Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize
The Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize is presented annually at the Lambda Literary Awards ceremony. The award, made possible by James Duggins, PhD, consists of two cash prizes of $5,000.
The awards will be presented to two LGBT-identified authors. Age is not a determining factor. The award recognizes LGBT content of importance to the LGBT community and with emergent LGBT authors who have written and published at least three novels, or two novels and substantial additional literary work such as poetry, short stories, and essays. A panel (or panels) will be created to identify candidates & winners. Recommended winners will be reviewed by the Staff and Board of Trustees of the Lambda Literary Foundation. Click on the link below to download the revised 2012 nomination guidelines. Nominations are now closed. Please check back in winter for the 2013 nomination guidelines.
Download the 2012 Nomination Guidelines (PDF)
Stacey D’Erasmo
2012 Award Recipient
STACEY D’ERASMO holds a B.A. from Barnard College and an M.A. from New York University in English and American Literature. She was a Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University from 1995-1997. She is the author of the novels Tea, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; A Seahorse Year, which was named a Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle and Newsday, and won both a Lambda Literary Award and a Ferro-Grumley Award; and The Sky Below, which was reviewed on the cover of The New York Times Book Review. She is the recipient of a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction. Her essays, features, and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Boston Review, Bookforum, and Ploughshares, among other publications. She is an assistant professor of writing at Columbia University.
Brian Leung
2012 Award Recipient
BRIAN LEUNG is the author of the short story collection, World Famous Love Acts (Sarabande, 2004), a Lambda Literary finalist and winner of both the Mary McCarthy Award for short fiction and The Asian American Literary Award for Fiction. His novels are Lost Men (Random House, 2008) and Take Me Home (Harper/Collins, 2010) winner of the 2011 Willa Award for Historical Fiction. His poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction appear in numerous publications, including the essay, “The Seismology of Love and Letters,” forthcoming in Who’s Yer Daddy? Gay Writers Celebrate Their Mentors and Forerunners (University of Wisconsin Press, Fall 2012). Leung currently serves on the LGBT Advisory Board at the University of Louisville where he is the Director of Creative Writing.
James Duggins, PhD
A U.S. Navy Journalist in the Pacific (Korean War), Jim studied with James Michener and Bill Lederer. He graduated from San Francisco State, and received his PhD from UC Berkeley. He taught English and Speech at high school and community college, and retired as a professor from San Francisco State.
He is co-author of Hooked on Books (Berkley Books), compiled Teaching Reading for Human Values (Charles Merrill), and has written many articles for academic journals (The English Journal, The Journal of Reading, Wilson Library Journal,); his memoir “A Rock and a Hard Place” appeared in Love, Castro Street: Reflections of San Francisco (Alyson Press, 2007).
He now writes fiction full time and his love of history has produced the historical novels The Power: A Novel of Voodoo, and Slave Stealer, the first of a five-novel series. He divides his time between the desert in southern California and his house in Mexico where he collects Mexican Folk Art and is a regular contributor to museums around the United States.
Download the 2012 Nomination Guidelines (PDF)
