OUTspoken Reading Series: Publishing Triangle Award Winners

Join us for a special edition of The Publishing Triangle’s OUTspoken Reading Series featuring winners of the 38th Annual Publishing Triangle Awards.

Saturday, June 13, 2026
4:00 PM
Bureau of General Services–Queer Division
The LGBT Community Center
208 West 13th Street, Room 210
New York, NY

This special event brings together award-winning LGBTQ+ authors recognized at the 38th Annual Publishing Triangle Awards for an afternoon of readings and conversation.

Featured readers include:

Scott Alexander Hess
Winner of the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ+ Fiction for Drought

Achy Obejas (joining virtually)
Winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry for The Boy Kingdom / El reino de los varones

Lev AC Rosen
Winner of the Joseph Hansen Award for LGBTQ+ Crime Writing for Mirage City

John Birdsall (joining virtually)
Winner of the Amber Hollibaugh Award for LGBTQ+ Social Justice Writing for What Is Queer Food?: How We Served a Revolution

Sam Tabet
Winner of the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction for Beyond the Lesbian Vampire: Reclaiming the Violent Lesbian in Contemporary Queer Horror

The event will be hosted by Publishing Triangle Board Member Jim Berg.

Admission is free, but advance registration is encouraged.

We hope you’ll join us for an afternoon celebrating award-winning LGBTQ+ literature and the writers whose work is shaping our communities and culture.