| 36th Lambda Literary Awards | |
| Awarded For: | Works of LGBT literature |
| Location: | New York City |
| Country: | United States |
| Presenter: | Lambda Literary Foundation |
| Eligibility: | LGBTQ+ storytelling, published in the US in 2023[1] |
| Previous: | 35th |
| Main: | Lambda Literary Awards |
| Next: | 37th |
The finalists for the 36th Lambda Literary Awards, which honor works of LGBT literature published in 2023, were announced on March 27, 2024.[2] [3] The winners were announced at Sony Hall in New York on June 11, 2024.[4]
In this year there were seven special prizes, including two new awards: The Denneny Award for Editorial Excellence, named for history-making gay editor Michael Denneny, who passed away in 2023, and The Pat Holt Prize for Critical Arts Writing in honor of late San Francisco Chronicle book review editor Patricia Holt.
| Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction | Stephanie Davies | |
| Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize | K.M. Soehnlein, Zelda Lockhart | |
| Judith A. Markowitz Emerging Writer Award | Federico Erebia, River 瑩瑩 Dandelion | |
| J. Michael Samuel Prize for Emerging Writers Over 50 | Paul Festa | |
| Randall Kenan Prize for Black LGBTQ Fiction | Liv Little | |
| The Denneny Award for Editorial Excellence | Remi Recchia | |
| The Pat Holt Prize for Critical Arts Writing | Elizabeth Hoover |
| Bisexual Fiction | Ling Ling Huang | Natural Beauty | Penguin Random House / Dutton | Winner | |
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| Ruth Madievsky | All-Night Pharmacy: A Novel | Catapult | Finalist | ||
| Jennifer Savran Kelly | Endpapers | Algonquin Books | |||
| Sarah James | Last Night at the Hollywood Canteen | Sourcebooks | |||
| Haley Jakobson | Old Enough | Penguin Random House / Dutton | |||
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Myriam Gurba | Creep: Accusations and Confessions | Avid Reader Press | Winner | |
| Vaneet Mehta | Bisexual Men Exist: A Handbook for Bisexual, Pansexual and M-Spec Men | Jessica Kingsley Publishers | Finalist | ||
| Zachary Zane | Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto | Abrams Image | |||
| Eden Boudreau | Crying Wolf | Book*hug Press | |||
| Kawika Guillermo | Nimrods: A fake-punk self-hurt anti-memoir | Duke University Press | |||
| Bisexual Poetry | Danielle Cadena Deulen | Desire Museum | BOA Editions | Winner | |
| Mary Jo Bang | A Film in Which I Play Everyone | Graywolf Press | Finalist | ||
| Sierra DeMulder | Ephemera | Button Poetry | |||
| Margaret Ray | Good Grief, the Ground | BOA Editions | |||
| Paul Killebrew | Impersonal Rainbow and The Bisexual Purge | Canarium Books | |||
| Gay Fiction | Bryan Washington | Family Meal | Penguin Random House / Riverhead Books | Winner | |
| Patrick E. Horrigan | American Scholar | Lethe Press | Finalist | ||
| Justin Torres | Blackouts | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | |||
| Richard Mirabella | Brother and Sister Enter the Forest: A Novel | Catapult | |||
| Khashayar J. Khabushani | I Will Greet the Sun Again | Hogarth Books | |||
| Gay Memoir/Biography | Jason Yamas | Tweakerworld | Unnamed Press | Winner | |
| Charles Busch | Leading Lady | BenBella Books | Finalist | ||
| Greg Marshall | Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It | Abrams Press | |||
| Jedidiah Jenkins | Mother, Nature | Convergent Books | |||
| Martin Duberman | Reaching Ninety | Chicago Review Press | |||
| Gay Poetry | Charif Shanahan | Trace Evidence | Tin House | Winner | |
| Paul Stephenson | Hard Drive | Carcanet Press | Finalist | ||
| Richard Blanco | Homeland of My Body: New and Selected Poems | Beacon Press | |||
| Emanuel Xavier | Love(ly) Child | Rebel Satori Press | |||
| Grant Chemidlin | What We Lost in the Swamp | Central Avenue Poetry | |||
| Gay Romance | Cat Sebastian | We Could Be So Good | Avon Books | Winner | |
| E. H. Lupton | Dionysus in Wisconsin | Winnowing Fan Press | Finalist | ||
| M. A. Wardell | Mistletoe and Mishigas | Self-published | |||
| Jay Hogan | The Art of Husbandry | Southern Lights Publishing / Self-published | |||
| K. J. Charles | The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen | Sourcebooks | |||
| Lesbian Fiction | Catherine Lacey | Biography of X | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Winner | |
| Jen Beagin | Big Swiss | Scribner | Finalist | ||
| K-Ming Chang | Organ Meats | One World | |||
| C. E. McGill | Our Hideous Progeny | HarperCollins | |||
| Helen Elaine Lee | Pomegranate | Atria Books | |||
| Lesbian Memoir/Biography | Amelia Possanza | Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives | Catapult | Winner | |
| Lamya H | Hijab Butch Blues | The Dial Press | Finalist | ||
| Vi Khi Nao | Suicide: The Autoimmune Disorder of the Psyche | 11:11 Press | |||
| Sarah Viren | To Name the Bigger Lie | Scribner | |||
| Lynnée Denise | Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters | The University of Texas Press | |||
| Lesbian Poetry | Kimberly Alidio | Teeter | Nightboat Books | Winner | |
| Alyse Knorr | Ardor | Gasher Press | Finalist | ||
| Brionne Janae | Because You Were Mine | Haymarket Books | |||
| Maggie Millner | Couplets | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | |||
| Stephanie Adams-Santos | Dream of Xibalba | Orison Books | |||
| Lesbian Romance | Georgia Beers | Dance with Me | Bold Strokes Books | Winner | |
| Marianne Ratcliffe | A Lady to Treasure | Bellows Press | Finalist | ||
| Kris Bryant | Catch | Bold Strokes Books | |||
| Lisa Peers | Love at 350° | The Dial Press | |||
| Melissa Brayden | Lucky in Lace | Bold Strokes Books | |||
| LGBTQ Anthology | Tuck Woodstock and Niko Stratis | 2 Trans 2 Furious: An Extremely Serious Journal of Transgender Street Racing Studies | Rapid Onset Gender Distro / Self-published | Winner | |
| Andrew R. Spieldenner and Jeffrey Escoffier | A Pill for Promiscuity: Gay Sex in an Age of Pharmaceuticals | Rutgers University Press | Finalist | ||
| Madeline Dyer; with contributions by Cody Daigle-Orians, Kat Yuen, Akemi Dawn Bowman, Rosiee Thor, Madeline Dyer, Linsey Miller, K. Hart, S. E. Anderson, Emily Victoria, Anju Imura, RoAnna Sylver, Moniza Hossain, Lara Ameen, Jas Brown, and S. J. Taylor | Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection | Page Street Publishing / Page Street YA | |||
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| Rosalind's Siblings: Fiction and Poetry Celebrating Scientists of Marginalized Genders | Atthis Arts | |||
| Benjamin Schaefer | Fairy Tale Review: The Rainbow Issue | Wayne State University Press | |||
| LGBTQ Children's | Nina LaCour
| The Apartment House on Poppy Hill | Chronicle Books | Winner | |
| Meeg Pincus and Meridth Mckean Gimbel | Door by Door | Crown Books for Young Readers | Finalist | ||
| Andy Passchier | Gender Identity for Kids | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | |||
| Harry Woodgate | Grandad's Pride | Little Bee Books | |||
| A. J. Irving and Kip Alizadeh | The Wishing Flower | Knopf Books for Young Readers | |||
| LGBTQ Comics | E. M. Carroll | A Guest in The House | First Second | Winner | |
| Mari Costa | Belle of the Ball | First Second | Finalist | ||
| Lawrence Lindell | Blackward | Drawn & Quarterly | |||
| Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki | Roaming | Drawn & Quarterly | |||
| H. A. | The Chromatic Fantasy | Silver Sprocket | |||
| LGBTQ Drama | James Ijames | Fat Ham | Theatre Communications Group | Winner | |
| Adam Meisner | For Both Resting and Breeding | Scirocco Drama / J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing | Finalist | ||
| Andrew Rincón | I Wanna Fuck Like Romeo and Juliet | Samuel French, a Concord Theatricals Company | |||
| Milo Wippermann | Joan of Arkansas | Ugly Duckling Presse | |||
| Harrison David Rivers | The bandaged place | Samuel French, a Concord Theatricals Company | |||
| LGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica | Laura Q | A Tight Squeeze: Smutty Trans and Queer Stories | Microcosm Publishing | Winner | |
| T. J. Alexander | Chef's Choice | Emily Bestler Books / Atria Books | Finalist | ||
| Andie Burke | Fly with Me: A Novel | St. Martin's Griffin | |||
| Ashley Herring Blake | Iris Kelly Doesn't Date | Berkley | |||
| Alexandria Bellefleur | The Fiancee Farce | Avon Books | |||
| LGBTQ Middle Grade | Robin Gow | Dear Mothman | Amulet Books | Winner | |
| Leah Johnson | Ellie Engle Saves Herself | Disney Hyperion | Finalist | ||
| Karen Wilfrid | Just Lizzie | HarperCollins / Clarion Books | |||
| Michael Leali | Matteo | HarperCollins | |||
| Alden Van Otterloo | The Beautiful Something Else | Scholastic Press | |||
| LGBTQ Mystery | Cari Hunter | A Calculated Risk | Bold Strokes Books | Winner | |
| Rebecca McKanna | Don't Forget the Girl | Sourcebooks Landmark | Finalist | ||
| Polly Stewart | The Good Ones | HarperCollins | |||
| J. M. Redmann | Transitory | Bold Strokes Books | |||
| Joshua Moehling | Where the Dead Sleep | Poisoned Pen Press | |||
| LGBTQ Nonfiction | Matt Baume | Hi Honey, I'm Homo | BenBella Books | Winner | |
| Daniel Black | Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America | Harlequin Trade Publishing / Hanover Square Press | Finalist | ||
| Elyssa Maxx Goodman | Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City | Harlequin Trade Publishing / Hanover Square Press | |||
| Julie Marie Wade | Otherwise | Autumn House Press | |||
| John Sovec, LMFT | Out: A Parent's Guide to Supporting Your LGBTQIA+ Kid Through Coming Out and Beyond | Jessica Kingsley Publishers | |||
| LGBTQ Poetry | Quinn Carver Johnson | The Perfect Bastard | Northwestern University Press | Winner | |
| Robin Gow | Lanternfly August | Driftwood Press | Finalist | ||
| Destiny Hemphill | Motherworld: A devotional for the alter-life | Action Books | |||
| Sam Sax | Pig | Scribner | |||
| Alina Pleskova | Toska | Deep Vellum | |||
| LGBTQ Speculative Fiction | Marisa Crane | I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself | Catapult | Winner | |
| Aubrey Wood | Bang Bang Bodhisattva | Solaris | Finalist | ||
| Emma Mieko Candon | The Archive Undying | Tordotcom Publishing | |||
| Vajra Chandrasekera | The Saint of Bright Door | Tordotcom Publishing | |||
| Chana Porter | The Thick and the Lean | Saga Press | |||
| LGBTQ Studies | Erin L. Durban | The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti | University of Illinois Press | Winner | |
| Jennifer Dominique Jones | Ambivalent Affinities: A Political History of Blackness and Homosexuality after World War II | University of North Carolina Press | Finalist | ||
| Christoph Hanssmann | Care without Pathology: How Trans Health Activists Are Changing Medicine | University of Minnesota Press | |||
| Margot Canaday | Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America | Princeton University Press | |||
| Travis S. K. Kong | Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China | Duke University Press | |||
| LGBTQ Young Adult | Abdi Nazemian | Only This Beautiful Moment | HarperCollins / Balzer + Bray | Winner | |
| Maxine Rae | Cold Girls | Flux | Finalist | ||
| Keith F. Miller Jr. | Pritty | HarperCollins / HarperTeen | |||
| Brittany N. Williams | That Self-Same Metal (The Forge & Fracture Saga, Book 1) | Amulet Books | |||
| Gabe Cole Novoa | The Wicked Bargain | Random House Books for Young Readers | |||
| Transgender Fiction | Soula Emmanuel | Wild Geese | Feminist Press | Winner | |
| Nicola Dinan | Bellies | Hanover Square Press | Finalist | ||
| Emily Zhou | Girlfriends | LittlePuss Press | |||
| Valérie Bah; translated by Kama La Mackerel | The Rage Letters | Metonymy Press | |||
| Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny | Trash | Deep Vellum | |||
| Transgender Nonfiction | Miss Major Griffin-Gracy and Toshio Meronek | Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary | Verso Books | Winner | |
| McKenzie Wark | Love and Money, Sex and Death | Verso Books | Finalist | ||
| Casey Plett | On Community | Biblioasis | |||
| Stacy Jane Grover | Tar Hollow Trans: Essays | University Press of Kentucky | |||
| Mx. Sly | Transland: Consent, Kink, and Pleasure | Arsenal Pulp Press | |||
| Transgender Poetry | Michal 'MJ' Jones | Hood Vacations | Black Lawrence Press | Winner | |
| Victoriano Cárdenas | Portraits as Animal: Poems | Bloomsday Literary | Finalist | ||
| K. Iver | Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco | Milkweed Editions | |||
| Jennifer Conlon | Taking to Water | Autumn House Press | |||
| Subhaga Crystal Bacon | Transitory | BOA Editions |