The Lambda Literary Foundation announced the finalists for their 24th annual Lambda Literary Awards. The awards ceremony will be held 4 June in New York City. More than 90 judges (including writers, booksellers, librarians, and professors) chose more than 100 finalists in 24 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:
The German by Lee Thomas (Lethe Press)
Paradise Tales: and Other Stories by Geoff Ryman (Small Beer Press)
Static by L.A. Witt (Amber Allure/Amber Quill Press)
Steam-powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories edited by JoSelle Vanderhooft (Torquere Press)
Triptych by J.M. Frey (Dragon Moon Press)
Other categories with genre nominees include:
LGBT Children’s/Young Adult
Gemini Bites by Patrick Ryan (Scholastic)
Huntress by Malinda Lo (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
I am J by Cris Beam (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
PINK by Lili Wilkinson (HarperCollins)
Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy by Bil Wright (Simon & Schuster)
LGBT Anthology
Ambientes: New Queer Latino Writingedited by Lazaro Lima & Felice Picano (University of Wisconsin Press)
The Fire in Moonlight: Stories from the Radical Faeries edited by Mark Thompson (White Crane Books/Lethe Press)
Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader edited by Michael Hames-Garcia and Ernesto Javier Martinez (Duke University Press)
Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme edited by Ivan E. Coyote & Zena Sharman (Arsenal Pulp Press)
Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature edited by Qwo-Li Driskill, Daniel Heath Justice, Deborah Miranda, and Lisa Tatonetti (University of Arizona Press)
Bisexual Fiction
Boyfriends With Girlfriends by Alex Sanchez (Simon & Schuster)
The Correspondence Artist by Barbara Browning (Two Dollar Radio)
Have You Seen Me by Katherine Scott Nelson (Chicago Center for Literature and Photography)
Triptych by J.M. Frey (Dragon Moon Press)
The Two Krishnas by Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla (Magnus Books)
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 CUNY Graduate Center’s Proshansky Auditorium, 365 5th Avenue, 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.”