2023 Lambda Literary Awards

Here are the winners of the 2023 Lammys in the transgender categories, along with the finalists.

Transgender Fiction 

• The Call-Out by Cat Fitzpatrick (Seven Stories Press) – WINNER
• All the Hometowns You Can’t Stay Away From by Izzy Wasserstein (Neon Hemlock)
• Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham (Little, Brown and Company)
• Manywhere by Morgan Thomas (Farrar, Straus and Giroux/MCD)
• Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane (William Morrow) 

Transgender Nonfiction

• The Third Person by Emma Grove (Drawn & Quarterly) – WINNER
• Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam (Basic Books)
• Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist by Cecilia Gentili (LittlePuss Press)
• Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York by Jeremiah Moss (W.W. Norton & Company)
• The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment by Cameron Awkward-Rich (Duke University Press)

Transgender Poetry

• MissSettl by Kamden Ishmael Hilliard (Nightboat Books) – WINNER
• A  Dead Name That Learned How to Live by Golden (Game Over Books) 
• A Queen in Bucks County by Kay Gabriel (Nightboat Books)
• All the Flowers Kneeling by Paul Tran (Penguin Books)
• Emanations by Prathna Lor (Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd.)

You can find the winners and finalists for all categories on the Lambda Literary website.