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35th Lambda Literary Awards

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The finalists for the 35th Lambda Literary Awards, which honor works of LGBT literature published in 2022, were announced on March 15, 2023.[1] The winners were announced in New York on June 9.[2]

Special awards

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Special awards recipients
Category Winner
Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction
Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize
Judith A. Markowitz Emerging Writer Award
Randall Kenan Prize for Black LGBTQ Fiction

Nominees and winners

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35th Lambda Literary Awards winners and finalists[3][4]
Category Author Title Publisher Result Ref.
Bisexual Fiction Gwendolyn Kiste Reluctant Immortals Simon & Schuster/Saga Press Winner [5]
A. J. Bermudez Stories No One Hopes Are About Them University of Iowa Press Finalist [1]
Akil Kumarasamy Meet Us by the Roaring Sea Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Bushra Rehman Roses, In the Mouth of a Lion Flatiron Books
Nishant Batsha Mother Ocean Father Nation Ecco/HarperCollins
Bisexual Nonfiction Maria San Filippo Appropriate Behavior McGill–Queen's University Press Winner [5]
John Brady McDonald Carrying It Forward: Essays from Kistahpinanihk Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Finalist [6][2]
Liz Scheier Never Simple: A Memoir Henry Holt and Company / Macmillan Publishers
Rachel Krantz Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogamy Harmony Books / Penguin Random House
CJ Hauser The Crane Wife Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Bisexual Poetry Nicky Beer Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes Milkweed Editions Winner
Gabrielle Octavia Rucker Dereliction The Song Cave Finalist
James Fujinami Moore indecent hours Four Way Books
Karyna McGlynn 50 Things Kate Bush Taught Me About the Multiverse Sarabande Books
Rebecca Hawkes Meat Lovers Auckland University Press
Comics Sas Milledge Mamo BOOM! Studios Winner
Will Betke-Brunswick A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings Tin House Finalist
Gabriel Ebensperger, trans. by Kelley D. Salas Gay Giant Street Noise Books
Melanie Gillman Other Ever Afters Random House Graphic
Sarah Winifred Searle The Greatest Thing First Second Books
Gay Fiction Danny Ramadan The Foghorn Echoes Canongate Books Winner [5]
Marcial Gala, trans. by Anna Kushner Call Me Cassandra Farrar, Straus and Giroux Finalist [2][1]
Arinze Ifeakandu God’s Children Are Little Broken Things A Public Space
João Gilberto Noll, trans. by Edgar Garbelotto Hugs and Cuddles Two Lines Press
Rasheed Newson My Government Means To Kill Me Flatiron Books
Gay Memoir/Biography Edgar Gomez High-Risk Homosexual Soft Skull Press Winner [5]
Seán Hewitt All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir Penguin Group Finalist
Jim Elledge An Angel in Sodom Chicago Review Press
Ron Goldberg Boy with the Bullhorn: A Memoir and History of ACT UP New York Empire State Editions
Jesse Leon I’m Not Broken Vintage Books
Gay Poetry Padraig Regan Some Integrity Carcanet Press Winner
Saeed Jones Alive at the End of the World Coffee House Press Finalist
Aldo Amparán Brother Sleep Alice James Books
Angelo Nikolopoulos Pleasure Four Way Books
Chris Tse Super Model Minority Auckland University Press
Gay Romance Kosoko Jackson I’m So Not Over You Berkley Romance Winner
Marie Sinclair Forever After Self-published Finalist
A. M. Johnson Forever, Con Amor Self-published
Felice Stevens Just One Night Self-published
Fearne Hill Two Tribes Self-published
Lesbian Fiction K-Ming Chang Gods of Want One World Winner [5]
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Big Girl W. W. Norton & Company Finalist [1][2]
Mónica Ojeda, trans. by Sarah Booker Jawbone Coffee House Press
Leila Mottley Nightcrawling Alfred A. Knopf
Julia Armfield Our Wives Under the Sea Flatiron Books
Lesbian Memoir/Biography Kathryn Schulz Lost & Found: Reflections on Grief, Gratitude, and Happiness Random House Winner [5]
Raquel Gutiérrez Brown Neon Coffee House Press Finalist [6]
Putsata Reang Ma and Me Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Chris Belcher Pretty Baby: A Memoir Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Neema Avashia Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place West Virginia University Press
Lesbian Poetry Shelley Wong As She Appears YesYes Books Winner
Natalie Wee Beast at Every Threshold Arsenal Pulp Press Finalist
Courtney Faye Taylor Concentrate Graywolf Press
Brynne Rebele-Henry Prelude University of Pittsburgh Press
Rage Hezekiah Yearn Diode Editions
Lesbian Romance Nan Campbell The Rules of Forever Bold Strokes Books Winner
Susie Dumond Queerly Beloved Dial Press Finalist [6]
Aurora Rey Hard Pressed Bold Strokes Books
E. J. Noyes If I Don’t Ask Bella Books
K. B. Draper Southbound and Down K.B. Draper, LLC
LGBTQ Anthology Julie R. Enszer and Elena Gross OutWrite: The Speeches That Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture Rutgers University Press Winner
Michael Walsh (Ed.) Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology Autumn House Press Finalist [6]
Elias Jahshan This Arab is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers Saqi Books
Laura Erickson-Schroth Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource by and for Transgender Communities (2nd ed.) Oxford University Press
Isabela Oliveira and Jed Sabin Xenocultivars: Stories of Queer Growth Speculatively Queer
LGBTQ Children's Wallace West Mighty Red Riding Hood Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Winner [5]
Carole Boston Weatherford and Rob Sanders, illus. by Byron McCray A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin Henry Holt Books for Young Readers Finalist
Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer, and Joe Wilson, illus. by Daniel Sousa Kapaemahu Kokila
Nina LaCour Mama and Mommy and Me in the Middle Candlewick Press
Robb Pearlman, illus. by Dani Jones The Sublime Ms. Stacks Bloomsbury Publishing
LGBTQ Drama Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho) Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land) & Antigone: 方 Playwrights Canada Press Winner
kai fig taddei Duecentomila Playwrights Canada Press Finalist
Sikivu Hutchinson Rock ‘n’ Roll Heretic Self-published
Tom Ford (writer) and Alex Syiek (music and lyrics) The Show on the Roof Boise Contemporary Theater
Hansol Jung Wolf Play Samuel French, a Concord Theatricals Company
LGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica Alison Cochrun Kiss Her Once For Me Atria Books Winner
Ruby Barrett The Romance Recipe Carina Adores Finalist [6]
Meryl Wilsner Mistakes Were Made St. Martin's Griffin
Edie Cay A Lady’s Finder Self-published
Joseph Brennan Loose Lips: A Gay Sea Odyssey Hard Crossing Press
LGBTQ Middle Grade Maulik Pancholy Nikhil Out Loud HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray Winner [5]
David Levithan Answers In the Pages Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers Finalist
Kyle Lukoff Different Kinds of Fruit Dial Books for Young Readers
Maggie Horne Hazel Hill Is Gonna Win This One HarperCollins/Clarion Books
Michael Leali The Civil War of Amos Abernathy HarperCollins
LGBTQ Mystery Hayley Scrivenor Dirt Creek: A Novel Flatiron Books Winner
David C Dawson A Death in Berlin Park Creek Publishing Finalist
Joshua Moehling And There He Kept Her Poisoned Pen Press
Ann McMan Dead Letters from Paradise Bywater Books
Lev A.C. Rosen Lavender House Forge Books
LGBTQ Nonfiction Hafizah Augustus Geter The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin Random House Winner [5]
Sabrina Imbler How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures Little, Brown and Company Finalist [6]
Joseph Osmundson Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between W.W. Norton & Company
Ricky Tucker And the Category Is…: Inside New York’s Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community Beacon Press
Hugh Ryan The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison Bold Type Books, Hachette Book Group
LGBTQ Speculative Fiction Lianyu Tan The Wicked and the Willing: An F/F Gothic Horror Vampire Novel Shattered Scepter Press Winner
Sunyi Dean Book Eaters Tor Books Finalist [1]
Nghi Vo Into the Riverlands Tor.com
Khan Wong The Circus Infinite Angry Robot
Rob Hart The Paradox Hotel Ballantine Books
LGBTQ Studies Darieck Scott Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics New York University Press Winner
Mairead Sullivan Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer University of Minnesota Press Finalist [6]
Marlon B. Ross Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness Duke University Press
Vivian L. Huang Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability Duke University Press
Jafari S. Allen There’s a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life Duke University Press
LGBTQ Young Adult Sonora Reyes The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins Winner [5]
Vincent Tirado Burn Down, Rise Up Sourcebooks Finalist [1]
Angeline Jackson with Susan McClelland Funny Gyal: My Fight Against Homophobia in Jamaica Dundurn Press
Anna-Marie McLemore Lakelore Feiwel & Friends
Jen Ferguson The Summer of Bitter and Sweet Heartdrum/HarperCollins
Transgender Fiction Cat Fitzpatrick The Call-Out Seven Stories Press Winner [5]
James Hannaham Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta Little, Brown and Company Finalist [2]
Izzy Wasserstein All the Hometowns You Can’t Stay Away From Neon Hemlock
Morgan Thomas Manywhere Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Maya Deane Wrath Goddess Sing William Morrow and Company
Transgender Nonfiction Emma Grove The Third Person Drawn & Quarterly Winner [5]
Kit Heyam Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender Basic Books Finalist [1][6]
Cecilia Gentili Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist LittlePuss Press
Jeremiah Moss Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York W. W. Norton & Company
Cameron Awkward-Rich The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment Duke University Press
Transgender Poetry Kamden Ishmael Hilliard MissSettl Nightboat Books Winner
Golden A Dead Name That Learned How to Live Game Over Books Finalist
Kay Gabriel A Queen in Bucks County Nightboat Books
Paul Tran All the Flowers Kneeling Penguin Books
Prathna Lor Emanations Wolsak and Wynn Publishers

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g "2023 Lambda Award Shortlist Finalists Announced". BOOK RIOT. March 15, 2023. Archived from the original on April 28, 2023. Retrieved May 6, 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d e Schaub, Michael (March 15, 2023). "Lambda Literary Award Finalists Are Revealed". Kirkus Reviews. Archived from the original on March 16, 2023. Retrieved March 16, 2023.
  3. ^ "2023 Winners". Lambda Literary. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
  4. ^ "Current Finalists". Lambda Literary. Archived from the original on June 13, 2022. Retrieved May 6, 2023.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Schaub, Michael (June 12, 2023). "2023 Lambda Literary Award Winners Are Revealed". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved June 13, 2023.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h Upadhyaya, Kayla Kumari (March 15, 2023). "Congratulations to the 2023 Lambda Literary Award Finalists!". Autostraddle. Archived from the original on March 15, 2023. Retrieved March 16, 2023.