Friends, the window to submit your books for the 2026 Lambda Literary Awards is closing... There's one week! Submissions close on November 21! Submit here: lambdaliterary.org/awards/lammy... 📚✨ #LammyAwards #Lammys2026

Don't forget to submit your queer books (published in 2025) for the 2026 Lambda Literary Awards - before the November 21st deadline! Submit here: lambdaliterary.org/awards/lammy... #LammyAwards #Lammys2026

Miss Major, the LGBTQ+ rights activist who has been on the front lines since Stonewall, passed away yesterday. The impact of her resistance will not be forgotten. Read more in her memoir, "Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary," which won a Lammy in 2024.

Honor Indigenous People's Day with a selection of queer Indigenous writing from past Lammys.

📚We need your help to build a world where LGBTQ+ stories can flourish and grow! 📚As attacks on our freedom of expression reach new terrifying heights, creating safe spaces for LGBTQ+ voices is more important than ever. 📚Donate here: bit.ly/sustainlambd...

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Huge congratulations to @sapphomancer.bsky.social /August Clarke - METAL FROM HEAVEN has won the @lambdaliterary.org Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction! We're bringing it to the UK later this month, preorder now: geni.us/metalfhe Congratulations to all the winners at this year's Awards!

For the work week 🌅 crowd

This book. I'm looking forward to a long, slow reread: beautiful, sensual, overwhelming, desperate, grieving, lost, found, ecstatic in the deep meaning of the word.

This book was absolutely overwhelming, gorgeous, sensual, ecstatic, grieving, complex and memorable. I've never read anything else quite like it and looking forward to reading it again!

Oh, this sounds metal (sorry)! Going into the TBR 🔥

A HUGE congratulations to @sapphomancer.bsky.social! METAL FROM HEAVEN has won the 2025 @lambdaliterary.org award for Best LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction! METAL FROM HEAVEN is a bloody lesbian revenge tale and political fantasy, perfect for fans of Gideon the Ninth and The Princess Bride!

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🏆 First a BIG congrats to Lonnie for Putty Pygmalion winning the 2025 LAMBDA Literary Award @lambdaliterary.org for LGBTQ+ Comics! 🌈 💀 Now for Sprocket’s Halloween Highlight Day 3: PUTTY PYGMALION by Lonnie Garcia @sixgills.bsky.social 💔 A twisted story perfect for spooky season. 👻

Congratulations to Ben Grossberg, winner of the 2023 James Alan McPherson Prize for the Novel!

September 15 to October 15 is Hispanic Heritage Month. ✨ Celebrate with one of these Lammys winners or finalists by Hispanic authors.

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Comics: Putty Pygmalion by Lonnie Garcia! @sixgills.bsky.social @silversprocket.net 🎉🎉🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Middle Grade: Mallory in Full Color by Elisa Stone Leahy! @elisastoneleahy.com🎉🎉🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Young Adult: Icarus by K. Ancrum! @kaylaancrum.bsky.social @epicreads.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Children’s Books: Glenn Burke, Game Changer: The Man Who Invented the High Five by Phil Bildner, illustrated by Daniel J. O'Brien! @philbildner.bsky.social @danielostudios.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Nonfiction: The Other Olympians by Michael Waters! 🎉🎉🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Studies: When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader by Susan Stryker, edited by McKenzie Wark! @susanstryker.bsky.social @mckenziewark.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Anthology: Swagger: A Celebration of the Butch Experience by Rae Theodore, Nat Burns! @flannelfiles.bsky.social @flashpointpub.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Mystery: Rough Trade by Katrina Carrasco! 🎉🎉🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction: Metal From Heaven by August Clarke! 🎉🎉🎉 @sapphomancer.bsky.social @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Drama: The Green Line | خطّ التماس by Makram Ayache! 🎉🎉🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Gay Memoir/Biography: RADIANT: The Life and Line of Keith Haring by Brad Gooch! 🎉🎉🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Lesbian Memoir/Biography: My Withered Legs and Other Essays by Sandra Gail Lambert! 🎉🎉🎉 @sandragaillambert.bsky.social @ugapress.bsky.social #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Poetry: Girl Work by Zefyr Lisowski! 🎉🎉🎉 @zefrrr.bsky.social @noemipress.bsky.social #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Bisexual Poetry: Interrogation Records by Jeddie Sophronius! 🎉🎉🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Gay Poetry: How to Kill a Goat and Other Monsters by Saúl Hernández! 🎉🎉🎉 @elsaulhernandez.bsky.social @uwiscpress.bsky.social #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Lesbian Poetry: Song of My Softening by Omotara James! 🎉🎉🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Poetry: Cowboy Park by Eduardo Martínez-Leyva! 🎉🎉🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica: Oyster by Fearne Hill! 🎉🎉🎉 @fearnehill.bsky.social #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Gay Romance: The Spring Before Obergefell by Ben Grossberg! 🎉🎉🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Lesbian Romance: Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun! 🎉🎉🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Gay Fiction: Henry Henry by Allen Bratton! @allenbratton.bsky.social @unnamedpress.bsky.social #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Lesbian Fiction: The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden! 🎉🎉🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Bisexual Nonfiction: You're Embarrassing Yourself by Desiree Akhavan! 🎉🎉🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉🎉Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Bisexual Fiction: How To Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster by Muriel Leung! 🎉🎉🎉 @murmurshewrote.bsky.social

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Nonfiction: Pretty by KB Brookins! 🎉🎉🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Fiction: Firebugs by Nino Bulling! 🎉🎉🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

🎉 Congratulations to the winner of the J. Michael Samuel Prize for Emerging Writers Over 50, Amy Beth Sisson (@sissonab.bsky.social) and the Karla Jay Prize for Emerging Writers in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Nat Rivkin! 🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

On Monday, 10/6, You are invited to Lambda Literary's salon, a virtual porch sit between Golden, author of REPRISE, and Darryl DeAngelo Terrell, cover artist of Lambda's 2024 EMERGE ANTHOLOGY. Free to attend! Register at the 🔗 in our bio. + Purchase your copies of these books via the event page!

Join us Oct 4 at 2pm ET for an interview with Mat Fournier, finalist in LGBTQ+ Studies, author of Dysphoric Modernism: Undoing Gender in French Literature. @matfournier.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/lammys-day... #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

🎉 Congratulations to the winners of the Judith A. Markowitz Award for Exceptional New LGBTQ Writers, Emet North (@emnorth.bsky.social) and Aaron H. Aceves (@aaronhaceves.bsky.social)! 🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

✨ Panel: Transgender Power on the Page - Join finalists LOGAN-ASHLEY KISNER, NICO LANG, ALVINA CHAMBERLAND (@noemipress.bsky.social) & ZEFYR LISOWSKI (@zefrrr.bsky.social) discussing trans identities within fiction, non-fiction & poetry. Oct 4 at 2pm ET. ✨ Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/lammys-day...

🎉 Congratulations to the winners of the Randall Kenan Prize for Black LGBTQ Fiction and the Pat Holt Prize for Critical Arts Writing, Allen R. Wells (@allenwriteswell.bsky.social) and Tausif Noor! 🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

✨Join us Oct 4th at 1pm ET for an Interview with Rae Theodore, finalist in LGBTQ+ Anthology and author of Swagger: A Celebration of the Butch Experience. ✨ Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/lammys-day... @flannelfiles.bsky.social @flashpointpub.bsky.social #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards