Lambda Literary

LAST DAY TO SUBMIT to the first-ever Creative Incubator for LGBTQ+ Writers‼️Applications close at 11:59 pm Eastern Time ⏰ Writers Retreat Alumni, email us for a special discounted application 🎁 Can't wait to read all your juicy queer writing 🤓💌

Today is International Pronouns Day! ⭐ Respect personal pronouns today and every day. Want to know more? Have other questions that you're too afraid to ask? Head to pronouns.org for more resources. #PronounsDay

Today is International Lesbian Day! Pick up a 2026 Lammys winner in one of our four lesbian lit categories. ❤️🧡🤍🩷💜

October is LGBTQ+ History Month! 🌈 Need help choosing what to read this month? Here's a small selection to start with! #lgbtqhistorymonth

Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15. Celebrate with these books by queer Hispanic and Latine authors!

September 25 marks National Comic Book Day! 📖💥 Here are just a few of the queer comics we have in our thought bubbles. What are you reading?

The time is NOW, friends. The 2027 Lambda Literary Awards season is officially open. ✨ lambdaliteraryawards.submittable.com/submit #lammys2027

If you're in NYC, be sure to catch Lammy winner Gina Femia's limited run play: you know, that bakery out in Bensonhurst through Sept 6 - only 6 performances! Tickets and more info: www.eventbrite.com/e/irt-moxie-...

Please join us in welcoming three new team members: Susanne Salehi, Incoming Director of Programs and Operations; Robert Linens Jr., Incoming Director of Development; and Henry Breed, New Board Member! We are so excited for the wealth of knowledge they will all bring to Lambda!

New Job Alert! We're looking for a combination Director of Development and Awards Manager. This position is fully remote with some travel required. $85k-$95k salary plus benefits. Priority consideration is given to applicants who submit before July 24! lambdaliterary.org/2026/07/now-...

A Message to Our Community:

🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Middle Grade: Glitch Girl by Rainie Oet! 🎉🎉 #Lammys2026 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Young Adult: Come Home To My Heart by Riley Redgate🎉🎉 #Lammys2026 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Children's Books: JIM! Six True Stories about One Great Artist: James Marshall! @jerroldconnors.bsky.social‬ 🎉🎉 #Lammys2026 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Anthology: Queer Lens: A History of Photography by Paul Martineau and Ryan Linkof! @gettymuseum.bsky.social 🎉🎉 #Lammys2026 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Lesbian Memoir/Biography: Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins by Mary Frances Phillips and Charlene A. Carruthers! (foreword) @nyupress.bsky.social🎉🎉 #Lammys2026 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Gay Memoir/Biography: TAKE MY NAME BUT SAY IT SLOW: ESSAYS by Thomas Dai! 🎉🎉 #Lammys2026 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Drama: Ain't No Mo' by Jordan E. Cooper! 🎉🎉 #Lammys2026 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Mystery: A Queer Case by Robert Holtom!🎉🎉 #Lammys2026 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Comics: Gaysians by Mike Curato! @mikecurato.bsky.social 🎉🎉 #Lammys2026 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction: Beings by Ilana Masad! @ilanaslightly.bsky.social 🎉🎉 #Lammys2026 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Poetry: Algarabía - The Song of Cenex, Natural Son of the Isle Alarabíyya by Roque Raquel Salas Rivera! 🎉🎉 #Lammys2026 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Bisexual Poetry: The Garbage Poems by Anna Swanson, illustrated by April White! @annajswan.bsky.social 🎉🎉 #Lammys2026 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Gay Poetry: It Was Never Supposed To Be by Ben Kline! @benkline.bsky.social @variantlit.bsky.social 🎉🎉 #Lammys2026 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Lesbian Poetry: pleasureis amiracle by Bianca Rae Messinger! 🎉🎉 #Lammys2026 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Lesbian Poetry: pleasureis amiracle by Bianca Rae Messinger! 🎉🎉 #Lammys2026 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Poetry: YEET! by Jason B. Crawford! @jasonbcrawford @omnidawn.bsky.social🎉🎉 #Lammys2026 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Studies: Queer Lasting: Ecologies of Care for a Dying World by Sarah Esnor! @nyupress.bsky.social 🎉🎉 #Lammys2026 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Nonfiction: Guest Privileges: Queer Lives and Finding Home in the Middle East by Gaar Adams! 🎉🎉 #Lammys2026 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Bisexual Nonfiction: Reading the Waves by Lidia Yuknavitch 🎉🎉 #Lammys2026 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Nonfiction: Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us by Jennifer Finney Boylan! @jennyboylan.bsky.social @celadonbooks.bsky.social 🎉🎉 #Lammys2026 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Romance + Erotica: A Gentleman's Gentleman by TJ Alexander! @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social @ireadvintage.bsky.social 🎉🎉 #Lammys2026 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Lesbian Romance: Ladies in Hating by Alexandra Vasti! 🎉🎉 #Lammys2026 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Gay Romance: A Mannequin for Christmas by Timothy Janovsky! 🎉🎉 #Lammys2026 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Lesbian Fiction: Hungerstone by Kat Dunn 🎉🎉 #Lammys2026 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Gay Fiction: Nova Scotia House by Charlie Porter! 🎉🎉 #Lammys2026 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Bisexual Fiction: Sympathy for Wild Girls by Demree McGhee! 🎉🎉 #Lammys2026 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Fiction: The Lilac People: A Novel by Milo Todd! @catapultbooks.bsky.social 🎉🎉 #Lammys2026 #LammyAwards

EXTRA EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT 🗞️🗣️ APPLICATIONS OPEN NOW for our newest program, ✨The Creative Incubator for LGBTQ+ Writers✨ ☆FICTION: @jeannethornton.bsky.social ☆NONFICTION: @otroedgargomez.bsky.social ☆PERFORMANCE WRITING: Roger Q. Mason ☆POETRY: Oliver Baez Bendorf APPLY BY 7/8: bit.ly/4g1ifmc

In NYC on June 12? Celebrate the best of 2025's LGBTQ+ literature with us at the 38th annual Lambda Literary Awards Ceremony! 📖🎉 Proceeds from our ticket sales help us do what we do best: champion queer lit and queer voices, so come be a part of this queer joy! www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-lammy...

Let's celebrate queer literature together at the 38th Annual Lambda Literary Awards Ceremony in New York City! Every ticket sale supports us and our mission to champion LGBTQ+ writers and literature to affirm queer lives, ignite imagination, and transform culture. www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-lammy...

Don't forget to snag your tickets to the Lambda Literary Awards Ceremony in New York City! Proceeds benefit our programs championing LGBTQ+ literature - and it's a great way to kick off your queer literary summer! ☀️📚 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-lammy...

Today is Lesbian Visibility Day, the perfect time to pick up a 2025 Lammys winner in one of four categories: lesbian fiction, lesbian romance, lesbian poetry, & lesbian memoir. ❤️🧡🤍🩷💜