| Category |
Author |
Title |
Publisher |
Result |
Ref. |
|---|
| Bisexual Fiction |
Gwendolyn Kiste |
Reluctant Immortals |
Simon & Schuster/Saga Press |
Winner |
[6] |
| A. J. Bermudez |
Stories No One Hopes Are About Them |
University of Iowa Press |
Finalist |
[2] |
| Akil Kumarasamy |
Meet Us by the Roaring Sea |
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Bushra Rehman |
Roses, In the Mouth of a Lion |
Flatiron Books |
| Nishant Batsha |
Mother Ocean Father Nation |
Ecco/HarperCollins |
| Bisexual Nonfiction |
Maria San Filippo |
Appropriate Behavior |
McGill–Queen's University Press |
Winner |
[6] |
| John Brady McDonald |
Carrying It Forward: Essays from Kistahpinanihk |
Wolsak and Wynn Publishers |
Finalist |
[7][3] |
| Liz Scheier |
Never Simple: A Memoir |
Henry Holt and Company / Macmillan Publishers |
| Rachel Krantz |
Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogamy |
Harmony Books / Penguin Random House |
| CJ Hauser |
The Crane Wife |
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Bisexual Poetry |
Nicky Beer |
Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes |
Milkweed Editions |
Winner |
|
| Gabrielle Octavia Rucker |
Dereliction |
The Song Cave |
Finalist |
|
| James Fujinami Moore |
indecent hours |
Four Way Books |
|
| Karyna McGlynn |
50 Things Kate Bush Taught Me About the Multiverse |
Sarabande Books |
|
| Rebecca Hawkes |
Meat Lovers |
Auckland University Press |
|
| Comics |
Sas Milledge |
Mamo |
BOOM! Studios |
Winner |
| Will Betke-Brunswick |
A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings |
Tin House |
Finalist |
|
| Gabriel Ebensperger, trans. by Kelley D. Salas |
Gay Giant |
Street Noise Books |
|
| Melanie Gillman |
Other Ever Afters |
Random House Graphic |
|
| Sarah Winifred Searle |
The Greatest Thing |
First Second Books |
|
| Gay Fiction |
Danny Ramadan |
The Foghorn Echoes |
Canongate Books |
Winner |
[6] |
| Marcial Gala, trans. by Anna Kushner |
Call Me Cassandra |
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Finalist |
[3][2] |
| Arinze Ifeakandu |
God's Children Are Little Broken Things |
A Public Space |
| João Gilberto Noll, trans. by Edgar Garbelotto |
Hugs and Cuddles |
Two Lines Press |
| Rasheed Newson |
My Government Means To Kill Me |
Flatiron Books |
| Gay Memoir/Biography |
Edgar Gomez |
High-Risk Homosexual |
Soft Skull Press |
Winner |
[6] |
| Seán Hewitt |
All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir |
Penguin Group |
Finalist |
|
| Jim Elledge |
An Angel in Sodom |
Chicago Review Press |
|
| Ron Goldberg |
Boy with the Bullhorn: A Memoir and History of ACT UP New York |
Empire State Editions |
|
| Jesse Leon |
I'm Not Broken |
Vintage Books |
|
| Gay Poetry |
Padraig Regan |
Some Integrity |
Carcanet Press |
Winner |
|
| Saeed Jones |
Alive at the End of the World |
Coffee House Press |
Finalist |
|
| Aldo Amparán |
Brother Sleep |
Alice James Books |
|
| Angelo Nikolopoulos |
Pleasure |
Four Way Books |
|
| Chris Tse |
Super Model Minority |
Auckland University Press |
|
| Gay Romance |
Kosoko Jackson |
I'm So Not Over You |
Berkley Romance |
Winner |
|
| Marie Sinclair |
Forever After |
Self-published |
Finalist |
|
| A. M. Johnson |
Forever, Con Amor |
Self-published |
|
| Felice Stevens |
Just One Night |
Self-published |
|
| Fearne Hill |
Two Tribes |
Self-published |
|
| Lesbian Fiction |
K-Ming Chang |
Gods of Want |
One World |
Winner |
[6] |
| Mecca Jamilah Sullivan |
Big Girl |
W. W. Norton & Company |
Finalist |
[2][3] |
| Mónica Ojeda, trans. by Sarah Booker |
Jawbone |
Coffee House Press |
| Leila Mottley |
Nightcrawling |
Alfred A. Knopf |
| Julia Armfield |
Our Wives Under the Sea |
Flatiron Books |
| Lesbian Memoir/Biography |
Kathryn Schulz |
Lost & Found: Reflections on Grief, Gratitude, and Happiness |
Random House |
Winner |
[6] |
| Raquel Gutiérrez |
Brown Neon |
Coffee House Press |
Finalist |
[7] |
| Putsata Reang |
Ma and Me |
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Chris Belcher |
Pretty Baby: A Memoir |
Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster |
| Neema Avashia |
Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place |
West Virginia University Press |
| Lesbian Poetry |
Shelley Wong |
As She Appears |
YesYes Books |
Winner |
|
| Natalie Wee |
Beast at Every Threshold |
Arsenal Pulp Press |
Finalist |
|
| Courtney Faye Taylor |
Concentrate |
Graywolf Press |
|
| Brynne Rebele-Henry |
Prelude |
University of Pittsburgh Press |
|
| Rage Hezekiah |
Yearn |
Diode Editions |
|
| Lesbian Romance |
Nan Campbell |
The Rules of Forever |
Bold Strokes Books |
Winner |
|
| Susie Dumond |
Queerly Beloved |
Dial Press |
Finalist |
[7] |
| Aurora Rey |
Hard Pressed |
Bold Strokes Books |
| E. J. Noyes |
If I Don't Ask |
Bella Books |
| K. B. Draper |
Southbound and Down |
K.B. Draper, LLC |
| LGBTQ Anthology |
Julie R. Enszer and Elena Gross |
OutWrite: The Speeches That Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture |
Rutgers University Press |
Winner |
|
| Michael Walsh (Ed.) |
Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology |
Autumn House Press |
Finalist |
[7] |
| Elias Jahshan |
This Arab is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers |
Saqi Books |
| Laura Erickson-Schroth |
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource by and for Transgender Communities (2nd ed.) |
Oxford University Press |
| Isabela Oliveira and Jed Sabin |
Xenocultivars: Stories of Queer Growth |
Speculatively Queer |
| LGBTQ Children's |
Wallace West |
Mighty Red Riding Hood |
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Winner |
[6] |
| Carole Boston Weatherford and Rob Sanders, illus. by Byron McCray |
A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin |
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers |
Finalist |
|
| Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer, and Joe Wilson, illus. by Daniel Sousa |
Kapaemahu |
Kokila |
|
| Nina LaCour |
Mama and Mommy and Me in the Middle |
Candlewick Press |
|
| Robb Pearlman, illus. by Dani Jones |
The Sublime Ms. Stacks |
Bloomsbury Publishing |
|
| LGBTQ Drama |
Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho) |
Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land) & Antigone: 方 |
Playwrights Canada Press |
Winner |
|
| kai fig taddei |
Duecentomila |
Playwrights Canada Press |
Finalist |
|
| Sikivu Hutchinson |
Rock 'n' Roll Heretic |
Self-published |
|
| Tom Ford (writer) and Alex Syiek (music and lyrics) |
The Show on the Roof |
Boise Contemporary Theater |
|
| Hansol Jung |
Wolf Play |
Samuel French, a Concord Theatricals Company |
|
| LGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica |
Alison Cochrun |
Kiss Her Once For Me |
Atria Books |
Winner |
|
| Ruby Barrett |
The Romance Recipe |
Carina Adores |
Finalist |
[7] |
| Meryl Wilsner |
Mistakes Were Made |
St. Martin's Griffin |
| Edie Cay |
A Lady's Finder |
Self-published |
| Joseph Brennan |
Loose Lips: A Gay Sea Odyssey |
Hard Crossing Press |
| LGBTQ Middle Grade |
Maulik Pancholy |
Nikhil Out Loud |
HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray |
Winner |
[6] |
| David Levithan |
Answers In the Pages |
Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers |
Finalist |
|
| Kyle Lukoff |
Different Kinds of Fruit |
Dial Books for Young Readers |
|
| Maggie Horne |
Hazel Hill Is Gonna Win This One |
HarperCollins/Clarion Books |
|
| Michael Leali |
The Civil War of Amos Abernathy |
HarperCollins |
|
| LGBTQ Mystery |
Hayley Scrivenor |
Dirt Creek: A Novel |
Flatiron Books |
Winner |
|
| David C Dawson |
A Death in Berlin |
Park Creek Publishing |
Finalist |
|
| Joshua Moehling |
And There He Kept Her |
Poisoned Pen Press |
|
| Ann McMan |
Dead Letters from Paradise |
Bywater Books |
|
| Lev A.C. Rosen |
Lavender House |
Forge Books |
|
| LGBTQ Nonfiction |
Hafizah Augustus Geter |
The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin |
Random House |
Winner |
[6] |
| Sabrina Imbler |
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures |
Little, Brown and Company |
Finalist |
[7] |
| Joseph Osmundson |
Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between |
W.W. Norton & Company |
| Ricky Tucker |
And the Category Is...: Inside New York's Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community |
Beacon Press |
| Hugh Ryan |
The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison |
Bold Type Books, Hachette Book Group |
| LGBTQ Speculative Fiction |
Lianyu Tan |
The Wicked and the Willing: An F/F Gothic Horror Vampire Novel |
Shattered Scepter Press |
Winner |
|
| Sunyi Dean |
Book Eaters |
Tor Books |
Finalist |
[2] |
| Nghi Vo |
Into the Riverlands |
Tor.com |
| Khan Wong |
The Circus Infinite |
Angry Robot |
| Rob Hart |
The Paradox Hotel |
Ballantine Books |
| LGBTQ Studies |
Darieck Scott |
Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics |
New York University Press |
Winner |
|
| Mairead Sullivan |
Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer |
University of Minnesota Press |
Finalist |
[7] |
| Marlon B. Ross |
Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness |
Duke University Press |
| Vivian L. Huang |
Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability |
Duke University Press |
| Jafari S. Allen |
There's a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life |
Duke University Press |
| LGBTQ Young Adult |
Sonora Reyes |
The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School |
Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins |
Winner |
[6] |
| Vincent Tirado |
Burn Down, Rise Up |
Sourcebooks |
Finalist |
[2] |
| Angeline Jackson with Susan McClelland |
Funny Gyal: My Fight Against Homophobia in Jamaica |
Dundurn Press |
| Anna-Marie McLemore |
Lakelore |
Feiwel & Friends |
| Jen Ferguson |
The Summer of Bitter and Sweet |
Heartdrum/HarperCollins |
| Transgender Fiction |
Cat Fitzpatrick |
The Call-Out |
Seven Stories Press |
Winner |
[6] |
| James Hannaham |
Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta |
Little, Brown and Company |
Finalist |
[3] |
| Izzy Wasserstein |
All the Hometowns You Can't Stay Away From |
Neon Hemlock |
| Morgan Thomas |
Manywhere |
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Maya Deane |
Wrath Goddess Sing |
William Morrow and Company |
| Transgender Nonfiction |
Emma Grove |
The Third Person |
Drawn & Quarterly |
Winner |
[6] |
| Kit Heyam |
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender |
Basic Books |
Finalist |
[2][7] |
| Cecilia Gentili |
Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn't My Rapist |
LittlePuss Press |
| Jeremiah Moss |
Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York |
W. W. Norton & Company |
| Cameron Awkward-Rich |
The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment |
Duke University Press |
| Transgender Poetry |
Kamden Ishmael Hilliard |
MissSettl |
Nightboat Books |
Winner |
|
| Golden |
A Dead Name That Learned How to Live |
Game Over Books |
Finalist |
|
| Kay Gabriel |
A Queen in Bucks County |
Nightboat Books |
|
| Paul Tran |
All the Flowers Kneeling |
Penguin Books |
|
| Prathna Lor |
Emanations |
Wolsak and Wynn Publishers |
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