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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.


Important Email Address Change

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If you were RSVPing for our holiday party (more information below), please use this new address and put PARTY in the subject line. If you have had bounced emails while submitting books for consideration for the Publishing Triangle Awards, please also use this new email address, and put AWARDS in the subject header.
 
We apologize for any inconvenience this might have caused. You can also use this new email address for other questions, event submissions, or members' new book announcements.


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.

HollinghurstHollinghurst, 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 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.

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.

For information on lesbian and gay publishing events, visit our Events Calendar page.

Thursday, April 19, 2012: Our annual Publishing Triangle Awards ceremony at the Tishman Auditorium of the New School for Social Research (66 West 12th Street in New York City); more details to come as the event nears.

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