The shortlists for the 2024 Lambda Literary Awards were announced March 27. Finalists in 26 categories were selected by a panel of over 70 literary professionals from more than 1,300 book submissions. The awards will be presented at a ceremony in New York on June 11.
The Lammys are awarded yearly by Lambda Literary “to recognize the crucial role LGBTQ writers play in shaping the world.”
The works in the sff category are listed below. The complete roster of finalists is here.
LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction
Bang Bang Bodhisattva by Aubrey Wood (Solaris)
I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself: A Novel by Marisa Crane (Catapult)
The Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon (Tordotcom Publishing)
The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom Publishing)
The Thick and the Lean by Chana Porter (Saga Press)
The shortlists for the 2022 Lambda Literary Awards were announced March 16. Finalists in 25 categories were selected by a panel of over 65 literary professionals from more than 1,350 book submissions. The winners will be revealed in a virtual ceremony on June 9.
The works in the sff category are listed below. The complete roster of finalists is here.
LGBTQ+ SPECULATIVE FICTION
Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean, Tor Books
Into the Riverlands by Nghi Vo, Tordotcom Publishing
The Circus Infinite by Khan Wong, Angry Robot Books
The Paradox Hotel by Rob Hart, Ballantine
The Wicked and the Willing by Lianyu Tan, Shattered Scepter Press
The shortlists for the 2022 Lambda Literary Awards were announced March 15. Finalists in 24 categories were selected by a panel of over 60 literary professionals from more than 2,300 book submissions. The winners will be revealed in a virtual ceremony on June 11.
The works in the sff category are listed below. The complete roster of finalists is here.
LGBTQ SPECULATIVE FICTION
A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine, Tor Books
Breeder by Honni van Rijswijk, Blackstone Publishing
No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull, Blackstone Publishing
Phototaxis by Olivia Tapiero, translated by Kit Schluter, Nightboat Books
The Tensorate Series by Neon Yang, Tordotcom Publishing
The winners of the 33rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards were announced in an online ceremony on June 1. The winners in 24 categories were selected by a panel of over 60 literary professionals.
Winners of genre interest are listed below. The complete list of winners is here.
LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror
Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel, Julian K. Jarboe, (Lethe Press)
LGBTQ Comics
Apsara Engine, Bishakh Som (Feminist)
LGBTQ Anthology
Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction, Joshua Whitehead (Arsenal Pulp)
Gay Romance
The Ghost and Charlie Muir, Felice Stevens (self-published)
The shortlists for the 33rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards were announced March 15. These finalists in 24 categories were selected by a panel of over 60 literary professionals from more than 1,000 book submissions from over 300 publishers.
The winners will be revealed during the virtual 33rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards Ceremony to be held on June 1.
Shortlisted works of genre interest are listed below. The complete roster of finalists is here.
LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror
Black Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse, (Gallery / Saga Press)
Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel, Julian K. Jarboe, (Lethe Press)
The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water, Zen Cho, (Tordotcom Publishing)
The Silence of the Wilting Skin, Tlotlo Tsamaase, (Pink Narcissus Press)
Subcutanean, Aaron A. Reed, (Self-published)
Works of genre interest in other categories include:
Gay Fiction
This Town Sleeps, Dennis E. Staples (Counterpoint)
Lesbian Fiction
Bestiary, K-Ming Chang (One World)
Transgender Fiction
Finna, Nino Cipri (Tordotcom)
The Seep, Chana Porter (Soho)
Trans-Galactic Bike Ride: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories of Transgender and Nonbinary Adventurers, Lydia Rogue (Microcosm)
Gay Romance
The Ghost and Charlie Muir, Felice Stevens (self-published)
LGBTQ Anthology
Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction, Joshua Whitehead (Arsenal Pulp)
LGBTQ Children’s/Middle Grade
The Deep & Dark Blue, Niki Smith (Little, Brown)
LGBTQ Comics
Apsara Engine, Bishakh Som (Feminist)
SFSX (Safe Sex), Vol. 1: Protection, Tina Horn, Michael Dowling, Alejandra Gutiérrez & Jen Hickman (Image)
The 32nd Annual Lambda Literary Award (“Lammys”) winners were announced online June 1.
The awards celebrate achievement in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) writing. The winners were selected by a panel of over 60 literary professionals from more than 1,000 book submissions from over 300 publishers.
The winners of genre interest are reported below. See the winners in all 24 categories at the link.
LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror
The Deep, Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes, Gallery / Saga Press
LGBTQ Comics
Cannonball, Kelsey Wroten, Uncivilized Books
LGBTQ Nonfiction
In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado, Graywolf Press
The finalsts for the 32nd Annual Lambda
Literary Awards were announced March 10. The finalists were selected by a panel
of over 60 literary professionals from more than 1,000 book submissions from
over 300 publishers.
The winners will be announced June 8 in New York City
See the finalists in all 24 categories at the link.
LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror
Black Leopard, Red
Wolf, Marlon James, Riverhead Books
The Deep, Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs,
William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes, Gallery / Saga Press
False Bingo, Jac Jemc, Farrar, Straus and
Giroux
The Priory of the
Orange Tree, Samantha Shannon, Bloomsbury
Publishing
The Rampant, Julie C. Day, Aqueduct Press
A Spectral Hue, Craig Laurance Gidney, Word Horde
Stories to Sing in
the Dark, Matthew Bright, Lethe Press
Wake, Siren, Nina MacLaughlin, Farrar, Straus
and Giroux
Other categories with many works of genre interest, plus individual nominees of interest, include —