The Lambda Literary Foundation is the largest LGBT literary organization in the world. The foundation's mission is to nurture, celebrate, and preserve Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender literature through three programs that honor excellence, promote visibility and encourage development of emerging writers including the annual Lambda Literary Award

Lambda Literary Award

Lambda Literary Awards are awarded yearly by the US-based Lambda Literary Foundation to published works which celebrate or explore LGBT themes. Categories include Humor, Romance and Biography. To qualify, a book must have been published in the United States in the year current to the award...

, the Writers' Retreat for Emerging LGBT Voices, their website LambdaLiterary.org, their editorial staff Lambda Literary Review and their weekly e-newsletter Bookish.

Lambda Literary Awards

The Annual Lambda Literary Awards honor "Excellence in LGBT literature" in various categories that change from year to year. 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 as the newest program of Lambda Literary Foundation and is the first of its kind ever offered to LGBT writers: a one-week intensive immersion in fiction, nonfiction, or poetry. The retreat is an unparalleled opportunity to learn from the very best writers in the LGBT community. Faculty have included Dorothy Allison

Dorothy Allison

Dorothy Allison is an American writer, speaker, and member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.-Early life:Dorothy E. Allison was born on April 11, 1949 in Greenville, South Carolina to Ruth Gibson Allison, who was fifteen at the time. Ruth was a poor and unmarried mother who worked as a...

, Claire Carmichael, Bernard Cooper, Elana Dykewomon

Elana Dykewomon

Elana Dykewomon is a Jewish lesbian activist, award-winning author, editor and teacher.- Childhood :...

, Katherine V. Forrest

Katherine V. Forrest

Katherine V. Forrest is an American writer.Forrest is best known for her eight novels about lesbian police detective Kate Delafield. The character was the very first lesbian police detective in the American lesbian mystery genre and is described as "Miss Marple with k.d...

, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Eloise Klein Healy, Fenton Johnson

Fenton Johnson

John Fenton Johnson was born ninth of nine children into a Kentucky whiskey-making family with a strong storytelling tradition.-Life:His most recent book Keeping Faith: A Skeptic's Journey draws on time spent living as a member of the monastic communities of the Trappist Abbey of Gethsemani in...

, Michael Nava

Michael Nava

Michael Angel Nava is an attorney and writer.He is a third-generation Californian of Mexican descent. He was born and raised in Sacramento. He was the first member of his family to attend college, graduating with honors from the Colorado College in 1976. He received his J.D...

, D.A. Powell, John Rechy

John Rechy

John Francis Rechy, , is an American author, the child of a half-Scottish and half-Mexican father, Roberto Rechy, and a Mexican-American mother, Guadalupe Flores. In his novels he has written extensively about homosexual culture in Los Angeles and wider America, and is among the pioneers of modern...

, Ellen Bass

Ellen Bass

Ellen Bass is an American poet-Life:She attended Goucher College, where she graduated magna cum laude in 1968 with her bachelor’s degree. She pursued a master’s degree at Boston University and graduated in 1970. From 1970–1974, Bass worked as an administrator at Project Place, a social service...

, Ellery Washington and Nicola Griffith.

Bookish

Bookish is a weekly newsletter complied by the editorial staff of the Lambda Literary Review.