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
edit| 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
edit| 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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- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "2023 Winners". Lambda Literary. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
- ^ "Current Finalists". Lambda Literary. Archived from the original on June 13, 2022. Retrieved May 6, 2023.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.