Now On a Screen Near You...
For those of you who couldn't come to the
awards, here's some good news. The New School,
where we hold the Publishing Triangle Awards
every year, was able to record the ceremonies for us,
and the video is available on YouTube (click
here to go to the video). The recording is
nicely produced and runs about 1 hour and
10 minutes.
Finalists Announced for 2011's Best Lesbian and
Gay Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Debut Fiction
The
Publishing Triangle proudly announces the
winners for its annual Awards, honoring the
best lesbian and gay nonfiction, poetry, and
fiction. These books represent the best in
LGBT literature for the year 2011. The
winners were announced at a ceremony at the
New School on April 19, 2012.
The Edmund White Award for Debut
Fiction
Winner:
My Sister Chaos, by Lara Fergus (Spinifex
Press)
Finalists
Mitko,
by Garth Greenwell (Miami University
Press)
We
the Animals, by Justin Torres
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Zipper
Mouth, by Laurie Weeks (The Feminist Press)
The Judy Grahn Award for
Lesbian Nonfiction
Winner: When We
Were Outlaws, by Jeanne Córdova (Spinsters
Ink)
Finalists
Deviations:
A Gayle Rubin Reader,
by Gayle S. Rubin (Duke University Press)
Sister Arts:
The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes, by Lisa L.
Moore (University of Minnesota Press)
The Randy Shilts Award for Gay
Nonfiction
Winner:
Recruiting Young Love: How
Christians Talk about Homosexuality, by Mark
D. Jordan (University of Chicago Press)
Finalists
- A
Queer History of the United States
by
Michael Bronski (Beacon Press)
- A Saving
Remnant: The Radical Lives of Barbara Deming and
David McReynolds, by
Martin Duberman (The New Press)
The Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry
Winner:
Touch, by Henri Cole
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Finalists for the Thom Gunn Award for
Gay Poetry
- A
Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos,
by Tim Dlugos (Nightboat Books)
- Love-in-Idleness,
by Christopher Hennessy (Brooklyn Arts Press)
- Motion
Studies, by Brad Richard (The Word Works)
The Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian
Poetry
Winner:
Inside the Money Machine,
by Minnie Bruce Pratt (Carolina Wren Press)
Finalists for the Audre Lorde Award
for Lesbian Poetry
- Cow,
by Susan Hawthorne (Spinifex Press)
- Open
Winter, by Rae Gouirand (Bellday Books)
- The
Stranger Dissolves, by Christina Hutchins
(Sixteen Rivers Press)
The Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian
and Gay Fiction
Winner:
The Unreal Life of Sergey
Nabokov, by Paul Russell (Cleis Press)
Mr.
Russell is the first repeat winner of the Ferro-Grumley
Award, having been honored for his
2000 novel The Coming Storm.
Finalists
- Monoceros,
by Suzette Mayr (Coach House Books)
- The
Necessity of Certain Behaviors, by Shannon Cain
(University of Pittsburgh Press)
- Quarantine,
by Rahul Mehta (Harper Perennial)
- Remembrance
of Things I Forgot, by Bob Smith (University of
Wisconsin Press)
- The
Stranger’s Child, by Alan Hollinghurst (Alfred
A. Knopf)
At the 2012 Publishing Triangle Awards (l to
r): Stephen Greco, Ferro-Grumley winner
Paul Russell, Sarah Van Arsdale, Leadership Award
winner Frances Goldin,
Trent Duffy, Edmund White Debut Fiction winner Lara
Fergus, and Carol Rosenfeld.
Alison Bechdel Honored
with
Bill Whitehead Award
Alison Bechdel
is the 2012 recipient of the Publising Triangle's
annual Bill
Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement,
named in honor of the legendary editor of the 1970s
and 1980s. This is the third time Bechdel has been
honored at the Publishing Triangle Awards. The Bill Whitehead
Award, named in honor of a legendary editor of the
1970s and 1980s, is given to a woman in
even-numbered years and to a man in odd years.
Bechdel began keeping a journal at the age of ten,
and has been assiduously archiving her own life and
times with words and pictures ever since. For 25
years, she wrote and drew the comic strip Dykes
to Watch Out For, a generational chronicle
considered “one of the preeminent oeuvres in the
comics genre, period” (Ms.); collections started
being published in book form in the late 1980s,
culminating in The Essential Dykes to Watch
Out For, which won the Ferro-Grumley Award
for LGBT Fiction in 2009.
 Bechdel is also the
author of the best-selling Fun Home: A Family
Tragicomic, a memoir in graphic-novel form,
which won the Publishing Triangle’s Award for
Lesbian Nonfiction, was hailed as “a masterpiece” by
Time,
and was a National Book Critics Circle Award
Finalist. She has also drawn comics for Slate,
McSweeney’s,
Entertainment
Weekly, The New York Times Book Review,
and Granta, among other places. Her new
book, Are You My Mother?, will be
published in May.
Bechdel accepted her award at the Publishing
Triangle’s annual award ceremony on April 19, 2012
in New York City. Nancy Bereano, former publisher of
Firebrand Books, which brought out the first nine Dykes
to Watch Out For volumes, presented the
award to Bechdel.
Photo of Alison Bechdel by Elena Seibert
Agent and Activist Frances Goldin Wins
Leadership Award
Literary
agent and activist Frances Goldin is the winner
of the Publishing
Triangle’s Leadership Award. Created
in 2002, this award recognizes contributions
to LGBT literature by those who are not
primarily writers—editors, agents, librarians,
and institutions.
 Since founding the Frances
Goldin Literary Agency in 1977, Goldin has
been a tireless advocate for her writers, for
LGBT literature, and for progressive politics
and the free exchange of ideas. Her LGBT
authors include Dorothy Allison, Martin
Duberman, Alix Dobkin, Adrienne Rich, and
Staceyann Chin. Her other clients include
Frances Fox Piven, Martin Espada, Barbara
Kingsolver, and Juan González, as well
as such iconic feminists as Charlotte Bunch,
and Esther Newton.
The Publishing Triangle salutes Ms. Goldin for
being the kind of straight ally that the LGBT
community needs and cherishes, and it bestows
this award on her as a way of showing how much
we appreciate and cherish her feisty support. Editor Michael Denneny
presented this award to Ms. Goldin.
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Support the
Publishing Triangle
Literary Awards Fund
A very necessary component of our awards program is the
specially dedicated fund that provides prizes for the
winners of the Randy Shilts and Nonfiction Awards, the
Audre Lorde and Thom Gunn Poetry Awards, and the Edmund
White Award for Debut Fiction. Poetry winners receive
$500; for nonfiction and debut fiction, the prize is
$1000. This fund is supported by member dues, proceeds of
events like our annual holiday party, and through the
generosity of passionate readers and supporters of LGBT
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Our LGBT Reading
List
Do you love LGBT literature and want to know what to read
next? Well, then you've landed on the right web page. The
Publishing Triangle asked two distinguished panels of
judges to come up with The 100
Best Lesbian and Gay Novels and The 100 Best Lesbian and Gay
Nonfiction Books of all time.
We also
asked fourteen lesbian book reviewers, booksellers,
librarians, and/or authors to name the Most
Notable Lesbian Books of 2004.
Also be
sure to check out new
publications by Publishing Triangle members
and books that won 2004 Publishing Triangle Awards.
Volunteer
Now! Ask Us How!
The Publishing Triangle is a not-for-profit organization
that relies on its members and friends to volunteer their
services. We could use help with event planning, fund
raising, the web site, and coordinating many other
activities. If you would like to volunteer, send an e-mail
to Volunteer Coordinator with
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For information on lesbian
and gay publishing events, visit our Events Calendar
page.
Saturday, May 5,
2012, 12:15-1:45 p.m.: The Power of Our
Words and Stories--a panel discussion about LGBT
literatures role in the quest for our civil rights.
Panelists include Victoria Brownworth, Cheril N.
Clarke, Fay Jacobs, Janet Mason, Ngozi Thomas, and
Alysha Wise. Part of Equality Forum 2012 at the
University of the Arts, Terra Hall, Room 702, South
Broad Street, Philadelphia.
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