Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize

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The Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize is an American literary award, presented to two writers, one male and one female, from the LGBT community to honour their body of work. First presented by the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival in 2007, [1] the award became part of the Lambda Literary Awards program in 2011. Originally presented annually, it was presented only once every three years for part of the 2010s before becoming an annual award again in the 2020s.

It is the largest literary award in the United States which is available exclusively to LGBT writers; all other LGBT literary awards, including the rest of the Lambda Literary Awards program, are open to heterosexual writers who address LGBT themes in their work.

The award was endowed by writer and academic James Duggins.

Recipients

Jim Duggins Prize winners
YearAuthorRef.
2007 Dorothy Allison
Jim Grimsley
2008 Michelle Tea
Ronald L. Donaghe
2009 Elana Dykewomon
Michael Lowenthal
2010 Lee Lynch
Noel Alumit
2011 Alex Sánchez
Susan Stinson
2012 Brian Leung
Stacey D'Erasmo
2013 Nicola Griffith
Trebor Healey
2014 Michael Thomas Ford
Radclyffe
2017 James Earl Hardy [2]
Shani Mootoo
2020 Larissa Lai [3] [4]
2021 Brontez Purnell [5]
Sarah Gerard
2022 Silas House [6]
Vi Khi Nao
2023 Ryka Aoki [7]
Aaron Hamburger

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