The 31st Annual Lambda Literary Award finalists (“Lammys”) have been announced. The awards celebrate achievement in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) writing. Winners will be announced at a ceremony on June 3.

This year’s finalist were selected by a panel of more than 60 literary professionals from over 1,000 book submissions by over 300 publishers.

The categories with nominees of genre interest are reported below. The full list of 24 categories is here.

LGBTQ Anthology 

• As You Like It: The Gerald Kraak Anthology Volume II, The Other Foundation, Jacana Media
• Beyond II: The Queer Post-Apocalyptic & Urban Fantasy Comic Anthology, Taneka Stotts & Sfé R. Monster, Beyond Press
• Foglifter Volume 3, Issue 1, Miah Jefra, Chad Koch, et al., Foglifter Press
• Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture, Roxane Gay, HarperCollins / Harper Perennial
• Q2Q: Queer Canadian Performance Texts, Peter Dickinson, C.E. Gatchalian, Kathleen Oliver, Dalbir Singh, Playwrights Canada Press
• Sista!: An Anthology of Writing By and About Same Gender Loving Women of African/Caribbean Descent with a UK Connection, Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, Rikki Beadle-Blair, John R. Gordon, Team Angelica Publishing
• Spawning Generations: Rants and Reflections on Growing Up with LGBTQ Parents, Sadie Epstein-Fine & Makeda Zook, Demeter Press
• Written on the Body: Letters from Trans and Non-Binary Survivors of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence, Lexie Bean, Jessica Kingsley Publishers

LGBTQ Children’s/Young Adult 

• Anger Is a Gift: A Novel, Mark Oshiro, Tor Teen
• The Dangerous Art of Blending In, Angelo Surmelis, HarperCollins / Balzer & Bray
• Darius the Great Is Not Okay, Adib Khorram, Dial
• Girl Made of Stars, Ashley Herring Blake, Houghton Mifflin & Little, Brown
• Hurricane Child, Kheryn Callender, Scholastic / Scholastic Press
• The Poet X, Elizabeth Acevedo, HarperCollins / HarperTeen
• Sawkill Girls, Claire Legrand, HarperCollins / Katherine Tegen Books
• This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story, Kheryn Callender, HarperCollins / Balzer + Bray

LGBTQ SF/F/Horror

• The Barrow Will Send What It May, Margaret Killjoy, Tor.com
• The Breath of the Sun, Isaac R. Fellman, Aqueduct
• The Descent of Monsters, JY Yang, Tor.com
• Forget the Sleepless Shores, Sonya Taaffe, Lethe Press
• In the Vanishers’ Palace, Aliette de Bodard, JABberwocky
• Metabolize, If Able, Clay AD, Monster House Press
• Resilience, Fletcher DeLancey, Heartsome Publishing
• Witchmark, C.L. Polk, Tor.com

Lesbian Mystery

• A Matter of Blood, Catherine Maiorisi, Bella Books
• A Study in Honor: A Novel, Claire O’Dell, HarperCollins / HarperVoyager
• A Whisper of Bones: A Jane Lawless Mystery, Ellen Hart, Minotaur Books
• Alice Isn’t Dead: A Novel, Joseph Fink, Harper Perennial
• Gnarled Hollow, Charlotte Greene, Bold Strokes Books
• The Locket, Gerri Hill, Bella Books
• Secrets of the Last Castle, A. Rose Mathieu, Bold Strokes Books
• Stolen: A Kieran Yeats Mystery, Linda J. Wright, Cats Paw Books