33rd Lambda Literary Awards

The 33rd Lambda Literary Awards were announced on June 1, 2021, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2020.^[1]^[2] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, there was no public ceremony; instead, the winners were announced in a livestreamed virtual gala.^[3]

Nominees were announced in March 2021.^[4]

Special awards[]

Category	Winner
Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction	^[5]
Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize	Sarah Gerard, Brontez Purnell^[5]
Judith A. Markowitz Emerging Writer Award	, T Kira Madden^[5]
Randall Kenan Prize for Black LGBTQ Fiction	Ana-Maurine Lara^[6]

Nominees and winners[]

Category	Winner	Nominated
Bisexual Fiction	, You Exist Too Much	. Catherine House C Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills Is Gold Sulaiman Addonia, Silence Is My Mother Tongue Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown
Bisexual Nonfiction	Samantha Irby, Wow, No Thank You.: Essays	Natasha Sajé, Terroir: Love, Out of Place Emma Copley Eisenberg, The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia Shayla Lawson, This Is Major: Notes of Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope Alden Jones, The Wanting Was a Wilderness: Cheryl Strayed’s Wild and the Art of Memoir
Bisexual Poetry	Aricka Foreman, Salt Body Shimmer	George Abraham, Birthright , One God at a Time , sick , Wild Peach
Gay Fiction	, Neotenica	Garth Greenwell, Cleanness Brandon Taylor, Real Life Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain , This Town Sleeps
Gay Memoir/Biography	Mohsin Zaidi, A Dutiful Boy: A Memoir of a Gay Muslim’s Journey to Acceptance	, Here For It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body , The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard François Clemmons, Officer Clemmons: A Memoir
Gay Poetry	Eduardo C. Corral, Guillotine	Tommye Blount, Fantasia for the Man in Blue Justin Phillip Reed, The Malevolent Volume Romeo Oriogun, Sacrament of Bodies , Thanksgiving: A Poem
Gay Romance	, The Ghost and Charlie Muir	, Finding Joy , Flower of Iowa and , Ink and Ice , Two Rogues Make a Right
Lesbian Fiction	, Fiebre Tropical	K-Ming Chang, Bestiary Francesca Ekwuyasi, Butter Honey Pig Bread Jennifer Steil, Exile Music Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl
Lesbian Memoir/Biography	Jenn Shapland, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers	Tania De Rozario, And The Walls Come Crumbling Down , The Change: My Great American, Postindustrial, Midlife Crisis Tour , Lady Romeo: The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America’s First Celebrity Nina Kennedy, Practicing for Love: A Memoir
Lesbian Poetry	Pamela Sneed, Funeral Diva	, dayliGht , Devil’s Lake Mary Jean Chan, Flèche , : once teeth bones coral :
Lesbian Romance	, Written in the Stars	, Finding Jessica Lambert , Nottingham Ali Vali, One More Chance Jae, Wrong Number, Right Woman
LGBTQ Anthology	Joshua Whitehead, Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction	and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement , Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World That Wouldn’t Die , , Meg-John Barker and , Non-Binary Lives: An Anthology of Intersecting Identities and Kay Gabriel, We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics
LGBTQ Children's/Middle Grade	Kacen Callender, King and the Dragonflies	, The Deep & Dark Blue , From Archie to Zack Phil Bildner, A High Five for Glenn Burke , Our Subway Baby
LGBTQ Drama	, The Book of Mountains and Seas	Jacqueline Goldfinger, Babel and Jill Sobule, Fck7thGrade* , House Plant , Safe Space
LGBTQ Erotica	, The Nerves	, Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year, Volume 5 , Femme Tales , Smut Peddler Presents: Silver , and , Smut Peddlers: Glad Day 50
LGBTQ Comics	, Apsara Engine	Sophie Yanow, The Contradictions , Everything Is Beautiful, and I’m Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection , , , , , , Tula Lotay, Katie Skelly and , SFSX (Safe Sex), Vol. 1: Protection , Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir
LGBTQ Mystery	, I Hope You’re Listening	, Death Before Dessert , Find Me When I’m Lost , Fortune Favors the Dead , Vera Kelly Is Not a Mystery
LGBTQ Nonfiction	, The Lonely Letters	Ruth Coker Burks, All the Young Men and , An Excess of Quiet: Selected Sketches by Gustavo Ojeda, 1979–1989 , Forget Burial: HIV Kinship, Disability, and Queer/Trans Narratives of Care Josephine Donovan, The Lexington Six: Lesbian and Gay Resistance in 1970s America
LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror	, Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel	Rebecca Roanhorse, Black Sun Zen Cho, The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water Tlotlo Tsamaase, The Silence of the Wilting Skin , Subcutanean
LGBTQ Studies	, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World	, Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies José Esteban Muñoz, The Sense of Brown Janet R. Jakobsen, The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics Jane Ward, The Tragedy of Heterosexuality
LGBTQ Young Adult	Mike Curato, Flamer	, Camp Trung Le Nguyen, The Magic Fish , Sasha Masha Leah Johnson, You Should See Me in a Crown
Transgender Fiction	Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night	Nino Cipri, Finna Chana Porter, The Seep Vivek Shraya, The Subtweet , Trans-Galactic Bike Ride: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories of Transgender and Nonbinary Adventurers
Transgender Nonfiction	J Mase III and , The Black Trans Prayer Book	Meredith Talusan, Fairest: A Memoir Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, The Freezer Door , Nepantla Squared: Transgender Mestiz@ Histories in Times of Global Shift , Trans Care
Transgender Poetry	, I Love You and I'm Not Dead	, Greyhound Kay Ulanday Barrett, More Than Organs , The Nancy Reagan Collection , Theories of Performance

References[]

^ "2021 Winners". Lambda Literary Award. June 1, 2021. Retrieved October 27, 2021.
^ Jane Henderson, "Lambda Literary Awards announce winners". St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 1, 2021.
^ "Lambda Literary Awards: Douglas Stuart's Shuggie Bain, Samantha Irby's Wow, No Thank You featured in finalists' lists". Firstpost, March 16, 2021.
^ Jim Provenzano, "Lambda Literary Awards 2021 finalists announced". Bay Area Reporter, March 15, 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c Leah Rachel Van Essen, "Announcing The Winners of the 2021 Lambda Literary Awards". Book Riot, June 2, 2021.
^ Dale Edwards, "Literary prize honoring Randall Kenan awarded". The News of Orange County, June 1, 2021.

[1] "2021 Winners". Lambda Literary Award. June 1, 2021. Retrieved October 27, 2021.

[2] Jane Henderson, "Lambda Literary Awards announce winners". St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 1, 2021.

[3] "Lambda Literary Awards: Douglas Stuart's Shuggie Bain, Samantha Irby's Wow, No Thank You featured in finalists' lists". Firstpost, March 16, 2021.

[4] Jim Provenzano, "Lambda Literary Awards 2021 finalists announced". Bay Area Reporter, March 15, 2021.

[bookriot-5] Leah Rachel Van Essen, "Announcing The Winners of the 2021 Lambda Literary Awards". Book Riot, June 2, 2021.

[6] Dale Edwards, "Literary prize honoring Randall Kenan awarded". The News of Orange County, June 1, 2021.

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