Lambda Literary Awards

Lambda Literary Awards 2021

Winners and nominees of the 2021 Lambda Literary Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.

Bisexual Fiction

Bisexual Non-fiction

  • 🏆 Wow, No Thank You.: Essays (winner)
  • ✦The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia — Emma Copley Eisenberg (nominee)
  • ✦The Wanting Was a Wildernerss: Cheryl Strayed's Wild and the Art of Memoir — Alden Jones (nominee)
  • ✦This Is Major: Notes of Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope — Shayla Lawson (nominee)
  • ✦Terroir: Love, Out of Place — Natasha Sajé (nominee)

Bisexual Poetry

  • 🏆Salt Body Shimmer — Aricka Foreman (winner)
  • ✦Wild Peach — S*an D. Henry-Smith (nominee)
  • ✦ One God at a Time (nominee)
  • ✦ Birthright (nominee)
  • ✦ sick (nominee)
  • ✦One God at a Time(nominee)
  • ✦Birthright(nominee)
  • ✦sick(nominee)

Children's Literature

  • ✦ Our Subway Baby (nominee)
  • ✦ From Archie to Zack (nominee)
  • ✦Our Subway Baby(nominee)
  • ✦From Archie to Zack(nominee)

Drama

  • 🏆 The Book of Mountains and Seas (winner)
  • ✦Safe Space — R. Eric Thomas (nominee)
  • ✦ House Plant (nominee)
  • ✦ F*ck7thGrade (nominee)
  • ✦Safe Space — Jos Charles (nominee)
  • ✦House Plant(nominee)
  • ✦F*ck7thGrade(nominee)

Erotica

  • 🏆 The Nerves (winner)
  • ✦ Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year, Volume 5 (nominee)
  • ✦ Femme Tales (nominee)
  • ✦ Smut Peddler Presents: Silver (nominee)
  • ✦ Smut Peddlers: Glad Day 50 (nominee)
  • ✦Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year, Volume 5(nominee)
  • ✦Femme Tales(nominee)
  • ✦Smut Peddler Presents: Silver(nominee)
  • ✦Smut Peddlers: Glad Day 50(nominee)

Gay Fiction

Gay Memoir or Biography

  • ✦Here For It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America — R. Eric Thomas (nominee)
  • ✦ Mohsin Zaidi (nominee)
  • ✦ The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard (nominee)
  • ✦ Officer Clemmons: A Memoir (nominee)
  • ✦The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard(nominee)
  • ✦Officer Clemmons: A Memoir(nominee)

Gay Poetry

  • 🏆Guillotine — Eduardo C. Corral (winner)
  • ✦Fantasia for the Man in Blue — Tommye Blount (nominee)
  • ✦ Thanksgiving: A Poem (nominee)
  • ✦The Malevolent Volume — Justin Philip Reed (nominee)
  • ✦Thanksgiving: A Poem(nominee)

Gay Romance

  • 🏆 The Ghost and Charlie Muir (winner)
  • ✦Finding Joy — Adriana Herrera (nominee)
  • ✦Two Rogues Make a Right — Cat Sebastian(nominee)
  • ✦ Flower of Iowa (nominee)
  • ✦Ink and Ice — Racheline Maltese (nominee)
  • ✦Flower of Iowa(nominee)

LGBT Anthology

  • 🏆Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction — Joshua Whitehead (winner)
  • 🏆 Joshua Whitehead (winner)
  • ✦We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics — Andrea Abi-Karam (nominee)
  • ✦Non-Binary Lives: An Anthology of Intersecting Identities — Meg-John Barker (nominee)
  • ✦Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement — Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (nominee)
  • ✦Non-Binary Lives: An Anthology of Intersecting Identities — Ben Vincent (nominee)
  • ✦We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics — Kay Gabriel (nominee)

LGBT Non-fiction

  • 🏆 The Lonely Letters (winner)
  • ✦ An Excess of Quiet: Selected Sketches by Gustavo Ojeda, 1979-1989 (nominee)
  • ✦The Lexington Six: Lesbian and Gay Resistance in 1970s America — Josephine Donovan (nominee)
  • ✦All the Young Men — Ruth Coker Burks (nominee)
  • ✦Forget Burial: HIV Kinship, Disability, and Queer/Trans Narratives of Care — Marty Fink (nominee)
  • ✦An Excess of Quiet: Selected Sketches by Gustavo Ojeda, 1979-1989(nominee)

LGBT Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror

  • ✦Subcutanean — Aaron A. Reed (nominee)

LGBT Studies

  • 🏆Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World — Zakiyyah Iman Jackson (winner)
  • ✦The Tragedy of Heterosexuality — Jane Ward (nominee)
  • ✦ Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies (nominee)
  • ✦The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics — Janet Jakobsen (nominee)
  • ✦The Sense of Brown — José Esteban Muñoz (nominee)
  • ✦Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies(nominee)

LGBTQ Comics

  • 🏆Apsara Engine — Bishakh Som (winner)
  • ✦SFSX (Safe Sex), Vol. 1: Protection — Tina Horn (nominee)
  • ✦SFSX (Safe Sex), Vol. 1: Protection — Rye Hickman (nominee)
  • ✦ Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir (nominee)
  • ✦ Everything is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection (nominee)
  • ✦SFSX (Safe Sex), Vol. 1: Protection — Katie Skelly (nominee)
  • ✦SFSX (Safe Sex), Vol. 1: Protection — Tula Lotay (nominee)
  • ✦The Contradictions — Sophie Yanow (nominee)
  • ✦Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir(nominee)
  • ✦Everything is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection(nominee)

LGBTQ Mystery

  • 🏆 I Hope You're Listening (winner)
  • ✦Find Me When I'm Lost — Cheryl A. Head (nominee)
  • ✦ Fortune Favors the Dead (nominee)
  • ✦ Vera Kelly Is Not a Mystery (nominee)
  • ✦ Death Before Dessert (nominee)
  • ✦Fortune Favors the Dead(nominee)
  • ✦Vera Kelly Is Not a Mystery(nominee)
  • ✦Death Before Dessert(nominee)

Lesbian Fiction

  • 🏆Tropical Fever — Julián Delgado Lopera (winner)
  • ✦Bestiary — K-Ming Chang (nominee)
  • ✦ K-Ming Chang (nominee)
  • ✦Pizza Girl — Jean Kyoung Frazier (nominee)
  • ✦ Jean Kyoung Frazier (nominee)
  • ✦ Jennifer Steil (nominee)
  • ✦Bestiary — Donika Kelly (nominee)
  • ✦Butter Honey Pig Bread — Francesca Ekwuyasi (nominee)

Lesbian Memoir or Biography

  • 🏆My Autobiography of Carson McCullers — Jenn Shapland (winner)
  • ✦Lady Romeo: The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America's First Celebrity — Tana Wojczuk (nominee)
  • ✦The Change: My Great American, Postindustrial, Midlife Crisis Tour(nominee)
  • ✦ Practicing for Love: A Memoir (nominee)
  • ✦And The Walls Come Crumbling Down — Tania De Rozario (nominee)
  • ✦Practicing for Love: A Memoir(nominee)

Lesbian Poetry

  • 🏆Funeral Diva — Pamela Sneed (winner)
  • ✦ dayliGht (nominee)
  • ✦ Flèche (nominee)
  • ✦ Devil's Lake (nominee)
  • ✦: once teeth bones coral : — Kimberly Alidio (nominee)
  • ✦dayliGht(nominee)
  • ✦Flèche(nominee)
  • ✦Devil's Lake(nominee)

Lesbian Romance

  • ✦Finding Jessica Lambert — Clare Ashton (nominee)
  • ✦ One More Chance (nominee)
  • ✦ Wrong Number, Right Woman (nominee)
  • ✦ Nottingham (nominee)
  • ✦One More Chance(nominee)
  • ✦Wrong Number, Right Woman(nominee)
  • ✦Nottingham(nominee)

Overall

  • ✦Sacrament of Bodies — Romeo Oriogun (nominee)
  • ✦The Subtweet — Vivek Shraya (nominee)

Transgender Fiction

  • 🏆The Thirty Names of Night — Zeyn Joukhadar (winner)
  • ✦ Trans-Galactic Bike Ride: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories of Transgender and Nonbinary Adventures (nominee)
  • ✦Trans-Galactic Bike Ride: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories of Transgender and Nonbinary Adventures(nominee)

Transgender Non-fiction

  • 🏆 J Mase III (winner)
  • ✦Fairest: A Memoir — Meredith Talusan (nominee)
  • ✦The Black Trans Prayer Book — J Mase III (nominee)
  • ✦The Black Trans Prayer Book — Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi (nominee)
  • ✦Trans Care — Hil Malatino (nominee)
  • ✦ Nepantla Squared: Transgender Mestiz@ Histories in Times of Global Shift (nominee)
  • ✦The Freezer Door — Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (nominee)
  • ✦Nepantla Squared: Transgender Mestiz@ Histories in Times of Global Shift(nominee)

Transgender Poetry

  • ✦I love you and I’m not dead — Sade LaNay (nominee)
  • ✦ Theories of Performance (nominee)
  • ✦ Greyhound (nominee)
  • ✦ The Nancy Reagan Collection (nominee)
  • ✦More Than Organs — Kay Ulanday Barrett (nominee)
  • ✦Theories of Performance(nominee)
  • ✦Greyhound(nominee)
  • ✦The Nancy Reagan Collection(nominee)

Young Adult Literature

  • ✦Camp — Lev A.C. Rosen (nominee)

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