# Lambda Literary Award for Anthology

The Lambda Literary Award for Anthology is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation, that awards "[c]ollections of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry" with LGBT content. The award has been included since the first Lambda Literary Award ceremony but has included different iterations (i.e., Anthology, Gay Anthology, Lesbian Anthology, LGBT Anthology, LGBT Anthology Fiction and Nonfiction, and LGBTQ Anthology, and LGBTQ Anthology Fiction and Nonfiction).

## Recipients

| Year | Category | Editor(s) | Work | Result |
| 1990 | Gay Anthology | Martin Duberman, et al. | Hidden from History | Winner |
| 1990 | Gay Anthology | Charles Ludlam | Collected Plays of Charles Ludlam | Finalist |
| 1990 | Gay Anthology | Michael Nava | Finale: Stories of Mystery | Finalist |
| 1990 | Gay Anthology | John Preston | Personal Dispatches | Finalist |
| 1990 | Gay Anthology | Christie Balka and Andy Rose | Twice Blessed | Finalist |
| 1990 | Lesbian Anthology | Martin Duberman, et al. | Hidden From History | Winner (tie) |
| 1990 | Lesbian Anthology | Tee Corinne | Intricate Passions | Winner (tie) |
| 1990 | Lesbian Anthology | C. McEwen and S. O’Sullivan | Out the Other Side | Winner (tie) |
| 1990 | Lesbian Anthology | Terry Woodrow | Lesbian Bedtime Stories | Finalist |
| 1990 | Lesbian Anthology | Irene Zahava | Lesbian Love Stories | Finalist |
| 1991 | Gay Anthology | George Stambolian | Men On Men 3 | Winner |
| 1991 | Gay Anthology | Robert Kus | Gay Men of Alcoholics Anonymous | Finalist |
| 1991 | Gay Anthology | Robert Kus | Keys To Caring | Finalist |
| 1991 | Gay Anthology | Franklin Abbott | Men and Intimacy | Finalist |
| 1991 | Gay Anthology | Cassady, Smith and Stone | Triple Fiction | Finalist |
| 1991 | Lesbian Anthology | Joan Nestle and Naomi Holoch | Women On Women | Winner |
| 1991 | Lesbian Anthology | Terry Woodrow | Lesbian Bedtime Stores 2 | Finalist |
| 1991 | Lesbian Anthology | Jeffner Allen | Lesbian Philosophies and Cultures | Finalist |
| 1991 | Lesbian Anthology | Karla Jay and Joanne Glasgow | Lesbian Texts and Contexts | Finalist |
| 1991 | Lesbian Anthology | Irene Zahava | Speaking Four Ourselves | Finalist |
| 1992 | Gay Anthology | Essex Hemphill | Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men | Winner |
| 1992 | Gay Anthology | Edmund White | Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction | Finalist |
| 1992 | Gay Anthology | John Preston | Hometowns: Gay Men Write About Where They Belong | Finalist |
| 1992 | Gay Anthology | Terry Wolverton and Robert Drake | Indivisible: New Short Fiction by West Coast Gay and Lesbian Writers | Finalist |
| 1992 | Gay Anthology | Mark Thompson | Leatherfolk: Radical Sex, People, Politics and Practice | Finalist |
| 1992 | Lesbian Anthology | Carla Trujillo | Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About | Winner |
| 1992 | Lesbian Anthology | Judith Barrington | An Intimate Wilderness: Lesbian Writers on Sexuality | Finalist |
| 1992 | Lesbian Anthology | Loraine Hutchins and Lani Ka'ahumanu | Bi Any Other Name | Finalist |
| 1992 | Lesbian Anthology | Terry Wolverton and Robert Drake | Indivisible: New Short Fiction by West Coast Gay and Lesbian Writers | Finalist |
| 1992 | Lesbian Anthology | Barbara Sang, Joyce Warshow, and Adrienne Smith | Lesbians at Midlife: The Creative Transition | Finalist |
| 1993 | Gay Anthology | John Preston | A Member of the Family | Winner |
| 1993 | Gay Anthology | Dennis Cooper | Discontents | Finalist |
| 1993 | Gay Anthology | John Preston | Flesh and the Word | Finalist |
| 1993 | Gay Anthology | Assotto Saint | Here to Dare | Finalist |
| 1993 | Gay Anthology | George Stambolian | Men on Men 4 | Finalist |
| 1993 | Lesbian Anthology | Joan Nestle | The Persistent Desire | Winner |
| 1993 | Lesbian Anthology | Katherine V. Forrest and Barbara Grier | Erotic Naiad | Finalist |
| 1993 | Lesbian Anthology | Tee Corinne | Poetry of Sex | Finalist |
| 1993 | Lesbian Anthology | Anne MacKay | Wolf Girls at Vassar | Finalist |
| 1993 | Lesbian Anthology | Anita L. Pace | Write from the Heart | Finalist |
| 1994 | Anthology | Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale and David Halperin | Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader | Winner |
| 1994 | Anthology | Raymond Luczak | Eyes of Desire | Finalist |
| 1994 | Anthology | Bennett L. Singer | Growing Up Gay | Finalist |
| 1994 | Anthology | Julia Penelope and Susan Wolfe | Lesbian Culture | Finalist |
| 1994 | Anthology | Arlene Stein | Sisters, Sexperts, and Queers | Finalist |
| 1995 | Anthology Fiction | Lillian Faderman | Chloe Plus Olivia | Winner |
| 1995 | Anthology Fiction | Ira Silverberg and Amy Scholder | High Risk 2 | Finalist |
| 1995 | Anthology Fiction | Irene Zahava | Lavender Mansions | Finalist |
| 1995 | Anthology Fiction | David Bergman | Men on Men 5 | Finalist |
| 1995 | Anthology Fiction | Sharon Lim-Hing | The Very Inside | Finalist |
| 1995 | Anthology Nonfiction | Joan Nestle and John Preston | Sister and Brother | Winner |
| 1995 | Anthology Nonfiction | Mark Thompson | Long Road to Freedom | Finalist |
| 1995 | Anthology Nonfiction | Kevin Jennings | One Teacher in Ten | Finalist |
| 1995 | Anthology Nonfiction | Julia Penelope | Out of the Class Closet | Finalist |
| 1995 | Anthology Nonfiction | Patrick Higgins | Queer Reader | Finalist |
| 1996 | Anthology Fiction | E.J. Levy | Tasting Life Twice | Winner |
| 1996 | Anthology Fiction | Catherine McKinley and L. Joyce Delaney | Afrekete | Finalist |
| 1996 | Anthology Fiction | Pat Califia and Janine Fuller | Forbidden Passages | Finalist |
| 1996 | Anthology Fiction | Robert Drake | His | Finalist |
| 1996 | Anthology Fiction | Eileen Myles and Liz Kotz | New Fuck You | Finalist |
| 1996 | Anthology Nonfiction | Claude J. Summers | Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage | Winner |
| 1996 | Anthology Nonfiction | Karla Jay | Dyke Life | Finalist |
| 1996 | Anthology Nonfiction | Leslea Newman | A Loving Testimony | Finalist |
| 1996 | Anthology Nonfiction | Lynn Witt, Sherry Thomas, and Eric Marcus | Out in All Directions | Finalist |
| 1996 | Anthology Nonfiction | Lynn Yamaguchi and Karen Barber | Tomboys | Finalist |
| 1997 | Anthology Fiction | Joan Nestle and Naomi Holoch | Women on Women 3 | Winner |
| 1997 | Anthology Fiction | Shawn Stewart Ruff | Go the Way Your Blood Beats | Finalist |
| 1997 | Anthology Fiction | David Bergman | Men on Men 6 | Finalist |
| 1997 | Anthology Fiction | Victoria Brownworth | Night Bites | Finalist |
| 1997 | Anthology Fiction | Bruce Morrow and Charles H. Rowell | Shade | Finalist |
| 1997 | Anthology Nonfiction | Michael Bronski | Taking Liberties | Winner |
| 1997 | Anthology Nonfiction | Bruce Bawer | Beyond Queer | Finalist |
| 1997 | Anthology Nonfiction | Patrick Merla | Boys Like Us | Finalist |
| 1997 | Anthology Nonfiction | Robin Bernstein and Seth Clark Silberman | Generation Q | Finalist |
| 1997 | Anthology Nonfiction | Lee Lynch and Akia Woods | Off the Rag | Finalist |
| 1998 | Anthology Fiction | Robert Drake and Terry Wolverton | His(2) | Winner |
| 1998 | Anthology Fiction | Brian Bouldrey | Best American Gay Fiction 2 | Finalist |
| 1998 | Anthology Fiction | Tristan Taormino | Best Lesbian Erotica 1997 | Finalist |
| 1998 | Anthology Fiction | Christian McEwen | Jo’s Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life | Finalist |
| 1998 | Anthology Fiction | Peter Burton | The Mammoth Book of Gay Short Stories | Finalist |
| 1998 | Anthology Nonfiction | Gordon Brent Ingram, AnneMarie Bouthillette, and Yolanda Retter | Queers in Space: Communities, Public Places, Sites of Resistance | Winner |
| 1998 | Anthology Nonfiction | Michel Lowenthal | Gay Men at the Millennium | Finalist |
| 1998 | Anthology Nonfiction | Jess Wells | Lesbians Raising Sons | Finalist |
| 1998 | Anthology Nonfiction | Rictor Norton | My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters Through the Centuries | Finalist |
| 1998 | Anthology Nonfiction | Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel | PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality | Finalist |
| 1999 | Anthology Fiction | Byrne R.S. Fone | Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature | Winner |
| 1999 | Anthology Fiction | Lawrence Schimel | Mammoth Book of Gay Erotica | Finalist |
| 1999 | Anthology Fiction | Joel Tan | Men on Men 7 | Finalist |
| 1999 | Anthology Fiction | Joel Tan | Queer PAPI Porn | Finalist |
| 1999 | Anthology Fiction | Michele Karlsberg and Karen X. Tulchinsky | To Be Continued | Finalist |
| 1999 | Anthology Nonfiction | Nisa Donnelly | Mom: Candid Memoirs by Lesbians About the First Woman in Their Life | Winner (tie) |
| 1999 | Anthology Nonfiction | David L. Eng | Q and A: Queer in Asian America | Winner (tie) |
| 1999 | Anthology Nonfiction | Lucy Jane Bledsoe | Lesbian Travels | Finalist |
| 1999 | Anthology Nonfiction | Clifford Chase | Queer 13 | Finalist |
| 1999 | Anthology Nonfiction | Kevin Jennings | Telling Tales Out of School | Finalist |
| 2000 | Anthology Fiction | Naomi Holoch, Joan Nestle, and Nancy Holden | Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction | Winner |
| 2000 | Anthology Fiction | Jaime Manrique and Jesse Dorris | Besame Mucho: New Gay Latino Fiction | Finalist |
| 2000 | Anthology Fiction | Robert Drake and Terry Wolverton | Hers 3 | Finalist |
| 2000 | Anthology Fiction | Robert Drake and Terry Wolverton | His 3 | Finalist |
| 2000 | Anthology Fiction | Emma Donoghue | Mammoth Book of Lesbian Short Stories | Finalist |
| 2000 | Anthology Nonfiction | Kris Kleindienst | This Is What Lesbian Looks Like | Winner (tie) |
| 2000 | Anthology Nonfiction | Steve Hogan and Lee Hudson | Completely Queer: The Gay and Lesbian Encyclopedia | Winner (tie) |
| 2000 | Anthology Nonfiction | Joan Larkin | A Woman Like That | Finalist |
| 2000 | Anthology Nonfiction | Larry Gross and James D. Woods | Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society and Politics | Finalist |
| 2000 | Anthology Nonfiction | Charles Michael Smith | Fighting Words | Finalist |
| 2001 | Anthology Fiction | David Bergman and Karl Woelz | Men on Men 2000 | Winner |
| 2001 | Anthology Fiction | Robert Drake and Terry Wolverton | Circa 2000: Lesbian Fiction at the Millenium | Finalist |
| 2001 | Anthology Fiction | Lawrence Schimel | Kosher Meat | Finalist |
| 2001 | Anthology Fiction | Michael Rowe | Queer Fear | Finalist |
| 2001 | Anthology Fiction | Ruth Vanita and Saleem Kidwai | Same Sex Love in India | Finalist |
| 2001 | Anthology Nonfiction | Noelle Howey and Ellen Samuels | Out of the Ordinary | Winner |
| 2001 | Anthology Nonfiction | Victoria Brownworth | Coming Out of Cancer | Finalist |
| 2001 | Anthology Nonfiction | Jess Wells | Home Fronts | Finalist |
| 2001 | Anthology Nonfiction | Amy Sonnie | Revolutionary Voices | Finalist |
| 2001 | Anthology Nonfiction | Dean Kostos | Mama’s Boy | Finalist |
| 2002 | Anthologies - Fiction | Helen Sandler | Diva Book of Short Stories | Winner |
| 2002 | Anthologies - Fiction | Jess Wells | Love Shook My Heart 2 | Finalist |
| 2002 | Anthologies - Fiction | Nicola Griffith and Stephen Page | Reading the Landscape: Horror | Finalist |
| 2002 | Anthologies - Fiction | Jay Quinn | Rebel Yell: Stories by Contemporary Southern Gay Authors | Finalist |
| 2002 | Anthologies - Fiction | Quang Bao, Hanya Yanagihara, and Timothy Lui | Take Out: Queer Writing from Asian Pacific America | Finalist |
| 2002 | Anthology Nonfiction | Constantine-Simms | The Greatest Taboo: Homosexuality In Black Communities | Winner |
| 2002 | Anthology Nonfiction | Catherine Reid and Holly K. Iglesias | His Hands, His Tools, His Sex, His Dress: Lesbian Writers on Their Fathers | Finalist |
| 2002 | Anthology Nonfiction | Terry Goldie | In a Queer Country | Finalist |
| 2002 | Anthology Nonfiction | Rebecca Alpert, Sue Levi Elwell, and Shirley Idelson | Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation | Finalist |
| 2002 | Anthology Nonfiction | Winston Leyland | Out in the Castro | Finalist |
| 2003 | Anthology Fiction | Devon Carbado, Dwight McBride and Don Weise | Black Like Us | Winner |
| 2003 | Anthology Fiction | Peter Burton | Bend Sinister – The Gay Times Book of Disturbing Stories | Finalist |
| 2003 | Anthology Fiction | Michael Rowe | Queer Fear II | Finalist |
| 2003 | Anthology Fiction | Chris Kenry, William J. Mann, Andy Schell, and Ben Tyler | Summer Share | Finalist |
| 2003 | Anthology Fiction | Jay Quinn | Rebel Yell 2 | Finalist |
| 2003 | Anthology Nonfiction | Bruce Shenitz | The Man I Might Become | Winner |
| 2003 | Anthology Nonfiction | Lawrence Schimel | Found Tribe | Finalist |
| 2003 | Anthology Nonfiction | Benjamin Shepard and Ronald Hayduk | From ACT UP to the WTO | Finalist |
| 2003 | Anthology Nonfiction | Joan Nestle, Riki Wilchins, and Claire Howell | GenderQueer | Finalist |
| 2003 | Anthology Nonfiction | Analouise Keating and Gloria Anzaldua | This Bridge We Call Home | Finalist |
| 2004 | Anthology Fiction | Michael Bronski | Pulp Friction | Winner |
| 2004 | Anthology Fiction | Jon Jeffrey, Chris Kenry, William J. Mann, and Ben Tyler | All I Want for Christmas | Finalist |
| 2004 | Anthology Fiction | Angela Brown | Best Lesbian Love Stories 2003 | Finalist |
| 2004 | Anthology Fiction | Karl Woelz | M2M | Finalist |
| 2004 | Anthology Fiction | Lydia Hall | Telling Moments | Finalist |
| 2004 | Anthology Nonfiction | Bob Guter and John R. Killacky | Queer Crips | Winner |
| 2004 | Anthology Nonfiction | Kevin Bentley | Boyfriends from Hell | Finalist |
| 2004 | Anthology Nonfiction | Robert Klitzman and Ronald Bayer | Mortal Secrets | Finalist |
| 2004 | Anthology Nonfiction | Toni Amato and Mary Davies | Pinned Down by Pronouns | Finalist |
| 2004 | Anthology Nonfiction | Greg Wharton | The Love that Dare Not Speak Its Name | Finalist |
| 2005 | Anthology Fiction | Donald Weise | Fresh Men: New Voices in Gay Fiction | Winner |
| 2005 | Anthology Fiction | Clint Catalyst and Michelle Tea | Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache: Adventures in the First Person | Finalist |
| 2005 | Anthology Fiction | Angela Brown | Best Lesbian Love Stories 2004 | Finalist |
| 2005 | Anthology Fiction | Peter Burton | Serendipity: The Gay Times Book of New Stories | Finalist |
| 2005 | Nonfiction Anthology | Greg Wharton and Ian Philips | I Do/I Don’t: Queers on Marriage | Winner |
| 2005 | Nonfiction Anthology | Mary Burger, Robert Gluck, Camille Roy, and Gail Scott | Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative | Finalist |
| 2005 | Nonfiction Anthology | Angela Brown | Mentsh: On Being Jewish and Queer | Finalist |
| 2005 | Nonfiction Anthology | Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | That’s Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation | Finalist |
| 2005 | Nonfiction Anthology | Raphael Kadushin | Wonderlands | Finalist |
| 2006 | Anthology | E. Lynn Harris | Freedom in this Village: 25 Years of Black, Gay Men’s Writing | Winner |
| 2006 | Anthology | Emanuel Xavier | Bullets and Butterflies: Queer Spoken Word Poetry | Finalist |
| 2006 | Anthology | Wendell Ricketts | Everything I Have is Blue: Short Fiction by Working-Class Men | Finalist |
| 2006 | Anthology | Katherine V. Forrest | Lesbian Pulp Fiction | Finalist |
| 2006 | Anthology | Anna Camilleri | Red Light: Superheroes, Saints, and Sluts | Finalist |
| 2007 | LGBT Anthology | Greg Herren and Paul J. Willis | Love, Bourbon Street | Winner |
| 2007 | LGBT Anthology | Toby Johnson and Steve Berman | Charmed Lives | Finalist |
| 2007 | LGBT Anthology | Harlyn Aizley | Confessions of the Other Mother | Finalist |
| 2007 | LGBT Anthology | Ted Gideonse and Rob Williams | From Boys to Men | Finalist |
| 2007 | LGBT Anthology | Catherine Lake and Nairne Holtz | No Margins: Writing Canadian Fiction in Lesbian | Finalist |
| 2008 | LGBT Anthology | Richard Labonte and Lawrence Schimel | First Person Queer | Winner |
| 2008 | LGBT Anthology | Michelle Tea | Baby Remember My Name | Finalist |
| 2008 | LGBT Anthology | Jennifer Camper | Juicy Mother 2 | Finalist |
| 2008 | LGBT Anthology | Sean Meriwether and Greg Wharton | Men of Mystery: Homoerotic Tales of Intrigue and Suspense | Finalist |
| 2008 | LGBT Anthology | Richard Canning | Vital Signs | Finalist |
| 2009 | LGBT Anthology | Thomas Glave | Our Caribbean | Winner |
| 2009 | LGBT Anthology | Peter Burton | A Casualty of War: Gay Short Fiction | Finalist |
| 2009 | LGBT Anthology | Raphael Kadushin | Big Trips: More Good Gay Travel Writing | Finalist |
| 2009 | LGBT Anthology | Sabrina Chapadjiev | Live Through This | Finalist |
| 2009 | LGBT Anthology | Chris Freeman and James J. Berg | Love, West Hollywood | Finalist |
| 2010 | LGBT Anthology | Ariel Gore | Portland Queer: Tales of the Rose City | Winner |
| 2010 | LGBT Anthology | David Bergman | Gay American Autobiography: Writings from Whitman to Sedaris | Finalist |
| 2010 | LGBT Anthology | Gilbert Herdt | Moral Panics, Sex Panics: Fear and the Fight Over Sexual Rights | Finalist |
| 2010 | LGBT Anthology | Michael Montlack | My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them | Finalist |
| 2010 | LGBT Anthology | Tommi Avicolli Mecca | Smash the Church, Smash the State! The Early Years of Gay Liberation | Finalist |
| 2011 | LGBT Anthology | Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman | Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation | Winner |
| 2011 | LGBT Anthology | Radclyffe | Best Lesbian Romance 2010 | Finalist |
| 2011 | LGBT Anthology | David M. Halperin and Valerie Traub | Gay Shame | Finalist |
| 2011 | LGBT Anthology | Sassafras Lowrey | Kicked Out | Finalist |
| 2011 | LGBT Anthology | Tisa Bryant and Ernest Hardy | War Diaries | Finalist |
| 2012 | LGBT Anthology | Michael Hames-García and Ernesto Javier Martínez | Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader | Winner |
| 2012 | LGBT Anthology | Ivan E. Coyote and Zena Sharman | Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme | Finalist |
| 2012 | LGBT Anthology | Lazaro Lima and Felice Picano | Ambientes: New Queer Latino Writing | Finalist |
| 2012 | LGBT Anthology | Qwo-Li Driskill, Daniel Heath Justice, Deborah Miranda, and Lisa Tatonetti | Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature | Finalist |
| 2012 | LGBT Anthology | Mark Thompson | The Fire in Moonlight: Stories from the Radical Faeries | Finalist |
| 2013 | LGBT Anthology | Justin Hall | No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics | Winner |
| 2013 | LGBT Anthology | Keith Boykin | For Colored Boys | Finalist |
| 2013 | LGBT Anthology | Audrey Bilger and Michele Kort | Here Come the Brides!: Reflections on Lesbian Love and Marriage | Finalist |
| 2013 | LGBT Anthology | Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform | Finalist |
| 2014 | LGBT Anthology - Fiction | Karen Martin and Makhosazana Xaba | Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction | Winner |
| 2014 | LGBT Anthology - Nonfiction | Jim Elledge and David Groff | Who’s Yer Daddy?: Gay Writers Celebrate Their Mentors and Forerunners | Winner |
| 2014 | LGBT Anthology | Harvey Milk, Jason Edward Black, and Charles E. Morris | An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk’s Speeches and Writings | Finalist |
| 2014 | LGBT Anthology | Brittany Fonte and Regie Cabico | Flicker and Spark: A Contemporary Queer of Spoken Word and Poetry | Finalist |
| 2014 | LGBT Anthology | Evan J. Peterson and Vincent Kovar | Ghosts in Gaslight. Monsters in Steam. Gay City: Volume 5 | Finalist |
| 2014 | LGBT Anthology | Adelaida R. Del Castillo and Gibran Guido | Queer in Aztlan: Chicano Male Recollections of Consciousness and Coming Out | Finalist |
| 2014 | LGBT Anthology | Tristan Taormino, Constance Penley, Celine Parrenas Shimizu, and Mireille Miller-Young | The Feminist Porn Book | Finalist |
| 2014 | LGBT Anthology | Megan Volpert | This Assignment Is So Gay: LGBTIQ Poets on the Art of Teaching | Finalist |
| 2014 | LGBT Anthology | T.C. Tolbert and Tim Trace Peterson | Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics | Finalist |
| 2014 | LGBT Anthology | Vivek Shraya | What I LOVE about being QUEER | Finalist |
| 2015 | LGBT Anthology | Leila K. Rupp and Susan K. Freeman | Understanding and Teaching US Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History | Winner |
| 2015 | LGBT Anthology | Bruce Gillespie | A Family by Any Other Name: Exploring Queer Relationships | Finalist |
| 2015 | LGBT Anthology | Charles Stephens and Steven G. Fullwood | Black Gay Genius: Answering Joseph Beam’s Call | Finalist |
| 2015 | LGBT Anthology | Mark McNease and Stephen Dolainski | Outer Voices Inner Lives | Finalist |
| 2015 | LGBT Anthology | Douglas Ray | The Queer South: LGBTQ Writers on the American South | Finalist |
| 2016 | LGBTQ Anthology - Fiction | Sfé R. Monster and Taneka Stotts | Beyond: The Queer Sci-Fi and Fantasy Comic | Winner |
| 2016 | LGBTQ Anthology - Nonfiction | Damien Luxe, Heather M. Ács, and Sabina Ibarrola | Glitter and Grit: Queer Performance from the Heels on Wheels Femme Galaxy | Winner |
| 2016 | Anthology | Julie Bozza | A Pride of Poppies: Modern GLBTQI fiction of the Great War | Finalist |
| 2016 | Anthology | Holly Hughes, Carmelita Tropicana, and Jill Dolan | Memories of the Revolution | Finalist |
| 2016 | Anthology | Amy L. Stone and Jaime Cantrell | Out of the Closet, Into the Archives: Researching Sexual Histories | Finalist |
| 2016 | Anthology | Nívea Castro with Geny Cabral | Soy Lesbiana y Que! Out Latina Lesbians | Finalist |
| 2016 | Anthology | Torsten Højer | Speak My Language, and Other Stories: An of Gay Fiction | Finalist |
| 2016 | Anthology | Merritt Kopas | Videogames for Humans: Twine Authors in Conversation | Finalist |
| 2017 | Anthology | Zena Sharman | The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care | Winner |
| 2017 | Anthology | Jon Macy and Tara Madison Avery | ALPHABET: The LGBTQAIU Creators from Prism Comics | Finalist |
| 2017 | Anthology | Martha Amore and Lucian Childs | Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry | Finalist |
| 2017 | Anthology | E. Patrick Johnson | No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies | Finalist |
| 2017 | Anthology | David J. Getsy | Queer | Finalist |
| 2018 | Anthology | Juliana Delgado Lopera | ¡Cuéntamelo! Oral Histories by LGBT Latino Immigrants | Winner |
| 2018 | Anthology | Candace Walsh and Barbara Straus Lodge | Greetings from Janeland: Women Write More About Leaving Men for Women | Finalist |
| 2018 | Anthology | Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett | Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers | Finalist |
| 2018 | Anthology | Joamette Gil | Power and Magic: The Queer Witch Comics | Finalist |
| 2018 | Anthology | Makhosazana Xaba and Karen Martin | Queer Africa 2: new stories | Finalist |
| 2018 | Anthology | Charlie Craggs | To My Trans Sisters | Finalist |
| 2018 | Anthology | Avi Ben-Zeev and Pete Bailey | Trans Homo…Gasp! Gay FTM and Cis Men on Sex and Love | Finalist |
| 2018 | Anthology | Reina Gossett, Eric A. Stanley, and Johanna Burton | Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility | Finalist |
| 2019 | LGBTQ Anthology—Fiction | The Other Foundation | As You Like It: The Gerald Kraak Volume II | Winner |
| 2019 | LGBTQ Anthology—Nonfiction | Roxane Gay | Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture | Winner |
| 2019 | LGBTQ Anthology | Taneka Stotts and Sfé R. Monster | Beyond II: The Queer Post-Apocalyptic and Urban Fantasy Comic | Finalist |
| 2019 | LGBTQ Anthology | Miah Jeffra, Chad Koch, et al. | Foglifter Volume 3, Issue 1 | Finalist |
| 2019 | LGBTQ Anthology | Peter Dickinson, C.E. Gatchalian, Kathleen Oliver, and Dalbir Singh | Q2Q: Queer Canadian Performance Texts | Finalist |
| 2019 | LGBTQ Anthology | Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, Rikki Beadle-Blair, and John R. Gordon | Sista!: An Anthology of Writing By and About Same Gender Loving Women of African/Caribbean Descent with a UK Connection | Finalist |
| 2019 | LGBTQ Anthology | Sadie Epstein-Fine and Makeda Zook | Spawning Generations: Rants and Reflections on Growing Up with LGBTQ Parents | Finalist |
| 2019 | LGBTQ Anthology | Lexie Bean | Written on the Body: Letters from Trans and Non-Binary Survivors of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence | Finalist |
| 2020 | Anthology | Noam Sienna | A Rainbow Thread: An of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969 | Winner (tie) |
| 2020 | Anthology | Aishah Shahidah Simmons | Love WITH Accountability: Digging up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse | Winner (tie) |
| 2020 | Anthology | Luiza Flynn-Goodlett | Foglifter Volume 4 Issue 2 | Finalist |
| 2020 | Anthology | Amber Dawn and Justin Ducharme | Hustling Verse: An of Sex Workers’ Poetry | Finalist |
| 2020 | Anthology | Jeff Mann and Julia Watts | LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia | Finalist |
| 2020 | Anthology | Micah Rajunov and Scott Duane | Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity | Finalist |
| 2020 | Anthology | Fatimah Asghar and Safia Elhillo | The BreakBeat Poets Volume 3: Halal if You Hear Me | Finalist |
| 2020 | Anthology | The Other Foundation | The Heart of the Matter: The Gerald Kraak Volume III | Finalist |
| 2021 | LGBTQ Anthology | Joshua Whitehead | Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction | Winner |
| 2021 | LGBTQ Anthology | Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement | Finalist |
| 2021 | LGBTQ Anthology | dave ring | Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World That Wouldn’t Die | Finalist |
| 2021 | LGBTQ Anthology | Jos Twist, Ben Vincent, Meg-John Barker, and Kat Gupta | Non-Binary Lives: An Anthology of Intersecting Identities | Finalist |
| 2021 | LGBTQ Anthology | Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel | We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics | Finalist |
| 2022 | LGBTQ Anthology | Briona Simone Jones | Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought | Winner |
| 2022 | LGBTQ Anthology | Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (Ed.) | Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis | Finalist |
| 2022 | LGBTQ Anthology | Martin F. Manalansan IV, Alice Y. Hom, and Kale Bantigue Fajardo | Q & A: Voices from Queer Asian North America | Finalist |
| 2022 | LGBTQ Anthology | Kemi Adeyemi, Kareem Khubchandani, and Ramón H. Rivera-Servera (Eds.) | Queer Nightlife | Finalist |
| 2022 | LGBTQ Anthology | Leanna Keyes, Lindsey Mantoan, and Angela Farr Schiller with Leanna Keyes, Azure D. Osborne-Lee, Ty Defoe, MJ Kaufman, Raphaël Amahl Khouri, j. Chavez, Sharifa Yasmin, and Mashuq Mushtaq Deen (playwrights) | The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays | Finalist |
| 2023 | LGBTQ Anthology | Julie R. Enszer and Elena Gross | OutWrite: The Speeches That Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture | Winner |
| 2023 | LGBTQ Anthology | Michael Walsh (Ed.) | Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology | Finalist |
| 2023 | LGBTQ Anthology | Elias Jahshan | This Arab is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers | Finalist |
| 2023 | LGBTQ Anthology | Laura Erickson-Schroth | Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource by and for Transgender Communities (2nd ed.) | Finalist |
| 2023 | LGBTQ Anthology | Isabela Oliveira and Jed Sabin | Xenocultivars: Stories of Queer Growth | Finalist |
| 2024 | LGBTQ+ Anthology | Tuck Woodstock and Niko Stratis | 2 Trans 2 Furious: An extremely serious journal of Transgender Street Racing Studies | Winner |
| 2024 | LGBTQ+ Anthology | Andrew R. Spieldenner and Jeffrey Escoffier | A Pill for Promiscuity: Gay Sex in an Age of Pharmaceuticals | Finalist |
| 2024 | LGBTQ+ Anthology | Madeline Dyer (editor) | Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection | Finalist |
| 2024 | LGBTQ+ Anthology | Benjamin Schaefer | Fairy Tale Review: The Rainbow Issue | Finalist |
| 2024 | LGBTQ+ Anthology | Bogi Takács (editor) | Rosalind's Siblings: Fiction and Poetry Celebrating Scientists of Marginalized Genders | Finalist |