The 33rd Lambda Literary Awards were announced on June 1, 2021, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2020.Jane Henderson, "Lambda Literary Awards announce winners". St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 1, 2021. 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."Lambda Literary Awards: Douglas Stuart's Shuggie Bain, Samantha Irby's Wow, No Thank You featured in finalists' lists". Firstpost, March 16, 2021.
Nominees were announced in March 2021.Jim Provenzano, "Lambda Literary Awards 2021 finalists announced". Bay Area Reporter, March 15, 2021.
Special awards CategoryWinnerJeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction Nancy AgabianLeah Rachel Van Essen, "Announcing The Winners of the 2021 Lambda Literary Awards". Book Riot, June 2, 2021.Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize Sarah Gerard, Brontez PurnellJudith A. Markowitz Emerging Writer Award Taylor Johnson, T Kira MaddenRandall Kenan Prize for Black LGBTQ Fiction Ana-Maurine LaraDale Edwards, "Literary prize honoring Randall Kenan awarded". The News of Orange County, June 1, 2021.
Nominees and winners CategoryWinnerNominated Bisexual Fiction Zaina Arafat, You Exist Too MuchElisabeth Thomas. Catherine House C Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills Is Gold Sulaiman Addonia, Silence Is My Mother Tongue Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown Bisexual Nonfiction Samantha Irby, Wow, No Thank You.: EssaysNatasha 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 Poetry Aricka Foreman, Salt Body ShimmerGeorge Abraham, Birthright Meghan Privitello, One God at a Time Jody Chan, sick S*an D. Henry-Smith, Wild Peach Gay Fiction Joon Oluchi Lee, NeotenicaGarth Greenwell, Cleanness Brandon Taylor, Real Life Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain Dennis E. Staples, This Town Sleeps Gay Memoir/Biography Mohsin Zaidi, A Dutiful Boy: A Memoir of a Gay Muslim's Journey to AcceptanceR. Eric Thomas, Here For It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body John Birdsall, The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard François Clemmons, Officer Clemmons: A Memoir Gay Poetry Eduardo C. Corral, GuillotineTommye Blount, Fantasia for the Man in Blue Justin Phillip Reed, The Malevolent Volume Romeo Oriogun, Sacrament of Bodies Ted Rees, Thanksgiving: A Poem Gay Romance Felice Stevens, The Ghost and Charlie MuirAdriana Herrera, Finding Joy Lance Ringel, Flower of Iowa Erin Colleen McRae and Racheline Maltese, Ink and Ice Cat Sebastian, Two Rogues Make a Right Lesbian Fiction Juli Delgado Lopera, Fiebre TropicalK-Ming Chang, Bestiary Francesca Ekwuyasi, Butter Honey Pig Bread Jennifer Steil, Exile Music Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl Lesbian Memoir/Biography Jenn Shapland, My Autobiography of Carson McCullersTania 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 Poetry Pamela Sneed, Funeral DivaRoya Marsh, dayliGht Sarah M. Sala, Devil's Lake Mary Jean Chan, Flèche Kimberly Alidio, : once teeth bones coral : Lesbian Romance Alexandria Bellefleur, Written in the StarsClare Ashton, Finding Jessica Lambert Anna Burke, Nottingham Ali Vali, One More Chance Jae, Wrong Number, Right Woman LGBTQ Anthology Joshua Whitehead, Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative FictionEjeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement Dave Ring, Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World That Wouldn't Die Jos Twist, Ben Vincent, Meg-John Barker and Kat Gupta, Non-Binary Lives: An Anthology of Intersecting Identities Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel, We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics LGBTQ Children's/Middle Grade Kacen Callender, King and the DragonfliesNiki Smith, The Deep & Dark Blue Vincent X. Kirsch, From Archie to Zack Phil Bildner, A High Five for Glenn Burke Peter Mercurio, Our Subway Baby LGBTQ Drama Yilong Liu, The Book of Mountains and SeasJacqueline Goldfinger, Babel Liza Birkenmeier and Jill Sobule, F*ck7thGrade Sarah Einspanier, House Plant R. Eric Thomas, Safe Space LGBTQ Erotica Lena Suksi, The NervesSinclair Sexsmith, Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year, Volume 5 Anne Shade, Femme Tales Andrea Purcell, Smut Peddler Presents: Silver Kel Hardy, Tianna Henry and MJ Lyons, Smut Peddlers: Glad Day 50 LGBTQ Comics Bishakh Som, Apsara EngineSophie Yanow, The Contradictions Yao Xiao, Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection Tina Horn, Laurenn McCubbin, Jen Hickman, Alejandra Gutiérrez, Michael Dowling, Steve Wands, Tula Lotay, Katie Skelly and Chris O'Halloran, SFSX (Safe Sex), Vol. 1: Protection Bishakh Som, Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir LGBTQ Mystery Tom Ryan, I Hope You're ListeningA. E. Radley, Death Before Dessert Cheryl A. Head, Find Me When I'm Lost Stephen Spotswood, Fortune Favors the Dead Rosalie Knecht, Vera Kelly Is Not a Mystery LGBTQ Nonfiction Ashon T. Crawley, The Lonely LettersRuth Coker Burks, All the Young Men Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué and Erich Kessel Jr., An Excess of Quiet: Selected Sketches by Gustavo Ojeda, 1979–1989 Marty Fink, Forget Burial: HIV Kinship, Disability, and Queer/Trans Narratives of Care Josephine Donovan, The Lexington Six: Lesbian and Gay Resistance in 1970s America LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon is Essential PersonnelRebecca Roanhorse, Black Sun Zen Cho, The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water Tlotlo Tsamaase, The Silence of the Wilting Skin Aaron A. Reed, Subcutanean LGBTQ Studies Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack WorldCait McKinney, Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies José Esteban Muñoz, The Sense of Brown Janet R. Jakobsen, The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics Jane Ward, The Tragedy of Heterosexuality LGBTQ Young Adult Mike Curato, FlamerLev A. C. Rosen, Camp Trung Le Nguyen, The Magic Fish Agnes Borinsky, Sasha Masha Leah Johnson, You Should See Me in a Crown Transgender Fiction Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of NightNino Cipri, Finna Chana Porter, The Seep Vivek Shraya, The Subtweet Lydia Rogue, Trans-Galactic Bike Ride: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories of Transgender and Nonbinary Adventurers Transgender Nonfiction J Mase III and Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi, The Black Trans Prayer BookMeredith Talusan, Fairest: A Memoir Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, The Freezer Door L Heidenreich, Nepantla Squared: Transgender Mestiz@ Histories in Times of Global Shift Hil Malatino, Trans Care Transgender Poetry Sade LaNay, I Love You and I'm Not DeadAeon Ginsberg, Greyhound Kay Ulanday Barrett, More Than Organs Maxe Crandall, The Nancy Reagan Collection Jay Besemer, Theories of Performance
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