By Michele Karlsberg–
At a ceremony held in NYC earlier this year, the best LGBTQ fiction, nonfiction, poetry and trans literature published in 2018 were honored by the Publishing Triangle.
The Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction went to Drapetomania by John R. Gordon (Team Angelica).
Finalists
Eden, by Andrea Kleine (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
The Evolution of Love, by Lucy Jane Bledsoe (Rare Bird)
A Ladder to the Sky, by John Boyne (Hogarth/Crown)
Tin Man, by Sarah Winman (Putnam)
The Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction was presented to The House of Impossible Beauties, by Joseph Cassara (Ecco/HarperCollins).
Finalists
Freshwater, by Akwaeke Emezi (Grove Press)
Heartland, by Ana Simo (Restless Books)
That Was Something, by Dan Callahan (Squares and Rebels)
The Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry went to Rest, by Margaree Little (Four Way Books).
Finalists
Autobiography of a Wound, by Brynne Rebele-Henry (University of Pittsburgh Press)
High Ground Coward, by Alicia Mountain (University of Iowa Press)
Mosaic of the Dark, by Lisa Dordal (Black Lawrence Press)
The Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry was given to Not Here, by Hieu Minh Nguyen (Coffee House Press).
Finalists
Cenzontle, by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo (BOA Editions)
Forgive the Body This Failure, by Blas Falconer (Four Way Books)
Luminous Debris: New and Selected Legerdemain, 1992–2017, by Timothy Liu (Barrow Street Press)
The Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature was presented to Some Animal, by Ely Shipley (Nightboat Books).
Finalists
Confessions of the Fox, by Jordy Rosenberg (One World/Random House)
Holy Wild, by Gwen Benaway (Bookthug Press)
The Soul of the Stranger, by Joy Ladin (Brandeis University Press)
The Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction went to Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry, by Imani Perry (Beacon Press).
Finalists
Black, Queer, Southern, Women: An Oral History, by E. Patrick Johnson (University of North Carolina Press)
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (Arsenal Pulp Press)
The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon, by Jaime Harker (University of North Carolina Press)
The Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction was given to How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, by Alexander Chee (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).
Finalists
Harvey Milk, by Lillian Faderman (Yale University Press)
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, by Jeffrey C. Stewart (Yale University Press)
Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation, by Robert W. Fieseler (Liveright/W. W. Norton)
Jaime Manrique is the 2019 recipient of the Publishing Triangle’s Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement, named in honor of the legendary editor of the 1970s and 1980s.
Julian Randall won the Publishing Triangle’s Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award. This award goes to an LGBTQ writer who has published at least one book but not more than two.
The Leadership Award, which I am very happy to sponsor, went to Paul Willis. This special award recognizes contributions to LGBTQ literature by those who are not primarily writers, such as editors, agents, librarians and institutions.
Michele Karlsberg Marketing and Management specializes in publicity for the LGBTQI community. This year, Karlsberg celebrates 31 years of successful book campaigns.
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