The Publishing Triangle is proud to announce the winners of the 32nd annual Triangle Awards, honoring the best LGBTQ fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and trans literature published in 2019.

"My appreciation for getting this award has only gotten deeper since it was announced last month. The world has changed since getting this good news...." — Myles on winning the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement.

"To me, this award is a promise and a commitment. To remember the queer elders who’ve looked after me through language, and to try to pay it forward." — Oliver Baez Bendorf on winning the Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award.

In honoring In Her Words, the Publishing Triangle salutes the immediacy of this film, which portrays the history of twentieth-century lesbian fiction from the perspective of those who created it; In Her Words ensures that the legacies of these literary pioneers will continue to be available to inform and inspire future generations.

Téa Mutonji's Shut Up You’re Pretty is a finalist for the Publishing Triangle’s Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction.

Bryan Washington's Lot is a finalist for the Publishing Triangle’s Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction.

De’Shawn Charles Winslow's In West Mills is a finalist for the Publishing Triangle’s Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction.

Kimberly King Parsons's Black Light is a finalist for the Publishing Triangle’s Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction.