30th Annual Lambda Awards Finalists
The Lambda Literary Foundation has announced finalists for the 30th Annual Lambda Literary Awards (the “Lammys”), celebrating “achievement in LGBTQ writing for books published in 2017.” Nominees of genre interest follow.
LGBTQ SF/F/Horror
- Amberlough, Lara Elena Donnelly (Tor)
- The Lost Daughter Collective, Lindsey Drager (DZANC)
- The Prey of Gods, Nicky Drayden (Harper Voyager)
- Night Visitors, Owen Keehnen (OutTales)
- Autonomous, Annalee Newitz (Tor)
- I Stole You, Kristen Ringman (Handtype)
- An Excess Male, Maggie Shen King (Harper Voyager)
- An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon (Akashic)
LGBTQ Graphic Novels
- My Favorite Thing is Monsters, Emil Ferris (Fantagraphics)
- Condo Heartbreak Disco, Eric Kostiuk Williams (Koyama)
Lesbian Fiction
- Difficult Women, Roxane Gay (Grove)
- We Were Witches, Ariel Gore (Feminist)
- Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf)
- Things to Do When You’re Goth in the Country, Chavisa Woods (Seven Stories)
Gay Fiction
- The Clothesline Swing, Ahmad Danny Ramadan (Nightwood)
Bisexual Fiction
- Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, Andrea Lawlor (Rescue)
Transgender Fiction
- Nerve Endings, Tobi Hill-Meyer, ed. (Instar)
- Transcendent 2, Bogi Takács, ed. (Lethe)
- The Black Emerald, Jeanne Thornton (Instar)
Lesbian Romance
- Venus and Lysander, Yoshiyuki Ly (Solstice)
LGBTQ Anthology
- Meanwhile, Elsewhere, Cat Fitzpatrick & Casey Plett, eds. (Topside)
- Power & Magic, Joamette Gil, ed. (P&M)
LGBTQ Children’s/Young Adult
- Dreadnought, April Daniels (Diversion)
LGBTQ Erotica
- His Seed, Steve Berman, ed. (Unzipped)
- Witches, Princesses, and Women at Arms, Sacchi Green, ed. (Cleis)
The awards will be presented at the 30th Annual Lambda Literary Awards Ceremony held June 4, 2018 at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts in New York City.
For more information, including complete finalists, see the Lambda Literary website.
[Edited 3/8/2018 to add His Seed, Steve Berman, ed. (Unzipped)]
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I recommend you look more closely at the finalists – or at least do not judge only by name. My anthology, His Seed, is almost entirely speculative fiction.