Winners Announced for 2012's
Best Lesbian and Gay Fiction, Nonfiction,
Poetry, and Debut Fiction
The Publishing
Triangle proudly announces the winners for its 25th annual
Triangle Awards, honoring the best lesbian and gay
fiction, nonfiction, and poetry published in 2012. The
winners were announced at a ceremony at the New School on
April 25, 2013.
The Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry
Winner: Song
and Spectacle, by Rachel Rose (Harbour
Publishing)
Finalists
- The
Light That Puts an End to Dreams, by Susan
Sherman (Wings Press)
- Port
of Call, by Davida Singer (Plain View
Press)
- Wine
for a Shotgun, by Marty McConnell (EM
Press)
The Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry
Winner: Looking
for the Gulf Motel, by Richard Blanco
(University of Pittsburgh Press)
Finalists
- Appetite,
by Aaron Smith (University of Pittsburgh Press)
- He Do
the Gay Man in Different Voices, by
Stephen S. Mills (Sibling Rivalry Press)
- Slow
Lightning, by Eduardo C. Corral (Yale
University Press)
The Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction
Winner: A Horse
Named Sorrow, by Trebor Healey (University of
Wisconsin Press)
Finalists
- An
Arab Melancholia, by Abdelleh Taïa
(Semiotext[e])
- By
Blood, by Ellen Ullman (Farrar Straus
Giroux)
- King
of Angels, by Perry Brass (Belhue Press)
- The
Lava in My Bones, by Barry Webster
(Arsenal Pulp Press)
- Sea
Change, by Ken Anderson (Starbooks Press)
The Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction
Winner: Are You
My Mother? by Alison Bechdel (Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt)
. Ms. Bechdel is the first repeat winner of the
Judy Grahn Award, having been honored in 2007 for Fun
Home, her 2006 graphic memoir.
Finalists
- My
Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus, by
Kelly Barth (Arktoi/Red Hen)
- A
Queer and Pleasant Danger, by Kate
Bornstein (Beacon Press)
- Why Be
Happy When You Can Be Normal, by Jeanette
Winterson (Grove Press)
The Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction
Winner: Eminent
Outlaws, by Christopher Bram
(Twelve/Hachette)
Finalists
- Fire
in the Belly: The Life and Times of David
Wojnarowicz, by Cynthia Carr (Bloomsbury)
- How to
Be Gay, by David M. Halperin
(Belknap/Harvard University Press)
- Robert
Duncan: The Ambassador from Venus, by Lisa
Jarnot (University of California Press)
The Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction
Winner: Monstress, by
Lysley Tenorio (Ecco/HarperCollins)
Finalists
- Broken
Like This, by Monica Trasandes (Thomas
Dunne Books/St. Martin’s)
- The
Evening Hour, by Carter Sickels
(Bloomsbury)
- Love,
in Theory, by E. J. Levy (University of
Georgia Press)
Standing, l to r: The Publishing
Triangle's Trent Duffy,
Whitehead winner John D'Emilio,
Ferro-Grumley winner
Trebor Healey, Leadership Award winner
Ira Silverberg,
the PT's Carol Rosenfeld,
Ferro-Grumley's Stephen Greco,
and (kneeling) Rachel Rose (l), winner
of the Audre Lorde
Poetry Award, and F-G's Sarah Van
Arsdale.
Historian and Archivist John D'Emilio Honored with
Bill Whitehead Award
 In
accepting the 2013 Bill Whitehead Award for
Lifetime Achievement, historian John D'Emilio
said, "This award tonight is another example
that history is change." He explained that
when he was a graduate student in the 1970s in
the nascent, almost taboo field of gay
history, it was inconceivable that there would
be such a prize honoring such a body of work.
A pioneer in the field of gay and lesbian
studies, D'Emilio is the author or editor of
more than half a dozen books, including Sexual
Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making
of a Homosexual Minority in the United
States; Intimate Matters:
A History of Sexuality in America (with
Estelle Freedman); and The World
Turned: Essays on Gay History, Politics,
and Culture. His Lost
Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard
Rustin won the Publishing
Triangle's Randy Shilts Award for Gay
Nonfiction in 2004. D'Emilio has also won
fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and
the National Endowment for the Humanities, and
received the Brudner Prize from Yale
University for lifetime contributions to gay
and lesbian studies. A former co-chair of the
board of directors of the National Gay and
Lesbian Task Force, he was also the founding
director of its Policy Institute. At the
University of Illinois at Chicago, where
D'Emilio teaches, he's encouraged that "there
is a generation out there who is eager to hear
these stories about the LGBT past.
The Bill Whitehead Award is given to a woman
in even-numbered years and to a man in odd
years. D'Emilio will received his award at the
25th annual Triangle Awards, held at The New
School's Tishman Auditorium in New York City.
NEA Director of Literature Ira
Silverberg Gets Leadership Award
"This is one
of the most hopeful times in my 28
years in publishing, because we
are able to build things now we
couldn't before," Ira Silverberg
said, while accepting the
Leadership Award, and referring to
new technologies and new
distribution platforms and
systems. Created in 2002, this
award recognizes contributions to
lesbian and gay literature by
those who are not primarily
writers--editors, agents,
librarians, and institutions.
 Ira Silverberg is
currently the Director of
Literature for the National
Endowment for the Arts, where
(among other things) he oversees
the NEA's The Big Read, a
nationwide reading initiative.
Before coming to the NEA,
Silverberg was a literary agent
and an editor. As an agent, he has
managed a client list of
award-winning fiction and
nonfiction authors including Adam
Haslett, Kathy Acker, Wayne
Koestenbaum, David Wojnarowicz,
Karen Finley, and Dennis Cooper.
As editor in chief of Grove Press
and U.S. publisher and
co-editorial director for
Serpent's Tail, he published
Sapphire, Gary Indiana, Neil
Bartlett, and Herve Guibert, among
others. He also handled public
relations for William S. Burroughs
for many years.
In presenting the award, Amy
Hundley, senior editor and
subsidiary rights director at
Grove/Atlantic, praised Silverberg
for, in Wayne Koestenbaum's words,
"understanding that 'weird' and
'writing' are necessary
bedfellows."
Throughout his career, Silverberg
has been a tireless advocate for
LGBT books and transgressive
authors, making him a worthy
honoree for this Leadership Award.
The award was presented at the
Publishing Triangle's annual
awards ceremony, on April 25, 2013
at The New School's Tishman
Auditorium, in New York.
Edmund White Remembers Whitehead
 To
mark the occasion
of the 25th Bill
Whitehead Award
for Lifetime
Achievement,
Edmund White spoke
at the Publishing
Triangle Awards on
Thursday, April
25, 2013. As the
winner of the very
first Bill
Whitehead Award,
in 1989, White
shared some
memories of his
working
relationship, and
friendship, with
Whitehead, who
edited many of his
books, including A
Boy's Own
Story
and States
of Desire.
In addition to
remembering Bill
Whitehead, he also
presented the
Edmund White Award
for Debut Fiction
(which is of
course named after
him) to Monstress,
by Lysley Tenorio
(Ecco/HarperCollins).
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and gay publishing events, visit our Events Calendar
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Friday, June 21, 5:30 p.m. "He Continues to
Make a Difference: The Story of Matthew Shepard."
Lesléa Newman reads from and discusses
October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard,
a novel-in-verse that explores the impact of Matt's
murder in a cycle of 68 poems from fictitious points
of view, including the fence Matthew Shepard was
tied to, the stars that watched over him, and a deer
that kept him company all through the night. At the
New York Public Library, 455 Fifth Avenue, New York.
Free admission. For more information, click
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