Susan Stinson

09:48 am: Lambda Literary Awards
Here's the list of books that won a lambda literary award last night. Whoohoo charliegrrrl!!!! Yayy!

And I'm excited that The Beautifully Worthless by Ali Leibegott (Suspect Thoughts) won Lesbian Debut Fiction -- Suspect Thoughts is publishing such innovative work. And how gorgeous that a book by June Jordan won in lesbian poetry, and I'm really interested in the two winners in lesbian fiction: Babyji by Abha Dawesar (Anchor Books) and Wild Dogs by Helen Humphreys (W. W. Norton). I keep hearing that Helen Humphreys is really good, and I'd like to read them both.


Anthology
Freedom in the Village: 25 Years of Black, Gay Men's Writing, ed. E. Lynn Harris (Carroll & Graf)

Belles Lettres
The Tricky Part by Martin Moran (Beacon Press)

Biography
February House by Sherrill Tippins (Houghton Mifflin)

Children's/Young Adult
Swimming in the Monsoon Sea by Shyam Selvadurai (Tundra Books)

Erotica
Stolen Moments: Erotic Interludes 2, edited by Stacia Seaman and Radclyffe (Bold Strokes)

Gay Men's Debut Fiction
You Are Not the One by Vestal McIntyre (Carroll & Graf)

Gay Men's Fiction
The Sluts by Dennis Cooper (Carroll & Graf)

Gay Men's Mystery
One of These Things is Not Like the Others by D. Travers Scott (Suspect Thoughts)

Gay Men's Poetry
Crush by Richard Siken (Yale)

Humor
Don't Get too Comfortable by David Rakoff (Doubleday)

Lesbian Debut Fiction
The Beautifully Worthless by Ali Leibegott (Suspect Thoughts)

Lesbian Fiction
Babyji by Abha Dawesar (Anchor Books)
Wild Dogs by Helen Humphreys (W. W. Norton)

Lesbian Mystery
Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders by Alicia Gaspar de Alba (Arte Publico)

Lesbian Poetry
Directed by Desire: Collected Poems by June Jordan (Copper Canyon)

LGBT Studies
When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David by Susan Ackerman

Nonfiction
Words to Our Now by Thomas Glave (Minnesota)

Romance
Silent Thunder by Radclyffe (Bold Strokes)

Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
Daughters of an Emerald Dusk by Katherine Forrest (Alyson Books)

Spirituality
Qu(e)erying Evangelism by Cheri DiNovo (The Pilgrim Press)

Transgender/GenderQueer
Choir Boy by Charlie Anders (Soft Skull Press)

In addition, Barbara Braden of Boxborough, MA was the winner of a raffle for a 2-person Olivia cruise to the Caribbean next January. The raffle raised over $4,000 for the Lambda Literary Awards.

Congressman Barney Frank received this year's Bridge Builder Award, and because of voting during the last session of Congress, he was unable to attend. His legislative aide, Joseph Racalto, accepted on his behalf.

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