# 23rd Lambda Literary Awards

The 23rd Lambda Literary Awards were held in 2011, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2010.
Beginning with the 2011 awards, the Lambda Literary Foundation took over the administration and presentation of the Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize, formerly a program of the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival.

## Special awards

| Category | Winner |
| Pioneer Award | Edward Albee, Val McDermid |
| Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize | Alex Sánchez, Susan Stinson |

## Nominees and winners

| Category | Winner | Nominated |
| Bisexual Fiction | Myrlin Hermes, The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet | Daniel Allen Cox, Krakow Melt Ann Herendeen, Pride/Prejudice: A Novel of Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth Bennet, and Their Forbidden Lovers Georgeann Packard, Fall Asleep Forgetting Malena Watrous, If You Follow Me |
| Bisexual Non-Fiction | Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, Border Sexualities, Border Families in Schools | Paula Byrne, Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead Michael Gregg Michaud, Sal Mineo Patti Smith, Just Kids Candace Walsh and Laura Andre, Dear John, I Love Jane: Women Write about Leaving Men for Women |
| Gay Debut Fiction | David Pratt, Bob the Book | Chris Corkum, XOXO Hayden Tom Mendicino, Probation Tom Schabarum, The Palisades Rob Stephenson, Passes Through |
| Gay Erotica | Jon Macy, Teleny and Camille | Hank Edwards, Vancouver Nights William Holden, A Twist of Grimm: Erotic Fairy Tales for Gay Men Richard Labonté, Best of the Best Gay Erotica 3 Jerry Wheeler, Tented: Gay Erotic Tales from Under the Big Top |
| Gay Fiction | Adam Haslett, Union Atlantic | Michael Cunningham, By Nightfall David McConnell, The Silver Hearted Max Schaefer, Children of the Sun Jonathan Strong, Consolation |
| Gay Memoir/Biography | Justin Spring, Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist and Sexual Renegade | Bryan Batt, She Ain’t Heavy, She’s My Mother R. Tripp Evans, Grant Wood: A Life Selina Hastings, The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham Gale Chester Whittington, Beyond Normal: The Birth of Gay Pride |
| Gay Mystery | David Lennon, Echoes | Greg Herren, Vieux Carre Voodoo Garry Ryan, Smoked Richard Stevenson, Cockeyed I. E. Woodward, Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers |
| Gay Poetry | Brian Teare, Pleasure | Greg Hewett, darkacre Michael Klein, then, we were still living James Schuyler, Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems James L. White, The Salt Ecstasies |
| Gay Romance | Erik Orrantia, Normal Miguel | Michael Thomas Ford, The Road Home Neil Plakcy, Three Wrong Turns in the Desert |
| Lesbian Debut Fiction | Amber Dawn, Sub Rosa | Katharine Beutner, Alcestis Georgeann Packard, Fall Asleep Forgetting Michael Sledge, The More I Owe You Lois Walden, One More Stop |
| Lesbian Erotica | Tristan Taormino, ed., Sometimes She Lets Me: Best Butch/Femme Erotica | Kathleen Warnock and Lea DeLaria, Best Lesbian Erotica 2011 D Alexandria, This Is How We Do It: A Raw Mix of Lesbian Erotica |
| Lesbian Fiction | Eileen Myles, Inferno (a poet's novel) | Lucy Jane Bledsoe, Big Bang Symphony Carol Guess, Homeschooling Zelda Lockhart, Fifth Born II: The Hundredth Turtle Zoe Whittall, Holding Still for as Long as Possible |
| Lesbian Memoir/Biography | Barbara Hammer, Hammer! Making Movies Out of Sex and Life Julie Marie Wade, Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures | Katherine A. Briccetti, Blood Strangers Amie Klempnauer Miller, She Looks Just Like You: A Memoir of (Nonbiological Lesbian) Motherhood Chely Wright, Like Me: Confessions of a Heartland Country Singer |
| Lesbian Mystery | Val McDermid, Fever of the Bone | Kim Baldwin and Xenia Alexiou, Missing Lynx Stella Duffy, Parallel Lies Ellen Hart, The Cruel Ever After J. M. Redmann, Water Mark |
| Lesbian Poetry | Anna Swanson, The Nights Also | Jen Currin, The Inquisition Yours Elizabeth J. Colen, Money for Sunsets Eleanor Lerman, The Sensual World Re-Emerges Laurie MacFadyen, White Shirt |
| Lesbian Romance | Cate Culpepper, River Walker | Georgia Beers, Starting from Scratch Karin Kallmaker, Above Temptation Ann Roberts, Beacon of Love Lindsey Stone, Awakening to Sunlight |
| LGBT Anthology | Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman, Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation | Tisa Bryant and Ernest Hardy, War Diaries David M. Halperin and Valerie Traub, Gay Shame Sassafras Lowrey, Kicked Out Radclyffe, Best Lesbian Romance 2010 |
| LGBT Children's/Young Adult | Jane Eagland, Wildthorn | Catherine Ryan Hyde, Jumpstart the World James Klise, Love Drugged Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, Christian, the Hugging Lion Vivek Shraya, God Loves Hair |
| LGBT Drama | Maureen Angelos, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey and Lisa Kron, Oedipus at Palm Springs: A Five Lesbian Brothers Play | Tarell Alvin McCraney, The Brother/Sister Plays Bryden MacDonald, With Bated Breath Octavio Solis, Lydia Daniel Talbott, Slipping |
| LGBT Non-Fiction | Virginie Despentes, King Kong Theory | Stuart Biegel, The Right to Be Out: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America’s Public Schools Emma Donoghue, Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature Noach Dzmura, Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community Jallen Rix, Ex-Gay No Way: Survival and Recovery from Sexual Abuse |
| LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror | Sandra McDonald, Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories | Nene Adams, Flowers of Edo Steve Berman, Wilde Stories 2010: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction Jane Fletcher, Wolfsbane Winter Tanith Lee, Disturbed by Her Song |
| LGBT Studies | Scott Herring, Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism Gayle Salamon, Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality | Deborah Cohler, Citizen Invert Queer: Lesbianism and War in Early Twentieth-Century Britain Rafael de la Dehesa, Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil: Sexual Rights Movements in Emerging Democracies Fran Martin, Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary |
| Transgender Fiction | Zoe Whittall, Holding Still for As Long As Possible | Justin Hall, Diego Gomez, Fred Noland and Jon Macy, Glamazonia: The Uncanny Super Tranny Catherine Ryan Hyde, Jumpstart the World |
| Transgender Non-Fiction | Noach Dzmura, Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community | Michelle Alexander and Michelle Diane Rose, The Color of Sunlight Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman, Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation Kristen Schilt, Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality Rebecca Swan, Assume Nothing |