Why do the two biggest awards in gay books insist on releasing their lists of finalists three days apart? The clumsy timing subtracts from both and lessens the chance of wider, much needed attention for these very deserving titles.
The Publishing Triangle announced the nominees for this year's best lgbt books, and surprisingly their main fiction selections have zero only one overlap with the Lambda Literary Awards' finalists, Ellen Wittlinger's Love & Lies
Winners will be announced in a ceremony at The New School on May 7.
LGBT Fiction
Alison Bechdel, The Essential Dykes
to Watch Out For
David Ebershoff, The 19th Wife
Andrew Sean Greer, The Story of a
Marriage
Blair Mastbaum, Us Ones In Between
Ben Taylor, The Book of Getting Even
Ellen Wittlinger, Love and Lies
Lesbian Nonfiction
Regina Kunzel, Criminal Intimacy
Nancy Polikoff, Beyond (Straight and
Gay) Marriage
Andrea Weiss, In the Shadow of the
Magic Mountain
Gay Nonfiction
Linas Alsenas, Gay America
Bob Morris, Assisted Loving
Kai Wright, Drifting Toward Love
Lesbian Poetry
Elizabeth Bradfield, Interpretive
Work
Maureen McLane, Same Life
Elaine Sexton, Causeway
Gay Poetry
Jericho Brown, Please,
Mark Doty, Fire to Fire
Ely Shipley, Boy with Flowers
Debut Fiction
Evan Fallenberg, Light Fell
Alistair McCartney, The End of the
World Book
Shawn Stewart Ruff, Finlater
Lifetime Achievement
Martin Duberman
In fact, my novel, Love & Lies, is a finalist for both these awards, but the Lambda's have it under YA fiction.
Posted by: Ellen Wittlinger | March 19, 2009 at 05:52 AM
Go, Kai Wright!!
Posted by: Mad Professah | March 19, 2009 at 01:24 PM