Lambda Literary Award for Gay Romance | |
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Awarded for | Literary award |
Sponsored by | Lambda Literary Foundation |
Date | Annual |
Website | lambdaliterary |
The Lambda Literary Award for Gay Romance is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation, to a novel, novella, or short story collection "by a single author that focus on a central love relationship between two or more characters, not including anthologies.[1] The submission guidelines mention several sub-genres are included, " including traditional, historical, gothic, Regency, and paranormal romance".[1]
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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2007 | Rob Byrnes | When the Stars Come Out | Winner | [2] |
Andy Zeffer | Going Down in La-La Land | Finalist | [2] | |
Timothy James Beck | Someone Like You | |||
Scott & Scott | Surf ‘N Turf | |||
Lawrence Schimel | Two Boys in Love | |||
2008 | Michael Thomas Ford | Changing Tides | Winner | [3][4] |
Robert Taylor | A Few Hints and Clews | Finalist | [3] | |
Robin Reardon | A Secret Edge | |||
Seth Rudetsky | Broadway Nights | |||
Frederick Smith | Right Side of the Wrong Bed | |||
2009 | Larry Duplechan | Got ’til it’s Gone | Winner | [5] |
Laura Baumbach and Josh Lanyon | Mexican Heat | Finalist | [5] | |
N. L. Gassert | The Protector | |||
2010 | Frank Anthony Polito | Drama Queers! | Winner | [6] |
H. Leigh Aubrey | A Keen Edge | Finalist | [6] | |
Dan Stone | The Rest of Our Lives | |||
J. P. Bowie | Time After Time | |||
Erastes | Transgressions | |||
2011 | Erik Orrantia | Normal Miguel | Winner | [7][8] |
Michael Thomas Ford | The Road Home | Finalist | [9] | |
Neil Plakcy | Three Wrong Turns in the Desert | |||
2012 | Jim Provenzano | Every Time I Think of You | Winner | [10] |
Jay Bell | Something Like Summer | Finalist | ||
Mel Bossa | Split | |||
Barry Brennessel | Tinseltown | |||
2013 | Jay Bell | Kamikaze Boys | Winner | [11] |
J. H. Trumble | Don’t Let Me Go | Finalist | [11] | |
Barry Brennessel | The Celestial | |||
Brad Boney | The Nothingness of Ben | |||
William Masswa | Toughskins | |||
2014 | TJ Klune | Into This River I Drown | Winner | [12][13] |
L. A. Witt | Covet Thy Neighbor | Finalist | [12] | |
Alexis Hall | Glitterland | |||
Edmond Manning | King Mai | |||
L. A. Fields | My Dear Watson | |||
L. C. Chase | Pickup Men | |||
Madison Parker | Play Me, I’m Yours | |||
Lynley Wayne | Rocky’s Road | |||
Larry Benjamin | Unbroken | |||
J. H. Trumble | Where You Are | |||
2015 | Jeff Mann | Salvation: A Novel of the Civil War | Winner | [14][15][16] |
Barry Lowe | Everything’s Coming Up Roses: Four Tales of M/M Romance | Finalist | [14] | |
Timothy Lambert and R.D. Cochrane | Foolish Hearts: New Gay Fiction | |||
Georgina Li | Like They Always Been Free | |||
Jim Provenzano | Message of Love | |||
Lloyd A. Meeker | The Companion | |||
David Reddish | The Passion of Sergius & Bacchus, A Novel of Truth | |||
2016 | Debbie McGowan | When Skies Have Fallen | Winner | [17][18] |
Vanessa North | Blueberry Boys | Finalist | [19] | |
Ralph Josiah Bardsley | Brothers | |||
Alexis Hall | For Real | |||
L. A. Witt | General Misconduct | |||
Garrett Leigh | Misfits | |||
Jay Bell | Something Like Stories, Volume One | |||
Brad Boney | Yes | |||
2017 | Pene Henson | Into the Blue | Winner | [20][21] |
Lisa Henry | Adulting 101 | Finalist | [22] | |
Jamie Deacon | Caught Inside | |||
Jeff Mann | Country | |||
Marshall Thornton | Femme | |||
Alexis Hall | Pansies | |||
Richard Compson Sater | Rank | |||
Garrett Leigh | Rented Heart | |||
2018 | Laurie Loft | Love and Other Hot Beverages | Winner | [23][24] |
L. A. Witt | At the Corner of Rock Bottom & Nowhere | Finalist | [25] | |
Bryan T. Clark | Come to The Oaks: The Story of Ben and Tobias | |||
Audra North | Midlife Crisis | |||
Johnny Diaz | Six Neckties | |||
Tom Mendicino | Stealing Home | |||
Adrienne Wilder | Wild | |||
Christine d’Abo | Working It | |||
2019 | S. C. Wynne | Crashing Upwards | Winner | [26] |
Reesa Herberth and Michelle Moore | Detour | Finalist | [27] | |
Kris Jacen | Learn with Me | |||
Kayleigh Sky | No Luck | |||
Christina Lee and Riley Hart | Of Sunlight and Stardust | |||
Melanie Hansen | Point of Contact | |||
Angela McCallister | The CEO’s Christmas Manny | |||
Jenny Holiday | Undue Influence: A Persuasion Retelling | |||
2020 | James Lovejoy | Joseph Chapman: My Molly Life | Winner | [28][29][30] |
Chris Delyani | Best Man | Finalist | [31][32] | |
Rick R. Reed | Blue Umbrella Sky | |||
Marshall Thornton | Code Name: Liberty | |||
Jay Hogan | Digging Deep | |||
Bryan T. Clark | Escaping Camp Roosevelt | |||
Garrett Leigh | Kiss Me Again | |||
R. A. Thorn | My Baby Chased Away the Blues | |||
2021 | Felice Stevens | The Ghost and Charlie Muir | Winner | [33][34][35] |
Adriana Herrera | Finding Joy | Finalist | [36] | |
Lance Ringel | Flower of Iowa | |||
Erin C. McRae and Racheline Maltese | Ink and Ice | |||
Cat Sebastian | Two Rogues Make a Right | |||
2022 | Larry Benjamin | Excellent Sons: A Love Story in Three Acts | Winner | [37] |
Sander Santiago | Best of the Wrong Reasons | Finalist | [38] | |
John Patrick | Dublin Bay | |||
Lance Ringel | Floridian Nights | |||
Farhad J. Dadyburjor | The Other Man | |||
2023 | Kosoko Jackson | I’m So Not Over You | Winner | [39] |
Marie Sinclair | Forever After | Finalist | [40] | |
A. M. Johnson | Forever, Con Amor | |||
Felice Stevens | Just One Night | |||
Fearne Hill | Two Tribes | |||
2024 | E. H. Lupton | Dionysus in Wisconsin | Finalist | [41] |
M. A. Wardell | Mistletoe & Mishigas | |||
Jay Hogan | The Art of Husbandry | |||
KJ Charles | The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen | |||
Cat Sebastian | We Could Be So Good |