Established 1987/1997 Executive Director Tony Valenzuela | Location Los Angeles, CA Managing Editor William Johnson | |
Type LGBT literary organization Services Lambda Literary AwardLambda Literary ReviewBookishWriters' Retreat for Emerging LGBT Voices | ||
The Lambda Literary Foundation (also referred to as Lambda Literary) is a LGBT literary organization. The group was incorporated in 1997, but traces its roots to 1987, and claims to be the largest such organization in the world. The foundation aims to promote lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender literature through programs that encourage development of emerging writers, including the annual Lambda Literary Award, the Writers' Retreat for Emerging LGBT Voices, their website LambdaLiterary.org, their editorial staff Lambda Literary Review, their weekly e-newsletter Bookish, their annual anthology, their scholarships, and LGBTQ writers in schools program.
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Lambda Literary Awards
The Annual Lambda Literary Awards honor "Excellence in LGBT literature" in various categories that change from year to year. Started in 1988, the Lambda Literary Awards are based principally on the LGBT content, the sexual orientation of the author and the literary merit of the work.
Writers' Retreat for Emerging LGBT Voices
The Writers’ Retreat for Emerging LGBT Voices was established in 2007 by the Lambda Literary Foundation, and was the first of its kind offered to LGBT writers. It is a one-week intensive immersion course in fiction, nonfiction, or poetry, aiming to allow new writers learn from established writers in the LGBT community. Faculty have included Dorothy Allison, Claire Carmichael, Bernard Cooper, Elana Dykewomon, Katherine V. Forrest, Rigoberto González, Eloise Klein Healy, Fenton Johnson, Joy Ladin, Michael Nava, D. A. Powell, John Rechy, Ellen Bass, Sarah Schulman, Ellery Washington and Nicola Griffith.
Anthology
In 2015 lambda published their first hardback Anthology, Emerge: 2015 Lambda Fellows Anthology (Volume 1), which was written that year by Lambda literary fellows.
Emerge: 2016 Lambda Literary Fellows Anthology. (Volume 2) Lambda Literary Foundation
Bookish
Bookish is a weekly newsletter compiled by the editorial staff of the Lambda Literary Review.
Scholarships
Lambda offers a variety of scholarships to emerging LGBT voices most recently adding scholarships in honor of transgender writer Bryn Kelly and feminist writer Jeanne Cordova.