36th Annual Lambda Awards Finalists

The Lambda Literary Foundation has announced finalists for the 36th Annual Lambda Literary Awards (the “Lammys”), celebrating “the best lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender books.” Nominees of genre interest follow.

LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction

  • The Archive Undying, Emma Mieko Candon (Tordotcom)
  • The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom)
  • I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself, Marisa Crane (Catapult)
  • The Thick and the Lean, Chana Porter (Saga)
  • Bang Bang Bodhisattva, Aubrey Wood (Solaris)

Gay Fiction

  • Family Meal, Bryan Washington (Riverhead)

Lesbian Fiction

  • Organ Meats, K-Ming Chang (One World)
  • Biography of X, Catherine Lacey (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)
  • Our Hideous Progeny, C.E. McGill (HarperCollins)

LGBTQ+ Young Adult

  • The Wicked Bargain, Gabe Cole Novoa (Random House Books for Young Readers)
  • That Self-Same Metal, Brittany N. Williams (Amulet)

LGBTQ+ Anthology

  • Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection, Madeline Dyer, ed. (Page Street YA)
  • Fairy Tale Review: The Rainbow Issue, Benjamin Schaefer (Wayne State University Press)
  • Rosalind’s Siblings: Fiction and Poetry Celebrating Scientists of Marginalized Genders, Bogi Takács, ed. (Atthis Arts)

For more information, including complete finalists lists, see the Lambda Literary website.


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