On Monday, May 9, and Tuesday, May 10, the Publishing Triangle will hold our eighth Finalists’ Reading, featuring some of the nominees for the Publishing Triangle awards. This sterling batch of LGBTQ authors will read excerpts from their books, which represent the best in LGBTQ writing published in 2021, on the nights before our awards are announced.

Both readings will begin at 7 p.m. EDT and be broadcast on Zoom by the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, the New York City bookseller. This event is free and open to the public; pre-registration is required. Zoom links will be sent to you before the readings.

Sixteen authors are currently scheduled to personally appear, representing all seven competitive judging categories: eight novelists, five nonfiction writers, and three poets. They are:

Monday, May 9

  • Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out (Little, Brown)—finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction
  • Alison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength (Mariner)—finalist for the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction
  • Eddy Boudel Tan, The Rebellious Tide (Dundurn Press)—finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction
  • Melissa Broder, Milk Fed (Scribner)—finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction
  • Claire Cox, Silver Beach (University of Massachusetts Press)—finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction
  • Robert Jones, Jr., The Prophets (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)—finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction
  • Zoe Playdon, The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes (Scribner)—finalist for the Publishing Triangle Award for Trans & Gender-Variant Literature
  • Phillip B. Williams, Mutiny (Penguin Books)—finalist for the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry

Tuesday, May 10

  • Nawaaz Ahmed, Radiant Fugitives (Counterpoint Press)—finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction
  • Callum Angus, A Natural History of Transition (Metonymy Press)—finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction
  • C. Winter Han, Racial Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of Desire (University of Washington Press)—finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction
  • Rajiv Mohabir, Antiman: A Memoir (Restless Books)—finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction
  • Minnie Bruce Pratt, Magnified (Wesleyan University Press)—finalist for the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry
  • Anthony Veasna So; Afterparties (Ecco)—Alex Torres will be reading from this book of short stories on the behalf of Mr. So, who died in December 2020; the book is a finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction
  • Rosie Stockton, Permanent Volta (Nightboat Books)—finalist for the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry
  • Jeanne Thornton, Summer Fun (Soho Press)—finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction

Please join us to hear this group of LGBT writers read from their nominated works.