21st Lambda Literary Awards

The 21st Lambda Literary Awards were held in 2009, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2008.

Special awards

CategoryWinner
Pioneer AwardLeslie Feinberg, The Violet Quill

Nominees and winners

Category Winner Nominated
Bisexual Literature Jenny Block, Open
Gay Debut Fiction Shawn Stewart Ruff, Finlater
Gay Erotica Richard Labonté and James Lear, eds., Best Gay Erotica 2009
Gay Fiction Scott Heim, We Disappear
Gay Memoir/Biography Sheila Rowbotham, Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love
Gay Mystery Scott Sherman, First You Fall
Gay Poetry Mark Doty, Fire to Fire
James Allen Hall, Now You're the Enemy
Gay Romance Larry Duplechan, Got 'til it's Gone
  • Laura Baumbach and Josh Lanyon, Mexican Heat
  • N. L. Gassert, The Protector
Lesbian Debut Fiction Magdalena Zurawski, The Bruise
  • Jill Malone, Red Audrey & the Roping
  • Linda Villarosa, Passing for Black
  • Meri Weiss, Closer to Fine
  • Chavisa Woods, Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind
Lesbian Erotica Radclyffe and Karin Kallmaker, In Deep Waters 2: Cruising the Strip
  • Sacchi Green and Rakelle Valencia, Lipstick on Her Collar
  • Lynne Jamneck, Periphery: Erotic Lesbian Futures
Lesbian Fiction Emma Donoghue, The Sealed Letter
Chandra Mayor, All the Pretty Girls
  • Ivan Coyote, The Slow Fix
  • Stephanie Grant, Map of Ireland
  • Ruth Perkinson, Breaking Spirit Bridge
Lesbian Memoir/Biography Maureen Seaton, Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir
Lesbian Mystery Josie Gordon, Whacked
Lesbian Poetry Judy Grahn, love belongs to those who do the feeling
Lesbian Romance Karin Kallmaker, The Kiss That Counted
LGBT Anthology Thomas Glave, Our Caribbean
  • Peter Burton, ed., A Casualty of War: Gay Short Fiction
  • Sabrina Chapadjiev, ed., Live Through This
  • Chris Freeman and James J. Berg, eds., Love, West Hollywood
  • Raphael Kadushin, ed., Big Trips: More Good Gay Travel Writing
LGBT Children's/Young Adult Bill Konigsberg, Out of the Pocket
LGBT Drama Carolyn Gage, The Second Coming of Joan of Arc
  • Dan Bernitt, Phi Alpha Gamma
  • Martin Duberman, Radical Acts: Collected Political Plays
  • Scott Schofield, Two Truths and a Lie
  • Vanda, Vile Affections
LGBT Non-Fiction Jane Rule, Loving the Difficult
LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Nicole Kimberling, Turnskin
  • Astrid Amara, The Archer’s Heart
  • Barth Anderson, The Magician and the Fool
  • Steve Berman, Wilde Stories 2008
  • Craig Laurance Gidney, Sea, Swallow Me and Other Stories
LGBT Studies Regina Kunzel, Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality
  • Michelle Ann Abate, Tomboys: A Literary & Cultural History
  • Amin Ghaziani, The Dividends of Dissent: How Conflict and Culture Work in Lesbian and Gay Marches on Washington
  • Kevin P. Murphy, Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, & the Politics of Progressive Reform
  • Linda Williams, Screening Sex
Transgender Literature Thea Hillman, Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word)
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