2026 Lambda Literary Awards Winners
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The Lambda Literary Foundation has announced the winners of the 38th Annual Lambda Literary Awards (the Lammys ), celebrating the best lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender books. Winning titles and authors of genre interest, and their competing finalists of genre interest, include the following: LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction WINNER: Beings, Ilana Masad (Bloomsbury) Volatile Memory, Seth Haddon (Tordotcom) Cry, Voidbringer, Elaine Ho (Bindery) Two Truths and …Read More
The Lambda Literary Foundation has announced the winners of the 38th Annual Lambda Literary Awards (the “Lammys”), celebrating “the best lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender books.” Winning titles and authors of genre interest, and their competing finalists of genre interest, include the following:
LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction
WINNER: Beings, Ilana Masad (Bloomsbury)
Volatile Memory, Seth Haddon (Tordotcom)
Cry, Voidbringer, Elaine Ho (Bindery)
Two Truths and a Lie, Cory O’Brien (Pantheon)
Blood on Her Tongue, Johanna Van Veen (Poisoned Pen)
Lesbian Fiction
WINNER: Hungerstone, Kat Dunn (Zando)
A Sharp Endless Need, Marisa Crane (The Dial)
Gay Romance
WINNER: A Mannequin for Christmas, Timothy Janovsky (St. Martin’s Griffin)
A Bridge in Glass, Derek Sowers (Dreamspinner)
Bisexual Fiction
WINNER: Sympathy for Wild Girls, Demree McGhee (Feminist)
House of Beth, Kerry Cullen (Simon & Schuster)
Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus Is Alive!, Melissa Lozada-Oliva (Astra)
The Salvage, Anbara Salam (Tin House)
LGBTQ+ Young Adult
WINNER: Come Home to My Heart, Riley Redgate (Union Square)
An Ugly World for Beautiful Boys, Rob Costello (Lethe)
The Transition, Logan-Ashley Kisner (Delacorte)
He’s So Possessed with Me, Corey Liu (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
LGBTQ+ Middle Grade
WINNER: Glitch Girl!, Rainie Oet (Kokila)
A Song for You and I, K. O’Neill (Random House Graphic)
LGBTQ+ Anthology
WINNER: Queer Lens: A History of Photography, Ryan Linkof & Paul Martineau, eds. (J. Paul Getty Museum)
The New Lesbian Pulp, Sarah Fonseca & Octavia C. Saenz, eds. (Feminist)
Lesbian Poetry
WINNER: pleasureis amiracle, Bianca Rae Messinger (Nightboat)
LGBTQ+ Poetry
WINNER: Yeet!, jason b. crawford (Omnidawn)
Non-Prophet, Qurat Dar (Goose Lane)
Transgender Poetry
WINNER: Algarabía, Roque Raquel Salas Rivera (Graywolf)
A Body More Tolerable, Jaye Simpson (Arsenal Pulp)
Bisexual Nonfiction
WINNER: Reading the Waves, Lidia Yuknavitch (Riverhead)
The Möbius Book, Catherine Lacey (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Transgender Nonfiction
WINNER: Cleavage, Jennifer Finney Boylan (Celadon)
Uncanny Valley Girls, Zefyr Lisowski (Harper Perennial)
For more information, including complete list of winners, see the official web page.