The Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation to a debut work of fiction on LGBT themes. Formerly presented in two separate categories for gay male and lesbian debut fiction, beginning the 25th Lambda Literary Awards in 2013 a single award, inclusive of both male and female writers, was presented. The award was, however, discontinued after the 28th Lambda Literary Awards in 2016.

The award was presented based on themes in the work, not the sexuality or gender of the writer; heterosexual writers were eligible for the award, and writers could be nominated in the "cross-gender" category based on the work.

Winners and nominees

Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction winners and finalists
Year Category Author Title Result Ref.
1989 Gay Debut Fiction Alan Hollinghurst The Swimming-Pool Library Winner [1]
Joe Keenan Blue Heaven Finalist [1]
Stan Levanthal Mountain Climbing In Sheridan Square
C.F. Borgman River Road
Russell A. Brown Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of O. Wilde
1990 Gay Debut Fiction John Weir The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket Winner [2]
Randall Kenan A Visitation of Spirits Finalist [2]
Mickey C. Fleming About Courage
David B. Feinberg Eighty-Sixed
M.S. Hunter The Buccaneer
Roz Perry Rose Penski
1991 Gay Debut Fiction Lev Raphael Dancing On Tisha B’av Winner [3]
Bo Huston Horse and Other Stories Finalist [3]
Matthew Stadler Landscape: Memory
Allen Barnett The Body and Its Dangers
Patrick Moore This Every Night
Lesbian Debut Fiction Cherry Muhanji Her Winner [3]
Patricia R. Schwartz The Names of the Moons of Mars
Nisa Donnelly Bar Stories: A Novel After All Finalist [3]
Ruthann Robson Eye of a Hurricane
Vickie Sears Simple Songs
Renee Hansen Take Me to the Underground
Karen Marie Christa Minns Virago
Paula Martinac and Carla Tomaso Voyages Out
Julie Blackwomon and Nona Caspers Voyages Out 2
1992-2006 No award presented
2005 Gay Debut Fiction Blair Mastbaum Clay’s Way Winner [4]
Damian McNicholl A Son Called Gabriel Finalist [4]
Aaron Krach Half-Life
Mar Acito How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship, and Musical Theater
Brian Leung World Famous Love Acts
Lesbian Debut Fiction Judith Frank Crybaby Butch Winner [4]
Mary Vermillion Death by Discount Finalist [4]
Kristie Helms Dish It Up, Baby!
Laurinda D. Brown Fire & Brimstone
Bridget Bufford Minus One: A Twelve-Step Journey
2006 Gay Debut Fiction Vestal McIntyre You Are Not the One Winner [5]
Sulyman X Bilal’s Bread Finalist [5]
Richard McCann Mother of Sorrows
Mack Friedman Setting the Lawn on Fire
Barry McCrea The First Verse
Lesbian Debut Fiction Ali Leibegott The Beautifully Worthless Winner [5]
Fiona Zedde Bliss Finalist [5]
Katia Noyes Crashing America
Ronica Black In Too Deep
Michelle Embree Manstealing for Fat Girls
2007 Gay Debut Fiction Robert Westfield Suspension Winner [6]
Timothy Williams 5 Minutes & 42 Seconds Finalist [6]
Martin Hyatt A Scarecrow’s Bible
Patrick Ryan Send Me
Alex MacLennan The Zookeeper
Lesbian Debut Fiction Ellis Avery The Teahouse Fire Winner [6]
Kirsten Dinnall Hoyte Black Marks Finalist [6]
Ana-Maurine Lara Erzulie’s Skirt
Peggy Munson Origami Striptease
Leslie Larson Slipstream
2008 Gay Debut Fiction Christopher Kelly A Push and a Shove Winner [7][8]
James St. James Freak Show Finalist [7]
Kemble Scott SoMa
James Canon Tales from the Town of Widows
Michael Quadland That Was Then
Lesbian Debut Fiction Aoibheann Sweeney Among Other Things, I’ve Taken Up Smoking Winner [7][8]
Lu Vickers Breathing Underwater Finalist [7]
Myriam Gurba Dahlia Season
Holly Farris Lockjaw
Corrina Wycoff O Street
2009 Gay Debut Fiction Shawn Stewart Ruff Finlater Winner [9]
Evan Fallenberg Light Fell Finalist [9]
Daniel Allen Cox Shuck
Drew Ferguson The Screwed-Up Life of Charlie The Second
Mike Hoolboom The Steve Machine
Lesbian Debut Fiction Magdalena Zurawski The Bruise Winner [9]
Meri Weiss Closer to Fine Finalist [9]
Chavisa Woods Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind
Linda Villarosa Passing for Black
Jill Malone Red Audrey & the Roping
2010 Gay Debut Fiction Rakesh Satyal Blue Boy Winner [10]
James Hannaham God Says No Finalist [10]
Lance Reynald Pop Salvation
G. Winston James Shaming the Devil: Collected Short Stories
James Magruder Sugarless
Lesbian Debut Fiction Rhiannon Argo The Creamsickle Winner [10]
Maida Tilchen Land Beyond Maps Finalist [10]
Barb Johnson More of This World or Maybe Another
Lori Ostlund The Bigness of the World
Z Egloff Verge
2011 Gay Debut Fiction David Pratt Bob the Book Winner [11][12]
Rob Stephenson Passes Through Finalist [13]
Tom Mendicino Probation
Tom Schabarum The Palisades
Chris Corkum XOXO Hayden
Lesbian Debut Fiction Amber Dawn Sub Rosa Winner [11][12]
Katharine Beutner Alcestis Finalist [13]
Georgeann Packard Fall Asleep Forgetting
Lois Walden One More Stop
Michael Sledge The More I Owe You
2012 Gay Debut Fiction Rahul Mehta Quarantine: Stories Winner [14]
Justin Chin 98 Wounds Finalist
Michael Graves Dirty One
Katherine Scott Nelson Have You Seen Me
Garth Greenwell Mitko
Lesbian Debut Fiction Laurie Weeks Zipper Mouth Winner [14]
Sarah Toshiko Hasu Megume and the Trees Finalist
Lara Fergus My Sister Chaos
Christine Stark Nickels: A Tale of Dissociation
Sally Bellerose The Girls Club
2013 Debut Fiction Mia McKenzie The Summer We Got Free Winner [15]
William Sterling Walker Desire: Tales of New Orleans Finalist [15]
Lydia Perovic Incidental Music
E.J. Levy Love, In Theory: Ten Stories
Kristen Ringman Makara: A novel
Lysley Tenorio Monstress
Alex Leslie People Who Disappear
Jeanne Thornton The Dream of Doctor Bantam
Carter Sickels The Evening Hour
Lania Knight Three Cubic Feet
2014 Debut Fiction Nik Nicholson Descendants of Hagar Winner [16][17]
Abigail Tarttelin Golden Boy Finalist [16]
Derek Palacio How to Shake the Other Man
Jane Hoppen In Between
Charles L. Ross Inside
Andrea Routley Jane and the Whales
Laura Krughoff My Brother’s Name: A Novel
Ronald Palmer Prick Queasy
Amy Grace Loyd The Affairs of Others: A Novel
Guy Mark Foster The Rest of Us: Stories
2015 Debut Fiction Abdi Nazemian The Walk-In Closet Winner [18][19][20][21]
Elizabeth Earley A Map of Everything Finalist [19]
Vinton Rafe McCabe Death in Venice, California
Megan Milks Kill Marguerite and Other Stories
Dia Felix Nochita
Dan Lopez Part the Hawser, Limn the Sea
Bob Sennett The Music Teacher
Alden Jones Unaccompanied Minors
2016 Debut Fiction Victor Yates A Love Like Blood Winner [22][23]
Mark S. Luckie Do U. Finalist [24]
Paul Brownsey His Steadfast Love and Other Stories
Ioannis Pappos Hotel Living
Meliza Bañales Life is Wonderful, People are Terrific
James Driggers Lovesick
Libby Ware Lum: A Novel
Austin Bunn The Brink

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