32nd Lambda Literary Awards

2020 Lambda Literary Awards

The 32nd Lambda Literary Awards were announced on June 1, 2020,[1] to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2019. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, there was no gala ceremony; instead, the winners were announced exclusively through social media and the press.

The nominees were announced in March 2020.[2][3] Winners are in bold.[4][5][6]

## Special awards

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Category | Winner

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Trustee Award | Jericho Brown
Visionary Award | Jane Wagner
Publishing Professional Award | Brian Lam
Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Jim Duggins, PhD Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize | Larissa Lai
Judith A. Markowitz Emerging Writer Award | Xandria Phillips and Calvin Gimpelevich

## Nominees and winners

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Category  | Winner  | Nominated

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Bisexual Fiction  | Fiona Alison Duncan, Exquisite Mariposa |

* Garrett Leigh, Jude
* Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything
* Tomaz Moniz, Big Familia
* Carley Moore, The Not Wives
* Zack Smedley, Deposing Nathan
* Jess Taylor, Just Pervs
* Alia Trabucco Zerán, The Remainder (Sophie Hughes, tr.)

Bisexual Nonfiction  | Trisha Low, Socialist Realism |

* Victoria Freeman, A World Without Martha: A Memoir of Sisters, Disability, and Difference
* Janet W. Hardy, IMPERVIOUS: Confessions of a Semi-Retired Deviant

Bisexual Poetry  | Stephanie Young, Pet Sounds |

* Dorothy Chan, Revenge of the Asian Woman
* mai c. doan, water/tongue
* Moina Pam Dick, Moira of Edges, Moira the Tart
* Camonghne Felix, Build Yourself a Boat
* Faylita Hicks, HoodWitch
* Ariana Reines, A Sand Book
* Cam Scott, Romans/Snowmare

Gay Fiction | Bryan Washington, Lot |

* Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, Animalia (Frank Wynne, tr.)
* Lindsey Drager, The Archive of Alternate Endings
* Will Eaves, Murmur
* Jaime Manrique, Like This Afternoon Forever
* João Gilberto Noll, Lord (Edgar Garbelotto, tr.)
* Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
* De'Shawn Charles Winslow, In West Mills

Gay Memoir/Biography | Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives |

* Joseph Caldwell, In the Shadow of the Bridge
* Siddharth Dube, An Indefinite Sentence: A Personal History of Outlawed Love and Sex
* Guy Hocquenghem, The Amphitheater of the Dead (Max Fox, tr.)
* Isaac Mizrahi, I.M.
* Alvin Orloff, DISASTERAMA! Adventures in the Queer Underground 1977-1997
* James Oseland, Jimmy Neurosis
* Chris Rush, The Light Years

Gay Mystery  | Michael Nava, Carved in Bone |

* Michael Craft, ChoirMaster: A Mister Puss Mystery
* Chris Gill, The Nowhere
* Greg Herren, Royal Street Reveillon
* Liam McIlvanney, The Quaker
* David S. Pederson, Death Takes a Bow
* Timothy Jay Smith, The Fourth Courier
* Marshall Thornton, Rewind

Gay Poetry | Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, Slingshot |

* Billy-Ray Belcourt, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field
* Jericho Brown, The Tradition
* Douglas Crane, The Revisionist & The Astropastorals
* Lawrence Lacambra Ypil, The Experiment of the Tropics
* Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué, Losing Miami
* Jake Skeets, Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers
* Brian Teare, Doomstead Days

Gay Romance  | James Lovejoy, Joseph Chapman: My Molly Life |

* Bryan T. Clark, Escaping Camp Roosevelt
* Chris Delyani, Best Man
* Jay Hogan, Digging Deep
* Garrett Leigh, Kiss Me Again
* Rick R. Reed, Blue Umbrella Sky
* R. A. Thorn, My Baby Chased Away the Blues
* Marshall Thornton, Code Name: Liberty

Lesbian Fiction | Nicole Dennis-Benn, Patsy |

* Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things
* Beth Brant, A Generous Spirit: Selected Work by Beth Brant (Janice Gould, ed.)
* Carolina de Robertas, Cantoras
* Madeline Ffitch, Stay and Fight
* Shannon Pufahl, On Swift Horses
* Mathangi Subramanian, A People's History of Heaven
* Jacqueline Woodson, Red at the Bone

Lesbian Memoir/Biography  | Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir |

* Elissa Altman, Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing
* Jaquira Díaz, Ordinary Girls
* Julia Koets, The Rib Joint: A Memoir in Essays
* Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
* T. Kira Madden, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
* Benjamin Moser, Sontag: Her Life and Work
* Edie Windsor and Joshua Lyon, A Wild and Precious Life

Lesbian Mystery  | Ann McMan, Galileo |

* Amelia Ellis, The Mirror of Muraro
* Ellen Hart, Twisted at the Root: A Jane Lawless Mystery
* Catherine Maiorisi, The Blood Runs Cold
* Claire O'Dell, The Hound of Justice

Lesbian Poetry | t'ai freedom ford, & more black |

* Etel Adnan, Time
* Rocío Carlos, (the other house)
* Franny Choi, Soft Science
* Shira Erlichman, Odes to Lithium
* Gala Mukomolova, Without Protection
* Lee Ann Roripaugh, tsunami vs. the fukushima 50
* Sharanpal Ruprai, Pressure Cooker Love Bomb

Lesbian Romance  | Emily Noon, Aurora's Angel |

* Alyssa Cole, Once Ghosted, Twice Shy
* Donna K. Ford, Tennessee Whiskey
* Virginia Hale, The Secret Chord
* Jae, The Roommate Arrangement
* M. Ullrich, Pretending in Paradise
* M. Ullrich, Top of Her Game
* Erin Zak, Create a Life to Love

LGBTQ Anthology  | Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Love WITH Accountability: Digging up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse
Noam Sienna, A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969 |

* Fatimah Asghar and Safia Elhillo, The BreakBeat Poets Volume 3: Halal if You Hear Me
* Amber Dawn and Justin Ducharme, Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers’ Poetry
* Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, Foglifter Volume 4 Issue 2
* The Other Foundation, The Heart of the Matter: The Gerald Kraak Anthology
* Jeff Mann and Julia Watts, LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia
* Micah Rajunov and Scott Duane, Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity

LGBTQ Children's/Young Adult | Lisa Jenn Bigelow, Hazel's Theory of Evolution
Alexandra Villasante, The Grief Keeper |

* Jaye Robin Brown, The Meaning of Birds
* Akwaeke Emezi, Pet
* Nicole Melleby, Hurricane Season
* Saundra Mitchell, All the Things We Do in the Dark
* Rory Power, Wilder Girls
* Robin Stevenson, Pride Colors

LGBTQ Drama | Michael R. Jackson, A Strange Loop |

* Liza Birkenmeier, Dr. Ride’s American Beach House
* Jordan Harrison, The Amateurs

LGBTQ Erotica  | L. A. Warman, Whore Foods |

* Rosalind Chase, Lot's Wife
* Thomas Kearnes, Texas Crude
* Vikram Kolmannskog, Lord of the Senses
* Gary Garth McCann, The Shape of the Earth

LGBTQ Graphic Novel  | Kelsey Wroten, Cannonball |

* Jaime Hernandez, Is This How You See Me?
* Vivek Shraya, Death Threat
* Mariko Tamaki, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me
* Tillie Walden, Are You Listening?

LGBTQ Nonfiction  | Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House |

* W. Ian Bourland, Bloodflowers: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, and the 1980s
* Cyrus Grace Dunham, A Year Without a Name
* E. Patrick Johnson, Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women
* Brett Krutzsch, Dying to Be Normal: Gay Martyrs and the Transformation of American Sexual Politics
* Hugh Ryan, When Brooklyn Was Queer
* Karen Tongson, Why Karen Carpenter Matters
* Selby Wynn Schwartz, The Bodies of Others: Drag Dances and Their Afterlives

LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror | Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes, The Deep |

* Matthew Bright, Stories to Sing in the Dark
* Julie C. Day, The Rampant
* Craig Laurance Gidney, A Spectral Hue
* Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf
* Jac Jemc, False Bingo
* Nina MacLaughlin, Wake, Siren
* Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

LGBTQ Studies  | Emily L. Thuma, All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence |

* R. L. Cagle, Scorpio Rising: A Queer Film Classic
* Jian Neo Chen, Trans Exploits: Trans of Color Cultures and Technologies in Movement
* Elizabeth Freeman, Beside You in Time: Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century
* Robb Hernández, Archiving an Epidemic: Art, AIDS, and the Queer Chicanx Avant-Garde
* Kara Keeling, Queer Times, Black Futures
* Dana Seitler, Reading Sideways: The Queer Politics of Art in Modern American Fiction
* Roberto Strongman, Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería and Vodou

Transgender Fiction  | Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) |

* M. Z. McDonnell, Poet, Prophet, Fox: The Tale of Sinnach the Seer
* Bones McKay, Honey Walls
* Rachel Pollack, The Beatrix Gates
* Bogi Takács, The Trans Space Octopus Congregation

Transgender Nonfiction  | Ellis Martin and Zach Ozma, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan |

* Samantha Leigh Allen, Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States
* T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
* S. J. Langer, Theorizing Transgender Identity for Clinical Practice: A New Model for Understanding Gender
* Andrea Long Chu, Females

Transgender Poetry  | Xandria Phillips, Hull |

* Andrea Abi-Karam, Extratransmission
* Samuel Ace, Our Weather Our Sea
* Cameron Awkward-Rich, Dispatch
* Yanyi, The Year of Blue Water

## References

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* LGBTQ portal
* Literature portal

1. ^ "2020 Winners". Lambda Literary Award. June 1, 2020. Retrieved October 27, 2021.
2. ^ "Final list of Lambda Literary Awards 2020 announced". Indian Express Limited. March 11, 2020. Archived from the original on December 23, 2023. Retrieved December 23, 2023.
3. ^ Yee, Katie (March 10, 2020). "Here are the finalists for the 2020 Lambda Literary Awards!". Literary Hub. Archived from the original on December 23, 2023. Retrieved December 23, 2023.
4. ^ Yohannes, Samraweet (June 3, 2020). "Samra Habib among winners of 2020 Lambda Literary Awards". CBC.ca. Archived from the original on December 23, 2023. Retrieved December 23, 2023.
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