Judith A. Markowitz Award

The Judith A. Markowitz Award for Exceptional New LGBTQ Writers, formerly known as the Dr. Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award and established in 2013, is an annual literary award presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation. The award is granted to "LGBTQ-identified writers whose work demonstrates their strong potential for promising careers."^[1] The writers must "have published at least one but no more than two books of fiction, nonfiction or poetry."^[2] Two annual winners each receive a $1,500 cash prize.^[1]

Recipients

Year	Recipient	Ref.
2013	Carter Sickels	[3]
	Sassafras Lowrey
2014	Imogen Binnie	[4][5]
	Charles Rice-Gonzalez
2015	Anne Balay	[6][7]
	Daisy Hernandez
2016	JP Howard	[2][8]
	Bryan Borland
2017	H Melt	[9][10]
	Victor Yates
2018	Mecca Jamilah Sullivan	[11]
	Jeanne Thornton
2019	Robert Fieseler	[12]
	Hannah Ensor
2020	Xandria Phillips	[13][14]
	Calvin Gimpelevich
2021	T Kira Madden	[15][16]
	Taylor Johnson
2022	Ching-In Chen
	Morgan Thomas
2023	Naseem Jamnia
	Maya Salameh
2024	Federico Erebia
	River 瑩瑩 Dandelion