31st Lambda Literary Awards
{{short description|2019 Lambda Literary Awards}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}}
The 31st Lambda Literary Awards were held on June 3, 2019,{{Cite web |date=June 4, 2019 |title=31st Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced |url=https://lambdaliterary.org/2019/06/lambda-literary-awards-31st-winners/ |access-date=October 27, 2021 |website=Lambda Literary Award}} to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2018.[https://locusmag.com/2019/03/31st-annual-lambda-awards-finalists/ "31st Annual Lambda Awards Finalists"]. Locus, March 7, 2019. The list of nominees was released on March 7.Ryan Porter, [https://quillandquire.com/omni/vivek-shraya-joshua-whitehead-among-10-canadian-finalists-for-lambda-literary-awards/ "Vivek Shraya, Joshua Whitehead among Canadian finalists for Lambda Literary Awards"]. Quill & Quire, March 7, 2019.
Special awards
| class="wikitable" width="100%" | |
| Category | Winner |
|---|---|
| Trustee Award | Alexander Chee |
| Visionary Award | Masha Gessen |
| Publishing Professional Award | |
| Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction | |
| Judith A. Markowitz Emerging Writer Award | Hannah Ensor, Robert Fieseler |
Nominees and winners
| class="wikitable" width="100%"
!Category !Winner !Nominated |
| align="center"| Bisexual Fiction
| Négar Djavadi, Disoriental (tr. Tina Kover) |
|
| align="center"| Bisexual Nonfiction
| Anthony Moll, Out of Step |
|
| align="center"| Bisexual Poetry
| Duy Doan, We Play a Game |
|
| align="center"| Gay Fiction
| Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed |
|
| align="center"| Gay Memoir/Biography
| Darnell L. Moore, No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America |
|
| align="center"| Gay Mystery
| Marshall Thornton, Late Fees |
|
| align="center"| Gay Poetry
| Justin Phillip Read, Indecency |
|
| align="center"| Gay Romance
| S. C. Wynne, Crashing Upwards |
|
| align="center"| Lesbian Fiction
| Larissa Lai, The Tiger Flu |
|
| align="center"| Lesbian Memoir/Biography
| Zahra Patterson, Chronology |
|
| align="center"| Lesbian Mystery
| Claire O'Dell, A Study in Honor |
|
| align="center"| Lesbian Poetry
| Nina Puro, Each Tree Could Hold a Noose or a House |
|
| align="center"| Lesbian Romance
| Ann McMan, Beowulf for Cretins |
|
| align="center"| LGBTQ Anthology
| The Other Foundation, As You Like It: The Gerald Kraak Anthology, Volume II [fiction] |
|
| align="center"| LGBTQ Children's/Young Adult
| Kacen Callender, Hurricane Child |
|
| align="center"| LGBTQ Drama
| Mashuq Mushtaq Deen, Draw the Circle |
|
| align="center"| LGBTQ Erotica
| Blue Delliquanti and Kazimir Lee, Miles & Honesty in SCFSX! |
|
| align="center"| LGBTQ Graphic Novel
| Tommi Parrish, The Lie and How We Told It |
|
| align="center"| LGBTQ Nonfiction
| Imani Perry, Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry |
|
| align="center"| LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror
| Isaac R. Fellman, The Breath of the Sun |
|
| align="center"| LGBTQ Studies
| William T. Hoston, Toxic Silence: Race, Black Gender Identity, and Addressing the Violence Against Black Transgender Women in Houston |
|
| align="center"| Transgender Fiction
| Casey Plett, Little Fish |
|
| align="center"| Transgender Nonfiction
| Jules Gill-Peterson, Histories of the Transgender Child |
|
| align="center"| Transgender Poetry
| Raquel Salas Rivera, Lo Terciario / The Tertiary |
|