Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Romance

Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Romance
Awarded for	Literary award
Sponsored by	Lambda Literary Foundation
Date	Annual
Website	lambdaliterary.org/awards/

The Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Romance is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation, to a novel, novella, or short story collection "by a single author that focus on a central love relationship between two or more characters", not including anthologies.[1] The submission guidelines mention several sub-genres are included, " including traditional, historical, gothic, Regency, and paranormal romance".[1]

Recipients

Year	Author	Work	Result	Ref.
2007	Georgia Beers	Fresh Tracks	Winner	[2]
	Ronica Black	Wild Abandon	Finalist	[2]
	Grace Lennox	Chance
	Karin Kallmaker	Finders Keepers
	Radclyffe	Turn Back Time
2008	KG MacGregor	Out of Love	Winner	[3][4]
	Marianne K. Martin	For Now, for Always	Finalist	[4]
	Gun Brooke	Sheridan’s Fate
	Frankie J. Jones	The Road Home
	Radclyffe	When Dreams Tremble
2009	Karin Kallmaker	The Kiss That Counted	Winner	[5]
	Catherine Friend	A Pirate’s Heart	Finalist	[5]
	Georgia Beers	Finding Home
	JLee Meyer	Hotel Liaison
	Radclyffe	The Lonely Hearts Club
2010	Colette Moody	The Sublime and Spirited Voyage of Original Sin	Winner	[6]
	Carsen Taite	It Should Be a Crime	Finalist	[6]
	Tracey Richardson	No Rules of Engagement
	Karin Kallmaker	Stepping Stone
	KG MacGregor	Worth Every Step
2011	Cate Culpepper	River Walker	Winner	[7]
	Karin Kallmaker	Above Temptation	Finalist	[8]
	Lindsey Stone	Awakening to Sunlight
	Ann Roberts	Beacon of Love
	Georgia Beers	Starting from Scratch
2012	Kenna White	Taken by Surprise	Winner	[9]
	Robbi McCoy	For Me and My Gal	Finalist
	Rebecca S. Buck	Ghosts of Winter
	Julie Cannon	Rescue Me
	Gerri Hill	Storms
2013	Yolanda Wallace	Month of Sundays	Winner	[10][11]
	Kieran York	Appointment with a Smile	Finalist	[11]
	Lesley Davis	Dark Wings Descending
	Ali Vali	Love Match
	Anne Laughlin	Runaway
	Trin Denise	She Left Me Breathless
	Yvonne Heidt	Sometime Yesterday
	Chris Paynter	Survived by Her Longtime Companion
	Lynette Mae	Tactical Pursuit
	Q. Kelly	Third
2014	Andrea Bramhall	Clean Slate	Winner	[12][13]
	Lynn Ames	All That Lies Within	Finalist	[13]
	Gerri Hill	At Seventeen
	D. Jordan Redhawk	Broken Trails
	Mason Dixon	Date with Destiny
	D. Jackson Leigh	Hold Me Forever
	Ann McMan and Salem West	Hoosier Daddy
	Tracey Richardson	Last Salute
	Karin Kallmaker	Love by the Numbers
	Neil Stark	The Princess Affair
2015	Robbi McCoy	The Farmer's Daughter	Winner	[14]
	Lisa Girolami	The Heat of Angels	Finalist	[15]
	Kris Bryant	Jolt
	Andrea Bramhall	Nightingale
	Jesse J. Thoma	Seneca Falls
	Marianne K. Martin	Tangled Roots
2016	Julie Blair	Making a Comeback	Winner	[16][17]
	Shelley Thrasher	Autumn Spring	Finalist	[18]
	Andrea Bramhall	The Chameleon’s Tale
	Dillon Watson	Full Circle
	Rachel Spangler	Heart of the Game
	Jackie D	Infiltration
	Blythe H. Warren	My Best Friend’s Girl
	Amy Dunne	The Renegade
2017	Virginia Hale	The Scorpion’s Empress	Winner	[19]
	Barbara Ann Wright	Coils	Finalist	[20]
	Karma Kingsley	Finding Lizzie
	Lila Bruce	Little Lies
	Kiki Archer	Lost in the Starlight
	Susan Wittig Albert	Loving Eleanor
	Rachel Spangler	Perfect Pairing
	Marianne K. Martin	The Liberators of Willow Run
2018	Yolanda Wallace	Tailor-Made	Winner	[21][22]
	Rachel Spangler	Close to Home	Finalist	[23]
	Aurora Rey	Crescent City Confidential
	Ann McMan	Goldenrod
	Ann Roberts	Vagabond Heart
	Yoshiyuki Ly	Venus and Lysander
	Julie Cannon	Wishing on a Dream
	Karis Walsh	You Make Me Tremble
2019	Ann McMan	Beowulf for Cretins: A Love Story	Winner	[24]
	Aurora Rey	Autumn’s Light	Finalist	[25]
	Erin Zak	Breaking Down Her Walls
	Jenny Frame	Charming the Vicar
	Rachel Spangler	In Development
	Jae	Just for Show
	Lola Keeley	The Music and the Mirror
	Sheri Lewis Wohl	The Talebearer
2020	Emily Noon	Aurora’s Angel: A Dark Fantasy Romance	Winner	[26][27][28]
	Erin Zak	Create a Life to Love	Finalist	[29][30]
	Alyssa Cole	Once Ghosted, Twice Shy
	M. Ullrich	Pretending in Paradise
	Jae	The Roommate Arrangement
	Virginia Hale	The Secret Chord
	Donna K. Ford	Tennessee Whiskey
	M. Ullrich	Top of Her Game
2021	Alexandria Bellefleur	Written in the Stars	Winner	[31][32][33]
	Clare Ashton	Finding Jessica Lambert	Finalist	[34]
	Anna Burke	Nottingham
	Ali Vali	One More Chance
	Jae	Wrong Number, Right Woman
2022	Milena McKay	The Headmistress	Winner	[35]
	Jae	Chemistry Lessons	Finalist	[36]
	E. J. Noyes	Go Around
	Haley Cass	In the Long Run
	Gerri Hill	Red Tide at Heron Bay
2023	Nan Campbell	The Rules of Forever	Winner	[37]
	Susie Dumond	Queerly Beloved	Finalist	[38]
	Aurora Rey	Hard Pressed
	E. J. Noyes	If I Don’t Ask
	K. B. Draper	Southbound and Down
2024	Marianne Ratcliffe	A Lady to Treasure	Finalist	[39]
	Kris Bryant	Catch
	Georgia Beers	Dance with Me
	Lisa Peers	Love at 350°
	Melissa Brayden	Lucky in Lace

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