# 35th Lambda Literary Awards

The finalists for the 35th Lambda Literary Awards, which honor works of LGBT literature published in 2022, were announced on March 15, 2023. The winners were announced in New York on June 9.

## Special awards

Special awards recipients :
* Category
* Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction
* Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize
* Judith A. Markowitz Emerging Writer Award
* Randall Kenan Prize for Black LGBTQ Fiction

## Nominees and winners

35th Lambda Literary Awards winners and finalists :
| Category | Author | Title | Publisher | Result |
| Bisexual Fiction | Gwendolyn Kiste | Reluctant Immortals | Simon & Schuster/Saga Press | Winner |
| Bisexual Fiction | A. J. Bermudez | Stories No One Hopes Are About Them | University of Iowa Press | Finalist |
| Bisexual Fiction | Akil Kumarasamy | Meet Us by the Roaring Sea | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Finalist |
| Bisexual Fiction | Bushra Rehman | Roses, In the Mouth of a Lion | Flatiron Books | Finalist |
| Bisexual Fiction | Nishant Batsha | Mother Ocean Father Nation | Ecco/HarperCollins | Finalist |
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Maria San Filippo | Appropriate Behavior | McGill–Queen's University Press | Winner |
| Bisexual Nonfiction | John Brady McDonald | Carrying It Forward: Essays from Kistahpinanihk | Wolsak and Wynn Publishers | Finalist |
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Liz Scheier | Never Simple: A Memoir | Henry Holt and Company / Macmillan Publishers | Finalist |
| Bisexual Nonfiction | Rachel Krantz | Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogamy | Harmony Books / Penguin Random House | Finalist |
| Bisexual Nonfiction | CJ Hauser | The Crane Wife | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | Finalist |
| Bisexual Poetry | Nicky Beer | Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes | Milkweed Editions | Winner |
| Bisexual Poetry | Gabrielle Octavia Rucker | Dereliction | The Song Cave | Finalist |
| Bisexual Poetry | James Fujinami Moore | indecent hours | Four Way Books | Finalist |
| Bisexual Poetry | Karyna McGlynn | 50 Things Kate Bush Taught Me About the Multiverse | Sarabande Books | Finalist |
| Bisexual Poetry | Rebecca Hawkes | Meat Lovers | Auckland University Press | Finalist |
| Comics | Sas Milledge | Mamo | BOOM! Studios | Winner |
| Comics | Will Betke-Brunswick | A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings | Tin House | Finalist |
| Comics | Gabriel Ebensperger, trans. by Kelley D. Salas | Gay Giant | Street Noise Books | Finalist |
| Comics | Melanie Gillman | Other Ever Afters | Random House Graphic | Finalist |
| Comics | Sarah Winifred Searle | The Greatest Thing | First Second Books | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Danny Ramadan | The Foghorn Echoes | Canongate Books | Winner |
| Gay Fiction | Marcial Gala, trans. by Anna Kushner | Call Me Cassandra | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Arinze Ifeakandu | God’s Children Are Little Broken Things | A Public Space | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | João Gilberto Noll, trans. by Edgar Garbelotto | Hugs and Cuddles | Two Lines Press | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Rasheed Newson | My Government Means To Kill Me | Flatiron Books | Finalist |
| Gay Memoir/Biography | Edgar Gomez | High-Risk Homosexual | Soft Skull Press | Winner |
| Gay Memoir/Biography | Seán Hewitt | All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir | Penguin Group | Finalist |
| Gay Memoir/Biography | Jim Elledge | An Angel in Sodom | Chicago Review Press | Finalist |
| Gay Memoir/Biography | Ron Goldberg | Boy with the Bullhorn: A Memoir and History of ACT UP New York | Empire State Editions | Finalist |
| Gay Memoir/Biography | Jesse Leon | I’m Not Broken | Vintage Books | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | Padraig Regan | Some Integrity | Carcanet Press | Winner |
| Gay Poetry | Saeed Jones | Alive at the End of the World | Coffee House Press | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | Aldo Amparán | Brother Sleep | Alice James Books | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | Angelo Nikolopoulos | Pleasure | Four Way Books | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | Chris Tse | Super Model Minority | Auckland University Press | Finalist |
| Gay Romance | Kosoko Jackson | I’m So Not Over You | Berkley Romance | Winner |
| Gay Romance | Marie Sinclair | Forever After | Self-published | Finalist |
| Gay Romance | A. M. Johnson | Forever, Con Amor | Self-published | Finalist |
| Gay Romance | Felice Stevens | Just One Night | Self-published | Finalist |
| Gay Romance | Fearne Hill | Two Tribes | Self-published | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | K-Ming Chang | Gods of Want | One World | Winner |
| Lesbian Fiction | Mecca Jamilah Sullivan | Big Girl | W. W. Norton & Company | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Mónica Ojeda, trans. by Sarah Booker | Jawbone | Coffee House Press | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Leila Mottley | Nightcrawling | Alfred A. Knopf | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Julia Armfield | Our Wives Under the Sea | Flatiron Books | Finalist |
| Lesbian Memoir/Biography | Kathryn Schulz | Lost & Found: Reflections on Grief, Gratitude, and Happiness | Random House | Winner |
| Lesbian Memoir/Biography | Raquel Gutiérrez | Brown Neon | Coffee House Press | Finalist |
| Lesbian Memoir/Biography | Putsata Reang | Ma and Me | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Finalist |
| Lesbian Memoir/Biography | Chris Belcher | Pretty Baby: A Memoir | Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster | Finalist |
| Lesbian Memoir/Biography | Neema Avashia | Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place | West Virginia University Press | Finalist |
| Lesbian Poetry | Shelley Wong | As She Appears | YesYes Books | Winner |
| Lesbian Poetry | Natalie Wee | Beast at Every Threshold | Arsenal Pulp Press | Finalist |
| Lesbian Poetry | Courtney Faye Taylor | Concentrate | Graywolf Press | Finalist |
| Lesbian Poetry | Brynne Rebele-Henry | Prelude | University of Pittsburgh Press | Finalist |
| Lesbian Poetry | Rage Hezekiah | Yearn | Diode Editions | Finalist |
| Lesbian Romance | Nan Campbell | The Rules of Forever | Bold Strokes Books | Winner |
| Lesbian Romance | Susie Dumond | Queerly Beloved | Dial Press | Finalist |
| Lesbian Romance | Aurora Rey | Hard Pressed | Bold Strokes Books | Finalist |
| Lesbian Romance | E. J. Noyes | If I Don’t Ask | Bella Books | Finalist |
| Lesbian Romance | K. B. Draper | Southbound and Down | K.B. Draper, LLC | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Anthology | Julie R. Enszer and Elena Gross | OutWrite: The Speeches That Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture | Rutgers University Press | Winner |
| LGBTQ Anthology | Michael Walsh (Ed.) | Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology | Autumn House Press | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Anthology | Elias Jahshan | This Arab is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers | Saqi Books | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Anthology | Laura Erickson-Schroth | Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource by and for Transgender Communities (2nd ed.) | Oxford University Press | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Anthology | Isabela Oliveira and Jed Sabin | Xenocultivars: Stories of Queer Growth | Speculatively Queer | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Children's | Wallace West | Mighty Red Riding Hood | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | Winner |
| LGBTQ Children's | Carole Boston Weatherford and Rob Sanders, illus. by Byron McCray | A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin | Henry Holt Books for Young Readers | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Children's | Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer, and Joe Wilson, illus. by Daniel Sousa | Kapaemahu | Kokila | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Children's | Nina LaCour | Mama and Mommy and Me in the Middle | Candlewick Press | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Children's | Robb Pearlman, illus. by Dani Jones | The Sublime Ms. Stacks | Bloomsbury Publishing | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Drama | Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho) | Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land) & Antigone: 方 | Playwrights Canada Press | Winner |
| LGBTQ Drama | kai fig taddei | Duecentomila | Playwrights Canada Press | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Drama | Sikivu Hutchinson | Rock ‘n’ Roll Heretic | Self-published | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Drama | Tom Ford (writer) and Alex Syiek (music and lyrics) | The Show on the Roof | Boise Contemporary Theater | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Drama | Hansol Jung | Wolf Play | Samuel French, a Concord Theatricals Company | Finalist |
| LGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica | Alison Cochrun | Kiss Her Once For Me | Atria Books | Winner |
| LGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica | Ruby Barrett | The Romance Recipe | Carina Adores | Finalist |
| LGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica | Meryl Wilsner | Mistakes Were Made | St. Martin's Griffin | Finalist |
| LGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica | Edie Cay | A Lady’s Finder | Self-published | Finalist |
| LGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica | Joseph Brennan | Loose Lips: A Gay Sea Odyssey | Hard Crossing Press | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Middle Grade | Maulik Pancholy | Nikhil Out Loud | HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray | Winner |
| LGBTQ Middle Grade | David Levithan | Answers In the Pages | Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Middle Grade | Kyle Lukoff | Different Kinds of Fruit | Dial Books for Young Readers | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Middle Grade | Maggie Horne | Hazel Hill Is Gonna Win This One | HarperCollins/Clarion Books | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Middle Grade | Michael Leali | The Civil War of Amos Abernathy | HarperCollins | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Mystery | Hayley Scrivenor | Dirt Creek: A Novel | Flatiron Books | Winner |
| LGBTQ Mystery | David C Dawson | A Death in Berlin | Park Creek Publishing | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Mystery | Joshua Moehling | And There He Kept Her | Poisoned Pen Press | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Mystery | Ann McMan | Dead Letters from Paradise | Bywater Books | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Mystery | Lev A.C. Rosen | Lavender House | Forge Books | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Nonfiction | Hafizah Augustus Geter | The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin | Random House | Winner |
| LGBTQ Nonfiction | Sabrina Imbler | How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures | Little, Brown and Company | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Nonfiction | Joseph Osmundson | Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between | W.W. Norton & Company | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Nonfiction | Ricky Tucker | And the Category Is…: Inside New York’s Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community | Beacon Press | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Nonfiction | Hugh Ryan | The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison | Bold Type Books, Hachette Book Group | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Speculative Fiction | Lianyu Tan | The Wicked and the Willing: An F/F Gothic Horror Vampire Novel | Shattered Scepter Press | Winner |
| LGBTQ Speculative Fiction | Sunyi Dean | Book Eaters | Tor Books | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Speculative Fiction | Nghi Vo | Into the Riverlands | Tor.com | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Speculative Fiction | Khan Wong | The Circus Infinite | Angry Robot | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Speculative Fiction | Rob Hart | The Paradox Hotel | Ballantine Books | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Studies | Darieck Scott | Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics | New York University Press | Winner |
| LGBTQ Studies | Mairead Sullivan | Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer | University of Minnesota Press | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Studies | Marlon B. Ross | Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness | Duke University Press | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Studies | Vivian L. Huang | Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability | Duke University Press | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Studies | Jafari S. Allen | There’s a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life | Duke University Press | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Young Adult | Sonora Reyes | The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School | Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins | Winner |
| LGBTQ Young Adult | Vincent Tirado | Burn Down, Rise Up | Sourcebooks | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Young Adult | Angeline Jackson with Susan McClelland | Funny Gyal: My Fight Against Homophobia in Jamaica | Dundurn Press | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Young Adult | Anna-Marie McLemore | Lakelore | Feiwel & Friends | Finalist |
| LGBTQ Young Adult | Jen Ferguson | The Summer of Bitter and Sweet | Heartdrum/HarperCollins | Finalist |
| Transgender Fiction | Cat Fitzpatrick | The Call-Out | Seven Stories Press | Winner |
| Transgender Fiction | James Hannaham | Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta | Little, Brown and Company | Finalist |
| Transgender Fiction | Izzy Wasserstein | All the Hometowns You Can’t Stay Away From | Neon Hemlock | Finalist |
| Transgender Fiction | Morgan Thomas | Manywhere | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Finalist |
| Transgender Fiction | Maya Deane | Wrath Goddess Sing | William Morrow and Company | Finalist |
| Transgender Nonfiction | Emma Grove | The Third Person | Drawn & Quarterly | Winner |
| Transgender Nonfiction | Kit Heyam | Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender | Basic Books | Finalist |
| Transgender Nonfiction | Cecilia Gentili | Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist | LittlePuss Press | Finalist |
| Transgender Nonfiction | Jeremiah Moss | Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York | W. W. Norton & Company | Finalist |
| Transgender Nonfiction | Cameron Awkward-Rich | The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment | Duke University Press | Finalist |
| Transgender Poetry | Kamden Ishmael Hilliard | MissSettl | Nightboat Books | Winner |
| Transgender Poetry | Golden | A Dead Name That Learned How to Live | Game Over Books | Finalist |
| Transgender Poetry | Kay Gabriel | A Queen in Bucks County | Nightboat Books | Finalist |
| Transgender Poetry | Paul Tran | All the Flowers Kneeling | Penguin Books | Finalist |
| Transgender Poetry | Prathna Lor | Emanations | Wolsak and Wynn Publishers | Finalist |