Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Literature
| Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Literature | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Bisexual Literature |
| Sponsored by | Lambda Literary Foundation |
| Date | Annual |
The Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Literature is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation, that awards books with bisexual content. The award can be separated into three categories: bisexual fiction, bisexual nonfiction, and bisexual poetry. Awards are granted based on literary merit and bisexual content, and therefore, the writer may be homo-, hetero-, or asexual.
Criteria
Bisexual fiction
The award for bisexual fiction recognizes "[n]ovels, novellas, short story collections, and anthologies with prominent bi/pan ... characters and/or content of strong significance to the bi/pan ... communities." The list "[m]ay include historical novels, comics, cross-genre works of fiction, humor, and other styles of fiction."
Bisexual nonfiction
The award for bisexual nonfiction recognizes "[n]onfiction works with content of strong significance to members of the bi/[pan] communities," including "a wide range of subjects for the general or academic reader."
Bisexual poetry
The award for bisexual poetry recognizes individual volumes of poems and poem collections with bisexual content. Chapbooks are ineligible for the prize, as well as "[u]pdated editions of previously published works ... unless at least 50% of the poetry (not the supplemental text) is new." If there are not enough eligible titles in any given year to support a dedicated bisexual poetry category, then bisexual poetry titles are considered in the fiction category.
Bisexual/Transgender literature
In 2001, the Lambda Literary Foundation presented one award for books with bisexual and/or transgender themes.
Recipients
| Year | Category | Author |
Work |
Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Bisexual/Transgender Literature | Virginia Ramey Mollenkott | Omnigender: A Trans-religious Approach | Winner | |
| Sparrow L. Patterson | Synthetic Bi Products | Finalist | |||
| Bill Brnt and Carol Queen (editors) | Best Bisexual Erotica, Volume 2 | ||||
| Vanessa Sheridan | Crossing Over: Liberating the Transgendered Christian | ||||
| Jonathan Branton | Dragged!! To His Senses | ||||
| 2007 | Bisexual Literature | Michael Szymanski and Nicole Kristal | The Bisexual’s Guide to the Universe | Winner | |
| Ron Jackson Suresha and Pete Chvany (editors) | Bi Men | Finalist | |||
| Ronald C. Fox | Affirmative Psychotherapy with Bisexual Women & Bisexual Men | ||||
| Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio | Eros | ||||
| Ron Jackson Suresha (editor) | Bi Guys | ||||
| Clarence Nero | Three Sides to Every Story | ||||
| 2008 | Bisexual Literature | Brent Hartinger | Split Screen | Winner | |
| Jeff Hobbs | The Tourists | Finalist | |||
| Beth Firestein (editor) | Becoming Visible | ||||
| Jennifer Baumgardner | Look Both Ways | ||||
| Sheri Joseph | Stray | ||||
| 2009 | Bisexual Literature | Jenny Block | Open | Winner | |
| Lisa M. Diamond | Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women’s Love & Desire | Finalist | |||
| Ron J. Suresha | Kinsey Zero Through Sixty: Bisexual Perspectives on Kinsey | ||||
| Edmund White | Rimbaud | ||||
| Honor Moore | The Bishop’s Daughter | ||||
| 2010 | Bisexual Fiction | Mykola Dementiuk | Holy Communion | Winner | |
| Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli | Love You Two | Finalist | |||
| Bobbie Geary | The Janeid | ||||
| J.E. Knowles | Arusha | ||||
| Amber Lehman | Torn | ||||
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Minal Hajratwala | Leaving India: My Family’s Journey From Five Villages to Five Continents | Winner | ||
| Audrey Beth Stein | Map | Finalist | |||
| Blake Bailey | Cheever: A Life | ||||
| Emanuel Levy | Vincente Minnelli: Hollywood’s Dark Dreamer | ||||
| Edna O’Brien | Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life | ||||
| 2011 | Bisexual Fiction | Myrlin A. Hermes | The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet | Winner | |
| Daniel Allen Cox | Krakow Melt | Finalist | |||
| Georgeann Packard | Fall Asleep Forgetting | ||||
| Malena Watrous | If You Follow Me | ||||
| Ann Herendeen | Pride/Prejudice: A Novel of Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth Bennet, and Their Forbidden Lovers | ||||
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli | Border Sexualities, Border Families in Schools | Winner | ||
| Candace Walsh and Laura Andre (editors) | Dear John, I Love Jane: Women Write about Leaving Men for Women | Finalist | |||
| Michael Gregg Michaud | Sal Mineo | ||||
| Paula Byrne | Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead | ||||
| Patti Smith | Just Kids | ||||
| 2012 | Bisexual Fiction | Barbara Browning | The Correspondence Artist | Winner | |
| Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla | The Two Krishnas | Finalist | |||
| Katherine Scott Nelson | Have You Seen Me | ||||
| Alex Sanchez | Boyfriends With Girlfriends | ||||
| J.M. Frey | Triptych | ||||
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Jan Steckel | The Horizontal Poet | Winner | ||
| Qwo-Li Driskill, Daniel Heath Justice, Deborah Miranda, and Lisa Tatonetti (editors) | Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature | Finalist | |||
| Jonathan Alexander and Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio (editors) | Bisexuality and Queer Theory: Intersections, Connections and Challenges | ||||
| Susie Bright | Big Sex Little Death: A Memoir | ||||
| Ven Rey | Surviving Steven: A True Story | ||||
| 2013 | Bisexual Literature | Cheryl Burke | My Awesome Place: The Autobiography of Cheryl B | Winner | |
| John Irving | In One Person | Winner | |||
| Janet W. Hardy | Girlfag: A Life Told In Sex and Musicals | Finalist | |||
| Richard Mason | History of a Pleasure Seeker | ||||
| Scotty-Miguel Sandoe | Axel Hooley’s Death Watch List | ||||
| 2014 | Bisexual Fiction | Susan Choi | My Education | Winner | |
| Mel Bossa | In His Secret Life | Finalist | |||
| Nicola Griffith | Hild: A Novel | ||||
| David Leavitt | The Two Hotel Francforts: A Novel | ||||
| Bushra Rehman | Corona | ||||
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Maria San Filippo | The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television | Winner | ||
| Clive Davis | The Soundtrack of My Life | Finalist | |||
| Shiri Eisner | Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution | ||||
| 2015 | Bisexual Fiction | Ana Castillo | Give It to Me | Winner | |
| Sheela Lambert (editor) | Best Bi Short Stories: Bisexual Fiction | Finalist | |||
| Ron J. Suresha | Extraordinary Adventures of Mullah Nasruddin | ||||
| Susie Hara | Finder of Lost Objects | ||||
| Vivek Shraya | She of the Mountains | ||||
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Charles M. Blow | Fire Shut Up In My Bones | Winner | ||
| Alan Cumming | Not My Father’s Son | Finalist | |||
| Robyn Ochs and H. Sharif Williams (editors) | Recognize: The Voices of Bisexual Men | ||||
| 2016 | Bisexual Literature | Emily Bingham | Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham | Winner (tie) | |
| Anna North | The Life and Death of Sophie Stark | ||||
| Kevin Hogan | My Riastrad | Finalist | |||
| Zoe Pilger | Eat My Heart Out | ||||
| Jeanette Winterson | The Gap of Time | ||||
| 2017 | Bisexual Fiction | Abigail Child | Mouth to Mouth | Winner | |
| Martin Hyatt | Beautiful Gravity | Finalist | |||
| Alexis M. Smith | Marrow Island | ||||
| Leopoldine Core | When Watched | ||||
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Ana Castillo | Black Dove: Mamá, Mi’jo, and Me | Winner | ||
| Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli and Sara Lubowitz | Women in Relationships With Bisexual Men: Bi Men By Women | Finalist | |||
| Elizabeth Hall | I Have Devoted My Life to the Clitoris | ||||
| Ann Tweedy | The Body’s Alphabet | ||||
| 2018 | Bisexual Fiction | Barbara Browning | The Gift | Winner | |
| Zoey Leigh Peterson | Next Year, for Sure | Finalist | |||
| Georgette Gouveia | The Penalty for Holding | ||||
| Andrea Lawlor | Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl | ||||
| J.E. Sumerau | Homecoming Queens | ||||
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Roxane Gay | Hunger | Winner | ||
| Julene Tripp Weaver | Truth Be Bold: Serenading Life & Death in the Age of AIDS | Finalist | |||
| Monica Meneghetti | What the Mouth Wants | ||||
| 2019 | Bisexual Fiction | Négar Djavadi, with Tina Kover (trans.) | Disoriental | Winner | |
| Jennifer Natalya Fink | Bhopal Dance: A Novel | Finalist | |||
| Nathan Alling Long | The Origin of Doubt: Fifty Short Fictions | ||||
| Katrina Carrasco | The Best Bad Things: A Novel | ||||
| Jude Lucens | Behind These Doors: Radical Proposals Book 1 | ||||
| Emily Strelow | The Wild Birds | ||||
| J.E. Sumerau | Palmetto Rose | ||||
| Lilah Suzanne | Jilted | ||||
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Anthony Moll | Out of Step: A Memoir | Winner | ||
| Julietta Singh | No Archive Will Restore You | Finalist | |||
| Sophie Lucido Johnson | Many Love: A Memoir of Polyamory and Finding Love(s) | ||||
| Bisexual Poetry | Duy Doan | We Play a Game | Winner | ||
| Fatimah Asghar | If They Come for Us | Finalist | |||
| Marcelo Hernandez Castillo | Cenzontle | ||||
| Xemiyulu Manibusan Tapepechul | My Woman Card Is anti-Native & Other Two-Spirit Truths | ||||
| Frances Donovan | Mad Quick Hand of the Seashore: Love Poems | ||||
| 2020 | Bisexual Fiction | Fiona Alison Duncan | Exquisite Mariposa | Winner | |
| Alia Trabucco Zerán, with Sophie Hughes (trans.) | The Remainder | Finalist | |||
| Garrett Leigh | Jude | ||||
| Deborah Levy | The Man Who Saw Everything | ||||
| Jess Taylor | Just Pervs | ||||
| Tomas Moniz | Big Familia | ||||
| Carley Moore | The Not Wives | ||||
| Zack Smedley | Deposing Nathan | ||||
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Trisha Low | Socialist Realism | Winner | ||
| Janet W. Hardy | IMPERVIOUS: Confessions of a Semi-Retired Deviant | Finalist | |||
| Victoria Freeman | A World Without Martha: A Memoir of Sisters, Disability, and Difference | ||||
| Bisexual Poetry | Stephanie Young | Pet Sounds | Winner | ||
| Moina Pam Dick | Moira of Edges, Moira the Tart | Finalist | |||
| Dorothy Chan | Revenge of the Asian Woman | ||||
| Camonghne Felix | Build Yourself a Boat | ||||
| Faylita Hicks | HoodWitch | ||||
| Ariana Reines | A Sand Book | ||||
| Cam Scott | ROMANS/SNOWMARE | ||||
| mai c. doan | water/tongue | ||||
| 2021 | Bisexual Fiction | Zaina Arafat | You Exist Too Much | Winner | |
| Sulaiman Addonia | Silence Is My Mother Tongue | Finalist | |||
| Talia Hibbert | Take a Hint, Dani Brown | ||||
| Elisabeth Thomas | Catherine House | ||||
| C Pam Zhang | How Much of These Hills is Gold | ||||
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Samantha Irby | Wow, No Thank You.: Essays | Winner | ||
| Alden Jones | The Wanting Was a Wilderness: Cheryl Strayed’s Wild and the Art of Memoir | Finalist | |||
| Emma Copley Eisenberg | The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia | ||||
| Shayla Lawson | This Is Major: Notes of Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope | ||||
| Natasha Sajé | Terroir: Love, Out of Place | ||||
| Bisexual Poetry | Aricka Foreman | Salt Body Shimmer | Winner | ||
| Jody Chan | sick | Finalist | |||
| S*an D. Henry-Smith | Wild Peach | ||||
| George Abraham | Birthright | ||||
| Meghan Privitello | One God at a Time | ||||
| 2022 | Bisexual Fiction | Alix Ohlin | We Want What We Want | Winner | |
| S. J. Sindu | Blue-Skinned Gods | Finalist | |||
| Melissa Broder | Milk Fed | ||||
| Tiphanie Yanique | Monster in the Middle | ||||
| Jen Silverman | We Play Ourselves | ||||
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Aisha Sabatini Sloan | Borealis | Winner | ||
| Hasanthika Sirisena | Dark Tourist: Essays | Finalist | |||
| Jen Winston | Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much | ||||
| Daisy Hernández | The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease | ||||
| Courtney Cook | The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces | ||||
| Bisexual Poetry | Aurielle Marie | Gumbo Ya Ya | Winner | ||
| Muriel Leung | Imagine Us, The Swarm | Finalist | |||
| CM Burroughs | Master Suffering | ||||
| Paige Quiñones | The Best Prey | ||||
| Jackie Wang | The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void | ||||
| 2023 | Bisexual Fiction | Gwendolyn Kiste | Reluctant Immortals | Winner | |
| A. J. Bermudez | Stories No One Hopes Are About Them | Finalist | |||
| Akil Kumarasamy | Meet Us by the Roaring Sea | ||||
| Bushra Rehman | Roses, In the Mouth of a Lion | ||||
| Nishant Batsha | Mother Ocean Father Nation | ||||
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Maria San Filippo | Appropriate Behavior | Winner | ||
| John Brady McDonald | Carrying It Forward | Finalist | |||
| Liz Scheier | Never Simple | ||||
| Rachel Krantz | Open | ||||
| CJ Hauser | The Crane Wife | ||||
| Bisexual Poetry | Nicky Beer | Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes | Winner | ||
| Gabrielle Octavia Rucker | Dereliction | Finalist | |||
| James Fujinami Moore | indecent hours | ||||
| Karyna McGlynn | 50 Things Kate Bush Taught Me About the Multiverse | ||||
| Rebecca Hawkes | Meat Lovers |