36th Lambda Literary Awards

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36th Lambda Literary Awards
Awarded forWorks of LGBTQ+ literature
DateJune 11, 2024 (2024-06-11)
Location New York City
Country United States
Presented by Lambda Literary Foundation
EligibilityLGBTQ+ storytelling, published in the US in 2023 [1]
Website www.lambdaliterary.org/awards
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The finalists for the 36th Lambda Literary Awards , which honor works of LGBTQ+ literature published in 2023, were announced on March 27, 2024. [2] [3] The winners were announced at Sony Hall in New York on June 11, 2024. [4]

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Special awards

In this year there were seven special prizes, including two new awards: The Denneny Award for Editorial Excellence, named for history-making gay editor Michael Denneny, who passed away in 2023, and The Pat Holt Prize for Critical Arts Writing in honor of late San Francisco Chronicle book review editor Patricia Holt. [2]

Special awards recipients
CategoryWinnerRef
Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction Stephanie Davies [4]
Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize K.M. Soehnlein, Zelda Lockhart
Judith A. Markowitz Emerging Writer Award Federico Erebia, River 瑩瑩 Dandelion
J. Michael Samuel Prize for Emerging Writers Over 50 Paul Festa
Randall Kenan Prize for Black LGBTQ Fiction Liv Little
The Denneny Award for Editorial Excellence Remi Recchia
The Pat Holt Prize for Critical Arts Writing Elizabeth Hoover

Nominees and winners

36th Lambda Literary Awards winners and finalists
CategoryAuthorTitlePublisherResultRef.
Bisexual Fiction Ling Ling Huang Natural Beauty Penguin Random House / Dutton Winner [4]
Ruth MadievskyAll-Night Pharmacy: A NovelCatapultFinalist [2]
Jennifer Savran KellyEndpapers Algonquin Books
Sarah JamesLast Night at the Hollywood Canteen Sourcebooks
Haley JakobsonOld Enough Penguin Random House / Dutton
Bisexual Nonfiction Myriam Gurba Creep: Accusations and Confessions Avid Reader Press Winner [4]
Vaneet MehtaBisexual Men Exist: A Handbook for Bisexual, Pansexual and M-Spec Men Jessica Kingsley Publishers Finalist [2]
Zachary ZaneBoyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto Abrams Image
Eden BoudreauCrying WolfBook*hug Press
Kawika GuillermoNimrods: A fake-punk self-hurt anti-memoir Duke University Press
Bisexual Poetry Danielle Cadena Deulen Desire Museum BOA Editions Winner [4]
Mary Jo Bang A Film in Which I Play Everyone Graywolf Press Finalist [2]
Sierra DeMulderEphemera Button Poetry
Margaret RayGood Grief, the Ground BOA Editions
Paul KillebrewImpersonal Rainbow and The Bisexual PurgeCanarium Books
Gay Fiction Bryan Washington Family Meal Penguin Random House / Riverhead Books Winner [4]
Patrick E. HorriganAmerican Scholar Lethe Press Finalist [2]
Justin Torres Blackouts Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Richard MirabellaBrother and Sister Enter the Forest: A NovelCatapult
Khashayar J. KhabushaniI Will Greet the Sun AgainHogarth Books
Gay Memoir/Biography Jason Yamas Tweakerworld Unnamed Press Winner [4]
Charles Busch Leading Lady BenBella Books Finalist [2]
Greg MarshallLeg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It Abrams Press
Jedidiah JenkinsMother, Nature Convergent Books
Martin Duberman Reaching Ninety Chicago Review Press
Gay Poetry Charif Shanahan Trace Evidence Tin House Winner [4]
Paul StephensonHard Drive Carcanet Press Finalist [2]
Richard Blanco Homeland of My Body: New and Selected Poems Beacon Press
Emanuel Xavier Love(ly) ChildRebel Satori Press
Grant ChemidlinWhat We Lost in the SwampCentral Avenue Poetry
Gay Romance Cat Sebastian We Could Be So Good Avon Books Winner [4]
E. H. LuptonDionysus in WisconsinWinnowing Fan PressFinalist [2]
M. A. WardellMistletoe and MishigasSelf-published
Jay HoganThe Art of HusbandrySouthern Lights Publishing / Self-published
K.J. Charles The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen Sourcebooks
Lesbian Fiction Catherine Lacey Biography of X Farrar, Straus and Giroux Winner [4]
Jen Beagin Big Swiss ScribnerFinalist [2]
K-Ming Chang Organ Meats One World
C. E. McGillOur Hideous Progeny HarperCollins
Helen Elaine LeePomegranate Atria Books
Lesbian Memoir/Biography Amelia Possanza Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in ArchivesCatapultWinner [4]
Lamya H Hijab Butch Blues The Dial Press Finalist [2]
Vi Khi Nao Suicide: The Autoimmune Disorder of the Psyche11:11 Press
Sarah Viren To Name the Bigger LieScribner
Lynnée DeniseWhy Willie Mae Thornton MattersThe University of Texas Press
Lesbian Poetry Kimberly Alidio Teeter Nightboat Books Winner [4]
Alyse KnorrArdorGasher PressFinalist [2]
Brionne JanaeBecause You Were Mine Haymarket Books
Maggie MillnerCouplets Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Stephanie Adams-SantosDream of XibalbaOrison Books
Lesbian Romance Georgia Beers Dance with Me Bold Strokes Books Winner [4]
Marianne RatcliffeA Lady to TreasureBellows PressFinalist [2]
Kris BryantCatch Bold Strokes Books
Lisa PeersLove at 350° The Dial Press
Melissa BraydenLucky in Lace Bold Strokes Books
LGBTQ Anthology Tuck Woodstock and Niko Stratis2 Trans 2 Furious: An Extremely Serious Journal of Transgender Street Racing StudiesRapid Onset Gender Distro / Self-publishedWinner [4]
Andrew R. Spieldenner and Jeffrey Escoffier A Pill for Promiscuity: Gay Sex in an Age of Pharmaceuticals Rutgers University Press Finalist [2]
Madeline Dyer; with contributions by Cody Daigle-Orians, Kat Yuen, Akemi Dawn Bowman, Rosiee Thor, Madeline Dyer, Linsey Miller, K. Hart, S. E. Anderson, Emily Victoria, Anju Imura, RoAnna Sylver, Moniza Hossain, Lara Ameen, Jas Brown, and S. J. TaylorBeing Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and ConnectionPage Street Publishing / Page Street YA
Bogi Takács; with contributions by Cameron Van Sant, Celia Neri, D. A. Xiaolin Spires, Emma Alice Johnson, Hal Y. Zhang, Isha Karki, Jennifer Lee Rossman, Julian K. Jarboe, Julie Nováková, Kanika Agrawal, Laura Jane Swanson, Leigh Harlen, Lisa M. Bradley, Lydia Moon, Osahon Ize-Iyamu, Phoebe Barton, Polenth Blake, Premee Mohamed, Santiago Belluco, Stefani Cox, Tessa Fisher, Ursula Whitcher, and Vajra Chandrasekera Rosalind's Siblings: Fiction and Poetry Celebrating Scientists of Marginalized GendersAtthis Arts
Benjamin SchaeferFairy Tale Review: The Rainbow Issue Wayne State University Press
LGBTQ Children's Nina LaCour; illustrated by Sonia AlbertThe Apartment House on Poppy Hill Chronicle Books Winner [4]
Meeg Pincus and Meridth Mckean GimbelDoor by Door Crown Books for Young Readers Finalist [2]
Andy PasschierGender Identity for Kids Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Harry WoodgateGrandad's Pride Little Bee Books
A. J. Irving and Kip AlizadehThe Wishing Flower Knopf Books for Young Readers
LGBTQ Comics E. M. Carroll A Guest in The House First Second Winner [4]
Mari CostaBelle of the Ball First Second Finalist [2]
Lawrence Lindell Blackward Drawn & Quarterly
Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki Roaming Drawn & Quarterly
H. A.The Chromatic Fantasy Silver Sprocket
LGBTQ Drama James Ijames Fat Ham Theatre Communications Group Winner [4]
Adam MeisnerFor Both Resting and BreedingScirocco Drama / J. Gordon Shillingford PublishingFinalist [2]
Andrew RincónI Wanna Fuck Like Romeo and Juliet Samuel French, a Concord Theatricals Company
Milo WippermannJoan of Arkansas Ugly Duckling Presse
Harrison David Rivers The bandaged place Samuel French, a Concord Theatricals Company
LGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica Laura QA Tight Squeeze: Smutty Trans and Queer Stories Microcosm Publishing Winner [4]
T. J. AlexanderChef's Choice Emily Bestler Books / Atria Books Finalist [2]
Andie BurkeFly with Me: A Novel St. Martin's Griffin
Ashley Herring Blake Iris Kelly Doesn't DateBerkley
Alexandria BellefleurThe Fiancee Farce Avon Books
LGBTQ Middle Grade Robin GowDear Mothman Amulet Books Winner [4]
Leah Johnson Ellie Engle Saves Herself Disney Hyperion Finalist [2]
Karen WilfridJust Lizzie HarperCollins / Clarion Books
Michael Leali Matteo HarperCollins
Alden Van OtterlooThe Beautiful Something Else Scholastic Press
LGBTQ Mystery Cari HunterA Calculated Risk Bold Strokes Books Winner [4]
Rebecca McKannaDon't Forget the Girl Sourcebooks Landmark Finalist [2]
Polly StewartThe Good Ones HarperCollins
J. M. Redmann Transitory Bold Strokes Books
Joshua MoehlingWhere the Dead Sleep Poisoned Pen Press
LGBTQ Nonfiction Matt Baume Hi Honey, I'm Homo BenBella Books Winner [4]
Daniel BlackBlack on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America Harlequin Trade Publishing / Hanover Square Press Finalist [2]
Elyssa Maxx GoodmanGlitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City Harlequin Trade Publishing / Hanover Square Press
Julie Marie Wade Otherwise Autumn House Press
John Sovec, LMFTOut: A Parent's Guide to Supporting Your LGBTQIA+ Kid Through Coming Out and Beyond Jessica Kingsley Publishers
LGBTQ Poetry Quinn Carver Johnson The Perfect Bastard Northwestern University Press Winner [4]
Robin GowLanternfly AugustDriftwood PressFinalist [2]
Destiny HemphillMotherworld: A devotional for the alter-life Action Books
Sam SaxPigScribner
Alina PleskovaToskaDeep Vellum
LGBTQ Speculative Fiction Marisa Crane I Keep My Exoskeletons to MyselfCatapultWinner [4]
Aubrey WoodBang Bang Bodhisattva Solaris Finalist [2]
Emma Mieko Candon The Archive Undying Tordotcom Publishing
Vajra ChandrasekeraThe Saint of Bright Door Tordotcom Publishing
Chana Porter The Thick and the Lean Saga Press
LGBTQ Studies Erin L. Durban The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti University of Illinois Press Winner [4]
Jennifer Dominique JonesAmbivalent Affinities: A Political History of Blackness and Homosexuality after World War II University of North Carolina Press Finalist [2]
Christoph HanssmannCare without Pathology: How Trans Health Activists Are Changing Medicine University of Minnesota Press
Margot CanadayQueer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America Princeton University Press
Travis S. K. KongSexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China Duke University Press
LGBTQ Young Adult Abdi Nazemian Only This Beautiful Moment HarperCollins / Balzer + Bray Winner [4]
Maxine RaeCold GirlsFluxFinalist [2]
Keith F. Miller Jr.Pritty HarperCollins / HarperTeen
Brittany N. WilliamsThat Self-Same Metal (The Forge & Fracture Saga, Book 1) Amulet Books
Gabe Cole Novoa The Wicked Bargain Random House Books for Young Readers
Transgender Fiction Soula Emmanuel Wild Geese Feminist Press Winner [4]
Nicola Dinan Bellies Hanover Square Press Finalist [2]
Emily ZhouGirlfriendsLittlePuss Press
Valérie Bah; translated by Kama La Mackerel The Rage LettersMetonymy Press
Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny TrashDeep Vellum
Transgender Nonfiction Miss Major Griffin-Gracy and Toshio MeronekMiss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary Verso Books Winner [4]
McKenzie Wark Love and Money, Sex and Death Verso Books Finalist [2]
Casey Plett On Community Biblioasis
Stacy Jane GroverTar Hollow Trans: Essays University Press of Kentucky
Mx. SlyTransland: Consent, Kink, and Pleasure Arsenal Pulp Press
Transgender Poetry Michal 'MJ' JonesHood Vacations Black Lawrence Press Winner [4]
Victoriano CárdenasPortraits as Animal: PoemsBloomsday LiteraryFinalist
K. IverShort Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco Milkweed Editions
Jennifer ConlonTaking to Water Autumn House Press
Subhaga Crystal BaconTransitory BOA Editions

References

  1. "Submission Guidelines". Lambda Literary Foundation. November 20, 2023. Archived from the original on March 24, 2024. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 "Here Are the Finalists for the 36th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". them. March 27, 2024. Retrieved April 24, 2024.
  3. "The 2024 Lambda Literary Awards Shortlists Are Here". Book Riot . March 28, 2024. Retrieved April 25, 2024.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Athena Sobhan, "The 2024 Lambda Literary Awards - See the Complete List of Winners". People , June 12, 2024.