Todd Wellman, Author at Lambda Literary Review

Cover of If This Gets Out by Sophie Gonzales and Cale Dietrich

December 6, 2021 4 min read

Seven new LGBT YA novels debuting this winter from December 2021 to February 2022 featuring fantasy fiction, contemporary novels, and more. Read More

Back to School the World: Eight Queer Young Adult Books Coming this Fall

Todd Wellman

News

September 2, 2021 4 min read

Folks, have you too heard someone say they can’t wait to “go back to normal” after the pandemic? Well, if...

Read These! Fourteen Queer Young Adult Books Coming This Spring

Todd Wellman

News

March 30, 2021 5 min read

Thank Buddha more daylight is a promise we can count on soon — and along with it, queer young adult...

Phil Stamper on the Thrill of Figuring Out Where You Belong

Todd Wellman

Features

February 24, 2021 6 min read

Imagine it: You’ve flown across the world to get away from your suffocating family. Finally getaway. And what do you...

Ryan La Sala on Being a Menace to Reality

Todd Wellman

author interviews

January 15, 2021 6 min read

Does Ryan La Sala tell himself to pout, or does it come naturally, the way someone might flip their hair,...

Malinda Lo on Writing a Coming-of-Age Love Story

Todd Wellman

author interviews

December 23, 2020 12 min read

In Malinda Lo’s forthcoming Last Night at the Telegraph Club (Dutton Books for Young Readers, January 2020), protagonist Lily Hu feels the...

Hannah Abigail Clarke Wants More Unabashedly Queer Narratives

Todd Wellman

Features

December 15, 2020 5 min read

When writer and Lambda Literary fellow Hannah Abigail Clarke calls themselves terribly handsome, you cheer. On others, it would chip away faster...

6 Forthcoming Queer YA Books to Add to Your TBR Pile

Todd Wellman

Features

October 17, 2020 4 min read

Salivate with me, if you will, over the wonderful buffet of forthcoming 2021 queer YA books. Let’s imagine how we’ll...

Middle School’s a Drag, You Better Werk! is a Celebration of Bravery

Todd Wellman

Fiction

March 12, 2020 3 min read

Middle School’s a Drag, You Better Werk! is a Celebration of Bravery! Read More

Reviews

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Random

Yang Huang on My Good Son and Responsibly Taking Risks in Fiction

Features

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

Interviews

Bonds & Boundaries: A Conversation with Dale Corvino

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

“What if it was both and all of the above?”: An interview with CJ Hauser

Excerpts

An Excerpt from Sleep Tight Satellite: Stories by Carol Guess

Read This! Excerpt from the delicacy of embracing spirals by mimi tempestt

In Bed with Joan Nestle

Seven Shimmering LGBTQ YA Novels to Illuminate Winter Nights

Back to School the World: Eight Queer Young Adult Books Coming this Fall

Read These! Fourteen Queer Young Adult Books Coming This Spring

Phil Stamper on the Thrill of Figuring Out Where You Belong

Ryan La Sala on Being a Menace to Reality

Malinda Lo on Writing a Coming-of-Age Love Story

Hannah Abigail Clarke Wants More Unabashedly Queer Narratives

6 Forthcoming Queer YA Books to Add to Your TBR Pile

Middle School’s a Drag, You Better Werk! is a Celebration of Bravery

Reviews

Random

Features

Interviews

Excerpts

Author Todd Wellman