Awards Submissions Closed
The deadline
for entering books in the Publishing Triangle's
annual awards program, covering books published in
2011, has passed.
If you have questions about your submission, please
write to
publishingtriangle@gmail.com, using Awards as
the subject; alternatively, write to awards chair
Trent Duffy at tcd31@netzero.com.
We'll announce the nominees for our awards on this
web site on or about March 7, 2012. The awards
ceremony will take place on April 19, 2012, at the
New School's Tischman Auditorium.
For past winners, go to our awards page.
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Winners Announced for Best LGBT
Fiction, Poetry, and Non-Fiction
Special Award to Anthology Gender Outlaws
We're proud
to present the winners for the best LGBT books of
2010. The winners were announced at the 23rd annual
Triangle Awards, April 28, 2011, at the New School.
Also listed below were the finalists for each
category.
The Judy Grahn Award
for Lesbian Nonfiction
- WINNER!
Barbara
Hammer, Hammer! (Feminist Press)
Finalists
- Terry Castle, The
Professor and Other Writings
(HarperCollins)
- Emma Donoghue, Inseparable:
Desire Between Women in Literature (Alfred
A. Knopf)
The Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction
- WINNER!
Justin
Spring, Secret Historian: The Life and Times of
Samuel Steward (Farrar Straus Giroux)
Finalists
- R. Tripp Evans, Grant
Wood (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Wendy Moffat, A
Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M.
Forster (Farrar Straus Giroux)
The judges for these
nonfiction awards have also voted to bestow a Judges’ Special Award in
Nonfiction to
Gender Outlaws: The
Next Generation, edited by
Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman (Seal Press). Carol
Rosenfeld, chair of the Publishing Triangle said, “The
Triangle is recognizing this anthology, which celebrates
gender nonconforming people in all their beauty,
humanity, and complexity, with a special prize. The
contributors to this book confront gender issues with
such vibrant, mind-expanding style that readers are
urged to question the status quo of seeing gender in
binary ways.”
The Audre Lorde Award
for Lesbian Poetry
- WINNER!
Jen
Currin, The Inquisition Yours
(Coach House Books)
Finalists
- Elizabeth J. Colen, Money
for Sunsets (Steel Toe Books)
- Eleanor Lerman, The
Sensual World Re-emerges (Sarabande Books)
The Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry
- WINNER!
Michael Walsh, The Dirt Riddles
(University of Arkansas Press)
Finalists
- Paul Legault, The
Madeleine Poems (Omnidawn)
- Eric Leigh, Harm’s
Way (University of Arkansas Press)
The Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction
- WINNER!
Katharine
Beutner, Alcestis (Soho Press)
Finalists
- Michael Alenyikov, Ivan
and Misha (Triquarterly/Northwestern
University Press)
- Catherine Kirkwood, Cut
Away (Arktoi Books)
The Ferro-Grumley Awards for LGBT Fiction
(presented in conjunction with Ferro-Grumley Literary
Awards)
- WINNER!
Michael
Sledge,
The
More I Owe You (Counterpoint Press)
Finalists
- Daniel Black, Perfect
Peace (St. Martin’s Press)
- Lucy Jane Bledsoe, Big
Bang Symphony (University of Wisconsin
Press)
- Daniel Allen Cox, Krakow
Melt (Arsenal Pulp Press)
- David McConnell, The
Silver Hearted (Alyson)
- Eileen Myles, Inferno
(OR Books)
Alan
Hollinghurst Receives
Bill Whitehead Award
Alan
Hollinghurst is the 2011 recipient of the Publishing
Triangle’s Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime
Achievement, named in honor of the legendary editor of
the 1970s and 1980s.
 Hollinghurst, a novelist, scholar, and
activist, won the Man Booker prize for his fourth
novel, The Line of Beauty, in 2004. A
professor at University College in London, he is a
published poet and has translated Racine’s Bazajet.
He has also edited several books, including a volume
of poems by A. E. Housman and Three
Novels by Ronald Firbank. Since his dazzling
debut, The
Swimming Pool Library, in 1988, Hollinghurst
has been regarded as one of the best novelists writing
in English in our time. His other books are The
Folding Star, winner of the James Tait Black
Memorial Prize for fiction (1994), and The Spell (1998).
His new novel, The Stranger’s Child,
will be published in October 2011 by Alfred A. Knopf.
In thanking the Triangle for this honor, Hollinghurst
stated, "I won't pretend that I feel ready for such an
award, or had ever anticipated one. But I accept it
eagerly, and in the generous spirit in which it is
given--not (I think) as a discreet suggestion that
I've done enough, but as an encouragement to carry
on."
Mr. Hollinghurst received his award at the annual
Triangle Awards, honoring the best in LBGT fiction,
nonfiction, and poetry; the ceremony was held on
Thursday, April 28, 2011, at the New School in
Greenwich Village, New York. The Bill Whitehead Award
is given to a man in odd-numbered years and to a woman
in even years, and the winner receives $3,000.
(Photo:
Robert Taylor from The Stranger's
Child by Alan Hollinghurst)
Gay and Lesbian
Review
to Receive Leadership Award
The
Gay & Lesbian Review/Worldwide has been
selected as the winner of this year’s Publishing
Triangle 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 (as in this case)
institutions. The award was presented at the Triangle
Awards ceremony on April 28, 2011.
For 17 years The
Gay & Lesbian Review has provided a
forum for enlightened discussion of issues and ideas
of importance to lesbians and gay men. Founded as The
Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review in 1994,
this journal for the literate non-specialist
consistently offers the best writing and thinking our
culture has to offer. With its thematically organized
issues and high production values, the magazine
provides its LGBT readers with a lively tour through
the world of letters six times a year. The
Gay & Lesbian Review is a major force in
current gay and lesbian intellectual life.
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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
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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.
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