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 Award Leslie Feinberg, The Violet Quill

Nominees and winners

Category Winner Nominated
Bisexual Literature Blue ribbon Jenny Block, Open
Gay Debut Fiction Blue ribbon Shawn Stewart Ruff, Finlater
Gay Erotica Blue ribbon Richard Labonté and James Lear, eds., Best Gay Erotica 2009
  • James Lear, The Secret Tunnel
  • William Maltese, Victor J. Banis, Jardonn Smith and J.P. Bowie, Hard Working Men
Gay Fiction Blue ribbon Scott Heim, We Disappear
Gay Memoir/Biography Blue ribbon Sheila Rowbotham, Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love
Gay Mystery Blue ribbon Scott Sherman, First You Fall
  • Stephen Anable, The Fisher Boy
  • Anthony Bidulka, Sundowner Ubuntu
  • Neil Plakcy, Mahu Fire
  • John Morgan Wilson, Spider Season
Gay Poetry Blue ribbon Mark Doty, Fire to Fire
Blue ribbon James Allen Hall, Now You're the Enemy
Gay Romance Blue ribbon Larry Duplechan, Got 'til it's Gone
  • Laura Baumbach and Josh Lanyon, Mexican Heat
  • N. L. Gassert, The Protector
Lesbian Debut Fiction Blue ribbon 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 Blue ribbon 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 Blue ribbon Emma Donoghue, The Sealed Letter
Blue ribbon Chandra Mayor, All the Pretty Girls
  • Ivan Coyote, The Slow Fix
  • Stephanie Grant, Map of Ireland
  • Ruth Perkinson, Breaking Spirit Bridge
Lesbian Memoir/Biography Blue ribbon Maureen Seaton, Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir
  • Susan Griffin, Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy
  • Thea Hillman, Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word)
  • Joanne Passet, Sex Variant Woman
  • Abbe Smith, Case of a Lifetime
Lesbian Mystery Blue ribbon Josie Gordon, Whacked
Lesbian Poetry Blue ribbon Judy Grahn, love belongs to those who do the feeling
Lesbian Romance Blue ribbon Karin Kallmaker, The Kiss That Counted
  • Georgia Beers, Finding Home
  • Catherine Friend, A Pirate’s Heart
  • JLee Meyer, Hotel Liaison
  • Radclyffe, The Lonely Hearts Club
LGBT Anthology Blue ribbon Thomas Glave, Our Caribbean
  • Peter Burton, ed., A Casulty 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 Blue ribbon Bill Konigsberg, Out of the Pocket
LGBT Drama Blue ribbon 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 Blue ribbon Jane Rule, Loving the Difficult
  • Nancy Agabian, Me as Her Again
  • Michelle Cliff, If I Could Write This in Fire
  • William N. Eskridge, Jr., Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America 1861-2003
  • Nancy Polikoff, Beyond (Straight & Gay) Marriage
  • Kai Wright, Drifting Toward Love
LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Blue ribbon Nicole Kimberling, Turnskin
  • Astrid Amara, The Archer’s Heart
  • Barth Anderson, The Magician and the Fool
  • Steve Berman, Wilde Stories 2008
  • Craig Gidney, Sea, Swallow Me and Other Stories
LGBT Studies Blue ribbon 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 Blue ribbon Thea Hillman, Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word)

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