Lambda Literary has announced the nominees for the 34th annual Lambda Literary Awards, which celebrate “the very best in LGBTQ literature.” The awards include an “LGBTQ+ Comics” category.
The nominees were chosen by 80 judges who took part in “the review and deliberation on this year’s 1,339 submitted titles across six months.” The list of judges included literary critics, academics, librarians, students, poets, independent and traditionally published authors, and other avid readers “representing a bright and bold spectrum of LGBTQ+ lived experiences.”
Last year’s winner in the comics category was A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll. Other past winners include Lee Lai’s Stone Fruit, Spinning by Tillie Walden and O Human Star: Volume One by Blue Delliquanti.
Congratulations to this year’s nominees:
LGBTQ+ COMICS
Girlmode // Magdalene Visaggio, Illustrated by Paulina Ganucheau. HarperCollins
Putty Pygmalion // Lonnie Garcia. Silver Sprocket
SN_33P’sCoolZine.pdf // Tenacity Plys. fifth wheel press
Something, Not Nothing: A Story of Grief and Love // Sarah Leavitt. Arsenal Pulp Press
We Belong: An All-Black/All-Queer Sci-Fi/Fantasy Comics Anthology // Viktor T. Kerney and William O. Tyler. Stacked Deck Press
You can find the complete list of nominees across all categories on the organization’s website.