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

CategoryWinnerNominated
Bisexual FictionZaina Arafat, You Exist Too Much
Bisexual NonfictionSamantha 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 PoetryAricka Foreman, Salt Body Shimmer
Gay FictionJoon Oluchi Lee, Neotenica
Gay Memoir/BiographyMohsin Zaidi, A Dutiful Boy: A Memoir of a Gay Muslim’s Journey to Acceptance
Gay PoetryEduardo C. Corral, Guillotine
Gay RomanceFelice Stevens, The Ghost and Charlie Muir
Lesbian FictionJuli Delgado Lopera, Fiebre Tropical
Lesbian Memoir/BiographyJenn 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 PoetryPamela Sneed, Funeral Diva
Lesbian RomanceAlexandria Bellefleur, Written in the Stars
LGBTQ AnthologyJoshua Whitehead, Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction
LGBTQ Children's/Middle GradeKacen Callender, King and the Dragonflies
LGBTQ DramaYilong Liu, The Book of Mountains and Seas
LGBTQ EroticaLena Suksi, The Nerves
LGBTQ ComicsBishakh Som, Apsara Engine
LGBTQ MysteryTom Ryan, I Hope You’re Listening
LGBTQ NonfictionAshon T. Crawley, The Lonely Letters
LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/HorrorJulian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel
LGBTQ StudiesZakiyyah Iman Jackson, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World
LGBTQ Young AdultMike Curato, Flamer
Transgender FictionZeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night
Transgender NonfictionJ Mase III and Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi, The Black Trans Prayer Book
Transgender PoetrySade LaNay, I Love You and I'm Not Dead

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. ^ 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.