Congratulations 2021 Lammy Award Winners -

By Lambda Literary.org

On June 1, 2021, we announced the winners of the 33rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards. These winners were selected by a panel of over 60 literary professionals from more than 1,000 book submissions from over 300 publishers.

In addition to the winners below, four special honors were awarded: Ana-Maurine Lara received the Randall Kenan Prize for Black LGBTQ Fiction, the Jim Duggins, PhD Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize went to Sarah Gerard and Brontez Purnell, Nancy Agabian received the Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction, and the Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging LGBTQ Writers was awarded to Taylor Johnson and T Kira Madden.

You can pick up any of the winning books you haven’t read on our curated list at Bookshop.org, where your purchases benefit Lambda Literary.

Click here to watch the ceremony The 33rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards – YouTube

Lesbian Fiction

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Fiebre Tropical
Juli Delgado Lopera
Feminist Press Read our Review

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Gay Fiction

Neotenica
Joon Oluchi Lee
Nightboat BooksRead our Review

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Bisexual Fiction

You Exist Too Much
Zaina Arafat
CatapultBuy the Book

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cover of Zeyn Joukhadar's "The Thirty Names of Night"

Transgender Fiction

The Thirty Names of Night
Zeyn Joukhadar
Atria Books Buy the Book

cover of Samantha Irby's "Wow, No Thank You." : a fluffy brown bunny seated on a green background

Bisexual Nonfiction

Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
Samantha Irby
VintageBuy the Book

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cover of "The Black Trans Prayer Book": a bundle of incense burning on a smoke-filled, blue background

Transgender Nonfiction

The Black Trans Prayer Book
J Mase III & Dane Figueroa Edidi
The Black Trans Prayer BookBuy the Book

cover of Ashon T. Crawley's "The Lonely Letters"

LGBTQ Nonfiction

The Lonely Letters
Ashon T. Crawley
Duke University PressBuy the Book

cover of Pamela Sneed's "Funeral Diva": abstract painting of a blue person on a mottled red and orange background

Lesbian Poetry

Funeral Diva
Pamela Sneed
City Lights BooksBuy the Book

cover of Eduardo C. Corral's "Guillotine"

Gay Poetry

Guillotine
Eduardo C. Corral
Graywolf PressBuy the Book

cover of Aricka Foreman's "Salt Body Shimmer"

Bisexual Poetry

Salt Body Shimmer
Aricka Foreman
YesYes BooksBuy the Book

cover of Sade LaNay's "I Love You and I'm Not Dead"

Transgender Poetry

I love you and I’m not dead
Sade LaNay
Argos BooksBuy the Book

Lesbian Memoir/Biography

cover of Jenn Shapland's "My Autobiography of Carson McCullers"

My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
Jenn Shapland
Tin House BooksBuy the Book

Gay Memoir/Biography

A Dutiful Boy: A Memoir of a Gay Muslim’s Journey to Acceptance
Mohsin Zaidi
Square PegBuy the Book

Lesbian Romance

Cover of "Written in the Stars" by Alexandria Bellefleur

Written in the Stars
Alexandria Bellefleur
Avon BooksBuy the Book

Gay Romance

cover for Felice Stevens's "The Ghost and Charlie Muir"

The Ghost and Charlie Muir
Felice Stevens
Self-publishedBuy the Book

LGBTQ Anthology

cover of Love After The End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction" edited by Joshua Whitehead

Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction
edited by Joshua Whitehead
Arsenal Pulp PressBuy the Book