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 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.
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.
Transgender Nonfiction
MISS MAJOR SPEAKS: CONVERSATIONS WITH A BLACK TRANS REVOLUTIONARY
Toshio Meronek and Miss Major
Verso
Lesbian Memoir/Biography
LESBIAN LOVE STORY
Michal ‘MJ’ Jones
Black Lawrence Press
Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives
Amelia Possanza
Catapult
Gay Memoir/Biography
TWEAKERWORLD
Michal ‘MJ’ Jones
Black Lawrence Press
Tweakerworld
Jason Yamas
Unnamed Press
LGBTQ+ Anthology
2 TRANS 2 FURIOUS: AN EXTREMELY SERIOUS JOURNAL OF TRANSGENDER STREET RACING STUDIES
Tuck Woodstock and Niko Stratis
Self-published
LGBTQ+ Children's Books
THE APARTMENT HOUSE ON POPPY HILL
Nina LaCour, Illustrated by Sonia Albert
Chronicle Books
LGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica
A TIGHT SQUEEZE: SMUTTY TRANS AND QUEER STORIES
laura q
Microcosm Publishing
LGBTQ+ Studies
THE SEXUAL POLITICS OF EMPORE: POSTCOLONIAL HOMOPHOBIA IN HAITI
Erin L. Durban
University of Illinois Press
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