Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction

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Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction
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The Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation to a work of fiction on lesbian themes. As the award is presented based on themes in the work, not the sexuality or gender of the writer, men and heterosexual women may also be nominated for or win the award.

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Recipients

Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction winners and finalists
YearAuthorTitleResultRef.
1989 Dorothy Allison Trash: Short Stories Winner
Sarah Schulman After DeloresFinalist
Rita Mae Brown Bingo
Jan Clausen The Prosperine Papers
Camarin Grae The Secret in the Bird
1990 Nisa Donnelly The Bar Stories: A Novel After AllWinner [1]
Jane Rule After the FireFinalist [1]
May Sarton Education of Harriet Hatfield
Shay Youngblood The Big Mama Stories
Valerie Miner Trespassing and Other Stories
1991 Paula Martinac Out of Time Winner [2]
Jane DeLynn Don Juan in the VillageFinalist [2]
Anna Livia Incidents Involving Mirth
Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz My Jewish Face
Sarah Schulman People in Trouble
1992 Jewelle Gomez The Gilda Stories Winner (tie) [3]
Blanche McCrary Boyd The Revolution of Little Girls
Diane Salvatore BenedictionFinalist [3]
Judith McDaniel Just Say Yes
Anna Livia Minimax
1993 Judith Katz Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin SoundWinner [4]
Carol Anshaw Aquamarine Finalist [4]
Sarah Schulman Empathy
Madelyn Arnold On Ships at Sea
Rebecca Brown Terrible Girls
1994 Jeanette Winterson Written on the BodyWinner [5]
Paula Martinac Home MoviesFinalist [5]
Jenifer Levin Sea of Light
Leslie Feinberg Stone Butch Blues
Joan Nestle and Naomi Holoch Women on Women 2
1995 Rebecca Brown The Gifts of the Body Winner [6]
Eileen Myles Chelsea GirlsFinalist [6]
Heather Lewis House Rules
Emma Donoghue Sir Fry
Ellen Galford The Dyke and the Dybbuk
1996 Jacqueline Woodson Autobiography of a Family Photo Winner [7]
Louise Blum AmnestyFinalist [7]
Stephanie GrantPassion of Alice
Sarah Schulman Rat Bohemia
Lucy Jane Bledsoe Sweat
1997 Achy Obejas Memory MamboWinner [8]
Barbara Wilson If You Had a FamilyFinalist [8]
Carol Anshaw Seven Moves
Sarah Van Arsdale Toward Amnesia
Rebecca Brown What Keeps Me Here
1998 Elana Dykewomon Beyond the PaleWinner [9]
Frankie Hucklenbroich A Crystal DiaryFinalist [9]
Ruthann Robson A/K/A
Persimmon Blackbridge Prozac Highway
Blanche McCrary Boyd Terminal Velocity
1999 Dorothy Allison Cavedweller Winner [10]
Sarah Schulman ShimmerFinalist [10]
Sharon Bridgforth the bull-jean stories
Rebecca Brown The Dogs
Erika Lopez They Call Me Mad Dog
2000 Sarah Waters Tipping the Velvet Winner [11]
Anna Livia Bruised FruitFinalist [11]
Barbara Wilson Salt Water and Other Stories
Terri de la Peña Faults
Elizabeth StarkShy Girl
2001 Michelle Tea Valencia Winner [12]
Sarah Waters Affinity Finalist [12]
Shay Youngblood Black Girl in Paris
Stacey D'Erasmo Tea
Jeanette Winterson The Powerbook
2002 Achy Obejas Days of AweWinner [13]
Erika Lopez Hoochie Mama: The Other White MeatFinalist [14]
Ann Wadsworth Light, Coming Back
Sylvia Brownrigg Pages for You
Alexandra Grilikhes Yin Fire
2003 Sarah Waters Fingersmith Winner [15]
Lynn Breedlove GodspeedFinalist [15]
Carol Anshaw Lucky in the Corner
Nicola Griffith Stay
Lydia Kwa This Place Called Absence
2004 Nina Revoyr Southland Winner [16]
Susan J. Leonardi And Then They Were NunsFinalist [16]
Ann-Marie MacDonald The Way the Crow Flies
Lucy Jane Bledsoe This Wild Silence
Carla Trujillo What Night Brings
2005 Stacey D'Erasmo A Seahorse YearWinner [17]
Valerie Miner Abundant LightFinalist [17]
Emma Donoghue Life Mask
Maggie Dubris Skels
Susan Stinson Venus of Chalk
2006 Abha Dawesar Babyji Winner [18]
Jeanette Winterson Lighthousekeeping Finalist [18]
Aren X. Tulchinsky The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky
Helen Humphreys Wild Dogs
Lauren Sanders With or Without You
2007 Sarah Waters The Night Watch Winner [19]
Sheila Ortiz Taylor OutrageousFinalist [19]
J. D. Glass Punk Like Me
Michelle Tea Rose of No Man's Land
Leslie Larson Slipstream
2008 Ali Liebegott The IHOP Papers Winner [20] [21]
Lucy Jane Bledsoe Biting the AppleFinalist [21]
Mari SanGiovanni Greetings from Jamaica
Sarah Schulman The Child
Julia Watts The Kind of Girl I Am
Jess Wells The Mandrake Broom
2009 Chandra Mayor All the Pretty GirlsWinner (tie) [22]
Emma Donoghue The Sealed Letter
Ruth Perkinson Breaking Spirit BridgeFinalist [22]
Stephanie GrantMap of Ireland
Ivan Coyote The Slow Fix
2010 Jill Malone A Field Guide to DeceptionWinner [23]
Jennifer McMahon DismantledFinalist [23]
Emma Pérez Forgetting the Alamo, or, Blood Memory
Elana Dykewomon Risk
Nairne Holtz This One's Going to Last Forever
2011 Eileen Myles Inferno (a poet's novel)Winner [24] [25]
Lucy Jane Bledsoe Big Bang SymphonyFinalist [26]
Zelda Lockhart Fifth Born II: The Hundredth Turtle
Zoe Whittall Holding Still for as Long as Possible
Carol Guess Homeschooling
2012 Farzana Doctor Six Metres of PavementWinner [27]
Kristyn Dunnion The Dirt ChroniclesFinalist [28]
Shannon Cain The Necessity of Certain Behaviors
Hillary Jordan When She Woke
Nina Revoyr Wingshooters
2013 Thrity Umrigar The World We FoundWinner [29] [30]
Carol Anshaw Carry the OneFinalist [29]
Ellis Avery The Last Nude
Jesse Blackadder The Raven's Heart
B. K. Loren Theft
Catherine JonesWonder Girls
2014 Chinelo Okparanta Happiness, Like Water Winner [31] [32] [33]
T. Greenwood Bodies of WaterFinalist [32]
Ali Liebegott Cha-Ching!
Christiana Harrell Cream
e.E. Charlton-Trujillo Fat Angie
Kate Worsley She Rises
Jean Ryan Survival Skills
Chavisa Woods The Albino Album
Jeanette Winterson The Daylight Gate
Wally Lamb We Are Water
2015 Alexis De Veaux YaboWinner [34] [35]
Ann-Marie MacDonald Adult OnsetFinalist [35]
Qiu Miaojin Last Words of Montmartre
Francine Prose Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932
M. B. Caschetta Miracle Girls
Shelly Oria New York 1, Tel Aviv 0
Brandy T. Wilson The Palace Blues
Sarah Waters The Paying Guests
2016 Chinelo Okparanta Under the Udala Trees Winner [36] [37] [38]
Virginie Despentes Apocalypse BabyFinalist [39]
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Blue Talk and Love
LaShonda Katrice Barnett Jam on the Vine
Debra Busman Like a Woman
Tiya Miles The Cherokee Rose
Miranda July The First Bad Man
Violette Leduc Thérèse and Isabelle
2017 Nicole Dennis-Benn Here Comes the Sun Winner [40]
Lucy Jane Bledsoe A Thin Bright LineFinalist [41]
Jacqueline Woodson Another Brooklyn
Kathy AndersonBull & Other Stories
M. B. Caschetta Pretend I'm Your Friend
Lynda A. Archer Tears in the Grass
Lynn C. Miller The Day After Death
Cathleen Schine They May Not Mean To, But They Do
2018 Carmen Maria Machado Her Body and Other Parties Winner [42] [43] [44]
Roxane Gay Difficult Women Finalist [45]
S. J. Sindu Marriage of a Thousand Lies
Anne Garréta Not One Day
Leona Beasley Something Better than Home
Patricia A. Smith The Year of Needy Girls
Chavisa Woods Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country
Ariel Gore We Were Witches
2019 Larissa Lai The Tiger FluWinner [46]
Trifonia Melibea Obono with Lawrence Schimel (trans.) La Bastarda Finalist [47]
Sarah Schulman Maggie Terry
Genevieve Hudson Pretend We Live Here
Amber Dawn Sodom Road Exit
Lucy Jane Bledsoe The Evolution of Love
Nona Caspers The Fifth Woman
Krystal A. Smith Two Moons
2020 Nicole Dennis-Benn PatsyWinner [48] [49] [50]
Janice Gould A Generous Spirit: Selected Work by Beth BrantFinalist [51] [52]
Mathangi Subramanian A People's History of Heaven
Carolina De Robertis Cantoras
Kristen Arnett Mostly Dead Things
Shannon Pufahl On Swift Horses
Jacqueline Woodson Red at the Bone
Madeline Ffitch Stay and Fight
2021 Julián Delgado Lopera Fiebre Tropical Winner [53] [54] [55]
K-Ming Chang BestiaryFinalist [56]
Francesca Ekwuyasi Butter Honey Pig Bread
Jennifer Steil Exile Music
Jean Kyoung Frazier Pizza Girl
2022 Mia McKenzie Skye FallingWinner [57] [58]
Lauren Groff Matrix Finalist [59]
Kirstin Valdez Quade The Five Wounds
Venita Blackburn How to Wrestle a Girl
Kristen Arnett With Teeth
2023 K-Ming Chang Gods of WantWinner [60]
Leila Mottley Nightcrawling Finalist [61] [62]
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Big Girl
Julia Armfield Our Wives Under the Sea
Mónica Ojeda , trans. by Sarah BookerJawbone
2024 Catherine Lacey Biography of X Winner [63]
Jen Beagin Big Swiss Finalist [64]
K-Ming Chang Organ Meats
C. E. McGill Our Hideous Progeny
Helen Elaine Lee Pomegranate

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