Awards Submissions for Books
Published in 2010

In the second half of September 2010, the Publishing Triangle will issue its call for submissions concerning the next awards cycle, covering books published in the United States or Canada in 2010. The deadline for submissions will be Friday December 3, 2010.

Guidelines and a downloadable submission form will be posted on this Web site no later than October 1, 2010. If we have your e-mail address on file, we will send you an e-blast when the guidelines and submission form are available. We also send out hard copies to those who request one; to be added to our mailing list, please send full address to awards@publishingtriangle.org. That’s also the e-mail for any other questions (although we hope that questions can wait until September—there’s plenty of time, folks!).

Free T-Shirt with Membership

We have a limited supply of Publishing Triangle T-shirts, which were made for a BEA party in 2006. These well-made white Hanes-brand tees feature the Publishing Triangle logo silkscreened on the left-hand side of the chest.

While supplies last, we will send one—for free—to anyone who begins a new membership or renews a current one. Tees are available only in large and extra-large sizes.

If you want one with your new or renewed membership, enclose this downloadable form with the membership form and your renewal check. Click here to read more about membership options.

T-shirts are 100% cotton, machine-washable. Again, they’re available in large and extra-large only. Quantities are strictly limited—first come, first served.

Winners Announced for Best LGBT Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction

We're proud to present the winners for the best LGBT books of 2009. The winners were announced at the 22nd annual Triangle Awards, April 29, 2010, at the New School.



(from l to r): Presenter Laura Flanders; Leadership Award winner Michele Karlsberg; Bill Whitehead Award winner Blanche Wiesen Cook; presenter Kate Clinton; PT's Trent Duffy; Ronaldo V. Wilson, Thom Gunn Gay Poetry Award winner; Sebastian Stuart, Ferro-Grumley LGBT Fiction Award winner; and PT's Carol Rosenfeld.

Click here to see a complete list of nominees and awrad winners.

To read the article about the Awards in Gay City News, click here.

Relive the 2010 Awards, or get caught up. Join us on Facebook and take a look at our photos from this year's festivities, at http://bit.ly/PT2010Awards.

Also, start following up on Twitter at http://twitter.com/pubtri.

Support the Publishing Triangle
Literary Awards Fund

A very necessary component of our awards program is the specially dedicated fund that provides prizes for the winners of the Randy Shilts and Judy Grahn Nonfiction Awards, the Audre Lorde and Thom Gunn Poetry Awards, and the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction. Poetry winners receive $500; for nonfiction and debut fiction, the prize is $1000. This fund is supported by member dues, proceeds of events like our annual holiday party, and through the generosity of passionate readers and supporters of LGBT literature 

For information on how you can make a fully tax-deductible contribution and a list of generous friends who helped endow this fund, please click here.

Blanche Wiesen Cook
Receives Whitehead Award

Blanche Wiesen Cook received the Publishing Triangle’s Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement, on April 29 at the 22nd Annual Publishing Triangle Awards. The award is named in honor of the legendary editor of the 1970s and 1980s.
 
Cook, a historian, activist, and scholar, has received near universal acclaim for her multibook biography of Eleanor Roosevelt. Volume 1, 1884-1933, published in 1992, won the Lambda Literary Award and Los Angeles Times Book Award. The second volume, The Defining Years, 1933-1938, appeared in 1999 and the final book is forthcoming. She is Distinguished Professor of History and Women’s Studies at the John Jay College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

The editor of Crystal Eastman on Women & Revolution, Cook has also edited and contributed to many anthologies and written on LGBT issues throughout her career. For more than twenty years, she produced and hosted her own program for Radio Pacifica, “Women and the World in the 1980s” (originally called “Activists and Agitators”). She was a founder and co-chair of the Freedom of Information and Access Committee of the Organization of American Historians, which was actively committed to maintaining the integrity of the Freedom of Information Act.

The Bill Whitehead Award is given to a woman in even-numbered years and a man in odd years, and the winner receives $3000.

Leadership Award Goes to
Michele Karlsberg

Veteran book publicist Michele Karlsberg is the winner of the Publishing Triangle’s Leadership Award. Created in 2002, this award recognizes contributions to lesbian and gay literature by those who are not primarily writers—editors, agents, librarians, and others.

She was honored at the 22nd Annual Publishing Triangle Annual Awards held April 29 in New York at the Tisch Auditorium at the New School.

As a book publicist, Karlsberg, has been an enthusiastic advocate of LGBT literature for two decades. Among the authors she has worked for are Kate Clinton, Bob Morris, Jewelle Gomez, Felice Picano, Ellen Hart, and Shawn Stewart Ruff, as well as the two most recent winners of the Publishing Triangle’s Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement, Katherine V. Forrest and Martin Duberman.

As curator of Outspoken, a nationwide gay and lesbian literary series, she helps new and established voices reach a wider audience. Karlsberg also has produced the first Olivia Book Expo on the Holland Americas line, and is the co-editor of the anthologies To Be Continued and To Be Continued Take Two.

Our LGBT Reading List
Do you love LGBT literature and want to know what to read next? Well, then you've landed on the right web page. The Publishing Triangle asked two distinguished panels of judges to come up with The 100 Best Lesbian and Gay Novels and The 100 Best Lesbian and Gay Nonfiction Books of all time.

We also asked fourteen lesbian book reviewers, booksellers, librarians, and/or authors to name the Most Notable Lesbian Books of 2004.

Also be sure to check out new publications by Publishing Triangle members and books that won 2004 Publishing Triangle Awards.

Volunteer Now! Ask Us How!
The Publishing Triangle is a not-for-profit organization that relies on its members and friends to volunteer their services. We could use help with event planning, fund raising, the web site, and coordinating many other activities. If you would like to volunteer, send an e-mail to Volunteer Coordinator with "Publishing Triangle" in the subject line.