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

CategoryWinner
Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer NonfictionNancy Agabian[5]
Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' PrizeSarah Gerard, Brontez Purnell[5]
Judith A. Markowitz Emerging Writer AwardTaylor Johnson, T Kira Madden[5]
Randall Kenan Prize for Black LGBTQ FictionAna-Maurine Lara[6]

Nominees and winners

Category Winner Nominated
Bisexual Fiction Zaina Arafat, You Exist Too Much
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
  • Meghan Privitello, One God at a Time
  • Jody Chan, sick
  • S*an D. Henry-Smith, Wild Peach
Gay Fiction Joon Oluchi Lee, Neotenica
Gay Memoir/Biography Mohsin Zaidi, A Dutiful Boy: A Memoir of a Gay Muslim’s Journey to Acceptance
Gay Poetry Eduardo C. Corral, Guillotine
Gay Romance Felice Stevens, The Ghost and Charlie Muir
  • Adriana Herrera, Finding Joy
  • Lance Ringel, Flower of Iowa
  • Erin Colleen McRae and Racheline Maltese, Ink and Ice
  • Cat Sebastian, Two Rogues Make a Right
Lesbian Fiction Juli Delgado Lopera, Fiebre Tropical
Lesbian Memoir/Biography Jenn Shapland, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
  • Tania De Rozario, And The Walls Come Crumbling Down
  • Lori Soderlind, The Change: My Great American, Postindustrial, Midlife Crisis Tour
  • Tana Wojczuk, 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
  • Roya Marsh, dayliGht
  • Sarah M. Sala, Devil’s Lake
  • Mary Jean Chan, Flèche
  • Kimberly Alidio, : once teeth bones coral :
Lesbian Romance Alexandria Bellefleur, Written in the Stars
  • Clare Ashton, Finding Jessica Lambert
  • Anna Burke, 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
  • Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
  • Dave Ring, Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World That Wouldn’t Die
  • Jos Twist, Ben Vincent, Meg-John Barker and Kat Gupta, Non-Binary Lives: An Anthology of Intersecting Identities
  • Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel, We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics
LGBTQ Children's/Middle Grade Kacen Callender, King and the Dragonflies
LGBTQ Drama Yilong Liu, The Book of Mountains and Seas
LGBTQ Erotica Lena Suksi, The Nerves
  • Sinclair Sexsmith, Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year, Volume 5
  • Anne Shade, Femme Tales
  • Andrea Purcell, Smut Peddler Presents: Silver
  • Kel Hardy, Tianna Henry and MJ Lyons, Smut Peddlers: Glad Day 50
LGBTQ Comics Bishakh Som, Apsara Engine
  • Sophie Yanow, The Contradictions
  • Yao Xiao, Everything Is Beautiful, and I’m Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection
  • Tina Horn, Laurenn McCubbin, Jen Hickman, Alejandra Gutiérrez, Michael Dowling, Steve Wands, Tula Lotay, Katie Skelly and Chris O'Halloran, SFSX (Safe Sex), Vol. 1: Protection
  • Bishakh Som, Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir
LGBTQ Mystery Tom Ryan, I Hope You’re Listening
  • A. E. Radley, Death Before Dessert
  • Cheryl A. Head, Find Me When I’m Lost
  • Stephen Spotswood, Fortune Favors the Dead
  • Rosalie Knecht, Vera Kelly Is Not a Mystery
LGBTQ Nonfiction Ashon T. Crawley, The Lonely Letters
  • Ruth Coker Burks, All the Young Men
  • Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué and Erich Kessel Jr., An Excess of Quiet: Selected Sketches by Gustavo Ojeda, 1979–1989
  • Marty Fink, 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 Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel
LGBTQ Studies Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World
  • Cait McKinney, 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
Transgender Fiction Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night
Transgender Nonfiction J Mase III and Dane Figueroa Edidi, The Black Trans Prayer Book
Transgender Poetry Sade LaNay, I Love You and I'm Not Dead
  • Aeon Ginsberg, Greyhound
  • Kay Ulanday Barrett, More Than Organs
  • Maxe Crandall, The Nancy Reagan Collection
  • Jay Besemer, Theories of Performance

References

  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.
  5. 1 2 3 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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