Publishing Triangle Awards
The Publishing Triangle is proud to announce the winners of its 2008 Publishing Triangle Awards, announced Aril 28 at a ceremony in New York. For a complete list, click here.

Seajay and Labonte to Receive Leadership Award
Carol Seajay and Richard Labonte were honored with the Publishing Triangle's Leadership Award. This award is given annually to someone who is not a writer in recognition of their contributions to LGBT literature.

Seajay and Labonte were honored both their individual contributions over the years and for their work publishing the e-newsletter "Books to Watch Out For." Begun in 2003, "Books to Watch Out For" features short reviews and announcements of the best new lesbian and gay books, as well as relevant news and "good gossip" from the bookselling, publishing, and writing communities.

From 1976 to 2000, Carol Seajay published The Feminist Bookstore News, a trade magazine for the lesbian, feminist, and gay book trade serving booksellers, publishers, libraries, and review publications. She co-founded Old Wives Tales Bookstore in San Francisco in 1976 and also worked at ICI–A Woman's Place Bookstore, one of the first feminist bookstores in the United States, during its early years.

Richard Labonte has been reading, editing, selling, and writing about queer literature since the mid-1970s. He worked with A Different Light Bookstore for twenty years and was a columnist for The Feminist Bookstore News for eight years. He has been the editor of the Best Gay Erotica series since 1997. In addition to his work for "Books to Watch Out For," Richard writes a book-review column, "Book Marks," for Q Syndicate.

Katherine Forrest Wins Bill Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award
The board of directors of the Publishing Triangle presented its 20th annual Bill Whitehead Award to the novelist and editor Katherine V. Forrest on April 28, 2008.

Forrest has written fifteen works of fiction, including her eight-volume Kate Delafield mystery series &mdash the latest, Hancock Park (2004) won the Lambda Literary Award for Best Mystery, as did two of the earlier volumes in the series. In 2005, she won the Lambda for Science Fiction/Fantasy for Daughters of an Emerald Dusk. Forrest has worked for more two decades as a publisher as well &mdash she was senior editor at Naiad Press for ten years and is currently supervising editor at Spinsters Ink &mdash working with Jane Rule, Isabel Miller, and other notable lesbian and gay authors. She has also edited or co-edited numerous anthologies, including the recent Love, Castro Street.

The award, which carries a prize of $3000, is named in honor of Bill Whitehead, a legendary editor of the 1970s and 1980s. The Bill Whitehead Award is given to a woman in even-numbered years and a man in odd years. Last year's winner was Andrew Holleran.

For a complete list of past winners in each category, click here.

The Publishing Triangle Literary Awards Fund
Speaking of the Triangle awards, we are on the way toward our goal of raising $25,000 to fund our annual literary awards in nonfiction and poetry. Since the fund-raising drive was announced at the May 2004 awards ceremony, more than fifty donors have responded with generous gifts totaling more than $17,000.

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.

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.