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The Publishing Triangle presents ten
awards annually, tied to a calendar year. Nominations
for the 2018 awards, which will be presented in April
2019, are now closed.
We present seven awards for the best books of the year.
They are the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction; the
Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction; the Audre Lorde
Award for Lesbian Poetry; the Thom Gunn Award for Gay
Poetry; the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction; the
Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant
Literature; and, in conjunction our longtime partner the
Ferro-Grumley Foundation, the Ferro-Grumley Award for
LGBTQ Fiction. Each of the winners receives $1000.
In addition, we honor one LGBTQ author annually with the
Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement (a $3000
prize) and we also present the Betty Berzon Emerging
Writer Award ($1500).
Finally, we give out the Publishing Triangle Leadership
Award, which honors the contributions of those who are
not writers to LGBTQ literature and letters.
A short-list of finalists will be announced in March
2019, and the awards will be presented at a ceremony at
the New School in Greenwich Village, New York, on
Thursday, April 25, 2019.
For books that will be published in 2019, the call for
submission will go out early in the autumn and the
deadline for entrants will be in early December. (We
will provide more details in the late summer of 2019.)
If you have a question about the awards, please write to
publishingtriangle@gmail.com
The Bill Whitehead
Award for Lifetime Achievement
Judy Grahn Award for
Lesbian Nonfiction
Randy Shilts Award
for Gay Nonfiction
The Audre Lorde
Award for Lesbian Poetry
The Thom Gunn Award
for Gay Poetry
The Edmund White
Award for Debut Fiction
The Publishing
Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature
The Publishing
Triangle Leadership Award
The Ferro-Grumley
Award for LGBTQ Fiction
The Betty Berzon
Emerging Writer Award
The Robert Chesley
Award for Lesbian and Gay Playwriting
The Bill Whitehead Award for
Lifetime Achievement
The Publishing Triangle began
honoring a gay or lesbian writer for his or her body of
work a few months after it was founded in 1989.
The Bill Whitehead Award honors a
legendary editor; Bill Whitehead was the editor-in-chief
at E. P. Dutton in the early 1980s and ended his career
at Macmillan. He worked with such gay and lesbian
writers as Edmund White, Robert Ferro, and Doris
Grumbach, and with Anne Rice (writing as A. N.
Roquelaure) and Lana Turner, among others. He died of
AIDS in 1987.
The Bill Whitehead Award is given to
a woman in even-numbered years and a man in odd years.
Members of the Publishing Triangle nominate both the
judges and candidates for the award. The winner receives
$3,000.
The winners thus far have been:
2018 Sarah
Schulman
2017
Michael Bronski
2016 Eloise
Klein Healy
2015 Rigoberto
Gonzalez
2014 Maria
Irene Fornes
2013 John
D'Emilio
2012 Alison
Bechdel
2011 Alan
Hollinghurst
2010
Blanche Wiesen Cook
2009 Martin
Duberman
2008
Katherine Forrest
2007 Andrew
Holleran
2006 Karla
Jay
2005 Edward
Field
2004
Lillian Faderman
2003
Christopher Bram
2002 Jane
Rule
2001
Michael Nava
2000 Doris
Grumbach
1999 John
Rechy
1998 M. E.
Kerr
1997
Armistead Maupin
1996 Joan
Nestle
1995
Jonathan Ned Katz
1994 Judy
Grahn
1993 Samuel
R. Delany
1992 Audre
Lorde
1991 James
Purdy
1990
Adrienne Rich
1989 Edmund
White
Nonfiction Awards
The Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian
Nonfiction and The Randy Shilts Award for Gay
Nonfiction
The Publishing Triangle began giving
awards for nonfiction in 1997. Each award is for books
published in the preceding year in the United States or
Canada (i.e., the 2008 awards below honored books
published in 2007). The Judy Grahn Award honors the
American writer, cultural theorist and activist (b.
1940) best known for The Common Woman (1969) and Another
Mother Tongue (rev. ed., 1984). It recognizes works that
are by or about lesbians, bisexual women, and/or
transwomen, or that have a significant influence upon he
lives of queer women.
The Randy Shilts Award honors the
journalist whose groundbreaking work on the AIDS
epidemic for the San Francisco Chronicle made him a hero
to many in the community. Shilts (1951-1994) was the
author of The Mayor of Castro Street, And the Band
Played On, and Conduct Unbecoming.This award recognizes
works that are by or about gay men, bisexual men, and/or
transmen, or that have a signifcant influence upon the
lives of queer men.
Publishers and others may nominate
candidates for these awards using a submission form
posted on our website each autumn, for an entry fee of
$40.00. Individual members of the Publishing Triangle
may nominate one book for free; corporate members may
nominate an unlimited amount of books for free. The
finalists and the winners are determined by a panel of
judges appointed by the Publishing Triangle's awards
committee. The winners each receive $1,000.
Past winners are:
Judy
Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction
2018
Rosalind Rosenberg, Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli
Murray
2017 Sarah
Schulman, Conflict is Not Abuse
2016 Marcia
M. Gallo, "No One Helped": Kitty Genovese, New
York City, and The Myth of Urban Apathy
2015 Barbara
Smith, Aint Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around,
edited by Alethia Jones and Virginia Eubanks
2014 Julia
M. Allen, Passionate Commitments: The Lives of
Anna Rochester and Grace Hutchins
2013 Alison
Bechdel, Are You My Mother?
2012 Jeanne
Cσrdova, When We Were Outlaws
2011
Barbara Hammer, Hammer!
2010
Rebecca Brown, American Romances
2009 Andrea
Weiss, In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain
2008 Janet
Malcolm, Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
2007 Alison
Bechdel, Fun Home
2006 Tania
Katan, My One-Night Stand with Cancer
2005 Alison
Smith, Name All the Animals
2004
Lillian Faderman, Naked in the Promised Land
2003 Terry
Wolverton, Insurgent Muse: Life and Art at the
Woman's Building
2002 Laura
L. Doan, Fashioning Sapphism
2001 Amber
Hollibaugh, My Dangerous Desires
2000 Hilary
Lapsley, Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict: The
Kinship of Women
1999 Judith
Halberstam, Female Masculinity
1998 Margot
Peters, May Sarton: A Biography
1997
Bernadette Brooten, Love Between Women
Randy Shilts Award for Gay
Nonfiction
2018 Eli
Clare, Brilliant Imperfection
2017 David
France, How to Survive a Plague
2016 [tie] Barney Frank, Frank: A Life in
Politics from the Grat Society to Same-Sex Marriage;
and Michelangelo Signorile, It's Not Over:
Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia, and
Winning True Equality
2015 Robert
Beachy, Gay Berlin
2014 Hilton
Als, White Girls
2013
Christopher Bram, Eminent Outlaws
2012 Mark
D. Jordan, Recruiting Young Love: How Christians
Talk About Homosexuality
2011 Justin
Spring, Secret Historian: The Life and Times of
Samuel Steward
2010 James
Davidson, The Greeks and Greek Love
2009 Kai
Wright, Drifting Toward Love
2008
Michael Rowe, Other Men's Sons
2007 Kenji
Yoshino, Covering
2006 Martin
Moran, The Tricky Part
2005 David
K. Johnson, The Lavender Scare: The Cold War
Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal
Government
2004 John
D'Emilio, Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of
Bayard Rustin
2003 Neil
Miller, Sex Crime Panic
2002 [tie]
Ricardo J. Brown, The Evening Crowd at Kirmser's;
and Robert Reid-Pharr, Black Gay Man
2001 Mark
Matousek, Lost Father
2000 Eric
Brandt, Dangerous Liaisons: Blacks, Gays and the
Struggle for Equality
1999 John
Loughery, The Other Side of Silence
1998 David
Sedaris, Naked
1997
Anthony Heilbut, Thomas Mann
Poetry Awards
The Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian
Poetry and The Thom Gunn for Gay Poetry
The Publishing Triangle instituted
its poetry awards 2001. Each award is for books
published in the preceding year in the United States or
Canada (i.e., the 2009 awards honored books published in
2008).
The Audre Lorde Award honors the
American poet, essayist, librarian, and teacher. Lorde
(1934-1992) was nominated for the National Book Award
for From a Land Where Other People Live and was the poet
laureate of New York State in 1991. She received the
Publishing Triangle's Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime
Achievement shortly before her death. Among her other
sixteen books are Zami (1982) and A Burst of Light
(1989).
The Thom Gunn Award honors Thom Gunn
(1929-2004), who was the author of The Man with Night
Sweats (1992) and many other acclaimed volumes. Gunn,
who was born in Kent, England, lived in San Francisco
from 1960 until his death. (In its first four years,
including the year Mr. Gunn himself won, this award was
known as the Triangle Award for Gay Poetry.)
Publishers and others may nominate
candidates for these awards using a submission form
posted on our website each autumn, for an entry fee of
$40.00. Individual members of the Publishing Triangle
may nominate one book for free. The finalists and the
winners are determined by a panel of judges appointed by
the Publishing Triangle's awards committee. The winners
each receive $1000.
Past winners are:
The Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian
Poetry
2018
Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Rocket Fantastic
2017
Francine J. Harris, Play Dead
2016
Jennifer Perrine, No Confession, No Mass
2015 Meg Day,
Last Psalm at Sea Level
2014 Angie
Estes, Enchantιe
2013 Rachel
Rose, Song and Spectacle
2012 Minnie
Bruce Pratt, Inside the Money Machine
2011 Jen
Currin, The Inquisition Yours
2010 Stacie
Cassarino, Zero at the Bone
2009
Elizabeth Bradfield, Interpretative Work
2008 Joan
Larkin, My Body
2007
Jennifer Rose, Hometown for an Hour
2006 Jane
Miller, A Palace of Pearls
2005
Maureen Seaton, Venus Examines Her Breast
2004 Daphne
Gottlieb, Final Girl
2003
Melanie Braverman, Red
2002 Gerry
Gomez Pearlberg, Mr. Bluebird
2001
Marilyn Hacker, Squares and Courtyards
The Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry
2018 Chen
Chen, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of
Further Possibilities
2017 Ocean
Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds
2016 Rick
Barot, Chord
2015 Jericho
Brown, The New Testament
2014
Charlie Bondhus, All the Heat We Could Carry
2013
Richard Blanco, Looking for the Gulf Motel
2012 Henri
Cole, Touch
2011
Michael Walsh, The Dirt Riddles
2010
Ronaldo V. Wilson, Poems of the Black Object
2009 Ely
Shipley, Boy with Flower
2008 [tie]
Steve Fellner, Blind Date with Cavafy;
and Daniel Hall, Under Sleep
2007 Justin
Chin, Gutted
2006
Richard Siken, Crush
2005 Carl
Phillips, The Rest of Love
2004 Brian
Teare, The Room Where I Was Born
2003 Greg
Hewett, Red Suburb
2002 Mark
Doty, Source
2001 Thom
Gunn, Boss Cupid
The Edmund White Award for Debut
Fiction
Inaugurated in May 2006, this award
recognizes outstanding first novels or story collections
by LGBT authors. It is unique among the Triangle
Literary Awards, in that women and men compete in the
same category. The award is open to first-book authors
of any age whose work contains queer themes. Writers can
have published works of nonfiction, and their short
fiction can have previously appeared in a published
anthology. The book nominated must be the author's first
work of book-length fiction.
This award honors the distinguished
Edmund White, who won the very first Bill Whitehead
Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1990. White is the
author, among many other works, of A Boy's Own Story,
States of Desire, A Married Man, Fanny, and Arts and
Letters. The winner receives $1,000.
Past winners are:
2018 SJ
Sindu, Marriage of a Thousand Lies
2017 Joe
Okonkwo, Jazz Moon
2016
Carellin Brooks, One Hundred Days of Rain
2015 Kim Fu, For
Today I Am a Boy
2014 Sara
Farizan, If You Could Be Mine
2013 Lysley
Tenorio, Monstress
2012 Lara
Fergus, My Sister Chaos
2011
Katharine Beutner, Alcestis
2010 Lori
Ostlund, The Bigness of the World
2009 Evan
Fallenberg, Light Fell
2008 Myriam
Gurba, Dahlia Season
2007 Martin
Hyatt, A Scarecrow's Bible
2006 Mack
Friedman, Setting the Lawn on Fire
The Publishing Triangle
Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature
Inaugurated in the spring of 2016, this award recognizes
outstanding work from the gender-nonconforming
community. Poetry, fiction (including for children), and
nonfiction by trans or gender-variant (T/GV) authors is
eligible. Nonfiction authored or co-authored by cis
authors that is primarily about the T/GV experience or
community is also eligible. The winner receives $1,000.
Past winners are:
2018 -- Reina
Gossett, Eric A. Stanley, and Johanna Burton, Eds., Trap
Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of
Visibility
2017 -- Vivek
Shraya, Even This Page is White
2016 --
Nathanael, The Middle Notebookes
The Publishing Triangle
Leadership Award
The Publishing Triangle is
proud to honor the best and brightest writers
working today. Other people, as well as
institutions, contribute to the health, vibrancy,
and prestige of LBGT literature. In that light,
the Publishing Triangle's Leadership Award puts
the spotlight on the contribution of editors,
literary agents, and others who have worked
tirelessly to see that great books reach avid
readers. The winner receives $500.
Past winners are:
2018
Malaga Baldi
2017
John Scognamiglio
2016
Christopher Street Magazine
2015
(no award)
2014
Sinister Wisdom magazine
2013
Ira Silverberg
2012
Frances Goldin
2011
Gay and Lesbian Review
2010
Michele Karlsberg
2009
Carole DeSanti
2008
Carol Seajay and Richard Labonte
2007
Nancy Bereano
2006
Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop
2005
Lesbian Herstory Archives
2004
Barbara Gittings
2003
Jed Mattes
2002
Michael Denneny
The FerroGrumley
Awards
The FerroGrumley Awards were
first awarded in 1990. They are made possible by
the estates of novelists and lovers Robert Ferro
(The Family of Max Desir) and Michael Grumley
(Life Studies) and are funded and administered by
the FerroGrumley Foundation, headed by Stephen
Greco.
The Publishing Triangle is
proud to have been associated with the
FerroGrumley Awards since 1994.
The purpose of these awards is
to honor culture-driving fiction from LGBT points
of view. Through 2008, two awards have been given
each year, in the categories of "women" and "men,"
to the authors of the most significant novels and
collections and short stories. Going forward, the
structure of the awards are being modified to
honor one book per year, irrespective of gender.
Each award listed is for a book
published in the preceding year in the United
States or Canada (i.e., the 2008 awards honored
books published in 2007). Ferro-Grumley Literary
Awards, Inc., and the Publishing Triangle have
collaborated in soliciting submissions for awards
and in hosting an awards ceremony since 1994.
Publishers and others may nominate candidates for
the award using a submission form posted on the
Publishing Triangle website each autumn, for an
entry fee of $40.00. Individual members of the
Publishing Triangle may nominate one book for
free. The finalists and the winners are determined
by a panel of judges appointed by the
Ferro-Grumley Foundation. Winners receive $1000.
Past winners are:
The
FerroGrumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction
2018
Alistair McCartney, The Disintegrations
2017
Cathleen Schine, They May Not Mean to,
But They Do
2016 Michael
Goldman, A Poet of the Invisible World
2015 Bernardine Evaristo, Mr. Loverman
2014
Sara Farizan, If You Could Be Mine
2013
Trebor Healey, A Horse Named Sorrow
2012 Paul
Russell, The Unreal Life of Sergei Nabakov
2011
Michael Sledge, The More I Owe You
2010
Sebastian Stuart, The Hour Between
2009
Alison Bechdel, The Essential Dykes to Watch
Out For
The
FerroGrumley Award for Lesbian Fiction
2008 Ali
Liebegott, The IHOP Papers
2007 Lisa
Carey, Every Visible Thing
2006
Patricia Grossman, Brian in Three Seasons
2005
Stacey D'Erasmo, A Seahorse Year
2004 Nina
Revoyr, Southland
2003
Carol Anshaw, Lucky in the Corner
2002 Emma
Donoghue, Slammerkin
2001
Sarah Waters, Affinity
2000 Judy
Doenges, What She Left Me
1999
Patricia Powell, The Pagoda
1998
Elana Dykewoman, Beyond the Pale
1997
Persimmon Blackbridge, Sunnybrook
1996
Sarah Schulman, Rat Bohemia
1995
Heather Lewis, House Rules
1994
Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
1993
Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina
1992
Blanche McCrary Boyd, The Revolution of Little
Girls
1991
Cherry Muhanji, Her
1990
Ruthann Robson, Eye of the Hurricane
The
FerroGrumley Award for Gay Fiction
2008
Peter Cameron, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful
to You
2007
Christopher Bram, Exiles in America
2006
Barry McCrea, The First Verse
2005 Adam
Berlin, Belmondo Style
2004
Trebor Healey, Through It Came Bright Colors
2003
Jamie O'Neill, At Swim Two Boys
2002
David Ebershoff, The Rose City
2001
Edmund White, The Married Man
2000 Paul
Russell, The Coming Storm
1999
Michael Cunningham, The Hours
1998 Colm
Toibin, The Story of the Night
1997
Andrew Holleran, The Beauty of Men
1996
Felice Picano, Like People in History
1995 Mark
Merlis, American Studies
1994 John
Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and
Evil [nonfiction]
1993
Randall Kenan, Let the Dead Bury Their Dead
1992
Melvin Dixon, Vanishing Rooms
1991
Allen Barnett, The Body and Its Dangers
1990
Dennis Cooper, Closer
The Publishing Triangle gave its
first award for an emerging writer
in the spring of 2017. This prize is
presented to an LGBTQ writer
who has shown exceptional talent and
the potential for continued literary
success and significance in the
future. Applicants must The
nominee must have published at
least one but no more than two
books, written
in the discipline of fiction,
nonfiction, or poetry. Works must
be in the English language. The
winner receives $1,500.
Past winners are:
2018 -- Sarah Perry
2017 -- Chinelo
Okparanta
The
Robert Chesley Award for Lesbian and
Gay Playwriting
The
Robert Chesley Award for Lesbian and Gay
Playwriting honors the memory of playwright
Robert Chesley. For many years, these awards
were presented at our awards ceremony.
The Chesley Foundation
has taken its awards program in another
direction, one that does not involve a
public presentation. For more information
about the foundation, and its awards, please
contact Victor Bumbalo.
Past winners are:
2007 Eric Bentley, Chris Weikel
2006 Kathleen Warnock, Megan Terry
2005 Michael Kearns, Jorge Ignacio
Cortiρas
2004 Rebecca Ranson, Jane Shepard
2003 H.M. Koutoukas, Rev. Alvin Carmines
Jr.
2002 Christopher Shinn, Shelia Callaghan
2001 Maria Irene Fornes
2000 Jeff Weiss
1999 Madeleine Olnek
1998 Chay Yew
1997 Paula Vogel
1996 Robert Patrick, Susan Miller
1995 Victor Lodato
1994 Lisa Kron, Doric Wilson
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