The 34th Lambda Literary Awards were announced on June 11, 2022[1] to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2021.
Nominees were announced in March 2022.[2] [3]
| Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction | Aisha Sabatini Sloan | |
| Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize | Vi Khi Nao and Silas House | |
| Judith A. Markowitz Emerging Writer Award | Ching-In Chen and Morgan Thomas | |
| Randall Kenan Prize for Black LGBTQ Fiction | Kalynn Bayron |
| Bisexual Fiction | We Want What We Want | Winner | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue-Skinned Gods | Finalist | ||
| Milk Fed | |||
| Monster in the Middle | |||
| We Play Ourselves | |||
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Borealis | Winner | |
| Dark Tourist: Essays | Finalist | ||
| Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much | |||
| The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease | |||
| The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces | |||
| Bisexual Poetry | Aurielle Marie | Gumbo Ya Ya | Winner |
| Imagine Us, The Swarm | Finalist | ||
| Master Suffering | |||
| The Best Prey | |||
| The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void | |||
| Gay Fiction | 100 Boyfriends | Winner | |
| Brickmakers | Finalist | ||
| Gordo | |||
| My Good Son | |||
| Rainbow Milk | |||
| Gay Memoir/Biography | Winner | ||
| Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir | Finalist | ||
| Spanish; Castilian: Hola Papi|italic=unset | |||
| Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism | |||
| with JD Pluecker (trans.) | Writing with Caca / Spanish; Castilian: Escribir con Caca|italic=unset | ||
| Gay Poetry | Punks: New & Selected Poems | Winner | |
| Besiege Me | Finalist | ||
| Creep Love | |||
| Shoreditch | |||
| Tenderness | |||
| Gay Romance | Excellent Sons: A Love Story in Three Acts | Winner | |
| Best of the Wrong Reasons | Finalist | ||
| Dublin Bay | |||
| Floridian Nights | |||
| The Other Man | |||
| Lesbian Fiction | Skye Falling | Winner | |
| Matrix | Finalist | ||
| The Five Wounds | |||
| How to Wrestle a Girl | |||
| With Teeth | |||
| Lesbian Memoir/Biography | The One You Want to Marry (And Other Identities I’ve Had) | Winner | |
| The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture | Finalist | ||
| The Audacity of a Kiss: Love, Art, and Liberation | |||
| The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams | |||
| Why Labelle Matters | |||
| Lesbian Poetry | Last Days | Winner | |
| All the Rage | Finalist | ||
| The Language We Were Never Taught to Speak | |||
| The Renunciations: Poems | |||
| Who’s Your Daddy | |||
| Lesbian Romance | The Headmistress | Winner | |
| Chemistry Lessons | Finalist | ||
| Go Around | |||
| In the Long Run | |||
| Red Tide at Heron Bay | |||
| LGBTQ Anthology | Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought | Winner | |
| (ed.) | Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis | Finalist | |
| , Alice Y. Hom, and Kale Bantigue Fajardo | Q & A: Voices from Queer Asian North America | ||
| , Kareem Khubchandani, and Ramón H. Rivera-Servera (eds.) | Queer Nightlife | ||
| , Lindsey Mantoan, and Angela Farr Schiller (eds.) | The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays | ||
| LGBTQ Children's/Middle Grade | and Vanessa Ford | Calvin | Winner |
| Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea | Finalist | ||
| with Charlene Chua (illus.) | Love, Violet | ||
| Stitch by Stitch: Cleve Jones and the AIDS Memorial Quilt | |||
| and | The Fabulous Zed Watson! | ||
| LGBTQ Drama | Mrs. Harrison | Winner | |
| Love Like Light | Finalist | ||
| storäe michele | mama [rose.] | ||
| Pillow Talk | |||
| Thrive, or What You Will | |||
| LGBTQ Erotica | Big Joe | Winner | |
| Queer Werewolves Destroy Capitalism: Smutty Stories | Finalist | ||
| and Harry-Anne Bentley (eds.) | Nectar: Trans Femme and Non Binary Erotic Comics Anthology | ||
| and Jade Sarson (eds.) | Ambrosia: Trans Masc and Non Binary Erotic Comics Anthology | ||
| The Lodger, That Summer | |||
| LGBTQ Graphic Novel | Stone Fruit | Winner | |
| and Val Wise with Oscar O. Jupiter (lettering) | Cheer Up! Love and Pompoms | Finalist | |
| Our Work Is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer & Trans Resistance | |||
| with Ann Xu (illus.) | Shadow Life | ||
| Thirsty Mermaids | |||
| LGBTQ Mystery | The Savage Kind | Winner | |
| Bath Haus | Finalist | ||
| Finding the Vein | |||
| Lies With Man | |||
| Murder Under Her Skin | |||
| LGBTQ Nonfiction | Winner | ||
| Girlhood | Finalist | ||
| Dear Senthuran | |||
| Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures | |||
| Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water | |||
| LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror | No Gods, No Monsters | Winner | |
| A Desolation Called Peace | Finalist | ||
| Breeder | |||
| with Kit Schluter (trans.) | Phototaxis | ||
| The Tensorate Series | |||
| LGBTQ Studies | Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall | Winner | |
| Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia | Finalist | ||
| Racial Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of Desire | |||
| The Shape of Sex | |||
| Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific | |||
| LGBTQ Young Adult | The Heartbreak Bakery | Winner | |
| Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating | Finalist | ||
| The City Beautiful | |||
| The Passing Playbook | |||
| What We Devour | |||
| Transgender Fiction | Summer Fun | Winner | |
| Detransition, Baby | Finalist | ||
| A Natural History of Transition | |||
| Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body | |||
| She Who Became the Sun | |||
| Transgender Nonfiction | Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness | Winner | |
| Brown Trans Figurations: Rethinking Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies | Finalist | ||
| Care Of: Letters, Connections, and Cures | |||
| and Blake Gutt (eds.) | Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography | ||
| Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments | |||
| Transgender Poetry | Crossbones on My Life | Winner | |
| Salamat sa Intersectionality | Finalist | ||
| Transverse | |||
| Villainy | |||
| x/ex/exis |