2020 Lambda Literary Awards Finalists Announced

Yesterday, Lambda Literary announced the finalists for their yearly literary awards. Katie Yee at Literary Hub has the scoop, writing: "For the past 32 years, the Lambda Literary Awards have been championing lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender writers. Past recipients of these awards include Audre Lorde, Alison Bechdel, Roxane Gay, and Michael Cunningham. This year’s award ceremony will be held on June 8th at NYU’s Skirball Center. Congratulations to all the finalists!" Congrats indeed! We'll let you head to Lit Hub for the full list, but we will send along finalists in the poetry categories, here:

LESBIAN POETRY
& more black, t’ai freedom ford, Augury Books
Odes to Lithium, Shira Erlichman, Alice James Books
(the other house), Rocío Carlos, The Accomplices
Pressure Cooker Love Bomb, Sharanpal Ruprai, Frontenac House
Soft Science, Franny Choi, Alice James Books
Time, Etel Adnan, translated by Sarah Riggs, Nightboat Books
tsunami vs. the fukushima 50, Lee Ann Roripaugh, Milkweed Editions
Without Protection, Gala Mukomolova, Coffee House Press

GAY POETRY
Doomstead Days, Brian Teare, Nightboat Books
The Experiment of the Tropics, Lawrence Lacambra Ypil, Gaudy Boy
Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, Jake Skeets, Milkweed Editions
Losing Miami, Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué, The Accomplices
NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field, Billy-Ray Belcourt, House of Anansi Press
The Revisionist & The Astropastorals, Douglas Crase, Nightboat Books
SLINGSHOT, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, Nightboat Books
The Tradition, Jericho Brown, Copper Canyon Press

BISEXUAL POETRY
Build Yourself a Boat, Camonghne Felix, Haymarket Books
HoodWitch, Faylita Hicks, Acre Books
Moira of Edges, Moira the Tart, Moina Pam Dick, Organism for Poetic Research
Pet Sounds, Stephanie Young, Nightboat Books
Revenge of the Asian Woman, Dorothy Chan, Diode Editions
ROMANS/SNOWMARE, Cam Scott, ARP Books

TRANSGENDER POETRY
Dispatch, Cameron Awkward-Rich, Persea Books
EXTRATRANSMISSION, Andrea Abi-Karam, Kelsey Street Press
HULL, Xandria Phillips, Nightboat Books
Our Weather Our Sea, Samuel Ace, Black Radish Books
The Year of Blue Water, Yanyi, Yale University Press
A Sand Book, Ariana Reines, Tin House Books
water/tongue, mai c. doan, Omnidawn