2024 Winners

Congratulations 2024 Lammy Award Winners

On June 11, 2024, we announced the winners of the 36th Annual Lambda Literary Awards at an incredible ceremony held at Sony Hall. These winners were selected by a panel of of 80 literary professionals from more than 1,300 book submissions from over 300 publishers.

The seven special prizes at this year’s ceremony included two new awards, The Denneny Award for Editorial Excellence, named in honor of Michael Denneny, who founded the first ever LGBTQ+ imprint at a major publishing house, and The Pat Holt Prize for Critical Arts Writing, in memory of the celebrated author and long-time SF Chronicle book review editor Patricia Holt. Another new prize was announced at the ceremony: the Publishing Professional Award sponsored by Spotify. This year’s outstanding special prize winners were:

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 (new this year!)

• Dr. Remi Recchia

The Pat Holt Prize for Critical Arts Writing (new this year!)

• Elizabeth Hoover

You can pick up any of the winning books you haven’t read on our curated list at Bookshop.org, where your purchases benefit Lambda Literary.