26th Lambda Literary Awards

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The 26th Lambda Literary Awards were held on June 2, 2014, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2013. [1] The list of nominees was released on March 6. [1]

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The ceremony was held at Cooper Union, in conjunction with Book Expo America. [2]

Special awards

CategoryWinner
Pioneer Award Kate Bornstein [2]
Trustee Award Alison Bechdel [2]
Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award Imogen Binnie, Charles Rice-González [2]
Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize Michael Thomas Ford, Radclyffe [2]

Nominees and winners

CategoryWinnerNominated
Bisexual Fiction Susan Choi, My Education [2]
Bisexual Non-Fiction Maria San Filippo, The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television [2]
Gay Erotica Alex Jeffers, The Padisah's Son and the Fox [2]
Gay Fiction Luis Negrón (tr. Suzanne Jill Levine), Mundo Cruel [2]
Gay Memoir/Biography Glenway Wescott (ed. Jerry Rosco), A Heaven of Words: Last Journals [2]
Gay Mystery Janice Law, The Prisoner of the Riviera [2]
Gay Poetry Rigoberto González, Unpeopled Eden [2]
Gay Romance TJ Klune, Into This River I Drown [2]
Lesbian Erotica Sacchi Green, ed., Wild Girls Wild Nights: True Lesbian Sex Stories [2]
Lesbian Fiction Chinelo Okparanta, Happiness, Like Water [2]
Lesbian Memoir/Biography Barrie Jean Borich, Body Geographic [2]
Lesbian Mystery Katherine V. Forrest, High Desert [2]
Lesbian Poetry Ana Božičević, Rise in the Fall [2]
Lesbian Romance Andrea Bramhall, Clean Slate [2]
LGBT Anthology Karen Martin and Makhosazana Xaba, Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction
Jim Elledge and David Groff, Who's Yer Daddy?: Gay Writers Celebrate Their Mentors and Forerunners [2]
LGBT Children's/Young Adult Sara Farizan, If You Could Be Mine
David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing [2]
LGBT Debut Fiction Nik Nicholson, Descendants of Hagar [2]
LGBT Drama Michel Marc Bouchard, Tom at the Farm [2]
LGBT Graphic Novel Nicole Georges, Calling Dr. Laura: A Graphic Memoir [2]
LGBT Non-Fiction Hilton Als, White Girls [2]
LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold, Death by Silver [2]
LGBT Studies Christina B. Hanhardt, Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence [2]
Transgender Fiction Trish Salah, Wanting in Arabic [2]
Transgender Non-Fiction Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, The End of San Francisco [2]

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