Entertainment Awards Shows and Events Emmy Awards The 2024 Lambda Literary Awards - See the Complete List of Winners The 2024 Lambda Literary Awards took place at Sony Hall in New York on June 11, celebrating the achievements of the LGBTQ+ literary community By Athena Sobhan Athena Sobhan Athena Sobhan is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has previously appeared in POPSUGAR, EUPHORIA, Betches and Refinery29. People Editorial Guidelines Published on June 12, 2024 03:41PM EDT The 2024 Lammy Award winners . The 36th annual Lambda Literary Awards – celebrating LGBTQ+ writers and literature – took place at Sony Hall in New York City on June 11. Drag queen, actress and activist Peppermint emceed the event. In her opening remarks, she addressed the importance of Lambda's work in light of a sharp increase in censorship of LGBTQ+ books and "attacks on libraries." "I'm grateful [for Lambda] because a lot of the ideas and the connections that I had about the queer community that helped me form a better self-image came from me reading books," she said. This year’s event presented awards across 26 categories and included seven special prizes for their contributions to the queer literary landscape over the past year. The special prizes included two new categories for 2024. The Denneny Award for Editorial Excellence was named after Michael Denneny, one of the first openly gay editors and founder of the first LGBTQ+ imprint at a major publication. The Pat Holt Prize for Critical Arts Writing was named in memory of Patricia Holt, the former San Francisco Chronicle book review editor who passed away in December 2022. The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now! The shortlist for the awards, which included 130 finalists, was announced in March and included titles like I Will Greet the Sun Again by Khashayar J. Khabushani, Pomegranate by Helen Elaine Lee and Girlfriends by Emily Zhou, among others. See the full list of winners below. Essential Reading for Pride: PEOPLE Picks Our Favorite LGBTQ+ Books For Adults LESBIAN FICTION Biography of X by Catherine Lacey GAY FICTION Family Meal by Bryan Washington BISEXUAL FICTION Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang TRANSGENDER FICTION Wild Geese by Soula Emmanuel BISEXUAL NONFICTION Creep: Accusations and Confessions by Myriam Gurba TRANSGENDER NONFICTION Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary by Miss Major and Toshio Meronek LGBTQ+ NONFICTION Hi Honey, I'm Homo by Matt Baume New Book From Author of All Boys Aren't Blue Hopes to Give LGBTQ+ Youth 'A Roadmap I Didn't Have' (Exclusive) LESBIAN POETRY Teeter by Kimberly Alidio GAY POETRY Trace Evidence by Charif Shanahan BISEXUAL POETRY Desire Museum by Danielle Cadena Deulen TRANSGENDER POETRY Hood Vacations by Michal 'MJ' Jones LGBTQ+ POETRY The Perfect Bastard by Quinn Carver Johnson LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives by Amelia Possanza GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY Tweakerworld by Jason Yamas LESBIAN ROMANCE Dance with Me by Georgia Beers GAY ROMANCE We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian LGBTQ+ ANTHOLOGY 2 Trans 2 Furious: An extremely serious journal of Transgender Street Racing Studies by Tuck Woodstock & Niko Stratis LGBTQ+ CHILDREN'S BOOKS The Apartment House on Poppy Hill by Nina LaCour; illustrator Sonia Albert Scott and Mark Hoying Wrote Their New Book How Lucky Am I? As a Gift to Their 'Future Children' (Exclusive) LGBTQ COMICS A Guest in The House by Emily Caroll LGBTQ+ DRAMA Fat Ham by James Ijames LGBTQ+ MIDDLE GRADE Dear Mothman by Robin Gow PEOPLE’s Picks for the Best LGBTQ+ Kids Books for Pride Month LGBTQ+ MYSTERY A Calculated Risk by Cari Hunter LGBTQ+ ROMANCE AND EROTICA A Tight Squeeze: Smutty Trans and Queer Stories by laura q LGBTQ+ SPECULATIVE FICTION I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself: A Novel by Marisa Crane LGBTQ+ STUDIES The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti by Erin L. Durban LGBTQ+ YOUNG ADULT Only This Beautiful Moment by Abdi Nazemian RANDALL KENAN PRIZE FOR BLACK LGBTQ FICTION Liv Little JEANNE CÓRDOVA PRIZE FOR LESBIAN/QUEER NONFICTION Stephanie Davies JUDITH A. MARKOWITZ AWARD FOR EXCEPTIONAL NEW LGBTQ WRITERS Federico ErebiaRiver 瑩瑩 Dandelion JIM DUGGINS, PHD OUTSTANDING MID-CAREER NOVELIST PRIZE K.M. SoehnleinDr. Zelda Lockhart THE J. MICHAEL SAMUEL PRIZE FOR EMERGING WRITERS OVER 50 Paul Festa THE DENNENY AWARD FOR EDITORIAL EXCELLENCE Dr. Remi Recchia THE PAT HOLT PRIZE FOR CRITICAL ARTS WRITING Elizabeth Hoover Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer , from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.