The 2024 Lambda Literary Awards - See the Complete List of Winners
The 2024 Lambda Literary Awards took place at Sony Hall in New York on June 11, celebrating the achievements of the LGBTQ+ literary community
The 36th annual Lambda Literary Awards – celebrating LGBTQ+ writers and literature – took place at Sony Hall in New York City on June 11. Drag queen, actress and activist Peppermint emceed the event. In her opening remarks, she addressed the importance of Lambda's work in light of a sharp increase in censorship of LGBTQ+ books and "attacks on libraries."
"I'm grateful [for Lambda] because a lot of the ideas and the connections that I had about the queer community that helped me form a better self-image came from me reading books," she said.
This year’s event presented awards across 26 categories and included seven special prizes for their contributions to the queer literary landscape over the past year. The special prizes included two new categories for 2024. The Denneny Award for Editorial Excellence was named after Michael Denneny, one of the first openly gay editors and founder of the first LGBTQ+ imprint at a major publication. The Pat Holt Prize for Critical Arts Writing was named in memory of Patricia Holt, the former San Francisco Chronicle book review editor who passed away in December 2022.
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The shortlist for the awards, which included 130 finalists, was announced in March and included titles like I Will Greet the Sun Again by Khashayar J. Khabushani, Pomegranate by Helen Elaine Lee and Girlfriends by Emily Zhou, among others.
See the full list of winners below.
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LESBIAN FICTION
Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
GAY FICTION
Family Meal by Bryan Washington
BISEXUAL FICTION
Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang
TRANSGENDER FICTION
Wild Geese by Soula Emmanuel
BISEXUAL NONFICTION
Creep: Accusations and Confessions by Myriam Gurba
TRANSGENDER NONFICTION
Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary by Miss Major and Toshio Meronek
LGBTQ+ NONFICTION
Hi Honey, I'm Homo by Matt Baume
LESBIAN POETRY
Teeter by Kimberly Alidio
GAY POETRY
Trace Evidence by Charif Shanahan
BISEXUAL POETRY
Desire Museum by Danielle Cadena Deulen
TRANSGENDER POETRY
Hood Vacations by Michal 'MJ' Jones
LGBTQ+ POETRY
The Perfect Bastard by Quinn Carver Johnson
LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY
Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives by Amelia Possanza
GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY
Tweakerworld by Jason Yamas
LESBIAN ROMANCE
Dance with Me by Georgia Beers
GAY ROMANCE
We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian
LGBTQ+ ANTHOLOGY
2 Trans 2 Furious: An extremely serious journal of Transgender Street Racing Studies by Tuck Woodstock & Niko Stratis
LGBTQ+ CHILDREN'S BOOKS
The Apartment House on Poppy Hill by Nina LaCour; illustrator Sonia Albert
LGBTQ COMICS
A Guest in The House by Emily Caroll
LGBTQ+ DRAMA
Fat Ham by James Ijames
LGBTQ+ MIDDLE GRADE
Dear Mothman by Robin Gow
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LGBTQ+ MYSTERY
A Calculated Risk by Cari Hunter
LGBTQ+ ROMANCE AND EROTICA
A Tight Squeeze: Smutty Trans and Queer Stories by laura q
LGBTQ+ SPECULATIVE FICTION
I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself: A Novel by Marisa Crane
LGBTQ+ STUDIES
The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti by Erin L. Durban
LGBTQ+ YOUNG ADULT
Only This Beautiful Moment by Abdi Nazemian
RANDALL KENAN PRIZE FOR BLACK LGBTQ FICTION
Liv Little
JEANNE CÓRDOVA PRIZE FOR LESBIAN/QUEER NONFICTION
Stephanie Davies
JUDITH A. MARKOWITZ AWARD FOR EXCEPTIONAL NEW LGBTQ WRITERS
Federico Erebia
River 瑩瑩 Dandelion
JIM DUGGINS, PHD OUTSTANDING MID-CAREER NOVELIST PRIZE
K.M. Soehnlein
Dr. Zelda Lockhart
THE J. MICHAEL SAMUEL PRIZE FOR EMERGING WRITERS OVER 50
Paul Festa
THE DENNENY AWARD FOR EDITORIAL EXCELLENCE
Dr. Remi Recchia
THE PAT HOLT PRIZE FOR CRITICAL ARTS WRITING
Elizabeth Hoover
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