Deborah Salem Smith, Love Alone Bathsheba Doran, The Mystery of Love and Sex
LGBT Graphic Novel	TBA	Jeremy Sorese, Curveball Maggie Thrash, Honor Girl E. K. Weaver, The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ & Amal Blue Delliquanti, O Human Star: Volume One Ed Luce, Wuvable Oaf
LGBT Non-Fiction	TBA	Kay Whitlock and Michael Bronski, Considering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture and Politics Corbett Joan O'Toole, Fading Scars: My Queer Disability History Alice Dreger, Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science Lillian Faderman, The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle Joshua Gamson, Modern Families: Stories of Extraordinary Journeys to Kinship Robert Lorway, Namibia’s Rainbow Project Marcia M. Gallo, “No One Helped”: Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy Jarrett Neal, What Color Is Your Hoodie? Essays on Black Gay Identity
LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror	TBA	John Inman, The Boys on the Mountain Fletcher DeLancey, The Caphenon (Chronicles of Alsea – Book #1) Ally Blue, Down Robert Levy, The Glittering World Kirsty Logan, The Gracekeepers J. A. Rock, Minotaur Kate Sherwood, Sacrati Jude McLaughlin, Wonder City Stories
LGBT Studies	TBA	Clare Sears, Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco L. H. Stallings, Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures Aaron Goodfellow, Gay Fathers, Their Children, and the Making of Kinship Madhavi Menon, Indifference to Difference: On Queer Universalism Jane Ward, Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men Petrus Liu, Queer Marxism in Two Chinas Hiram Pérez, A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire Valerie Traub, Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns
Transgender Fiction	TBA	Michael Scott Monje, Jr., Defiant Sassafras Lowrey, Lost Boi Roz Kaveney, Tiny Pieces of Skull, or a Lesson in Manners
Transgender Non-Fiction	TBA	Amy Ellis Nutt, Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family Willy Wilkinson, Born on the Edge of Race and Gender: A Voice for Cultural Competency Zane Thimmesch-Gill, Hiding in Plain Sight
Transgender Poetry	TBA	Ryka Aoki, Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This Soul Joy Ladin, Impersonation Kari Edwards, succubus in my pocket