Nancy Agabian Wins 2021 Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction
Lambda Literary is pleased to
Librarian Paige Caliguiri on the LGBTQ Writer in Schools Program
“This program gives a school and a library program with a rich culture of reading (like my own) the opportunity to bring reading to life and motivate students in a unique way.”
Bob Smith: On Religion, Life with ALS, His Love of Nature, and His New Book ‘Treehab’
“I want a God who’s not meaner than I am.”
Garrard Conley: On Surviving Ex-Gay Therapy, Writing His Memoir, and the Year in Queer Lit
“I remember in the 90s and even early 00s, the idea was still prevalent in popular culture and the media that gay sex equaled death. When you’re in this religious environment, it complicates it even further.”
Michael Graves: On Writing, Relationships, and Practicing Hope
“[…] People are scared to talk about religion. They are less fearful of discussions concerning sex or guns. Why don’t we talk about God? Why don’t we talk about spirituality?”
Author Quintan Ana Wikswo on the Limitations and Power of Labels
“Primarily, I wanted to see if I could write a book in which issues of love, erotics, desire, and sex could be momentarily liberated from conventional categorizations of gender identity.”
Riverhead Editorial Director Rebecca Saletan on the Art of Publishing
“For me, I’m less interested in things that reflect the world and the familiar literature that I already know. I want things to take me into new zones.”
Out of the Dungeons and onto the Bookshelf: Leather Writers in a Post-‘Fifty Shades’ Literary World
Authors Sassafras Lowrey, Laura Antoniou, and Cecilia Tan discuss BDSM writing in a post-Fifty Shades literary world
Jonathan Galassi: On Publishing, Poetry vs. Prose, and Meeting Your Literary Heroes
“I chose to write about publishing because it’s the world I know best, and because I wanted to leave a record of a way of working that really is gone now.”
Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, and Nate Marshall: On the Queer Aspects of Hip Hop
“I think the reality of hip hop is that women and queer people and a lot of folks who we think about being in the margins have always been at the center of the culture.”
