Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Literature

Bisexual fiction The award for bisexual fiction recognizes "[n]ovels, novellas, short story collections, and anthologies with prominent bi/pan ... characters and/or content of strong significance to the bi/pan ... communities." The list "[m]ay include historical novels, comics, cross-genre works of fiction, humor, and other styles of fiction." Bisexual nonfiction The award for bisexual nonfiction recognizes "[n]onfiction works with content of strong significance to members of the bi/[pan] communities," including "a wide range of subjects for the general or academic reader." Bisexual poetry The award for bisexual poetry recognizes individual volumes of poems and poem collections with bisexual content. Chapbooks are ineligible for the prize, as well as "[u]pdated editions of previously published works ... unless at least 50% of the poetry (not the supplemental text) is new." If there are not enough eligible titles in any given year to support a dedicated bisexual poetry category, then bisexual poetry titles are considered in the fiction category. == History ==

Before a Lambda Literary Award category was created for works of bisexual literature, books on bisexual topics were judged in categories designated for literature about other identities. In 1992, Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out, was placed in the Lambda category of Lesbian Anthology. In 2005, bisexual writer June Jordan's poetry book Directed by Desire: Collected Poems competed in the Lesbian Poetry category and won. Bisexual activists spent years campaigning for the Lambda Literary Foundation to add a category awarding works of bisexual literature. For one year in 2002, the organization changed their recently established award for transgender literature into a combined "Transgender or Bisexual" category. In 2006, the foundation added a dedicated category for bisexual literature. With time, the number of categories awarding works of bisexual literature changed. When it shrank back to one category in 2012, Lambert felt the bisexual literary community was being neglected. She established the annual, multi-category Bisexual Book Awards in response. == Recipients ==