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Lambda Literary Award For Gay 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, beginning the 25th Lambda Literary Awards in 2013 a single award, inclusive of both male and female writers, was presented. The award was, however, discontinued after the 28th Lambda Literary Awards in 2016. The award was presented based on themes in the work, not the sexuality or gender of the writer; heterosexual writers were eligible for the award, and writers could be nominated in the "cross-gender" category based on the work. Winners and nominees References External links Lambda Literary Awards {{Lambda Literary Awards Debut Debut or début (the first public appearance of a person or thing) may refer to: * Debut (society), the formal introduction of young upper-class women to society * Debut novel, an author's first published ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Award
A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. Organizations Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony. Many awards are structured with one organization (usually a non-profit organization) as the presenter and public face of the award, and another organization as the financial sponsor or backer, who pays the prize remuneration and the cost of the ceremony and public relations, typically a corporate sponsor who may sometimes attach their name to the award (such as the Orange Prize). Types of awards There are awards for various writing formats including poetry and novels. Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing (such as science fiction or politics). There are also awards dedicated to works in individual languages, such as the Miguel de Cervantes Prize (Spanish), the Camões Prize (Portuguese), the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Teahouse Fire
''The Teahouse Fire'' is a novel by Ellis Avery set in late nineteenth century Japan published by Riverhead in the US in 2006 and to be published by Random House in the UK as a paperback original. Plot summary Set in late nineteenth century Japan, ''The Teahouse Fire'' is the story of Aurelia, a young French-American girl who, after the death of her mother and her missionary uncle, finds herself lost and alone and in need of a new family. Knowing only a few words of Japanese she hides in a Japanese tea house and is adopted by the family who own it: gradually falling in love with both the Japanese tea ceremony and with her young mistress, Yukako. As Aurelia grows up she devotes herself to the family and its failing fortunes in the face of civil war and western intervention, and to Yukako's love affairs and subsequent marriage. But her feelings for her mistress seem doomed never to be reciprocated and, as tensions mount in the household, Aurelia begins to realise that to the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Boy (novel)
''Golden Boy'' is the second novel by Abigail Tarttelin, published in 2013 about an intersex teenager, Max, and his family. It was described as a "dazzling debut" by Oprah's Book Club. Conception and influences Tarttelin has described how she explores intersex to look at gender roles, expressing the view that, "I don't particularly think men and women are very different".Meet Max, 16, a Golden Boy and intersex GayStarNews, 31 May 2013 In discussion with , Tarttelin comments that gender is arbitrary, but "a lot of it is socially constructed". She is concerned that some mainstream analysis of trans children exhibits a narro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
26th Lambda Literary Awards
The 26th Lambda Literary Awards were held on June 2, 2014, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2013."26th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists Announced" Lambda Literary Foundation, March 6, 2014. The list of nominees was released on March 6. The ceremony was held at Cooper Union, in conjunction with Book Expo America."Looking for summer reading? Lambda Literary Awards rain down a host of choices" ''Times-Picayune'', June 3, 2014. Special aw ...
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24th Lambda Literary Awards ...
The 24th Lambda Literary Awards were held on June 4, 2012, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2011. Special awards Nominees and winners External links 24th Lambda Literary Awards {{Lambda Literary Awards Lambda Literary Awards Lambda Lists of LGBT-related award winners and nominees 2012 in LGBT history Lambda Lambda (}, ''lám(b)da'') is the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the voiced alveolar lateral approximant . In the system of Greek numerals, lambda has a value of 30. Lambda is derived from the Phoenician Lamed . Lambda gave rise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sub Rosa (novel)
''Sub Rosa'' is a 2010 queer novel by Canadian Amber Dawn published by Vancouver-based Arsenal Pulp Press. The novel was Dawn's debut novel, and is a work of speculative fiction that touches on topics of sex, work, imagination, and survival. It narrates the story of "Little," a teenage girl who cannot remember her real name and ends up involved in the dark world of Sub Rosa, "a fantastical underground community of sex workers", where she enters the company of ghosts, magicians, and magical Glories. ''Sub Rosa'' won the Lambda Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction in 2011. Plot Little is a homeless teenage runaway. Her luck seems to change when she meets Arsen, a mysterious young man with a nice car and apartment, who soon tempts her into sex. Little meets First and Second, two other “girlfriends” of Arsen, and he brings them all with him into Sub Rosa, a magical world where sex workers are called Glories and wield supernatural powers. Little is initiated into their way of l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
23rd Lambda Literary Awards
The 23rd Lambda Literary Awards were held in 2011, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2010. Beginning with the 2011 awards, the Lambda Literary Foundation took over the administration and presentation of the Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize, formerly a program of the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival. Special awards Nominees and winners External links 23rd Lambda Literary Awards {{Lambda Literary Awards Lambda Literary Awards Lambda Lambda (}, ''lám(b)da'') is the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the voiced alveolar lateral approximant . In the system of Greek numerals, lambda has a value of 30. Lambda is derived from the Phoenician Lamed . Lambda gave rise ... Lists of LGBT-related award winners and nominees 2011 in LGBT history 2011 awards in the United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
22nd Lambda Literary Awards
The 22nd Lambda Literary Awards were held in 2010, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2009. Special awards Nominees and winners External links 22nd Lambda Literary Awards {{Lambda Literary Awards Lambda Literary Awards Lambda Lambda (}, ''lám(b)da'') is the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the voiced alveolar lateral approximant . In the system of Greek numerals, lambda has a value of 30. Lambda is derived from the Phoenician Lamed . Lambda gave rise ... Lists of LGBT-related award winners and nominees 2010 in LGBT history 2010 awards in the United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st Lambda Literary Awards
The 21st Lambda Literary Awards were held in 2009, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2008. Special awards Nominees and winners External links 21st Lambda Literary Awards {{Lambda Literary Awards Lambda Literary Awards 2009 literary awards, Lambda Lists of LGBT-related award winners and nominees 2009 in LGBT history 2009 awards in the United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
O Street
''O Street'' is a 2007 short story collection written by Corrina Wycoff. Called a "novel-in-stories" by OV Books, it explores the troubled life of young professional Beth Dinard from the perspective of the character herself as well as others around her. ''O Street'' was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction in 2007. Contents The ten stories collected in ''O Street'' revolve around the life of young professional Elizabeth Dinard, who has escaped an impoverished and abusive childhood in New Jersey but still suffers its effects in adulthood. Each story, told from the perspective of Beth herself or one of the people around her, explores a different period of her troubled life. * "The Wrong Place in the World" * "September 1981" * "Visiting Mrs. Ferullo" * "Where We're Going This Time" * "O Street" * "Leaving" * "Afterbirth" * "The Shell Game" * "The Cat" * "Read Me Through the Bardo, Won't You?" Themes In a 2007 interview with '' Time O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking
''Among Other Things, I’ve Taken Up Smoking'' is a novel by Aoibheann Sweeney, published in 2007 by Penguin Press. A girl grows up alone with her father on an island in Maine and is sent to stay in New York City with gay friends of her father's who open up her past, and her own world, in ways she cannot begin to imagine. The book was an Editor's Choice at the ''New York Times Book Review''. It also won a Lambda Literary Award in the Lesbian Debut Fiction category at the 2008 Lambda Literary Awards. In a review in ''The Washington Post'', Ron Charles (critic), Ron Charles wrote about the way the book “taps into older, sometimes ancient stories...There’s real wisdom in these classic myths and there’s real talent in this sensitive novel.”Charles, Ron, July 29, 2007"Island in the Storm,"''The Washington Post'' References External links * ''Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking'' i* ''Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking'' a 2007 American novels 2000s LG ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tales From The Town Of Widows
''Tales from the Town of Widows'' is a 2007 lyrical novel written by Colombian-born author James Cañón. It tells the story of Mariquita, a mountain village that is forever altered the day a band of communist guerrillas forcibly recruits all but three of its men. Left to fend for themselves with an ethically challenged priest, a transvestite and a withdrawn gay man, the virtual widows slowly emerge from their supporting roles as wives and daughters to become unwitting founders of a remarkable new society: an all-female utopia far greater than any revolutionary's imagined ideal society. Interspersed with the central narrative are blunt and brutal first-person accounts (each a page and a half long and signaled by an alternate font) that serve as reports on the men. They are all fighting, displaced, or brutally murdered, including left-wing rebels, right-wing paramilitary soldiers, Colombian national army soldiers and the civilians that are caught between all these forces. These are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |