| Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Literature | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Awarded for | Bisexual Literature | |||
| Sponsored by | Lambda Literary Foundation | |||
| Date | Annual | |||
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TheLambda Literary Award forBisexual Literature is an annualliterary award, presented by theLambda Literary Foundation, that awards books withbisexual content. The award can be separated into three categories: bisexual fiction, bisexual nonfiction, and bisexual poetry.[1] Awards are granted based on literary merit and bisexual content, and therefore, the writer may be bi-,homo-,hetero-, orasexual.[1]
The award for bisexual fiction recognizes "[n]ovels, novellas, short story collections, and anthologies with prominent bi/pan ... characters and/or content of strong significance to the bi/pan ... communities."[1] The list "[m]ay include historical novels, comics, cross-genre works of fiction, humor, and other styles of fiction."[1]
The award for bisexual nonfiction recognizes "[n]onfiction works with content of strong significance to members of the bi/[pan] communities," including "a wide range of subjects for the general or academic reader."[1]
The award for bisexual poetry recognizes individual volumes of poems and poem collections with bisexual content.[1] Chapbooks are ineligible for the prize, as well as "[u]pdated editions of previously published works ... unless at least 50% of the poetry (not the supplemental text) is new."[1] If there are not enough eligible titles in any given year to support a dedicated bisexual poetry category, then bisexual poetry titles are considered in the fiction category.
In 2001, theLambda Literary Foundation presented one award for books with bisexual and/or transgender themes.
| Year | Category | Author | Work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Bisexual/Transgender Literature | Virginia Ramey Mollenkott | Omnigender: A Trans-religious Approach | Winner | [2] |
| Sparrow L. Patterson | Synthetic Bi Products | Finalist | [2] | ||
| Bill Brnt andCarol Queen (editors) | Best Bisexual Erotica, Volume 2 | ||||
| Vanessa Sheridan | Crossing Over: Liberating the Transgendered Christian | ||||
| Jonathan Branton | Dragged!! To His Senses | ||||
| 2007 | Bisexual Literature | Michael Szymanski andNicole Kristal | The Bisexual’s Guide to the Universe | Winner | [3] |
| Ron Jackson Suresha and Pete Chvany (editors) | Bi Men | Finalist | |||
| Ronald C. Fox | Affirmative Psychotherapy with Bisexual Women & Bisexual Men | ||||
| Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio | Eros | ||||
| Ron Jackson Suresha (editor) | Bi Guys | ||||
| Clarence Nero | Three Sides to Every Story | ||||
| 2008 | Bisexual Literature | Brent Hartinger | Split Screen | Winner | [4][5] |
| Jeff Hobbs | The Tourists | Finalist | [5] | ||
| Beth Firestein (editor) | Becoming Visible | ||||
| Jennifer Baumgardner | Look Both Ways | ||||
| Sheri Joseph | Stray | ||||
| 2009 | Bisexual Literature | Jenny Block | Open | Winner | [6] |
| Lisa M. Diamond | Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women’s Love & Desire | Finalist | |||
| Ron J. Suresha | Kinsey Zero Through Sixty: Bisexual Perspectives on Kinsey | ||||
| Edmund White | Rimbaud | ||||
| Honor Moore | The Bishop’s Daughter | ||||
| 2010 | Bisexual Fiction | Mykola Dementiuk | Holy Communion | Winner | [7] |
| Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli | Love You Two | Finalist | [7] | ||
| Bobbie Geary | The Janeid | ||||
| J.E. Knowles | Arusha | ||||
| Amber Lehman | Torn | ||||
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Minal Hajratwala | Leaving India: My Family’s Journey From Five Villages to Five Continents | Winner | [7] | |
| Audrey Beth Stein | Map | Finalist | [7] | ||
| Blake Bailey | Cheever: A Life | ||||
| Emanuel Levy | Vincente Minnelli: Hollywood’s Dark Dreamer | ||||
| Edna O’Brien | Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life | ||||
| 2011 | Bisexual Fiction | Myrlin A. Hermes | The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet | Winner | [8] |
| Daniel Allen Cox | Krakow Melt | Finalist | [9] | ||
| Georgeann Packard | Fall Asleep Forgetting | ||||
| Malena Watrous | If You Follow Me | ||||
| Ann Herendeen | Pride/Prejudice: A Novel of Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth Bennet, and Their Forbidden Lovers | ||||
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli | Border Sexualities, Border Families in Schools | Winner | [8] | |
| Candace Walsh and Laura Andre (editors) | Dear John, I Love Jane: Women Write about Leaving Men for Women | Finalist | [9] | ||
| Michael Gregg Michaud | Sal Mineo | ||||
| Paula Byrne | Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead | ||||
| Patti Smith | Just Kids | ||||
| 2012 | Bisexual Fiction | Barbara Browning | The Correspondence Artist | Winner | [10][11] |
| Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla | The Two Krishnas | Finalist | |||
| Katherine Scott Nelson | Have You Seen Me | ||||
| Alex Sanchez | Boyfriends With Girlfriends | ||||
| J.M. Frey | Triptych | ||||
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Jan Steckel | The Horizontal Poet | Winner | [10][11] | |
| Qwo-Li Driskill,Daniel Heath Justice,Deborah Miranda, and Lisa Tatonetti (editors) | Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature | Finalist | |||
| Jonathan Alexander and Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio (editors) | Bisexuality and Queer Theory: Intersections, Connections and Challenges | ||||
| Susie Bright | Big Sex Little Death: A Memoir | ||||
| Ven Rey | Surviving Steven: A True Story | ||||
| 2013 | Bisexual Literature | Cheryl Burke | My Awesome Place: The Autobiography of Cheryl B | Winner | [12][13] |
| John Irving | In One Person | Winner | |||
| Janet W. Hardy | Girlfag: A Life Told In Sex and Musicals | Finalist | [12] | ||
| Richard Mason | History of a Pleasure Seeker | ||||
| Scotty-Miguel Sandoe | Axel Hooley’s Death Watch List | ||||
| 2014 | Bisexual Fiction | Susan Choi | My Education | Winner | [14][15] |
| Mel Bossa | In His Secret Life | Finalist | [14] | ||
| Nicola Griffith | Hild: A Novel | ||||
| David Leavitt | The Two Hotel Francforts: A Novel | ||||
| Bushra Rehman | Corona | ||||
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Maria San Filippo | The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television | Winner | [14][15] | |
| Clive Davis | The Soundtrack of My Life | Finalist | [14] | ||
| Shiri Eisner | Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution | ||||
| 2015 | Bisexual Fiction | Ana Castillo | Give It to Me | Winner | [16] |
| Sheela Lambert (editor) | Best Bi Short Stories: Bisexual Fiction | Finalist | [17] | ||
| Ron J. Suresha | Extraordinary Adventures of Mullah Nasruddin | ||||
| Susie Hara | Finder of Lost Objects | ||||
| Vivek Shraya | She of the Mountains | ||||
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Charles M. Blow | Fire Shut Up In My Bones | Winner | [17][16] | |
| Alan Cumming | Not My Father’s Son | Finalist | [17] | ||
| Robyn Ochs andH. Sharif Williams (editors) | Recognize: The Voices of Bisexual Men | ||||
| 2016 | Bisexual Literature | Emily Bingham | Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham | Winner (tie) | [18][19] |
| Anna North | The Life and Death of Sophie Stark | ||||
| Kevin Hogan | My Riastrad | Finalist | [20] | ||
| Zoe Pilger | Eat My Heart Out | ||||
| Jeanette Winterson | The Gap of Time | ||||
| 2017 | Bisexual Fiction | Abigail Child | Mouth to Mouth | Winner | [21] |
| Martin Hyatt | Beautiful Gravity | Finalist | [22] | ||
| Alexis M. Smith | Marrow Island | ||||
| Leopoldine Core | When Watched | ||||
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Ana Castillo | Black Dove: Mamá, Mi’jo, and Me | Winner | [21] | |
| Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli and Sara Lubowitz | Women in Relationships With Bisexual Men: Bi Men By Women | Finalist | [22] | ||
| Elizabeth Hall | I Have Devoted My Life to the Clitoris | ||||
| Ann Tweedy | The Body’s Alphabet | ||||
| 2018 | Bisexual Fiction | Barbara Browning | The Gift | Winner | [23][24] |
| Zoey Leigh Peterson | Next Year, for Sure | Finalist | [25] | ||
| Georgette Gouveia | The Penalty for Holding | ||||
| Andrea Lawlor | Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl | ||||
| J.E. Sumerau | Homecoming Queens | ||||
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Roxane Gay | Hunger | Winner | [23][24] | |
| Julene Tripp Weaver | Truth Be Bold: Serenading Life & Death in the Age of AIDS | Finalist | [25] | ||
| Monica Meneghetti | What the Mouth Wants | ||||
| 2019 | Bisexual Fiction | Négar Djavadi, withTina Kover (trans.) | Disoriental | Winner | [26] |
| Jennifer Natalya Fink | Bhopal Dance: A Novel | Finalist | [27] | ||
| Nathan Alling Long | The Origin of Doubt: Fifty Short Fictions | ||||
| Katrina Carrasco | The Best Bad Things: A Novel | ||||
| Jude Lucens | Behind These Doors: Radical Proposals Book 1 | ||||
| Emily Strelow | The Wild Birds | ||||
| J.E. Sumerau | Palmetto Rose | ||||
| Lilah Suzanne | Jilted | ||||
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Anthony Moll | Out of Step: A Memoir | Winner | [26] | |
| Julietta Singh | No Archive Will Restore You | Finalist | [27] | ||
| Sophie Lucido Johnson | Many Love: A Memoir of Polyamory and Finding Love(s) | ||||
| Bisexual Poetry | Duy Doan | We Play a Game | Winner | [26] | |
| Fatimah Asghar | If They Come for Us | Finalist | [27] | ||
| Marcelo Hernandez Castillo | Cenzontle | ||||
| Xemiyulu Manibusan Tapepechul | My Woman Card Is anti-Native & Other Two-Spirit Truths | ||||
| Frances Donovan | Mad Quick Hand of the Seashore: Love Poems | ||||
| 2020 | Bisexual Fiction | Fiona Alison Duncan | Exquisite Mariposa | Winner | [28][29][30] |
| Alia Trabucco Zerán, withSophie Hughes (trans.) | The Remainder | Finalist | [31][32] | ||
| Garrett Leigh | Jude | ||||
| Deborah Levy | The Man Who Saw Everything | ||||
| Jess Taylor | Just Pervs | ||||
| Tomas Moniz | Big Familia | ||||
| Carley Moore | The Not Wives | ||||
| Zack Smedley | Deposing Nathan | ||||
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Trisha Low | Socialist Realism | Winner | [28][29][30] | |
| Janet W. Hardy | IMPERVIOUS: Confessions of a Semi-Retired Deviant | Finalist | [31][32] | ||
| Victoria Freeman | A World Without Martha: A Memoir of Sisters, Disability, and Difference | ||||
| Bisexual Poetry | Stephanie Young | Pet Sounds | Winner | [28][29][30] | |
| Moina Pam Dick | Moira of Edges, Moira the Tart | Finalist | [31][32] | ||
| Dorothy Chan | Revenge of the Asian Woman | ||||
| Camonghne Felix | Build Yourself a Boat | ||||
| Faylita Hicks | HoodWitch | ||||
| Ariana Reines | A Sand Book | ||||
| Cam Scott | ROMANS/SNOWMARE | ||||
| mai c. doan | water/tongue | ||||
| 2021 | Bisexual Fiction | Zaina Arafat | You Exist Too Much | Winner | [33][34][35] |
| Sulaiman Addonia | Silence Is My Mother Tongue | Finalist | [36] | ||
| Talia Hibbert | Take a Hint, Dani Brown | ||||
| Elisabeth Thomas | Catherine House | ||||
| C Pam Zhang | How Much of These Hills is Gold | ||||
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Samantha Irby | Wow, No Thank You.: Essays | Winner | [33][34][35] | |
| Alden Jones | The Wanting Was a Wilderness: Cheryl Strayed’s Wild and the Art of Memoir | Finalist | [36] | ||
| Emma Copley Eisenberg | The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia | ||||
| Shayla Lawson | This Is Major: Notes of Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope | ||||
| Natasha Sajé | Terroir: Love, Out of Place | ||||
| Bisexual Poetry | Aricka Foreman | Salt Body Shimmer | Winner | [33][34][35] | |
| Jody Chan | sick | Finalist | [36] | ||
| S*an D. Henry-Smith | Wild Peach | ||||
| George Abraham | Birthright | ||||
| Meghan Privitello | One God at a Time | ||||
| 2022 | Bisexual Fiction | Alix Ohlin | We Want What We Want | Winner | [37][38] |
| S. J. Sindu | Blue-Skinned Gods | Finalist | [39] | ||
| Melissa Broder | Milk Fed | ||||
| Tiphanie Yanique | Monster in the Middle | ||||
| Jen Silverman | We Play Ourselves | ||||
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Aisha Sabatini Sloan | Borealis | Winner | [38] | |
| Hasanthika Sirisena | Dark Tourist: Essays | Finalist | [39] | ||
| Jen Winston | Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much | ||||
| Daisy Hernández | The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease | ||||
| Courtney Cook | The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces | ||||
| Bisexual Poetry | Aurielle Marie | Gumbo Ya Ya | Winner | [38] | |
| Muriel Leung | Imagine Us, The Swarm | Finalist | [39] | ||
| CM Burroughs | Master Suffering | ||||
| Paige Quiñones | The Best Prey | ||||
| Jackie Wang | The Sunflower Cast a Spell To Save Us From The Void | ||||
| 2023 | Bisexual Fiction | Gwendolyn Kiste | Reluctant Immortals | Winner | [40] |
| A. J. Bermudez | Stories No One Hopes Are About Them | Finalist | [41] | ||
| Akil Kumarasamy | Meet Us by the Roaring Sea | ||||
| Bushra Rehman | Roses, In the Mouth of a Lion | ||||
| Nishant Batsha | Mother Ocean Father Nation | ||||
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Maria San Filippo | Appropriate Behavior | Winner | [40] | |
| John Brady McDonald | Carrying It Forward | Finalist | [42][43] | ||
| Liz Scheier | Never Simple | ||||
| Rachel Krantz | Open | ||||
| CJ Hauser | The Crane Wife | ||||
| Bisexual Poetry | Nicky Beer | Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes | Winner | [40] | |
| Gabrielle Octavia Rucker | Dereliction | Finalist | [41] | ||
| James Fujinami Moore | indecent hours | ||||
| Karyna McGlynn | 50 Things Kate Bush Taught Me About the Multiverse | ||||
| Rebecca Hawkes | Meat Lovers | ||||
| 2024 | Bisexual Fiction | Ling Ling Huang | Natural Beauty | Winner | [44] |
| Ruth Madievsky | All-Night Pharmacy: A Novel | Finalist | [45] | ||
| Jennifer Savran Kelly | Endpapers | ||||
| Sarah James | Last Night at the Hollywood Canteen | ||||
| Haley Jakobson | Old Enough | ||||
| Bisexual Non-fiction | Myriam Gurba | Creep: Accusations and Confessions | Winner | [44] | |
| Vaneet Mehta | Bisexual Men Exist: A Handbook for Bisexual, Pansexual and M-Spec Men | Finalist | [45] | ||
| Zachary Zane | Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto | ||||
| Eden Boudreau | Crying Wolf | ||||
| Kawika Guillermo | Nimrods: a fake-punk self-hurt anti-memoir | ||||
| Bisexual Poetry | Danielle Cadena Deulen | Desire Museum | Winner | [44] | |
| Mary Jo Bang | A Film in Which I Play Everyone | Finalist | [45] | ||
| Sierra DeMulder | Ephemera | ||||
| Margaret Ray | Good Grief, the Ground | ||||
| Paul Killebrew | Impersonal Rainbow & The Bisexual Purge |