Congratulations 2021 Lammy Award Winners
On June 1, 2021, we announced the winners of the 33rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards. These winners were selected by a panel of over 60 literary professionals from more than 1,000 book submissions from over 300 publishers.
In addition to the winners below, four special honors were awarded: Ana-Maurine Lara received the Randall Kenan Prize for Black LGBTQ Fiction, the Jim Duggins, PhD Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize went to Sarah Gerard and Brontez Purnell, Nancy Agabian received the Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction, and the Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging LGBTQ Writers was awarded to Taylor Johnson and T Kira Madden.
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.
Lesbian Fiction
Fiebre Tropical
Juli Delgado Lopera
Feminist Press
Gay Fiction
Neotenica
Joon Oluchi Lee
Nightboat Books
Bisexual Fiction
You Exist Too Much
Zaina Arafat
Catapult
Transgender Fiction
The Thirty Names of Night
Zeyn Joukhadar
Atria Books
Bisexual Nonfiction
Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
Samantha Irby
Vintage
Transgender Nonfiction
The Black Trans Prayer Book
J Mase III & Dane Figueroa Edidi
The Black Trans Prayer Book
LGBTQ Nonfiction
The Lonely Letters
Ashon T. Crawley
Duke University Press
Lesbian Poetry
Funeral Diva
Pamela Sneed
City Lights Books
Gay Poetry
Guillotine
Eduardo C. Corral
Graywolf Press
Bisexual Poetry
Salt Body Shimmer
Aricka Foreman
YesYes Books
Transgender Poetry
I love you and I’m not dead
Sade LaNay
Argos Books
Lesbian Memoir/Biography
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
Jenn Shapland
Tin House Books
Gay Memoir/Biography
A Dutiful Boy: A Memoir of a Gay Muslim’s Journey to Acceptance
Mohsin Zaidi
Square Peg
Lesbian Romance
Written in the Stars
Alexandria Bellefleur
Avon Books
Gay Romance
The Ghost and Charlie Muir
Felice Stevens
Self-published
LGBTQ Anthology
Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction
edited by Joshua Whitehead
Arsenal Pulp Press
LGBTQ Children’s/Middle Grade
King and the Dragonflies
Kacen Callender
Scholastic
LGBTQ Young Adult
Flamer
Mike Curato
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers
LGBTQ Comics
Apsara Engine
Bishakh Som
Feminist Press
LGBTQ Drama
The Book of Mountains and Seas
Yilong Liu
New Conservatory Theatre Center
LGBTQ Erotica
The Nerves
Lee Suksi
Metatron Press
LGBTQ Mystery
I Hope You’re Listening
Tom Ryan
Albert Whitman & Company
LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror
Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel
Julian K. Jarboe
Lethe Press
LGBTQ Studies
Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World
Zakiyyah Iman Jackson
NYU Press
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