Queer consensus?! Unlike previous years, 2011 sees a lot of overlap between the two major LGBT book awards. Five of the six finalists announced this morning for the Ferro-Grumley fiction prize given at the Publishing Triangle Awards are also nominees for Lambda Literary Awards. The newcomer, Perfect Peace by Daniel Black, is a book you've seen repeated in the Thebes queer lit poll in 2009 and 2010. In both the lesbian and gay nonfiction categories, two of the three finalists are also Lambda nominees, and vexingly, thrillingly all six deserve to win. The judges are giving a special award to Kate Bornstein's and S. Bear Bergman's anthology Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation, which is one of two Lammy double nominees, with Catherine Ryan Hyde's YA trans novel Jumpstart the World.
The lifetime achievement award will be presented to Alan Hollinghurst, an extremely thoughtful and eloquent speaker. Don't miss the free ceremony and reception on April 28 at the New School.
Finalists for The Ferro-Grumley Awards for LGBT Fiction
* Daniel Black, Perfect Peace
* Lucy Jane Bledsoe, The Big Bang Symphony
* Daniel Allen Cox, Krakow Melt
* David McConnell, The Silver Hearted: A Novel
* Eileen Myles, Inferno
* Michael Sledge, The More I Owe You
Finalists for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction
* Michael Alenyikov, Ivan and Misha: Stories
* Katharine Beutner, Alcestis
* Catherine Kirkwood, Cut Away
Finalists for the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction
* Terry Castle, The Professor
* Emma Donoghue, Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature
* Barbara Hammer, HAMMER!: Making Movies Out of Sex and Life
Finalists for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction
* R. Tripp Evans, Grant Wood
* Wendy Moffat, A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster
* Justin Spring, Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade
Poetry finalists after the jump.
Finalists for the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry
* Elizabeth J. Colen, Money for Sunsets (Steel Toe Books)
* Jen Currin, The Inquisition Yours (Coach House Books)
* Eleanor Lerman, The Sensual World Re-emerges (Sarabande Books)
Finalists for the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry
* Paul Legault, The Madeleine Poems (Omnidawn)
* Eric Leigh, Harm’s Way (University of Arkansas Press)
* Michael Walsh, The Dirt Riddles
Hollinghurst is going to be there?!
Posted by: Cynthia | March 17, 2011 at 05:43 PM
JUMPSTART THE WORLD is also a double Lammy nominee.
Posted by: Desayunoencama | March 18, 2011 at 06:21 AM