Lambda Literary Celebrates Pride with a Star-Studded Line-Up
Join Lambda Literary as we celebrate Pride month with some of our community’s most dynamic stars
Lambda Literary Celebrates Pride with a Star-Studded Line-Up
Join Lambda Literary as we celebrate Pride month with some of our community’s most dynamic stars
Lambda Literary Celebrates Pride with a Star-Studded Line-Up
Join Lambda Literary as we celebrate Pride month with some of our community’s most dynamic stars
Applications for the Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices Due February 2nd!
Deadline approaching
2020 Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices Application Now Open
Lambda Literary is proud to announce details of the 2020 Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices, the nation’s premier LGBTQ writer’s workshop
Introducing Lambda Literary’s 2019 Emerging Writers Retreat Fellows
Please consider donating to their individual fundraising campaigns
Donor Advised Scholarships for the 2018 Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices
Lambda Literary is pleased to announce four donor-advised scholarships for students of the organization’s 2018 Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices
Emerge: 2016 Lambda Literary Fellows Anthology
The anthology is a collection of fiction, nonfiction, plays, poetry, and genre fiction written by fellows of the 2016 Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ
2017 Writers Retreat Faculty
Diana Cage (NONFICTION) is an author,
Author Michael Nava on Creating the Iconic Gay Character Henry Rios
This month, Korima Press is releasing Lay Your Sleeping Head, an imaginative reworking of writer Michael Nava’s classic mystery novel The Little Death. Nava’s introduction for the new novel reveals the history behind the creation of the protagonist Henry Rios
Read an Excerpt from Nicole Dennis-Benn’s Stunning New Novel ‘Here Comes The Sun’
Here Comes The Sun maps a family’s struggle to gain independence and freedom in a world where both don’t come easy
Read an Excerpt From Joe Okonkwo’s New Novel ‘Jazz Moon’
Jazz Moon is an evocative novel that maps one character’s journey of self-discovery during the height of the Jazz Age
Read Jewelle Gomez’s New Foreword for ‘The Gilda Stories: Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition’
“There were those who didn’t think a black lesbian vampire story—benevolent or not—was such a good idea politically.”
Read an Excerpt from Edmund White’s New Novel ‘Our Young Man’
“Although Guy was thirty-five he was still working as a model, and certain of his more ironic and cultured friends called him, as the dying Proust had been called by Colette, ‘our young man.'”
Read an Excerpt from Ann McMan’s New Novel ’Backcast’
Humor and heart go hand in hand in Backcast, a new novel from writer Ann McMan
Personal Advice from Author Karin Kallmaker: Is There a “Right” Way to Breakup With Someone?
“I don’t want to be a jerk and just ghost, but I am having the hardest time building up the courage to end it.”
Ten of This Year’s Standout LGBTQ Books
It was truly a year of queer literary excellence
Read an Excerpt from Michael Cunningham’s New Collection ’A Wild Swan and Other Tales’
A Wild Swan and Other Tales is a short story collection that offers contemporary renditions of popular fairy tales
Read an Excerpt from Jeanette Winterson’s New Novel ‘The Gap of Time’
The Gap of Time is a decidedly queer “remix” of William Shakespeare’s Winter’s Tale, from celebrated author Jeanette Winterson.
Personal Advice from Author Kevin Sessums: Help! How Do I Get Over a Broken Heart?
“Do you have any suggestions to help alleviate the emotional pain of heartbreak?”
Lillian Faderman on Five Key Moments in the LGBT Civil Rights Movement
Lillian Faderman pinpoints five key moments in the LGBT civil rights movement
A Look at LGBTQ Homeless Teens: Read an Excerpt from Ryan Berg’s ‘No House To Call My Home’
The book is an illuminating account of the lives of a group of New York City LGBTQ homeless youth
Personal Advice from Author Dale Peck: Help, I am an Overly Jealous Boyfriend!
“Is there a way to deal with sexual jealousy?”
Read an Excerpt from ‘The Right Side of History: 100 Years or LGBTQI Activism’: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy’s Reflections on the Stonewall Riots
“The night of Stonewall, two friends and I sat in Sheridan Square talking with the boys, trying to have a good time.”
Reader Meet Author: Personal Advice from Author Lashonda Katrice Barnett
“I worry that my friend’s dating standards are too high.”
Read an Excerpt from Larry Kramer’s ‘American People: Volume I’
This month, Farrar, Straus and Giroux is releasing the long-awaited new novel from author Larry Kramer, The American People: Volume 1: Search for My Heart: A Novel.
Reader Meet Author: Personal Advice from Author Ayana Mathis
“What is the best way to handle being a new slightly lonely lesbian in the big city?”
Reader Meet Author: Personal Advice from Author Chavisa Woods
“How long does it take to recover from a breakup?”
Read Dennis Cooper’s New Novel Composed of Animated GIFs
Zac’s Haunted House is a visual novel; it is a tale told through animated pictures.
Read Jericho Brown’s Introduction to ‘Prime: Poetry & Conversation’
“For a poem to coalesce, for a character or an action to take shape, there has to be an imaginative transformation of reality which is in no way passive.”
Read an Excerpt from Alexis De Veaux’s New Book ‘Yabo’
Yabo lyrically maps the spiritual and physical borders between love, passion, sexuality, and gender.
Cannes Jury Hands Top Honor to Sex-Soaked Lesbian Epic
On May 25th, the Cannes
New in May: Dan Savage, Michelle Tea, Amber Dawn, and Martin Duberman
This month you can expect new books from Dan Savage, Michelle Tea, Amber Dawn, and Martin Duberman.
Clive Davis Comes Out in New Memoir
In his new memoir, famed 80-year-old record executive Clive Davis opens up about his long rumored bisexuality.
‘SATANICA’: Pleasure Seekers Wanted
At a loss on what
Bret Easton Ellis + Paul Schrader + James Deen= Film?
Once a bad boy, always
Nikky Finney: Heart, Truth, and Justice
Nikky Finney is an award-winning, southern-born poet, whose critically acclaimed work is imbued with a distinct sense of lyricism and recurring themes of both social justice and communal history.
She was recently awarded the 2011 National Book Award for her latest collection Head Off & Split. Finney took some time to talk with Lambda Literary Review about her now famous National Book Award speech, shoe shopping with Condoleezza Rice, and the dividing line between art and rhetoric.
William Johnson: Lambda’s New Managing Editor
A Note from the New
23rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards
These Finalists represent books published
