The Publishing Triangle announced the winners of its awards, given annually to outstanding works of LGBTQ+ literature.
Jiaming Tang’s Cinema Love won two prizes: the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ+ Fiction and the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction. In a starred review, a critic for Kirkus called the novel, which was previously a finalist for the Carnegie Medal, “a haunting story of shared pasts and troubled memories.”
Alexis Pauline Gumbs won the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction for the biography Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde. The Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction went to Lucy Hughes-Hallet for The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham.
Charlie J. Stephens took home the Leslie Feinberg Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature for A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest, while Margot Douaihy won the Joseph Hansen Award for LGBTQ+ Crime Writing for Blessed Water.
The Jacqueline Woodson Award for LGBTQ+ Young Adult and Children’s Literature went to Jonny Garza Villa for Canto Contigo, and the Amber Hollibaugh Award for LGBTQ+ Social Justice Writing was given to Johanna Hedva for How To Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability and Doom.
Cass Donish took home the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry for Your Dazzling Death, and Blas Falconer won the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry for Rara Avis.
The Bill Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Rabih Alameddine, whose novels include Koolaids, An Unnecessary Woman, and The Wrong End of the Telescope.
The Publishing Triangle Awards were established in 1989. Previous winners include Ocean Vuong for On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Jenn Shapland for My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, and Alexander Chee for How To Write an Autobiographical Novel.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
