36th Lambda Literary Awards
The finalists for the 36th Lambda Literary Awards, which honor works of LGBTQ+ literature published in 2023, were announced on March 27, 2024. The winners were announced at Sony Hall in New York on June 11, 2024.
Special awards
In this year there were seven special prizes, including two new awards: The Denneny Award for Editorial Excellence, named for history-making gay editor Michael Denneny, who died in 2023, and The Pat Holt Prize for Critical Arts Writing in honor of late San Francisco Chronicle book review editor Patricia Holt.| Category | Winner | Ref |
| Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction | Stephanie Davies | |
| Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize | K.M. Soehnlein, Zelda Lockhart | |
| Judith A. Markowitz Emerging Writer Award | Federico Erebia, River 瑩瑩 Dandelion | |
| J. Michael Samuel Prize for Emerging Writers Over 50 | Paul Festa | |
| Randall Kenan Prize for Black LGBTQ Fiction | Liv Little | |
| The Denneny Award for Editorial Excellence | Remi Recchia | |
| The Pat Holt Prize for Critical Arts Writing | Elizabeth Hoover |