# 30th Lambda Literary Awards

The 30th Lambda Literary Awards were held on June 4, 2018, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2017. The list of nominees was released on March 6.

## Special awards

| Category | Winner |
| Visionary Award | Edmund White |
| Judith A. Markowitz Emerging Writer Award | Jeanne Thornton, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan |
| Trustee Award | Roxane Gay |

## Nominees and winners

| Category | Winner | Nominated |
| Bisexual Fiction | Barbara Browning, The Gift | J.E. Sumerau, Homecoming Queens Zoey Leigh Peterson, Next Year, for Sure Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl Georgette Gouveia, The Penalty for Holding |
| Bisexual Non-Fiction | Roxane Gay, Hunger | Julene Tripp Weaver, Truth Be Bold: Serenading Life & Death in the Age of AIDS Monica Meneghetti, What the Mouth Wants |
| Gay Fiction | John Rechy, After the Blue Hour | Ahmad Danny Ramadan, The Clothesline Swing Édouard Louis, The End of Eddy Nnanna Ikpo, Fimí Sílè Forever John Boyne, The Heart's Invisible Furies Andrew Sean Greer, Less Matthew Lansburgh, Outside Is the Ocean Joan Dempsey, This Is How It Begins |
| Gay Memoir/Biography | Chike Frankie Edozien, Lives of Great Men: Living and Loving as an African Gay Man | Parvez Sharma, A Sinner in Mecca: A Gay Muslim's Hajj of Defiance Jonathan Alexander, Creep: A Life, a Theory, an Apology José Antonio Rodríguez, House Built on Ashes Kenny Fries, In the Province of the Gods Alan Bennett, Keeping On Keeping On Victor Corona, Night Class: A Downtown Memoir Bill Goldstein, The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, and the Year that Changed Literature |
| Gay Mystery | Marshall Thornton, Night Drop | Marshall Thornton, Boystown 10: Gifts Given Kate Sherwood, Long Shadows Kim Fielding, Love is Heartless C. S. Poe, The Mystery of the Curiosities Mark Zubro, Ring of Silence Michael Nava, Street People Rhys Ford, Tramps and Thieves |
| Gay Poetry | C. A. Conrad, While Standing in Line for Death | Danez Smith, Don't Call Us Dead Charif Shanahan, Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing Tommy Pico, Nature Poem Randall Mann, Proprietary Cedar Sigo, Royals Frederick Speers, So Far Afield Chen Chen, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities |
| Gay Romance | Laurie Loft, Love and Other Hot Beverages | L. A. Witt, At the Corner of Rock Bottom & Nowhere Bryan T. Clark, Come to The Oaks Audra North, Midlife Crisis Johnny Diaz, Six Neckties Tom Mendicino, Stealing Home Adrienne Wilder, Wild Christine D'Abo, Working It |
| Lesbian Fiction | Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties | Roxane Gay, Difficult Women SJ Sindu, Marriage of a Thousand Lies Anne Garréta, Not One Day Leona Beasley, Something Better than Home Chavisa Woods, Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country Ariel Gore, We Were Witches Patricia A. Smith, The Year of Needy Girls |
| Lesbian Memoir/Biography | Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, The Fact of a Body | Melissa Febos, Abandon Me Eileen Myles, Afterglow, Eileen Myles Renate Stendhal, Kiss Me Again, Paris Anne-Christine d'Adesky, The Pox Lover: An Activist's Decade in New York and Paris |
| Lesbian Mystery | A. E. Radley, Huntress | Cari Hunter, A Quiet Death Ellen Hart, Fever in the Dark M. Redmann, The Girl on the Edge of Summer Andrea Bramhall, The Last First Time Kate Jessica Raphael, Murder Under the Fig Tree Anne Holt, Odd Numbers Jessica L. Webb, Repercussions |
| Lesbian Poetry | Rosamond S. King, Rock | Salt | Stone | Constance Merritt, Blind Girl Grunt Sarah Pinder, Common Place Dawn Lundy Martin, Good Stock Strange Blood Ana-Maurine Lara, Kohnjehr Woman Sina Queyras, My Ariel Ife-Chudeni A. Oputa, Rummage Jen Bervin, Silk Poems |
| Lesbian Romance | Yolanda Wallace, Tailor-Made | Rachel Spangler, Close to Home Aurora Rey, Crescent City Confidential Ann McMan, Goldenrod Ann Roberts, Vagabond Heart Yoshiyuki Ly, Venus and Lysander Julie Cannon, Wishing on a Dream Karis Walsh, You Make Me Tremble |
| LGBTQ Anthology | Juliana Delgado Lopera, ¡Cuéntamelo! Oral Histories by LGBT Latino Immigrants | Candace Walsh and Barbara Straus Lodge, Greetings from Janeland: Women Write More About Leaving Men for Women Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett, Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers Joamette Gil, Power & Magic: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology Makhosazana Xaba and Karen Martin, Queer Africa 2: new stories Charlie Craggs, To My Trans Sisters Avi Ben-Zeev and Pete Bailey, Trans Homo…Gasp! Gay FTM and Cis Men on Sex and Love Reina Gossett, Eric A. Stanley and Johanna Burton, Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility |
| LGBTQ Children's/Young Adult | Rebecca Podos, Like Water | Sarah Dooley, Ashes to Asheville Christina Lauren, Autoboyography April Daniels, Dreadnought: Nemesis Nina Packebush, Girls Like Me Kay Haring and Robert Neubecker, Keith Haring: The Boy Who Just Kept Drawing Will Kostakis, The Sidekicks Martin Wilson, We Now Return to Regular Life |
| LGBT Drama | Audrey Cefaly, The Gulf | Scott C. Sickles, Composure Tom MacRae, Everybody's Talking About Jamie Trey Anthony, How Black Mothers Say I Love You Paula Vogel, Indecent |
| LGBTQ Erotica | Steve Berman, His Seed | L. A. Witt, The Master Will Appear Siri Caldwell, Mistletoe Mishap D. L. King, Unspeakably Erotic Sacchi Green, Witches, Princesses, and Women at Arms |
| LGBTQ Graphic Novel | Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters | Eric Kostiuk Williams, Condo Heartbreak Disco Nicole J. Georges, Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home Gengoroh Tagame, My Brother's Husband, Volume 1 Tillie Walden, Spinning |
| LGBTQ Non-Fiction | Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective | Avram Finkelstein, After Silence Malik Gaines, Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left: A History of the Impossible Anne Elizabeth Moore, Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes Hida Viloria, Born Both: An Intersex Life Myriam Gurba, Mean Clayton Delery, Out for Queer Blood: The Murder of Fernando Rios and the Failure of New Orleans Justice John Chaich and Todd Oldham, Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community |
| LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror | Annalee Newitz, Autonomous | Lara Elena Donnelly, Amberlough Maggie Shen King, An Excess Male Rivers Solomon, An Unkindness of Ghosts Kristen Ringman, I Stole You Owen Keehnen, Night Visitors Lindsey Drager, The Lost Daughter Collective Nicky Drayden, The Prey of Gods |
| LGBTQ Studies | Trevor Hoppe, Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness | Alfredo Mirandé, Behind the Mask Mari Ruti, The Ethics of Opting Out Emily Hobson, Lavender and Red Jaclyn Pryor, Time Slips Ashley T. Shelden, Unmaking Love David M. Halperin and Trevor Hoppe, The War on Sex Julio Capó, Welcome to Fairyland |
| Transgender Fiction | Bogi Takács, ed., Transcendent 2: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction | Jeanne Thornton, The Black Emerald Jennifer Finney Boylan, Long Black Veil Tobi Hill-Meyer, ed., Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic Amy Heart, Sugi Pyrrophyta and Larissa Glasser, eds., Resilience: Surviving in the Face of Everything |
| Transgender Non-Fiction | C. Riley Snorton, Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity | Rosalind Rosenberg, Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray Brice Smith, Lou Sullivan: Daring to Be a Man Among Men Janet Mock, Surpassing Certainty Sung Yim, What About the Rest of Your Life |
| Transgender Poetry | Ching-In Chen, recombinant | Kai Cheng Thom, a place called No Homeland Juliana Huxtable, Mucus in My Pineal Gland Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Of Mongrelitude Kayleb Rae Candrilli, What Runs Over |