Lambda Lit Awards

The 2008 Lammy finalists have been announced!

Lesbian Fiction

• The Slow Fix, Ivan E. Coyote, Arsenal Pulp Press
• The Sealed Letter, Emma Donoghue, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Map of Ireland, Stephanie Grant, Scribner
• All the Pretty Girls, Chandra Mayor, Conundrum Press
• Breaking Spirit Bridge, Ruth Perkinson, Spinsters Ink

Lesbian Debut Fiction

• 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
• The Bruise, Magdalena Zurawski, Fiction Collective Two/University of Alabama Press

Lesbian Memoir/Biography

• 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
• Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir, Maureen Seaton, University of Arkansas Press
• Case of a Lifetime, Abbe Smith, Palgrave Macmillan

It's great to see two Canadian writers in the finalists for lesbian fiction - Ivan Coyote and Chandra Mayor. Congrats to them! [Update! Emma Donoghue has lived in Canada for over 10 years - that makes 3 Canadian authors on the shortlist for Lesbian Fiction.] We often select a couple of Lambda winners/finalists/nominees for our reading list. Anyone know of any other awards we might follow?