2023 Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced

The 2023 Lambda Literary Award winners have been announced! This year’s winners were selected by a sheet of implicit 60 judges from the literate satellite and from much than 1,300 publication submissions from implicit 300 publishers. Now successful its 35th year, the Lambda Literary Award is considered 1 of the astir prestigious awards successful LGBTQ publishing. The winners were announced unrecorded astatine The Edison Ballroom successful New York City connected June 9, 2023, marking the archetypal clip since 2019 that the ceremonial was held successful person.

In summation to the winners successful the grant categories, 5 peculiar honors were awarded. Eboni J. Dunbar won the Randall Kenan Prize for Black LGBTQ Fiction. The grant goes to a Black LGBTQ writer whose fabrication explores themes of Black LGBTQ life, culture, and/or history. Maya Salameh and Naseem Jamnia won the Markowitz Award for Exceptional New LGBTQ Writers. Jaquira Diaz won the Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction. Christopher Tradowsky won the J. Michael Samuel Prize for Emerging Writers Over 50 and Ryka Aoki and Aaron Hamburger won the Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize.

In the property merchandise announcement of the finalists, caller Lambda Literary enforcement manager Samiya Bashir writes that “our writers correspond our top civilization creators.” She continues,

“In a infinitesimal erstwhile our voices and our stories are being weaponized against our precise lives crossed the country, supporting our storytellers—whether their media centers the page, the signifier oregon the survey, is much captious by the day. Lambda Literary has embarked connected a genuinely transformational year—growing its size and capableness to conscionable our taste infinitesimal wherever our communities request america most. Supporting the Lammys not lone makes that enactment possible, but does truthful portion providing a sanctuary of celebration. Here our voices, and our lives are (celebrated), and our stories are artfully, joyfully told.”

Looking for adjacent much large recommendations? Check retired the implicit database of the 2023 Lambda Literary Awards Finalists. Or larn much astir the History of the Lambda Literary Awards.