The Lambda Literary Foundation announced the finalists for their 23nd annual Lambda Literary Awards. The awards ceremony will be held 26 May in New York City. More than 80 judges (including writers, booksellers, librarians, and professors) chose more than 100 finalists in 26 categories, based on LGBT content and quality of writing.
The finalists of special interest to sf/f/h readers are in the category of LGBT Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror:
Flowers of Edo by Nene Adams (Black Car Publishing)
Wilde Stories 2010: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction edited by Steve Berman (Lethe Press)
Wolfsbane Winter by Jane Fletcher (Bold Strokes Books)
Disturbed by Her Song by Tanith Lee (Lethe Press)
Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories by Sandra McDonald (Lethe Press)
Other categories with genre nominees include:
Lesbian Debut Fiction:
Alcestis by Katharine Beutner (Soho Press)
Sub Rosa by Amber Dawn (Arsenal Pulp Press)
Fall Asleep Forgetting by Georgeann Packard (The Permanent Press)
The More I Owe You by Michael Sledge (Counterpoint Press)
One More Stop by Lois Walden (Arcadia Books)
Transgender Fiction:
Glamazonia: The Uncanny Super Tranny by Justin Hall with Diego Gomez, Fred Noland, & Jon Macy (Northwest Press)
Jumpstart the World by Catherine Ryan Hyde (Random House Children’s Books)
Holding Still for as Long as Possible by Zoe Whittall (House of Anansi Press)
For the full list of finalists in all categories, see this page.
Tickets to the award ceremony are available for sale. See this page for details. The ceremony will be at the School of Visual Arts Theater, 333 West 23rd Street, New York, NY.
The Lambda Literary Foundation describes itself as “the country’s leading organization for LGBT literature. Our mission is to celebrate LGBT literature and provide resources for writers, readers, booksellers, publishers, and librarians—the whole literary community.”