2008 Lambda Literary Awards

[reviews_and_ramblings]

BISEXUAL
Winner: Open, Jenny Block, Seal Press

Finalists:
Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women's Love & Desire,
Lisa M. Diamond, Harvard University Press
The Bishop's Daughter, Honor Moore, W.W. Norton
Kinsey Zero Through Sixty: Bisexual Perspectives on Kinsey, Ron Jackson Suresha, Taylor & Francis Journals
Rimbaud, Edmund White, Atlas & Company

TRANSGENDER
Winner: Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word), Thea Hillman, Manic D Press

Finalists:
10,000 Dresses, Marcus Ewert & Rex Ray, Seven Stories Press
Two Truths and a Lie, Scott Schofield, Homofactus Press
Boy with Flowers, Ely Shipley, Barrow Street Press
Transgender History, Susan Stryker, Seal Press

LGBT ANTHOLOGIES
Winner: Our Caribbean, edited by Thomas Glave, Duke University Press

Finalists:
A Casulty of War: Gay Short Fiction, Peter Burton, Arcadia Books
Live Through This, edited by Sabrina Chapadjiev, Seven Stories Press
Love, West Hollywood, edited by Chris Freeman and James J. Berg, Alyson
Big Trips: More Good Gay Travel Writing, edited by Raphael Kadushin, University of Wisconsin Press

LGBT CHILDRENS/YOUNG ADULT
Winner: Out of the Pocket, Bill Konigsberg, Dutton

Finalists:
Hit the Road, Manny: A Manny Files Novel, Christian Burch, Simon and Schuster
How They Met & Other Stories, David Levithan, Knopf Children's Books
Mousetraps, Pat Schmatz, Carolrhoda Books
What They Always Tell Us, Martin Wilson, Random House Children's Books
Love & Lies: Marisol's Story, Ellen Wittlinger, Simon and Schuster

LGBT DRAMA
Winner: The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, Carolyn Gage, Outskirts Press

Finalists:
Phi Alpha Gamma, Dan Bernitt, Sawyer House
Radical Acts: Collected Political Plays, Martin Duberman, The New Press
Two Truths and a Lie, Scott Schofield, Homofactus Press
Vile Affections, Vanda, Original Works Publishing

LGBT NONFICTION
Winner: Loving The Difficult, Jane Rule, Hedgerow Press

Finalists:
Me as Her Again, Nancy Agabian, Aunt Lute Books
If I Could Write This in Fire, Michelle Cliff, Univ of Minnesota Press
Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America 1861-2003, William N. Eskridge Jr, Penguin Group
Beyond (Straight & Gay) Marriage, Nancy Polikoff, Beacon Press
Drifting Toward Love, Kai Wright, Beacon Press

LGBT SCI-FI/FANTASY/HORROR
Winner: Turnskin, Nicole Kimberling, Blind Eye Books

Finalists:
The Archer's Heart, Astrid Amara, Blind Eye Books
The Magician and the Fool, Barth Anderson, Bantam Del Rey
Wilde Stories 2008, Steve Berman, Lethe Press
Sea, Swallow Me and Other Stories, Craig Gidney, Lethe Press

LGBT STUDIES
Winner: Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality, Regina Kunzel, The University of Chicago Press

Finalists:
Tomboys: A Literary & Cultural History, Michelle Ann Abate, Temple University Press
The Dividends of Dissent: How Conflict and Culture Work in Lesbian and Gay Marches on Washington, Amin Ghaziani, The University of Chicago Press
Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, & & the Politics of Progressive Reform, Kevin P. Murphy, Columbia University Press
Screening Sex, Linda Williams, Duke University Press

LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION
Winner: The Bruise, Magdalena Zurawski, Fiction Collective Two/University of Alabama Press

Finalists:
Red Audrey & the Roping, Jill Malone, Bywater Books
Passing for Black, Linda Villarosa, Kensington
Closer to Fine, Meri Weiss, Kensington
Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind, Chavisa Woods, Fly by Night Press

LESBIAN EROTICA
Winner: In Deep Waters 2: Cruising the Strip, Radclyffe and Karin Kallmaker, Bold Strokes Books

Finalists:
Lipstick on Her Collar, Sacchi Green and Rakelle Valencia, Pretty Things Press
Periphery: Erotic Lesbian Futures, Lynne Jamneck, Lethe Press

LESBIAN FICTION
Winner (tie):
The Sealed Letter, Emma Donoghue, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
All the Pretty Girls, Chandra Mayor, Conundrum Press

Finalists:
The Slow Fix, Ivan E. Coyole, Arsenal Pulp Press
Map of Ireland, Stephanie Grant, Scribner
Breaking Spirit Bridge, Ruth Perkinson, Spinsters Ink

LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY
Winner: Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir, Maureen Seaton, University of Wisconsin Press

Finalists:
Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy, Susan Griffin, Shambhala Publications
Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word), Thea Hillman, Manic D Press
Sex Variant Woman, Joanne Passet, Da Capo
Case of a Lifetime, Abbe Smith, Palgrave Macmillan

LESBIAN MYSTERY
Winner: Whacked, Josie Gordon, Bella Books

Finalists:
Blind Faith, Diane and Jacob Anderson-Minshall, Bold Strokes Books
Sweet Poison, Ellen Hart, St. Martin's Press
Losers Weepers, Jessica Thomas, Bella Books
Calling the Dead, Ali Vali, Bold Strokes Books

LESBIAN POETRY
Winner: love belongs to those who do the feeling, Judy Grahn, Red Hen Press

Finalists:
Interpretive Work, Elizabeth Bradfield, Arktoi / Red Hen Press
Kissing Dead Girls, Daphne Gottlieb, Soft Skull Press
Same Life, Maureen N. McLane, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Two Minutes of Light, Nancy K. Pearson, Perugia Press

LESBIAN ROMANCE
Winner: The Kiss That Counted, Karin Kallmaker, Bella Books

Finalists:
Finding Home, Georgia Beers, Bold Strokes Books
A Pirate's Heart, Catherine Friend, Bold Strokes Books
Hotel Liaison, JLee Meyer, Bold Strokes Books
The Lonely Hearts Club, Radclyffe, Bold Strokes Books

GAY DEBUT FICTION
Winner: Finlater, Shawn Ruff, Quote Editions

Finalists:
Shuck, Daniel Allen Cox, Arsenal Pulp Press
Light Fell, Evan Fallenberg, Soho Press
The Screwed-Up Life of Charlie The Second, Drew Ferguson, Kensington
The Steve Machine, Mike Hoolboom, Coach House Books

GAY EROTICA
Winner: Best Gay Erotica 2009, Richard Labonte & James Lear, Cleis Press

Finalists:
The Secret Tunnel, James Lear, Cleis Press
Hard Working Men, William Maltese, Victor J. Banis, Jardonn Smith, & J.P. Bowie, MLR Press

GAY FICTION
Winner: We Disappear, Scott Heim, HarperCollins

Finalists:
Stray Dog Winter, David Francis, Macadam/Cage Publishing
The Torturer's Wife, Thomas Glave, City Light Publishers
The Conversion, Joseph Olshan, St. Martin’s Press
The Boomerang Kid, Jay Quinn, Alyson

GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY
Winner: Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love, Sheila Rowbotham, Verso Books

Finalists:
Bringing Him Home, Aaron Cooper, Late August Press
Swish, Joel Derfner, Broadway Books
Assisted Loving, Bob Morris, HarperCollins
King of Shadows, Aaron Shurin, City Lights Publishers

GAY MYSTERY
Winner: First You Fall, Scott Sherman, Alyson Books

Finalists:
The Fisher Boy, Stephen Anable, Poisoned Pen Press
Sundowner Ubuntu, Anthony Bidulka, Insomniac Press
Mahu Fire, Neil Plakcy, Alyson Books
Spider Season, John Morgan Wilson, St. Martin's Press

GAY POETRY
Winner (tie):
Fire to Fire, Mark Doty, HarperCollins
Now You're the Enemy, James Allen Hall, Univ. of Arkansas Press

Finalists:
Want, Rick Barot, Sarabande Press
Please, Jericho Brown, New Issues
My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer, Jack Spicer, edited by Peter Gizzi & Kevin Killian, Wesleyan University Press

GAY ROMANCE
Winner: Got 'til it's Gone, Larry Duplechan, Arsenal Pulp Press

Finalists:
Mexican Heat, Laura Baumbach & Josh Lanyon, MLR Press
The Protector, N.L. Gassert, Seventh Window Publications