Lambda Literary Foundation

Lambda Literary Foundation
aka Lambda Literary
Established 1987/1997
Type LGBT literary organization
Location
  • Los Angeles, CA
Services
Executive Director
 Tony Valenzuela
Managing Editor
 William Johnson
Program Coordinator
 Kyle Sawyer
Website lambdaliterary.org

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. [1][2]

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.[3]

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.[4][5]

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. [6]

Bookish

Bookish is a weekly newsletter complied 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. [7]

References

  1. ↑ "A Brief History of LLF". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 15 March 2013.
  2. ↑ "Finding Aid to the Lambda Literary Foundation records, 1986-2010". ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives. Online Archive of California. Retrieved 15 March 2013.
  3. ↑ "Lambda Finalists Named". Publishers Weekly. 8 March 2013. Retrieved 15 March 2013.
  4. ↑ "Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBT Voices". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 15 March 2013.
  5. ↑ "2016 Writers Retreat Fellows". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2016-04-22.
  6. ↑ Torres, Justin. "Don't get used to it: Queer literature in a time of triumph". Salon. Retrieved 2016-08-27.
  7. ↑ Team, Edit (2016-07-19). "Lambda Literary Announces Jeanne Córdova and Bryn Kelly Scholarships". Retrieved 2016-08-27.

Lambda Literary Foundation official website: http://www.lambdaliterary.org/

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