Annual Salary: $52,000 FTE plus a benefits package that includes healthcare insurance and paid vacation. This is a full-time equivalent, 9-month opportunity. There are two positions open: one based in NYC and one remote position. Directly supervised by Program Manager. Program Coordinator ___ Lambda Literary, the nation’s leading LGBTQ+* literary organization, seeks a creative, detail-oriented, and highly collaborative Program Coordinator to support the LGBTQ Writers in Schools program.   Since 2015, Lambda Literary and the NYC Department of Education have worked together to bring th ..read more

On August 7, 2022, just minutes before the live streaming of her award winning play, How To Let Your Lover Die, began, Jewish lesbian poet, novelist, editor, and agitator, Elana Dykewomon died. Most fitting, her death occurred on the Jewish fast day of Tisha B’av—the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av, a day of mourning and commemoration for the destruction of two temples, among other calamities.  Elana had been wrestling with esophageal cancer since September of last year, and she suffered through chemotherapy, radiation, and other treatments. She had been rewarded with moments of hope ..read more

Hundred degree days, Leo season, the dog days of summer: August is here! To fill out your summer reading goals, we’ve got you covered with this month’s most anticipated LGBTQIA+ book releases. If you’re not ready for summer to end, try Dogs of Summer, Andrea Abreu’s debut novel about two young girls coming of age in the Canary Islands. Dogs of Summer isn’t the only novel coming to us in English translation this month from translator Julia Sanches— check out Boulder, Eva Baltasar’s much-anticipated followup to Permafrost. Whet your appetite with an excerpt here. It may be hot, but it’s the cold ..read more

July 21, 2022 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 21, 2022 Publicity Contact: Chloe Feffer, Program Manager, Writer’s Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices Phone: (213) 277-5755 Email: retreat@lambdaliterary.org 83 Emerging LGBTQ Writers to Join Lambda Literary’s 2022 Writer’s Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices New York, NY—For over 30 years, Lambda Literary has championed LGBTQIA+ books and authors based on its belief that lives are affirmed and culture preserved when our stories are written, published, and read. Since 2007, Lambda Literary has offered the Writer’s Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices—the ..read more

Welcome to May We Present…, a column from Lambda Literary that highlights authors with recent or forthcoming publications. This MWP discusses Alexander Cheves’ My Love is a Beast, published on October 12th, 2021 by Unbound Edition Press. It is a memoir told through a collection of lyric essays, threading Cheves’s transgressive arc from adopted son of conservative Christians to sex columnist, sex worker, self-avowed slut, and kinkster. In an interview with Lambda Literary Fellow and fellow sex worker Dale Corvino, Cheves discusses his writing and publication process, his interactions with ..read more

A new round of queer, trans, LGBTQIA+ books to suit every fancy is here to get you through the mind-melting days of midsummer. Former Judith A. Markowitz Award Winner Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Ph.D.’s debut novel Big Girl sorts through the perils of diet culture on a young girl, and explores longing and desire, wrapped in 90s throwbacks. When you’ve had enough of the heat and you’re ready to take a dip, question what’s in the water in They Drown Our Daughters or submerge yourself in Julia Armfield’s exploration of the depths, Our Wives Under the Sea. Next, follow memoirist Chris Belcher from ear ..read more

Lambda Literary, the nation’s leading LGBTQ literary organization, seeks a creative, detail-oriented, and highly collaborative Individual Giving Manager to cultivate, sustain, and grow our donor base.  Throughout our 35-year history, Lambda Literary has maintained a committed group of supporters who help fuel our narrative-shifting work to uplift LGBTQ voices and stories. The Individual Giving Manager is a key piece of our 3-year strategic plan and will support Lambda Literary’s long-term growth and sustainability. We are seeking a dynamic and inventive individual who enjoys building rela ..read more

Lambda Literary, the nation’s leading LGBTQ literary organization, seeks a creative,  detail-oriented, and highly collaborative Review Manager to curate, craft, and envision digital content inside the Review and Lambda’s social media channels.  In 2010, Lambda Literary reformatted its time-honored Literary Review (formerly the Lambda Book Report, which began in 1989) into an online platform that celebrates, serves, informs, entertains, and connects the whole of the brilliantly diverse community that creates and LGBTQ literature. After a transformational redesign in 2020, the online R ..read more

When one first hears the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, they often lament, “Why, oh why, did he look back?” In the myth, Orpheus attempts to recover his wife Eurydice from the underworld. He loses his chance by disobeying the conditions set forth by the gods: he turns around to see his love before they complete their ascent, and a tragedy is born. Every adaptation has their own point of view on Orpheus’ choice. In the film Portrait of a Lady on Fire, characters suggest that perhaps he turned so the lovers could say good-bye on their own terms. In Hadestown, the Broadway musical retelling of th ..read more

Dedicated to the memory of author and journalist Jim Duggins, the Duggins Prize honors LGBTQ-identified authors who have published multiple novels, built a strong reputation and following, and show promise to continue publishing high quality work for years to come. This award is made possible by the James Duggins, PhD Fund for Outstanding Mid-Career LGBTQ Novelists, a fund of the Horizons Foundation, and includes a cash prize of $5,000. VI KHI NAO is the author of six poetry collections: Fish Carcass (Black Sun Lit, 2022), A Bell Curve Is A Pregnant Straight Line (11:11 Press, 2021), Human Te ..read more