| Award | Sponsor | Description |
|---|---|---|
| The Alice B Readers Award | Alice B fund | Living writers of lesbian fiction whose careers are distinguished by consistently well-written stories about lesbians |
| American Library Association Rainbow List | American Library Association | Books with significant gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender content, and which are aimed at youth, birth through age 18 |
| Audre Lorde Award | Publishing Triangle | Works of lesbian poetry |
| Bill Whitehead Award | Publishing Triangle | Lifetime achievement by writers within the LGBT community |
| Bisexual Book Awards | Bi Writers Association | Best works of literature addressing themes of bisexuality |
| Blue Metropolis Violet Prize | Blue Metropolis | To an established LGBTQ writer to honour their body of work |
| Dayne Ogilvie Prize | Writers' Trust of Canada | Emerging Canadian writer who is part of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer community |
| Edmund White Award | Publishing Triangle | Debut novels by writers within the LGBT community |
| Ferro-Grumley Award | Publishing Triangle | Best work of LGBT fiction |
| Gaylactic Spectrum Awards | Gaylactic Spectrum Awards Foundation | Works of science fiction, fantasy and horror that explore LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) topics in a positive way |
| GCLS Goldie Awards | Golden Crown Literary Society | Several categories |
| Judy Grahn Award | Publishing Triangle | Works of non-fiction of relevance to the lesbian community |
| Otherwise Award | Otherwise Award | Works of science fiction or fantasy that expand or explore one's understanding of gender |
| Prix République du Glamour | Glamour magazine (France) | Best French lesbian novels |
| Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature | Publishing Triangle | Works of literature on transgender themes |
| Randy Shilts Award | Publishing Triangle | Works of non-fiction of relevance to the gay community |
| Robert Chesley Award | Publishing Triangle | Works by playwrights in the LGBT community |
| Sense of Gender Awards | Japanese Association for Gender, Fantasy & Science Fiction | Science fiction or fantasy fiction which best explores and deepens the concept of Gender |
| Thom Gunn Award | Publishing Triangle | Works of gay male poetry |
Confined Before COVID-19: A Pandemic Anthology by LGBTQ Prisoners
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edited by: Casper Cendre and Carla Cabral