Sundress Publications is pleased to announce that Transmasculine Poetics is a 2025 Lambda Literary Awards finalist. Transmasculine Poetics will be among those honored in a virtual ceremony by Lambda Literary’s Executive Director J. Clapp on Saturday, October 4th, 2025. The ceremony will feature virtual readings and panels from the finalists.

Transmasculine Poetics: Filling the Gap in Literature and the Silences Around Us, published in 2024,is edited by Remi Recchia and focuses exclusively on transmasculine authors, fostering an affirmative space for these poets and inviting readers to a new space in which they can witness a world often erased by society.
Download your free e-copy of Transmasculine Poetics here.
Lambda Literary has a long history of promoting LGBTQ+ books and authors since 1985. For over three decades, the organization’s belief in literature’s role in protecting and supporting LGBTQ+ culture and lives has served the community and the literary space. This year will mark 37 years of the awards and the organization’s contributions to the queer literary space.
For a full list of this year’s Lambda Literary Awards finalists, visit their website.