# 26th Lambda Literary Awards

The 26th Lambda Literary Awards were held on June 2, 2014, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2013. The list of nominees was released on March 6.
The ceremony was held at Cooper Union, in conjunction with Book Expo America.

## Special awards

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

## Nominees and winners

| Category | Winner | Nominated |
| Bisexual Fiction | Susan Choi, My Education | Mel Bossa, In His Secret Life Nicola Griffith, Hild David Leavitt, The Two Hotel Francforts Bushra Rehman, Corona |
| Bisexual Non-Fiction | Maria San Filippo, The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television | Clive Davis, The Soundtrack of My Life Shiri Eisner, Biː Notes for a Bisexual Revolution |
| Gay Erotica | Alex Jeffers, The Padisah's Son and the Fox | Winston Gieseke, ed., Team Players: Gay Erotic Stories Richard Labonté, ed., Show-Offs: Gay Erotic Stories Michael Luongo, ed., Sensual Travels: Gay Erotic Stories Aleksandr Voinov and L. A. Witt, Capture & Surrender |
| Gay Fiction | Luis Negrón (tr. Suzanne Jill Levine), Mundo Cruel | Jasmine Beach-Ferrara, Damn Love Caleb Crain, Necessary Errors Jason K. Friedman, Fire Year Allan Gurganus, Local Souls Greg Kearney, The Desperates Manil Suri, The City of Devi Glenway Wescott (ed. Jerry Rosco), A Visit to Priapus and Other Stories Rick Whitaker, An Honest Ghost John Stewart Wynne, The Red Shoes |
| Gay Memoir/Biography | Glenway Wescott (ed. Jerry Rosco), A Heaven of Words: Last Journals | Alysia Abbott, Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father Blake Bailey, Farther and Wilder: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson Jim Elledge, Henry Darger, Throwaway Boy: The Tragic Life of an Outsider Artist Didier Eribon, Returning to Reims Perry N. Halkitis, The AIDS Generation: Stories of Survival and Resilience Hillary Holladay, American Hipster: A Life of Herbert Huncke, The Times Square Hustler Who Inspired the Beat Movement David Margolick, Dreadful: The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns Richard Rodriguez, Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography Tim Teeman, In Bed With Gore Vidal |
| Gay Mystery | Janice Law, The Prisoner of the Riviera | Sarah Black, The General and the Elephant Clock of Al-Jazari Jonathan Gregory, In Real Life Greg Herren, Baton Rouge Bingo David Lennon, Fierce John Michaelsen, Pretty Boy Dead Garry Ryan, Foxed Joyce Thompson, How to Greet Strangers Marshall Thornton, Boystown 5: Murder Book Mark Zubro, Pawn of Satan |
| Gay Poetry | Rigoberto González, Unpeopled Eden | Frank Bidart, Metaphysical Dog Rafael Campo, Alternative Medicine David Groff, Clay Michael Klein, The Talking Day Randall Mann, Straight Razor Angelo Nikolopoulos, Obscenely Yours Carl Phillips, Silverchest Michael D. Snediker, The Apartment of Tragic Appliances Brian Teare, Companion Grasses |
| Gay Romance | TJ Klune, Into This River I Drown | Larry Benjamin, Unbroken L. C. Chase, Pickup Men L. A. Fields, My Dear Watson Alexis Hall, Glitterland Edmond Manning, King Mai Madison Parker, Play Me, I’m Yours J. H. Trumble, Where You Are Lynley Wayne, Rocky’s Road L. A. Witt, Covet Thy Neighbor |
| Lesbian Erotica | Sacchi Green, ed., Wild Girls Wild Nights: True Lesbian Sex Stories | Kathleen Warnock, ed., Best Lesbian Erotica 2014 Rebekah Weatherspoon, At Her Feet |
| Lesbian Fiction | Chinelo Okparanta, Happiness, Like Water | e.E. Charlton-Trujillo, Fat Angie T. Greenwood, Bodies of Water Christiana Harrell, Cream Wally Lamb, We Are Water Ali Liebegott, Cha-Ching! Jean Ryan, Survival Skills Jeanette Winterson, The Daylight Gate Chavisa Woods, The Albino Album Kate Worsley, She Rises |
| Lesbian Memoir/Biography | Barrie Jean Borich, Body Geographic | Amber Dawn, How Poetry Saved My Life Annie Lanzillotto, L is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir Donna Minkowitz, Growing Up Golem Caroline Paul and Wendy MacNaughton, Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology |
| Lesbian Mystery | Katherine V. Forrest, High Desert | Laura Antoniou, The Killer Wore Leather R.E. Bradshaw, The Rainey Season Ian Hamilton, The Wild Beasts of Wuhan Ellen Hart, Taken by the Wind Anne Holt, Death of the Demon Val McDermid, Cross and Burn Jenna Rae, Turning on the Tide Ann Roberts, Point of Betrayal Jean Sheldon, She Overheard Murder Diane Wood, Web of Obsessions |
| Lesbian Poetry | Ana Božičević, Rise in the Fall | Ai, The Collected Poems of Ai Tamiko Beyer, We Come Elemental Sophie Cabot Black, The Exchange R. Erica Doyle, Proxy Eloise Klein Healy, A Wild Surmise: New & Selected Poems & Recordings Kamilah Aisha Moon, She Has a Name Suzanne Parker, Viral Veronica Reyes, Chopper! Chopper! Poetry From Bordered Lives Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers, Chord Box |
| Lesbian Romance | Andrea Bramhall, Clean Slate | Lynn Ames, All That Lies Within Mason Dixon, Date with Destiny Gerri Hill, At Seventeen Karin Kallmaker, Love by the Numbers D. Jackson Leigh, Hold Me Forever Ann McMan and Salem West, Hoosier Daddy D. Jordan Redhawk, Broken Trails Tracey Richardson, Last Salute Nell Stark, The Princess Affair |
| 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 | Jason Edward Black and Charles E. Morris, An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk’s Speeches and Writings Adelaida R. Del Castillo and Gibran Guido, Queer in Aztlan: Chicano Male Recollentions of Consciousness and Coming Out Brittany Fonte and Regie Cabico, Flicker and Spark: A Contemporary Queer Anthology of Spoken Word and Poetry Evan J. Peterson and Vincent Kovar, Ghosts in Gaslight. Monsters in Steam. Gay City: Volume 5 Vivek Shraya, What I LOVE about being QUEER Tristan Taormino, Constance Penley, Celine Parrenas Shimizu and Mireille Miller-Young, The Feminist Porn Book T. C. Tolbert and Tim Trace Peterson, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics Megan Volpert, This Assignment Is So Gay: LGBTIQ Poets on the Art of Teaching |
| LGBT Children's/Young Adult | Sara Farizan, If You Could Be Mine David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing | Rhiannon Argo, Girls I’ve Run Away With Tim Federle, Better Nate Than Ever Aaron Hartzler, Rapture Practice Alaya Dawn Johnson, The Summer Prince Bill Konigsberg, Openly Straight Stewart Lewis, The Secret Ingredient Christopher R. Michael, Boy in Box Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth, What Makes a Baby Julia Watts, Secret City |
| LGBT Debut Fiction | Nik Nicholson, Descendants of Hagar | Guy Mark Foster, The Rest of Us Jane Hoppen, In Between Laura Krughoff, My Brother’s Name Amy Grace Loyd, The Affairs of Others Derek Palacio, How to Shake the Other Man Ronald Palmer, Prick Queasy Charles L. Ross, Inside Andrea Routley, Jane and the Whales Abigail Tarttelin, Golden Boy |
| LGBT Drama | Michel Marc Bouchard, Tom at the Farm | Adelina Anthony, Las Hociconas: Three Locas with Big Mouths and Even Bigger Brains Djola Branner, sash & trim and other plays |
| LGBT Graphic Novel | Nicole Georges, Calling Dr. Laura: A Graphic Memoir | Alex Woolfson and Winona Nelson, Artifice Tana Ford, Duck! Second Chances Vivek Tiwary, Andrew C. Robinson, Kyle Baker and Steve Dutro, The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story |
| LGBT Non-Fiction | Hilton Als, White Girls | Dennis Altman, The End of the Homosexual? Michael Bronski, Ann Pellegrini and Michael Amico, You Can Tell Just By Looking: And 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People Jeff Chu, Does Jesus Really Love Me? Thomas Glave, Among the Bloodpeople Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle, Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims Matt Richardson, The Queer Limit of Black Memory Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution Daniel Winunwe Rivers, Radical Relations: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and Their Children in the United States since World War II Ben Smales, Tom Bianchi and Edmund White, Tom Bianchi: Fire Island Pines. Polaroids 1975-1983 Phil Tiemeyer, Plane Queer: Labor, Sexuality, and AIDS in the History of Male Flight Attendants Jaime Woo, Meet Grindr: How One App Changed the Way We Connect |
| LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror | Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold, Death by Silver | Richard Bowes, Dust Devil on a Quiet Street Nathan Burgoine, Light Isabella Carter, Dragon Slayer Marie Castle, Hell’s Belle Roberta Degnore, Invisible Soft Return Alex Jeffers, Deprivation; or, Benedetto furioso: an oneiromancy Mary Anne Mohanraj, The Stars Change Lee Thomas, Like Light for Flies Deborah Wheeler, Collaborators |
| LGBT Studies | Christina B. Hanhardt, Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence | Marlon M. Bailey, Butch Queens Up in Pumps Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit Peter M. Coviello, Tomorrow’s Parties: Sex and the Untimely Lisa Henderson, Love and Money: Queers, Class, and Cultural Production Victoria Hesford, Feeling Women’s Liberation Colin R. Johnson, Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America Lucetta Yip Lo Kam, Shanghai Lalas Afsaneh Najmabadi, Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran Susana Pena, Oye Loca: From the Mariel Boatlift to Gay Cuban Miami Isaac West, Transforming Citizenships: Transgender Articulations of the Law |
| Transgender Fiction | Trish Salah, Wanting in Arabic | Imogen Binnie, Nevada Devon Llywelyn Jones, Tiresias |
| Transgender Non-Fiction | Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, The End of San Francisco | S. Bear Bergman, Blood, Marriage, Wine & Glitter Beatriz Preciado, Testo Junkie |