The finalists for the 35th Lambda Literary Awards, which honor works of LGBT literature published in 2022, were announced on March 15, 2023. The winners were announced in New York on June 9.
Special awards +Special awards recipientsCategoryWinnerRef.J. Michael Samuel Prize for Emerging Writers Over 50Christopher TradowskiJeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer NonfictionJaquira DiazJim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' PrizeAaron Hamburger, Ryka AokiJudith A. Markowitz Emerging Writer AwardMaya Salameh, Naseem JamniaRandall Kenan Prize for Black LGBTQ FictionEboni J. Dunbar
Nominees and winners +35th Lambda Literary Awards winners and finalistsCategoryAuthorTitlePublisherResultRef.Bisexual FictionReluctant ImmortalsSimon & Schuster/Saga PressWinnerStories No One Hopes Are About ThemUniversity of Iowa PressFinalistMeet Us by the Roaring SeaFarrar, Straus and GirouxRoses, In the Mouth of a LionFlatiron BooksMother Ocean Father NationEcco/HarperCollinsBisexual NonfictionAppropriate BehaviorMcGill–Queen's University PressWinnerCarrying It Forward: Essays from Kistahpinanihk Wolsak and Wynn PublishersFinalistNever Simple: A MemoirHenry Holt and Company / Macmillan PublishersOpen: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-MonogamyHarmony Books / Penguin Random HouseKnopf Doubleday Publishing GroupBisexual PoetryReal Phonies and Genuine FakesMilkweed EditionsWinnerDerelictionFinalistindecent hoursFour Way Books50 Things Kate Bush Taught Me About the MultiverseSarabande BooksMeat LoversAuckland University Press ComicsMamo BOOM! StudiosWinner Tin HouseFinalist, trans. by Kelley D. Salas Gay GiantStreet Noise BooksOther Ever AftersRandom House GraphicFirst Second BooksGay FictionCanongate BooksWinner, trans. by Anna KushnerCall Me CassandraFarrar, Straus and Giroux Finalist God's Children Are Little Broken Things, trans. by Edgar GarbelottoHugs and CuddlesTwo Lines PressMy Government Means To Kill MeFlatiron BooksGay Memoir/BiographyHigh-Risk HomosexualSoft Skull PressWinnerAll Down Darkness Wide: A MemoirPenguin GroupFinalistChicago Review PressBoy with the Bullhorn: A Memoir and History of ACT UP New YorkEmpire State EditionsI'm Not Broken Vintage BooksGay PoetrySome IntegrityCarcanet PressWinnerAlive at the End of the World Coffee House PressFinalistBrother SleepAlice James BooksPleasureFour Way BooksSuper Model Minority Auckland University PressGay RomanceI'm So Not Over YouBerkley RomanceWinnerForever After Self-publishedFinalistForever, Con Amor Self-publishedJust One NightSelf-publishedTwo Tribes Self-publishedLesbian FictionGods of WantOne WorldWinnerBig GirlW. W. Norton & CompanyFinalist, trans. by Sarah BookerJawboneCoffee House PressNightcrawlingAlfred A. KnopfOur Wives Under the SeaFlatiron BooksLesbian Memoir/BiographyLost & Found: Reflections on Grief, Gratitude, and HappinessRandom HouseWinnerBrown NeonCoffee House PressFinalistMa and MeFarrar, Straus and GirouxPretty Baby: A MemoirAvid Reader Press / Simon & SchusterAnother Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain PlaceWest Virginia University PressLesbian PoetryAs She Appears YesYes BooksWinnerBeast at Every ThresholdArsenal Pulp PressFinalistConcentrate Graywolf PressPreludeUniversity of Pittsburgh PressYearnDiode EditionsLesbian RomanceBold Strokes BooksWinnerQueerly BelovedDial PressFinalistHard PressedBold Strokes BooksIf I Don't AskBella BooksSouthbound and DownK.B. Draper, LLCLGBTQ Anthology and Elena GrossOutWrite: The Speeches That Shaped LGBTQ Literary CultureRutgers University PressWinner (Ed.)Queer Nature: A Poetry AnthologyAutumn House PressFinalistThis Arab is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab WritersSaqi BooksTrans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource by and for Transgender Communities (2nd ed.)Oxford University Press and Jed SabinXenocultivars: Stories of Queer GrowthSpeculatively QueerLGBTQ Children'sMighty Red Riding HoodLittle, Brown Books for Young ReadersWinner and Rob Sanders, illus. by Byron McCrayHenry Holt Books for Young ReadersFinalist, Dean Hamer, and Joe Wilson, illus. by Daniel SousaKapaemahuKokilaMama and Mommy and Me in the MiddleCandlewick Press, illus. by Dani JonesBloomsbury PublishingLGBTQ DramaHo Ka Kei (Jeff Ho)Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land) & Antigone: 方Playwrights Canada PressWinnerDuecentomilaPlaywrights Canada PressFinalistRock 'n' Roll HereticSelf-published (writer) and Alex Syiek (music and lyrics)Boise Contemporary TheaterWolf PlaySamuel French, a Concord Theatricals CompanyLGBTQ+ Romance and EroticaKiss Her Once For MeAtria BooksWinnerCarina AdoresFinalistMistakes Were MadeSt. Martin's GriffinSelf-publishedLoose Lips: A Gay Sea OdysseyHard Crossing PressLGBTQ Middle GradeNikhil Out LoudHarperCollins/Balzer + BrayWinnerAnswers In the PagesAlfred A. Knopf Books for Young ReadersFinalistDifferent Kinds of FruitDial Books for Young ReadersHazel Hill Is Gonna Win This OneHarperCollins/Clarion BooksHarperCollinsLGBTQ MysteryDirt Creek: A NovelFlatiron BooksWinnerPark Creek PublishingFinalistAnd There He Kept Her Poisoned Pen PressDead Letters from Paradise Bywater BooksLavender House Forge BooksLGBTQ NonfictionRandom HouseWinnerHow Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea CreaturesLittle, Brown and CompanyFinalistVirology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in BetweenW.W. Norton & CompanyAnd the Category Is...: Inside New York's Vogue, House, and Ballroom CommunityBeacon PressBold Type Books, Hachette Book GroupLGBTQ Speculative FictionShattered Scepter PressWinnerBook EatersTor BooksFinalistInto the RiverlandsTor.comAngry Robot Ballantine BooksLGBTQ StudiesKeeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero ComicsNew York University PressWinnerLesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and QueerUniversity of Minnesota PressFinalistSissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit ManlinessDuke University PressSurface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American InscrutabilityDuke University PressThere's a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay LifeDuke University PressLGBTQ Young AdultBalzer + Bray/HarperCollinsWinnerBurn Down, Rise UpSourcebooksFinalist with Susan McClellandFunny Gyal: My Fight Against Homophobia in JamaicaDundurn PressLakeloreFeiwel & FriendsHeartdrum/HarperCollinsTransgender FictionSeven Stories PressWinnerDidn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to CarlottaLittle, Brown and CompanyFinalistAll the Hometowns You Can't Stay Away FromNeon HemlockManywhereFarrar, Straus and GirouxWrath Goddess SingWilliam Morrow and CompanyTransgender NonfictionDrawn & QuarterlyWinnerBefore We Were Trans: A New History of GenderBasic BooksFinalistFaltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn't My RapistLittlePuss PressFeral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New YorkW. W. Norton & CompanyDuke University PressTransgender PoetryMissSettl Nightboat BooksWinnerGolden Game Over BooksFinalistNightboat BooksAll the Flowers KneelingPenguin BooksEmanations Wolsak and Wynn Publishers
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