Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction

The Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation to a debut work of fiction on LGBT themes. Formerly presented in two separate categories for gay male and lesbian debut fiction, since the 25th Lambda Literary Awards in 2013 a single award, inclusive of both male and female writers, has been presented.

The award is presented based on themes in the work, not the sexuality or gender of the writer; heterosexual writers are eligible for the award, and writers could be nominated in the "cross-gender" category based on the work.

Winners and nominees

Year Winner Nominated
1988 Gay: Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming Pool Library
  • C.F. Borgman, River Road
  • Stan Leventhal, Mountain Climbing in Sheridan Square
  • Joe Keenan, Blue Heaven
  • Russell A. Brown, Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde
Lesbian: Madelyn Arnold, Bird-Eyes
  • Joyce Bright, Sunday’s Child
  • Judy Grahn, Mundane’s World
  • Denise Ohio, The Finer Grain
  • Katherine Sturtevant, A Mistress Moderately Fair
1989 Gay: John Weir, The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket
Lesbian: Patricia R. Schwartz, The Names of the Moons of Mars
1990 Gay: Lev Raphael, Dancing on Tisha B’av
Lesbian: Cherry Muhanji, Her
  • Vickie Sears, Simple Songs
  • Renee Hansen, Take Me to the Underground
  • Karen Marie Christa Minns, Virago
  • Julie Blackwomon and Nona Caspers, Voyages Out 2
1991 No award presented
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004 Gay: Blair Mastbaum, Clay's Way
Lesbian: Judith Frank, Crybaby Butch
  • Mary Vermillion, Death by Discount
  • Kristie Helms, Dish It Up, Baby!
  • Laurinda D. Brown, Fire & Brimstone
  • Bridget Bufford, Minus One: A Twelve-Step Journey
2005 Gay: Vestal McIntyre, You Are Not the One
  • Mack Friedman, Setting the Lawn on Fire
  • Richard McCann, Mother of Sorrows
  • Barry McCrea, The First Verse
  • Sulayman X, Bilal’s Bread
Lesbian: Ali Liebegott, The Beautifully Worthless
  • Katia Noyes, Crashing America
  • Michelle Embree, Manstealing for Fat Girls
  • Ronica Black, In Too Deep
  • Fiona Zedde, Bliss
2006 Gay: Robert Westfield, Suspension
  • Martin Hyatt, A Scarecrow’s Bible
  • Alex MacLennan, The Zookeeper
  • Patrick Ryan, Send Me
  • Timothy Williams, 5 Minutes and 42 Seconds
Lesbian: Ellis Avery, The Teahouse Fire
  • Kirsten Dinnall Hoyte, Black Marks
  • Ana-Maurine Lara, Erzulie’s Skirt
  • Leslie Larson, Slipstream
  • Peggy Munson, Origami Striptease
2007 Gay: Christopher Kelly, A Push and a Shove[1]
Lesbian: Aoibheann Sweeney, Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking
2008 Gay: Shawn Stewart Ruff, Finlater
Lesbian: 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
2009 Gay: Rakesh Satyal, Blue Boy
Lesbian: Rhiannon Argo, The Creamsickle
  • Z Egloff, Verge
  • Barb Johnson, More of This World or Maybe Another
  • Lori Ostlund, The Bigness of the World
  • Maida Tilchen, Land Beyond Maps
2010 Gay: David Pratt, Bob the Book
  • Chris Corkum, XOXO Hayden
  • Tom Mendicino, Probation
  • Tom Schabarum, The Palisades
  • Rob Stephenson, Passes Through
Lesbian: Amber Dawn, Sub Rosa
2011 Gay: Rahul Mehta, Quarantine
Lesbian: Laurie Weeks, Zipper Mouth
  • Sally Bellerose, The Girls Club
  • Lara Fergus, My Sister Chaos
  • Sarah Toshiko Hasu, Megume and the Trees
  • Christine Stark, Nickels: A Tale of Dissociation
2012 Mia McKenzie, The Summer We Got Free
  • Lania Knight, Three Cubic Feet
  • Alex Leslie, People Who Disappear
  • E. J. Levy, Love, In Theory
  • Lydia Perovic, Incidental Music
  • Kristen Ringman, Makara
  • Carter Sickels, The Evening Hour
  • Lysley Tenorio, Monstress
  • Jeanne Thornton, The Dream of Doctor Bantam
  • William Sterling Walker, Desire: Tales of New Orleans
2013 Nik Nicholson, Descendants of Hagar[2]
  • Guy Mark Foster, The Rest of Us
  • Jane Hoppen, In Between
  • Laura Krughoff, My Brother’s Name
  • Amy Grace Loyd, The Affairs of Others
  • Derek Palacio, How to Shake the Other Man
  • Ronald Palmer, Prick Queasy
  • Charles L. Ross, Inside
  • Andrea Routley, Jane and the Whales
  • Abigail Tarttelin, Golden Boy
2014 Abdi Nazemian, The Walk-In Closet[3]
  • Vinton Rafe McCabe, Death in Venice, California
  • Megan Milks, Kill Marguerite and Other Stories
  • Elizabeth Earley, A Map of Everything
  • Bob Sennett, The Music Teacher
  • Dia Felix, Nochita
  • Dan Lopez, Part the Hawser, Limn the Sea
  • Alden Jones, Unaccompanied Minors
2015 Victor Yates, A Love Like Blood[4]
  • Austin Bunn, The Brink
  • Mark S. Luckie, Do U.
  • Paul Brownsey, His Steadfast Love and Other Stories
  • Ioannis Pappos, Hotel Living
  • Meliza Bañales, Life is Wonderful, People are Terrific
  • James Driggers, Lovesick
  • Libby Ware, Lum

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