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]
| 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 |
| Bisexual Fiction | Reluctant Immortals | Simon & Schuster/Saga Press | Winner | [5] | |
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| Stories No One Hopes Are About Them | University of Iowa Press | Finalist | |||
| Meet Us by the Roaring Sea | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | ||||
| Roses, In the Mouth of a Lion | Flatiron Books | ||||
| Mother Ocean Father Nation | Ecco/HarperCollins | ||||
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Appropriate Behavior | McGill–Queen's University Press | Winner | ||
| Carrying It Forward: Essays from Kistahpinanihk | Wolsak and Wynn Publishers | Finalist | [6] | ||
| Never Simple: A Memoir | Henry Holt and Company / Macmillan Publishers | ||||
| Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogamy | Harmony Books / Penguin Random House | ||||
| Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | |||||
| Bisexual Poetry | Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes | Milkweed Editions | Winner | ||
| Dereliction | Finalist | ||||
| indecent hours | Four Way Books | ||||
| 50 Things Kate Bush Taught Me About the Multiverse | Sarabande Books | ||||
| Meat Lovers | Auckland University Press | ||||
| Comics | Mamo | BOOM! Studios | Winner | ||
| Tin House | Finalist | ||||
| Gay Giant | Street Noise Books | ||||
| Other Ever Afters | Random House Graphic | ||||
| First Second Books | |||||
| Gay Fiction | Canongate Books | Winner | |||
| , trans. by Anna Kushner | Call Me Cassandra | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Finalist | ||
| God’s Children Are Little Broken Things | |||||
| , trans. by Edgar Garbelotto | Hugs and Cuddles | Two Lines Press | |||
| My Government Means To Kill Me | Flatiron Books | ||||
| Gay Memoir/Biography | High-Risk Homosexual | Soft Skull Press | Winner | ||
| All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir | Penguin Group | Finalist | |||
| Chicago Review Press | |||||
| Boy with the Bullhorn: A Memoir and History of ACT UP New York | Empire State Editions | ||||
| I’m Not Broken | Vintage Books | ||||
| Gay Poetry | Some Integrity | Carcanet Press | Winner | ||
| Alive at the End of the World | Coffee House Press | Finalist | |||
| Brother Sleep | Alice James Books | ||||
| Pleasure | Four Way Books | ||||
| Super Model Minority | Auckland University Press | ||||
| Gay Romance | I’m So Not Over You | Berkley Romance | Winner | ||
| Forever After | Self-published | Finalist | |||
| Forever, Con Amor | Self-published | ||||
| Just One Night | Self-published | ||||
| Two Tribes | Self-published | ||||
| Lesbian Fiction | Gods of Want | One World | Winner | ||
| Big Girl | W. W. Norton & Company | Finalist | |||
| , trans. by Sarah Booker | Jawbone | Coffee House Press | |||
| Nightcrawling | Alfred A. Knopf | ||||
| Our Wives Under the Sea | Flatiron Books | ||||
| Lesbian Memoir/Biography | Lost & Found: Reflections on Grief, Gratitude, and Happiness | Random House | Winner | ||
| Brown Neon | Coffee House Press | Finalist | |||
| Ma and Me | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | ||||
| Pretty Baby: A Memoir | Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster | ||||
| Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place | West Virginia University Press | ||||
| Lesbian Poetry | As She Appears | YesYes Books | Winner | ||
| Beast at Every Threshold | Arsenal Pulp Press | Finalist | |||
| Concentrate | Graywolf Press | ||||
| Prelude | University of Pittsburgh Press | ||||
| Yearn | Diode Editions | ||||
| Lesbian Romance | Bold Strokes Books | Winner | |||
| Queerly Beloved | Dial Press | Finalist | |||
| Hard Pressed | Bold Strokes Books | ||||
| If I Don’t Ask | Bella Books | ||||
| Southbound and Down | K.B. Draper, LLC | ||||
| LGBTQ Anthology | and Elena Gross | OutWrite: The Speeches That Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture | Rutgers University Press | Winner | |
| (Ed.) | Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology | Autumn House Press | Finalist | ||
| This Arab is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers | Saqi Books | ||||
| Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource by and for Transgender Communities (2nd ed.) | Oxford University Press | ||||
| and Jed Sabin | Xenocultivars: Stories of Queer Growth | Speculatively Queer | |||
| LGBTQ Children's | Mighty Red Riding Hood | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | Winner | ||
| and Rob Sanders, illus. by Byron McCray | Henry Holt Books for Young Readers | Finalist | |||
| , Dean Hamer, and Joe Wilson, illus. by Daniel Sousa | Kapaemahu | Kokila | |||
| Mama and Mommy and Me in the Middle | Candlewick Press | ||||
| , illus. by Dani Jones | Bloomsbury Publishing | ||||
| LGBTQ Drama | Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho) | Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land) & Antigone: 方 | Playwrights Canada Press | Winner | |
| Duecentomila | Playwrights Canada Press | Finalist | |||
| Rock ‘n’ Roll Heretic | Self-published | ||||
| (writer) and Alex Syiek (music and lyrics) | Boise Contemporary Theater | ||||
| Wolf Play | Samuel French, a Concord Theatricals Company | ||||
| LGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica | Kiss Her Once For Me | Atria Books | Winner | ||
| Carina Adores | Finalist | ||||
| Mistakes Were Made | St. Martin's Griffin | ||||
| Self-published | |||||
| Loose Lips: A Gay Sea Odyssey | Hard Crossing Press | ||||
| LGBTQ Middle Grade | Nikhil Out Loud | HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray | Winner | ||
| Answers In the Pages | Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers | Finalist | |||
| Different Kinds of Fruit | Dial Books for Young Readers | ||||
| Hazel Hill Is Gonna Win This One | HarperCollins/Clarion Books | ||||
| HarperCollins | |||||
| LGBTQ Mystery | Dirt Creek: A Novel | Flatiron Books | Winner | ||
| Park Creek Publishing | Finalist | ||||
| And There He Kept Her | Poisoned Pen Press | ||||
| Dead Letters from Paradise | Bywater Books | ||||
| Lavender House | Forge Books | ||||
| LGBTQ Nonfiction | Random House | Winner | |||
| How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures | Little, Brown and Company | Finalist | |||
| Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between | W.W. Norton & Company | ||||
| And the Category Is…: Inside New York’s Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community | Beacon Press | ||||
| Bold Type Books, Hachette Book Group | |||||
| LGBTQ Speculative Fiction | Shattered Scepter Press | Winner | |||
| Book Eaters | Tor Books | Finalist | |||
| Into the Riverlands | Tor.com | ||||
| Angry Robot | |||||
| Ballantine Books | |||||
| LGBTQ Studies | Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics | New York University Press | Winner | ||
| Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer | University of Minnesota Press | Finalist | |||
| Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness | Duke University Press | ||||
| Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability | Duke University Press | ||||
| There’s a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life | Duke University Press | ||||
| LGBTQ Young Adult | Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins | Winner | |||
| Burn Down, Rise Up | Sourcebooks | Finalist | |||
| with Susan McClelland | Funny Gyal: My Fight Against Homophobia in Jamaica | Dundurn Press | |||
| Lakelore | Feiwel & Friends | ||||
| Heartdrum/HarperCollins | |||||
| Transgender Fiction | Seven Stories Press | Winner | |||
| Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta | Little, Brown and Company | Finalist | |||
| All the Hometowns You Can’t Stay Away From | Neon Hemlock | ||||
| Manywhere | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | ||||
| Wrath Goddess Sing | William Morrow and Company | ||||
| Transgender Nonfiction | Drawn & Quarterly | Winner | |||
| Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender | Basic Books | Finalist | |||
| Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist | LittlePuss Press | ||||
| Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York | W. W. Norton & Company | ||||
| Duke University Press | |||||
| Transgender Poetry | MissSettl | Nightboat Books | Winner | ||
| Golden | Game Over Books | Finalist | |||
| Nightboat Books | |||||
| All the Flowers Kneeling | Penguin Books | ||||
| Emanations | Wolsak and Wynn Publishers |