21st Lambda Literary Award Winners

BOOKS PUBLISHED IN 2008

BISEXUAL

• Open, Jenny Block, Seal Press

TRANSGENDER

• Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word), Thea Hillman, Manic D Press

LGBT ANTHOLOGIES

• Our Caribbean, edited by Thomas Glave, Duke University Press

LGBT CHILDRENS/YOUNG ADULT

• Out of the Pocket, Bill Konigsberg, Dutton

LGBT DRAMA

• The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, Carolyn Gage, Outskirts Press

LGBT NONFICTION

• Loving The Difficult, Jane Rule, Hedgerow Press

LGBT SCI-FI/FANTASY/HORROR

• Turnskin, Nicole Kimberling, Blind Eye Books

LGBT STUDIES

• Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality, Regina Kunzel, The University of Chicago Press

LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION

• The Bruise, Magdalena Zurawski, Fiction Collective Two/University of Alabama Press

LESBIAN EROTICA

• In Deep Waters 2: Cruising the Strip, Radclyffe and Karen Kallmaker, Bold Strokes Books

LESBIAN FICTION (a tie!)

• The Sealed Letter, Emma Donoghue, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt


• All the Pretty Girls, Chandra Mayor, Conundrum Press

LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY

• Sex Talks to Girls, Maureen Seaton, University of 
Arkansas Press

LESBIAN MYSTERY

• Whacked, Josie Gordon, Bella Books

LESBIAN POETRY

• love belongs to those who do the feeling, Judy Grahn, Red Hen Press

LESBIAN ROMANCE

• The Kiss That Counted, Karin Kallmaker, Bella Books

GAY DEBUT FICTION

• Finlater, Shawn Ruff, Quote Editions

GAY EROTICA

• Best Gay Erotica 2009, Richard Labonte & James Lear, Cleis Press

GAY FICTION

• We Disappear, Scott Heim, HarperCollins

GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY

• Edward Carpenter:  A Life of Liberty and Love, Sheila Rowbotham, Verso Books

GAY MYSTERY

• First You Fall, Scott Sherman, Alyson Books

GAY POETRY  (a tie!)

• Fire to Fire, Mark Doty, HarperCollins


• Now You're the Enemy, James Allen Hall, University of Arkansas Press

GAY ROMANCE

• Got 'til it's Gone, Larry Duplechan, Arsenal Pulp Press