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Revision as of 21:34, 12 June 2024

The 29th Lambda Literary Awards were held on June 13, 2017, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2016.[1][2] The nominees were announced in March 14,[3][4] and the winners announced at a gala ceremony on Monday evening, June 12, 2017 in New York City.[5][6] Winners are in bold.[7][8]

Special awards

Category Winner
Visionary Award Jacqueline Woodson
Judith A. Markowitz Emerging Writer Award H. Melt, Victor Yates
Trustee Award Jeanette Winterson

Nominees and winners

Category Winner Nominated
Bisexual Fiction Alexis M. Smith, Marrow Island
Bisexual Non-Fiction Ana Castillo, Black Dove: Mamá, Mi’jo, and Me
Bisexual Poetry Abigail Child, Mouth to Mouth

No advance shortlist was released in this category; the book was listed as a Bisexual Fiction nominee in the original nomination announcement, but singled out as a Bisexual Poetry winner at the ceremony.

Gay Fiction Rabih Alameddine, The Angel of History
Gay Memoir/Biography Cleve Jones, When We Rise
Gay Mystery J. Aaron Sanders, Speakers of the Dead: A Walt Whitman Mystery
Gay Poetry Phillip B. Williams, Thief in the Interior
Gay Romance Pene Henson, Into the Blue
Lesbian Fiction Nicole Dennis-Benn, Here Comes the Sun
Lesbian Memoir/Biography Gloria Joseph, The Wind Is Spirit: The Life, Love and Legacy of Audre Lorde
Lesbian Mystery Jessica L. Webb, Pathogen
Lesbian Poetry Francine J. Harris, play dead
Pat Parker (ed. Julie R. Enszer), Complete Works of Pat Parker
Lesbian Romance Yoshiyuki Ly, The Scorpion's Empress
LGBTQ Anthology Zena Sharman, The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care
LGBTQ Children's/Young Adult M-E Girard, Girl Mans Up
LGBT Drama Robert O'Hara, Barbecue/Bootycandy
LGBTQ Erotica Rebekah Weatherspoon, Soul to Keep
LGBTQ Graphic Novel Ed Luce, Wuvable Oaf: Blood & Metal
LGBTQ Non-Fiction David France, How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Indra Das, The Devourers
LGBTQ Studies Jennifer Tyburczy, Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display
  • Qwo-Li Driskill, Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two Spirit Memory
  • Omar G. Encarnación, Out in the Periphery: Latin America’s Gay Rights Revolution
  • Jonathan Goldberg, Melodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility
  • Andrew Jolivette, Indian Blood: HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco’s Two-Spirit Community
  • Kevin Mumford, Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men From The March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis
  • Timothy Stewart-Winter, Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics
  • Gregory Woods, Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World
Transgender Fiction Jia Qing Wilson-Yang, Small Beauty
Transgender Non-Fiction Lei Ming, Life Beyond My Body: A Transgender Journey to Manhood in China
Transgender Poetry Kokumo, Reacquainted with Life

References

  1. ^ "2017 Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced". Publishers Weekly. June 14, 2017. Archived from the original on December 23, 2023. Retrieved December 23, 2023.
  2. ^ Lee, Steve (June 13, 2017). "29th Annual Lambda Literary Award winners announced". LGBT Weekly. Archived from the original on June 10, 2018. Retrieved December 23, 2023.
  3. ^ Robertson, Becky (March 14, 2017). "M-E Girard, Vivek Shraya among 13 Canadians nominated for 2017 Lambda Literary Awards". Quill & Quire. Archived from the original on December 23, 2023. Retrieved December 23, 2023.
  4. ^ Avery, Dan (March 14, 2017). "Finalists for 2017 Lambda Literary Awards Announced". Logo TV. Archived from the original on December 23, 2023. Retrieved December 23, 2023.
  5. ^ "29th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced". Griffin Poetry Prize. Archived from the original on December 23, 2023. Retrieved December 23, 2023.
  6. ^ "Lambda Literary Award Finalists Announced". Authors Guild. March 21, 2017. Archived from the original on December 23, 2023. Retrieved December 23, 2023.
  7. ^ Robertson, Becky (June 13, 2017). "M-E Girard, Zena Sharman, Jessica L. Webb, jia qing wilson-yang win Lambda Literary Awards". Quill & Quire. Archived from the original on December 23, 2023. Retrieved December 23, 2023.
  8. ^ "29th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced". Lambda Literary Foundation. June 13, 2017. Archived from the original on December 23, 2023. Retrieved December 23, 2023.