34th Lambda Literary Awards
The 34th Lambda Literary Awards will be announced on June 11, 2022[1] to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2021.
Special awards
| 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
| Category | Author | Title | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bisexual Fiction | S. J. Sindu | Blue-Skinned Gods | Finalist |
| Melissa Broder | Milk Fed | ||
| Tiphanie Yanique | Monster in the Middle | ||
| Jen Silverman | We Play Ourselves | ||
| Alix Ohlin | We Want What We Want | ||
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Aisha Sabatini Sloan | Borealis | Finalist |
| Hasanthika Sirisena | Dark Tourist: Essays | ||
| Jen Winston | Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much | ||
| Daisy Hernández | The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease | ||
| Courtney Cook | The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces | ||
| Bisexual Poetry | Aurielle Marie | Gumbo Ya Ya | Finalist |
| Muriel Leung | Imagine Us, The Swarm | ||
| CM Burroughs | Master Suffering | ||
| Paige Quiñones | The Best Prey | ||
| Jackie Wang | The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void | ||
| Gay Fiction | Brontez Purnell | 100 Boyfriends | Finalist |
| Selva Almada | Brickmakers | ||
| Jaime Cortez | Gordo | ||
| Yang Huang | My Good Son | ||
| Paul Mendez | Rainbow Milk | ||
| Gay Memoir/Biography | Rajiv Mohabir | Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir | Finalist |
| John Paul Brammer | Hola Papi | ||
| Peter Staley | Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism | ||
| Brian Broome | Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir | ||
| Luis Felipe Fabre with JD Pluecker (trans.) | Writing with Caca / Escribir con Caca | ||
| Gay Poetry | Nicholas Wong | Besiege Me | Finalist |
| Michael Walsh | Creep Love | ||
| John Keene | Punks: New & Selected Poems | ||
| Miguel Murphy | Shoreditch | ||
| Derrick Austin | Tenderness | ||
| Gay Romance | Sander Santiago | Best of the Wrong Reasons | Finalist |
| John Patrick | Dublin Bay | ||
| Larry Benjamin | Excellent Sons: A Love Story in Three Acts | ||
| Lance Ringel | Floridian Nights | ||
| Farhad J. Dadyburjor | The Other Man | ||
| Lesbian Fiction | Lauren Groff | Matrix | Finalist |
| Kirstin Valdez Quade | The Five Wounds | ||
| Venita Blackburn | How to Wrestle a Girl | ||
| Mia McKenzie | Skye Falling | ||
| Kristen Arnett | With Teeth | ||
| Lesbian Memoir/Biography | Grace Perry | The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture | Finalist |
| Leslie Cohen | The Audacity of a Kiss: Love, Art, and Liberation | ||
| Jonathan Ned Katz | The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams | ||
| Sophie Santos | The One You Want to Marry (And Other Identities I’ve Had) | ||
| Adele Bertei | Why Labelle Matters | ||
| Lesbian Poetry | Rosamond S. King | All the Rage | Finalist |
| Tamiko Beyer | Last Days | ||
| Grace Lau | The Language We Were Never Taught to Speak | ||
| Donika Kelly | The Renunciations: Poems | ||
| Arisa White | Who’s Your Daddy | ||
| Lesbian Romance | Jae | Chemistry Lessons | Finalist |
| E. J. Noyes | Go Around | ||
| Haley Cass | In the Long Run | ||
| Gerri Hill | Red Tide at Heron Bay | ||
| Milena McKay | The Headmistress | ||
| LGBTQ Anthology | Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (Ed.) | Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis | |
| Briona Simone Jones | Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought | ||
| Martin F. Manalansan IV, Alice Y. Hom, and Kale Bantigue Fajardo | Q & A: Voices from Queer Asian North America | ||
| Kemi Adeyemi, Kareem Khubchandani, and Ramón H. Rivera-Servera (Eds.) | Queer Nightlife | ||
| Leanna Keyes, Lindsey Mantoan, and Angela Farr Schiller with Leanna Keyes, Azure D. Osborne-Lee, Ty Defoe, MJ Kaufman, Raphaël Amahl Khouri, j. Chavez, Sharifa Yasmin, and Mashuq Mushtaq Deen (playwrights) | The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays | ||
| LGBTQ Children's/Middle Grade | JR Ford and Vanessa Ford | Calvin | Finalist |
| Ashley Herring Blake | Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea | ||
| Charlotte Sullivan Wild with Charlene Chua (illus.) | Love, Violet | ||
| Rob Sanders | Stitch by Stitch: Cleve Jones and the AIDS Memorial Quilt | ||
| Basil Sylvester and Kevin Sylvester | The Fabulous Zed Watson! | ||
| LGBTQ Drama | Daniel Alexander Jones | Love Like Light | Finalist |
| storäe michele | mama [rose.] | ||
| R. Eric Thomas | Mrs. Harrison | ||
| Kheven LaGrone | Pillow Talk | ||
| L M Feldman | Thrive, or What You Will {an epic} | ||
| LGBTQ Erotica | Samuel R. Delany | Big Joe | Finalist |
| MJ Lyons | Queer Werewolves Destroy Capitalism: Smutty Stories | ||
| Tab Kimpton and Harry-Anne Bentley (eds.) | Nectar: Trans Femme and Non Binary Erotic Comics Anthology | ||
| Tab Kimpton and Jade Sarson (eds.) | Ambrosia: Trans Masc and Non Binary Erotic Comics Anthology | ||
| Levi Huxton | The Lodger, That Summer | ||
| LGBTQ Comics | Crystal Frasier and Val Wise with Oscar O. Jupiter (lettering) | Cheer Up! Love and Pompoms | Finalist |
| Syan Rose | Our Work Is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer & Trans Resistance | ||
| Hiromi Goto with Ann Xu (illus.) | Shadow Life | ||
| Lee Lai | Stone Fruit | ||
| Kat Leyh | Thirsty Mermaids | ||
| LGBTQ Mystery | P.J. Vernon | Bath Haus | Finalist |
| Jennifer Hanlon Wilde | Finding the Vein | ||
| Michael Nava | Lies With Man | ||
| Stephen Spotswood | Murder Under Her Skin | ||
| John Copenhaver | The Savage Kind | ||
| LGBTQ Nonfiction | Sarah Schulman | Let the Record Show | Finalist |
| Melissa Febos | Girlhood | ||
| Akwaeke Emezi | Dear Senthuran | ||
| Adam Zmith | Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures | ||
| Kazim Ali | Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water | ||
| LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror | Arkady Martine | A Desolation Called Peace | Finalist |
| Honni van Rijswijk | Breeder | ||
| Cadwell Turnbull | No Gods, No Monsters | ||
| Olivia Tapiero with Kit Schluter (trans.) | Phototaxis | ||
| Neon Yang | The Tensorate Series | ||
| LGBTQ Studies | Gila Ashtor | Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia | Finalist |
| C. Winter Han | Racial Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of Desire | ||
| Leah DeVun | The Shape of Sex | ||
| Howard Chiang | Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific | ||
| Anna Lvovsky | Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall | ||
| LGBTQ Young Adult | Adiba Jaigirdar | Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating | Finalist |
| Aden Polydoros | The City Beautiful | ||
| A. R. Capetta | The Heartbreak Bakery | ||
| Isaac Fitzsimons | The Passing Playbook | ||
| Linsey Miller | What We Devour | ||
| Transgender Fiction | Torrey Peters | Detransition, Baby | Finalist |
| Callum Angus | A Natural History of Transition | ||
| Megan Milks | Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body | ||
| Shelley Parker-Chan | She Who Became the Sun | ||
| Jeanne Thornton | Summer Fun | ||
| Transgender Nonfiction | Da’Shaun Harrison | Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness | Finalist |
| Francisco Galarte | Brown Trans Figurations: Rethinking Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies | ||
| Ivan Coyote | Care Of: Letters, Connections, and Cures | ||
| Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt (Eds.) | Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography | ||
| Lucie Fielding | Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments | ||
| Transgender Poetry | Mason J | Crossbones on My Life | Finalist |
| Dani Putney | Salamat sa Intersectionality | ||
| Lindsay Choi | Transverse | ||
| Andrea Abi-Karam | Villainy | ||
| Raquel Salas Rivera | x/ex/exis |
References
- Gaynor, Jessie (2022-03-16). "Here are the finalists for the 2022 Lambda Literary Awards". Literary Hub. Retrieved 2022-03-17.
- "Current Finalists". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
- Athitakis, Mark (2022-03-15). "Finalists for Lambda Literary Awards Are Announced". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
- "Current Finalists". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2022-03-17.
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