The 29th Lambda Literary Awards were held on June 13, 2017, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2016.[1][2] The nominees were announced in March 14,[3][4] and the winners announced at a gala ceremony on Monday evening, June 12, 2017 in New York City.[5][6] Winners are in bold.[7][8]

Special awards

Category Winner
Visionary Award Jacqueline Woodson
Judith A. Markowitz Emerging Writer Award H. Melt, Victor Yates
Trustee Award Jeanette Winterson

Nominees and winners

Category Winner Nominated
Bisexual Fiction Alexis M. Smith, Marrow Island
  • Leopoldine Core, When Watched
  • Martin Hyatt, Beautiful Gravity
Bisexual Non-Fiction Ana Castillo, Black Dove: Mamá, Mi’jo, and Me
  • Elizabeth Hall, I Have Devoted My Life to the Clitoris
  • Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli and Sara Lubowitz, Women in Relationships With Bisexual Men: Bi Men By Women
  • Ann Tweedy, The Body’s Alphabet
Bisexual Poetry Abigail Child, Mouth to Mouth

No advance shortlist was released in this category; the book was listed as a Bisexual Fiction nominee in the original nomination announcement, but singled out as a Bisexual Poetry winner at the ceremony.

Gay Fiction Rabih Alameddine, The Angel of History
Gay Memoir/Biography Cleve Jones, When We Rise
Gay Mystery J. Aaron Sanders, Speakers of the Dead: A Walt Whitman Mystery
  • L. A. Fields, Homo Superiors
  • Janice Law, Nights in Berlin
  • Dal Maclean, Bitter Legacy
  • Michael Nava, Lay Your Sleeping Head
Gay Poetry Phillip B. Williams, Thief in the Interior
Gay Romance Pene Henson, Into the Blue
  • Richard Compson Sater, Rank
  • Jamie Deacon, Caught Inside
  • Alexis Hall, Pansies
  • Lisa Henry, Adulting 101
  • Garrett Leigh, Rented Heart
  • Jeff Mann, Country
  • Marshall Thornton, Femme
Lesbian Fiction Nicole Dennis-Benn, Here Comes the Sun
  • Kathy Anderson, Bull & Other Stories
  • Lynda A. Archer, Tears in the Grass
  • Lucy Jane Bledsoe, A Thin Bright Line
  • M. B. Caschetta, Pretend I’m Your Friend
  • Lynn C. Miller, The Day After Death
  • Cathleen Schine, They May Not Mean To, But They Do
  • Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn
Lesbian Memoir/Biography Gloria Joseph, The Wind Is Spirit: The Life, Love and Legacy of Audre Lorde
Lesbian Mystery Jessica L. Webb, Pathogen
Lesbian Poetry Francine J. Harris, play dead
Pat Parker (ed. Julie R. Enszer), Complete Works of Pat Parker
Lesbian Romance Yoshiyuki Ly, The Scorpion's Empress
  • Kiki Archer, Lost in the Starlight
  • Lila Bruce, Little Lies
  • Karma Kingsley, Finding Lizzie
  • Marianne K. Martin, The Liberators of Willow Run
  • Rachel Spangler, Perfect Pairing
  • Susan Wittig Albert, Loving Eleanor
  • Barbara Ann Wright, Coils
LGBTQ Anthology Zena Sharman, The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care
  • Lucian Childs and Martha Amore, Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry
  • David J. Getsy, Queer
  • E. Patrick Johnson, No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies
  • Jon Macy and Tara Madison Avery, ALPHABET: The LGBTQAIU Creators from Prism Comics
LGBTQ Children's/Young Adult M-E Girard, Girl Mans Up
LGBT Drama Robert O'Hara, Barbecue/Bootycandy
LGBTQ Erotica Rebekah Weatherspoon, Soul to Keep
  • Alexa Black, Steel and Promise
  • Scott Alexander Hess, Skyscraper
  • Meghan O'Brien, Camp Rewind
  • Marie Sexton and L. A. Witt, Roped In
LGBTQ Graphic Novel Ed Luce, Wuvable Oaf: Blood & Metal
  • P. Kristen Enos and Heidi Ho, Active Voice The Comic Collection: The Real Life Adventures Of An Asian-American, Lesbian, Feminist, Activist And Her Friends
  • Éric Liberge and Arnaud Delalande (tr. David Homel), The Case of Alan Turing: The Extraordinary and Tragic Story of the Legendary Codebreaker
LGBTQ Non-Fiction David France, How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
  • Donald Albrecht, Stephen Vider and Skira Rizzoli, Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York
  • Ariel Goldberg, The Estrangement Principle
  • David Greven, Ghost Faces: Hollywood and Post-Millennial Masculinity
  • Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity
  • Kristen Hogan, The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability
  • Sarah Schulman, Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility and the Duty of Repair
  • Jurek Wajdowicz, Pride & Joy: Taking the Streets of New York City
LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Indra Das, The Devourers
LGBTQ Studies Jennifer Tyburczy, Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display
  • Qwo-Li Driskill, Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two Spirit Memory
  • Omar G. Encarnación, Out in the Periphery: Latin America’s Gay Rights Revolution
  • Jonathan Goldberg, Melodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility
  • Andrew Jolivette, Indian Blood: HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco’s Two-Spirit Community
  • Kevin Mumford, Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men From The March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis
  • Timothy Stewart-Winter, Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics
  • Gregory Woods, Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World
Transgender Fiction Jia Qing Wilson-Yang, Small Beauty
Transgender Non-Fiction Lei Ming, Life Beyond My Body: A Transgender Journey to Manhood in China
  • Chase Joynt and Mike Hoolboom, You Only Live Twice: Sex, Death and Transition
  • Morgan Mann Willis, Outside the XY: Black and Brown Queer Masculinity
  • Samuel Peterson, Trunky (Transgender Junky): A Memoir
  • Julia Serano, Outspoken: A Decade of Transgender Activism and Trans Feminism
Transgender Poetry Kokumo, Reacquainted with Life

References

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