34Th Lambda Literary Awards
The 34th Lambda Literary Awards were announced on June 11, 2022 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2021.
Nominees were announced in March 2022.
Special awards
| Category | Winner |
|---|---|
| Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction | Aisha Sabatini Sloan |
| Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize | Vi Khi Nao and Silas House |
| Judith A. Markowitz Emerging Writer Award | Ching-In Chen and Morgan Thomas |
| Randall Kenan Prize for Black LGBTQ Fiction | Kalynn Bayron |
Nominees and winners
| Category | Author | Title | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bisexual Fiction | Alix Ohlin | We Want What We Want | Winner |
| S. J. Sindu | Blue-Skinned Gods | Finalist | |
| Melissa Broder | Milk Fed | ||
| Tiphanie Yanique | Monster in the Middle | ||
| Jen Silverman | We Play Ourselves | ||
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Aisha Sabatini Sloan | Borealis | Winner |
| Hasanthika Sirisena | Dark Tourist: Essays | Finalist | |
| 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 | Winner |
| Muriel Leung | Imagine Us, The Swarm | Finalist | |
| 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 | Winner |
| Selva Almada | Brickmakers | Finalist | |
| Jaime Cortez | Gordo | ||
| Yang Huang | My Good Son | ||
| Paul Mendez | Rainbow Milk | ||
| Gay Memoir/Biography | Brian Broome | Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir | Winner |
| Rajiv Mohabir | Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir | Finalist | |
| John Paul Brammer | Hola Papi | ||
| Peter Staley | Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism | ||
| Luis Felipe Fabre with JD Pluecker (trans.) | Writing with Caca / Escribir con Caca | ||
| Gay Poetry | John Keene | Punks: New & Selected Poems | Winner |
| Nicholas Wong | Besiege Me | Finalist | |
| Michael Walsh | Creep Love | ||
| Miguel Murphy | Shoreditch | ||
| Derrick Austin | Tenderness | ||
| Gay Romance | Larry Benjamin | Excellent Sons: A Love Story in Three Acts | Winner |
| Sander Santiago | Best of the Wrong Reasons | Finalist | |
| John Patrick | Dublin Bay | ||
| Lance Ringel | Floridian Nights | ||
| Farhad J. Dadyburjor | The Other Man | ||
| Lesbian Fiction | Mia McKenzie | Skye Falling | Winner |
| Lauren Groff | Matrix | Finalist | |
| Kirstin Valdez Quade | The Five Wounds | ||
| Venita Blackburn | How to Wrestle a Girl | ||
| Kristen Arnett | With Teeth | ||
| Lesbian Memoir/Biography | Sophie Santos | The One You Want to Marry (And Other Identities I’ve Had) | Winner |
| 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 | ||
| Adele Bertei | Why Labelle Matters | ||
| Lesbian Poetry | Tamiko Beyer | Last Days | Winner |
| Rosamond S. King | All the Rage | Finalist | |
| Grace Lau | The Language We Were Never Taught to Speak | ||
| Donika Kelly | The Renunciations: Poems | ||
| Arisa White | Who’s Your Daddy | ||
| Lesbian Romance | Milena McKay | The Headmistress | Winner |
| Jae | Chemistry Lessons | Finalist | |
| E. J. Noyes | Go Around | ||
| Haley Cass | In the Long Run | ||
| Gerri Hill | Red Tide at Heron Bay | ||
| LGBTQ Anthology | Briona Simone Jones | Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought | Winner |
| Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (ed.) | Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis | Finalist | |
| 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 (eds.) | The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays | ||
| LGBTQ Children's/Middle Grade | JR Ford and Vanessa Ford | Calvin | Winner |
| Ashley Herring Blake | Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea | Finalist | |
| 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 | R. Eric Thomas | Mrs. Harrison | Winner |
| Daniel Alexander Jones | Love Like Light | Finalist | |
| storäe michele | mama [rose.] | ||
| Kheven LaGrone | Pillow Talk | ||
| L M Feldman | Thrive, or What You Will {an epic} | ||
| LGBTQ Erotica | Samuel R. Delany | Big Joe | Winner |
| MJ Lyons | Queer Werewolves Destroy Capitalism: Smutty Stories | Finalist | |
| 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 Graphic Novel | Lee Lai | Stone Fruit | Winner |
| 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 | ||
| Kat Leyh | Thirsty Mermaids | ||
| LGBTQ Mystery | John Copenhaver | The Savage Kind | Winner |
| P.J. Vernon | Bath Haus | Finalist | |
| Jennifer Hanlon Wilde | Finding the Vein | ||
| Michael Nava | Lies With Man | ||
| Stephen Spotswood | Murder Under Her Skin | ||
| LGBTQ Nonfiction | Sarah Schulman | Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987–1993 | Winner |
| Melissa Febos | Girlhood | Finalist | |
| 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 | Cadwell Turnbull | No Gods, No Monsters | Winner |
| Arkady Martine | A Desolation Called Peace | Finalist | |
| Honni van Rijswijk | Breeder | ||
| Olivia Tapiero with Kit Schluter (trans.) | Phototaxis | ||
| Neon Yang | The Tensorate Series | ||
| LGBTQ Studies | Anna Lvovsky | Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall | Winner |
| 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 | ||
| LGBTQ Young Adult | A.R Capetta | The Heartbreak Bakery | Winner |
| Adiba Jaigirdar | Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating | Finalist | |
| Aden Polydoros | The City Beautiful | ||
| Isaac Fitzsimons | The Passing Playbook | ||
| Linsey Miller | What We Devour | ||
| Transgender Fiction | Jeanne Thornton | Summer Fun | Winner |
| 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 | ||
| Transgender Nonfiction | Da’Shaun Harrison | Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness | Winner |
| Francisco Galarte | Brown Trans Figurations: Rethinking Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies | Finalist | |
| 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 | Winner |
| Dani Putney | Salamat sa Intersectionality | Finalist | |
| Lindsay Choi | Transverse | ||
| Andrea Abi-Karam | Villainy | ||
| Raquel Salas Rivera | x/ex/exis |
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