36th Lambda Literary Awards
{{Short description|2024 Lambda Literary Awards for LGBTQ+ literature}}
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{{Infobox award
| name = 36th Lambda Literary Awards
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| caption = Lambda Literary Award Seal
| awarded_for = Works of LGBTQ+ literature
| date = {{start date|2024|06|11}}
| location = New York City
| country = United States
| presenter = Lambda Literary Foundation
| eligibility = LGBTQ+ storytelling, published in the US in 2023{{cite web |url=https://lambdaliterary.org/awards/lammys-submissions/ |title=Submission Guidelines |publisher=Lambda Literary Foundation |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240324151423/https://lambdaliterary.org/awards/lammys-submissions/ |date=2023-11-20 |archive-date=2024-03-24 |access-date=2024-04-27 }}
| website = {{URL|www.lambdaliterary.org/awards}}
| previous = 35th
| main = Lambda Literary Awards
| next = 37th
}}
The finalists for the 36th Lambda Literary Awards, which honor works of LGBTQ+ literature published in 2023, were announced on March 27, 2024.{{Cite web |date=2024-03-27 |title=Here Are the Finalists for the 36th Annual Lambda Literary Awards |url=https://www.them.us/story/lambda-literary-awards-2024-shortlist-announcement |access-date=2024-04-24 |website=them. |language=en-US }}{{Cite web |date=2024-03-28 |title=The 2024 Lambda Literary Awards Shortlists Are Here |url=https://bookriot.com/the-2024-lambda-literary-awards-shortlists/ |access-date=2024-04-25 |website=Book Riot |language=en-US }} The winners were announced at Sony Hall in New York on June 11, 2024.Athena Sobhan, [https://people.com/2024-lambda-literary-awards-see-the-complete-list-of-winners-8662165 "The 2024 Lambda Literary Awards - See the Complete List of Winners"]. People, June 12, 2024.
Special awards
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.
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|+Special awards recipients !Category !Winner !Ref |
| Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction |
| Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize |
| Judith A. Markowitz Emerging Writer Award |
| J. Michael Samuel Prize for Emerging Writers Over 50 |
| Randall Kenan Prize for Black LGBTQ Fiction |
| The Denneny Award for Editorial Excellence |
| The Pat Holt Prize for Critical Arts Writing |
Nominees and winners
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|+ 36th Lambda Literary Awards winners and finalists ! Category ! Author ! Title ! Publisher ! Result ! Ref. |
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! rowspan="5" |Bisexual Fiction |Penguin Random House / Dutton |Winner |
| Ruth Madievsky
|All-Night Pharmacy: A Novel |Catapult | rowspan="4" |Finalist |
| Jennifer Savran Kelly
|Endpapers |
| Sarah James
|Last Night at the Hollywood Canteen |
| Haley Jakobson
|Old Enough |
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! rowspan="5" |Bisexual Nonfiction |Creep: Accusations and Confessions |Winner |
| Vaneet Mehta
|Bisexual Men Exist: A Handbook for Bisexual, Pansexual and M-Spec Men | rowspan="4" |Finalist |
| Zachary Zane
|Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto |
| Eden Boudreau
|Crying Wolf |Book*hug Press |
| Kawika Guillermo
|Nimrods: A fake-punk self-hurt anti-memoir |
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! rowspan="5" |Bisexual Poetry |Desire Museum |Winner |
| Mary Jo Bang
|A Film in Which I Play Everyone | rowspan="4" |Finalist |
| Sierra DeMulder
|Ephemera |
| Margaret Ray
|Good Grief, the Ground |
| Paul Killebrew
|Impersonal Rainbow and The Bisexual Purge |Canarium Books |
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! rowspan="5" |Gay Fiction |Family Meal |Penguin Random House / Riverhead Books |Winner |
| Patrick E. Horrigan
|American Scholar | rowspan="4" |Finalist |
| Justin Torres |
| Richard Mirabella
|Brother and Sister Enter the Forest: A Novel |Catapult |
| Khashayar J. Khabushani
|I Will Greet the Sun Again |Hogarth Books |
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! rowspan="5" |Gay Memoir/Biography |Tweakerworld |Winner |
| Charles Busch
|Leading Lady | rowspan="4" |Finalist |
| Greg Marshall
|Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It |
| Jedidiah Jenkins
|Mother, Nature |
| Martin Duberman
|Reaching Ninety |
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! rowspan="5" |Gay Poetry |Trace Evidence |Winner |
| Paul Stephenson
|Hard Drive | rowspan="4" |Finalist |
| Richard Blanco
|Homeland of My Body: New and Selected Poems |
| Emanuel Xavier
|Love(ly) Child |Rebel Satori Press |
| Grant Chemidlin
|What We Lost in the Swamp |Central Avenue Poetry |
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! rowspan="5" |Gay Romance |We Could Be So Good |Winner |
| E. H. Lupton
|Dionysus in Wisconsin |Winnowing Fan Press | rowspan="4" |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 |
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! rowspan="5" |Lesbian Fiction |Winner |
| Jen Beagin
|Scribner | rowspan="4" |Finalist |
| K-Ming Chang
|Organ Meats |
| C. E. McGill
|Our Hideous Progeny |
| Helen Elaine Lee
|Pomegranate |
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! rowspan="5" |Lesbian Memoir/Biography |Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives |Catapult |Winner |
| Lamya H
| rowspan="4" |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 |
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! rowspan="5" |Lesbian Poetry |Teeter |Winner |
| Alyse Knorr
|Ardor |Gasher Press | rowspan="4" |Finalist |
| Brionne Janae
|Because You Were Mine |
| Maggie Millner
|Couplets |
| Stephanie Adams-Santos
|Dream of Xibalba |Orison Books |
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! rowspan="5" |Lesbian Romance |Dance with Me |Winner |
| Marianne Ratcliffe
|A Lady to Treasure |Bellows Press | rowspan="4" |Finalist |
| Kris Bryant
|Catch |
| Lisa Peers
|Love at 350° |
| Melissa Brayden
|Lucky in Lace |
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! rowspan="5" |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 | rowspan="4" |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 |
| Bogi Takács; with contributions by Cameron Van Sant, Celia Neri, D. A. Xiaolin Spires, Emma Alice Johnson, Hal Y. Zhang, Isha Karki, Jennifer Lee Rossman, Julian K. Jarboe, Julie Nováková, Kanika Agrawal, Laura Jane Swanson, Leigh Harlen, Lisa M. Bradley, Lydia Moon, Osahon Ize-Iyamu, Phoebe Barton, Polenth Blake, Premee Mohamed, Santiago Belluco, Stefani Cox, Tessa Fisher, Ursula Whitcher, and Vajra Chandrasekera
|Rosalind's Siblings: Fiction and Poetry Celebrating Scientists of Marginalized Genders |Atthis Arts |
| Benjamin Schaefer
|Fairy Tale Review: The Rainbow Issue |
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! rowspan="5" |LGBTQ Children's |Nina LaCour; illustrated by Sonia Albert |The Apartment House on Poppy Hill |Winner |
| Meeg Pincus and Meridth Mckean Gimbel
|Door by Door |Crown Books for Young Readers | rowspan="4" |Finalist |
| Andy Passchier
|Gender Identity for Kids |
| Harry Woodgate
|Grandad's Pride |
| A. J. Irving and Kip Alizadeh
|The Wishing Flower |
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! rowspan="5" |LGBTQ Comics |A Guest in The House |Winner |
| Mari Costa
|Belle of the Ball | rowspan="4" |Finalist |
| Lawrence Lindell
|Blackward |
| Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki
|Roaming |
| H. A.
|The Chromatic Fantasy |
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! rowspan="5" |LGBTQ Drama |Winner |
| Adam Meisner
|For Both Resting and Breeding |Scirocco Drama / J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing | rowspan="4" |Finalist |
| Andrew Rincón
|I Wanna Fuck Like Romeo and Juliet |Samuel French, a Concord Theatricals Company |
| Milo Wippermann
|Joan of Arkansas |
| Harrison David Rivers
|The bandaged place |Samuel French, a Concord Theatricals Company |
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! rowspan="5" |LGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica |Laura Q |A Tight Squeeze: Smutty Trans and Queer Stories |Winner |
| T. J. Alexander
|Chef's Choice |Emily Bestler Books / Atria Books | rowspan="4" |Finalist |
| Andie Burke
|Fly with Me: A Novel |
| Ashley Herring Blake
|Iris Kelly Doesn't Date |Berkley |
| Alexandria Bellefleur
|The Fiancee Farce |
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! rowspan="5" |LGBTQ Middle Grade |Robin Gow |Dear Mothman |Winner |
| Leah Johnson
|Ellie Engle Saves Herself | rowspan="4" |Finalist |
| Karen Wilfrid
|Just Lizzie |
| Michael Leali
|Matteo |
| Alden Van Otterloo
|The Beautiful Something Else |
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! rowspan="5" |LGBTQ Mystery |Cari Hunter |A Calculated Risk |Winner |
| Rebecca McKanna
|Don't Forget the Girl | rowspan="4" |Finalist |
| Polly Stewart
|The Good Ones |
| J. M. Redmann
|Transitory |
| Joshua Moehling
|Where the Dead Sleep |
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! rowspan="5" |LGBTQ Nonfiction |Hi Honey, I'm Homo |Winner |
| Daniel Black
|Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America |Harlequin Trade Publishing / Hanover Square Press | rowspan="4" |Finalist |
| Elyssa Maxx Goodman
|Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City |
| Julie Marie Wade
|Otherwise |
| John Sovec, LMFT
|Out: A Parent's Guide to Supporting Your LGBTQIA+ Kid Through Coming Out and Beyond |
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! rowspan="5" |LGBTQ Poetry |The Perfect Bastard |Northwestern University Press |Winner |
| Robin Gow
|Lanternfly August |Driftwood Press | rowspan="4" |Finalist |
| Destiny Hemphill
|Motherworld: A devotional for the alter-life |
| Sam Sax
|Pig |Scribner |
| Alina Pleskova
|Toska |Deep Vellum |
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! rowspan="5" |LGBTQ Speculative Fiction |I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself |Catapult |Winner |
| Aubrey Wood
|Bang Bang Bodhisattva | rowspan="4" |Finalist |
| Emma Mieko Candon |
| Vajra Chandrasekera
|The Saint of Bright Door |
| Chana Porter
|The Thick and the Lean |
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! rowspan="5" |LGBTQ Studies |The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti |Winner |
| Jennifer Dominique Jones
|Ambivalent Affinities: A Political History of Blackness and Homosexuality after World War II |University of North Carolina Press | rowspan="4" |Finalist |
| Christoph Hanssmann
|Care without Pathology: How Trans Health Activists Are Changing Medicine |
| Margot Canaday
|Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America |
| Travis S. K. Kong
|Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China |
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! rowspan="5" |LGBTQ Young Adult |Only This Beautiful Moment |HarperCollins / Balzer + Bray |Winner |
| Maxine Rae
|Cold Girls |Flux | rowspan="4" |Finalist |
| Keith F. Miller Jr.
|Pritty |
| Brittany N. Williams
|That Self-Same Metal (The Forge & Fracture Saga, Book 1) |
| Gabe Cole Novoa
|The Wicked Bargain |
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! rowspan="5" |Transgender Fiction |Wild Geese |Winner |
| Nicola Dinan
| rowspan="4" |Finalist |
| Emily Zhou
|Girlfriends |LittlePuss Press |
| Valérie Bah; translated by Kama La Mackerel
|The Rage Letters |Metonymy Press |
| Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny
|Trash |Deep Vellum |
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! rowspan="5" |Transgender Nonfiction |Miss Major Griffin-Gracy and Toshio Meronek |Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary |Winner |
| McKenzie Wark
|Love and Money, Sex and Death | rowspan="4" |Finalist |
| Casey Plett
|On Community |
| Stacy Jane Grover
|Tar Hollow Trans: Essays |
| Mx. Sly
|Transland: Consent, Kink, and Pleasure |
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! rowspan="5" |Transgender Poetry |Michal 'MJ' Jones |Hood Vacations |Winner |
| Victoriano Cárdenas
|Portraits as Animal: Poems |Bloomsday Literary | rowspan="4" |Finalist | rowspan="4" | |
| K. Iver
|Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco |
| Jennifer Conlon
|Taking to Water |
| Subhaga Crystal Bacon
|Transitory |
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