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36th Lambda Literary Awards

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36th Lambda Literary Awards
Awarded forWorks of LGBTQ+ literature
DateJune 11, 2024 (2024-06-11)
LocationNew York City
CountryUnited States
Presented byLambda Literary Foundation
EligibilityLGBTQ+ storytelling, published in the US in 2023[1]
Websitewww.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]

Special awards

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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
Category Winner Ref
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

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36th Lambda Literary Awards winners and finalists
Category Author Title Publisher Result Ref.
Bisexual Fiction Ling Ling Huang Natural Beauty Penguin Random House / Dutton Winner [4]
Ruth Madievsky All-Night Pharmacy: A Novel Catapult Finalist [2]
Jennifer Savran Kelly Endpapers Algonquin Books
Sarah James Last Night at the Hollywood Canteen Sourcebooks
Haley Jakobson Old Enough Penguin Random House / Dutton
Bisexual Nonfiction Myriam Gurba Creep: Accusations and Confessions Avid Reader Press Winner [4]
Vaneet Mehta Bisexual Men Exist: A Handbook for Bisexual, Pansexual and M-Spec Men Jessica Kingsley Publishers Finalist [2]
Zachary Zane Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto Abrams Image
Eden Boudreau Crying Wolf Book*hug Press
Kawika Guillermo Nimrods: 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 DeMulder Ephemera Button Poetry
Margaret Ray Good Grief, the Ground BOA Editions
Paul Killebrew Impersonal Rainbow and The Bisexual Purge Canarium Books
Gay Fiction Bryan Washington Family Meal Penguin Random House / Riverhead Books Winner [4]
Patrick E. Horrigan American Scholar Lethe Press Finalist [2]
Justin Torres Blackouts Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Richard Mirabella Brother and Sister Enter the Forest: A Novel Catapult
Khashayar J. Khabushani I Will Greet the Sun Again Hogarth Books
Gay Memoir/Biography Jason Yamas Tweakerworld Unnamed Press Winner [4]
Charles Busch Leading Lady BenBella Books Finalist [2]
Greg Marshall Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It Abrams Press
Jedidiah Jenkins Mother, Nature Convergent Books
Martin Duberman Reaching Ninety Chicago Review Press
Gay Poetry Charif Shanahan Trace Evidence Tin House Winner [4]
Paul Stephenson Hard Drive Carcanet Press Finalist [2]
Richard Blanco Homeland of My Body: New and Selected Poems Beacon Press
Emanuel Xavier Love(ly) Child Rebel Satori Press
Grant Chemidlin What We Lost in the Swamp Central Avenue Poetry
Gay Romance Cat Sebastian We Could Be So Good Avon Books Winner [4]
E. H. Lupton Dionysus in Wisconsin Winnowing Fan Press Finalist [2]
M. A. Wardell Mistletoe and Mishigas Self-published
Jay Hogan The Art of Husbandry Southern 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 Scribner Finalist [2]
K-Ming Chang Organ Meats One World
C. E. McGill Our Hideous Progeny HarperCollins
Helen Elaine Lee Pomegranate Atria Books
Lesbian Memoir/Biography Amelia Possanza Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives Catapult Winner [4]
Lamya H Hijab Butch Blues The Dial Press Finalist [2]
Vi Khi Nao Suicide: The Autoimmune Disorder of the Psyche 11:11 Press
Sarah Viren To Name the Bigger Lie Scribner
Lynnée Denise Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters The University of Texas Press
Lesbian Poetry Kimberly Alidio Teeter Nightboat Books Winner [4]
Alyse Knorr Ardor Gasher Press Finalist [2]
Brionne Janae Because You Were Mine Haymarket Books
Maggie Millner Couplets Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Stephanie Adams-Santos Dream of Xibalba Orison Books
Lesbian Romance Georgia Beers Dance with Me Bold Strokes Books Winner [4]
Marianne Ratcliffe A Lady to Treasure Bellows Press Finalist [2]
Kris Bryant Catch Bold Strokes Books
Lisa Peers Love at 350° The Dial Press
Melissa Brayden Lucky in Lace Bold Strokes Books
LGBTQ Anthology Tuck Woodstock and Niko Stratis 2 Trans 2 Furious: An Extremely Serious Journal of Transgender Street Racing Studies Rapid Onset Gender Distro / Self-published Winner [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. Taylor Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection Page 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 Genders Atthis Arts
Benjamin Schaefer Fairy Tale Review: The Rainbow Issue Wayne State University Press
LGBTQ Children's Nina LaCour; illustrated by Sonia Albert The Apartment House on Poppy Hill Chronicle Books Winner [4]
Meeg Pincus and Meridth Mckean Gimbel Door by Door Crown Books for Young Readers Finalist [2]
Andy Passchier Gender Identity for Kids Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Harry Woodgate Grandad's Pride Little Bee Books
A. J. Irving and Kip Alizadeh The Wishing Flower Knopf Books for Young Readers
LGBTQ Comics E. M. Carroll A Guest in The House First Second Winner [4]
Mari Costa Belle 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 Meisner For Both Resting and Breeding Scirocco Drama / J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing Finalist [2]
Andrew Rincón I Wanna Fuck Like Romeo and Juliet Samuel French, a Concord Theatricals Company
Milo Wippermann Joan of Arkansas Ugly Duckling Presse
Harrison David Rivers The bandaged place Samuel French, a Concord Theatricals Company
LGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica Laura Q A Tight Squeeze: Smutty Trans and Queer Stories Microcosm Publishing Winner [4]
T. J. Alexander Chef's Choice Emily Bestler Books / Atria Books Finalist [2]
Andie Burke Fly with Me: A Novel St. Martin's Griffin
Ashley Herring Blake Iris Kelly Doesn't Date Berkley
Alexandria Bellefleur The Fiancee Farce Avon Books
LGBTQ Middle Grade Robin Gow Dear Mothman Amulet Books Winner [4]
Leah Johnson Ellie Engle Saves Herself Disney Hyperion Finalist [2]
Karen Wilfrid Just Lizzie HarperCollins / Clarion Books
Michael Leali Matteo HarperCollins
Alden Van Otterloo The Beautiful Something Else Scholastic Press
LGBTQ Mystery Cari Hunter A Calculated Risk Bold Strokes Books Winner [4]
Rebecca McKanna Don't Forget the Girl Sourcebooks Landmark Finalist [2]
Polly Stewart The Good Ones HarperCollins
J. M. Redmann Transitory Bold Strokes Books
Joshua Moehling Where the Dead Sleep Poisoned Pen Press
LGBTQ Nonfiction Matt Baume Hi Honey, I'm Homo BenBella Books Winner [4]
Daniel Black Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America Harlequin Trade Publishing / Hanover Square Press Finalist [2]
Elyssa Maxx Goodman Glitter 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, LMFT Out: 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 Gow Lanternfly August Driftwood Press Finalist [2]
Destiny Hemphill Motherworld: A devotional for the alter-life Action Books
Sam Sax Pig Scribner
Alina Pleskova Toska Deep Vellum
LGBTQ Speculative Fiction Marisa Crane I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself Catapult Winner [4]
Aubrey Wood Bang Bang Bodhisattva Solaris Finalist [2]
Emma Mieko Candon The Archive Undying Tordotcom Publishing
Vajra Chandrasekera The 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 Jones Ambivalent Affinities: A Political History of Blackness and Homosexuality after World War II University of North Carolina Press Finalist [2]
Christoph Hanssmann Care without Pathology: How Trans Health Activists Are Changing Medicine University of Minnesota Press
Margot Canaday Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America Princeton University Press
Travis S. K. Kong Sexuality 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 Rae Cold Girls Flux Finalist [2]
Keith F. Miller Jr. Pritty HarperCollins / HarperTeen
Brittany N. Williams That 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 Zhou Girlfriends LittlePuss Press
Valérie Bah; translated by Kama La Mackerel The Rage Letters Metonymy Press
Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny Trash Deep Vellum
Transgender Nonfiction Miss Major Griffin-Gracy and Toshio Meronek Miss 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 Grover Tar Hollow Trans: Essays University Press of Kentucky
Mx. Sly Transland: Consent, Kink, and Pleasure Arsenal Pulp Press
Transgender Poetry Michal 'MJ' Jones Hood Vacations Black Lawrence Press Winner [4]
Victoriano Cárdenas Portraits as Animal: Poems Bloomsday Literary Finalist
K. Iver Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco Milkweed Editions
Jennifer Conlon Taking to Water Autumn House Press
Subhaga Crystal Bacon Transitory BOA Editions

References

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  1. ^ "Submission Guidelines". Lambda Literary Foundation. November 20, 2023. Archived from the original on March 24, 2024. Retrieved April 27, 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa "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. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab Athena Sobhan, "The 2024 Lambda Literary Awards - See the Complete List of Winners". People, June 12, 2024.