Winners were announced last night for the 2024 Publishing Triangle Awards, honoring the best LGBTQ+ books published in 2023. The winners:
The Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ+ Fiction, administered in conjunction with the Ferro-Grumley Foundation: Pomegranate by Helen Elaine Lee (Atria Books)
The Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction: And Then He Sang a Lullaby by Ani Kayode Somtochukwu (Grove Atlantic)
The Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction: Suffering Sappho!: Lesbian Camp in American Popular Culture by Barbara Jane Brickman (Rutgers University Press)
The Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction: Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin by Joseph Plaster (Duke University Press)
The Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry: Have You Been Long Enough at Table by Leslie Sainz (Tin House)
The Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry: Trace Evidence by Charif Shanahan (Tin House)
The Leslie Feinberg Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature: Girlfriends by Emily Zhou (LittlePuss Press)
The Joseph Hansen Award for LGBTQ+ Crime Writing: Transitory by J.M. Redmann (Bold Strokes Books)
The Jacqueline Woodson Award for LGBTQ+ Young Adult and Children's Literature: Salma Writes a Book by Danny Ramadan (Annick Press)
Previously announced honorees in special award categories were also honored and included:
Kris Kleindienst, owner of Left Bank Books in St. Louis, Mo., who was given the Michele Karlsberg Leadership Award, which honors "contributions to LGBTQ literature by those who are not primarily writers, such as editors, agents, booksellers, and institutions, and is funded with the support of Michele Karlsberg, head of the eponymous marketing and publicity firm with an emphasis on members of the LGBTQ+ writing community."
Emily Drabinski, president of the American Library Association, who was presented with the 2024 Publishing Triangle Torchbearer Award, given to "organizations or individuals who strive to awaken, encourage, and support a love of reading, or to stimulate an interest in and an appreciation of LGBTQ literature."
Dorothy Allison, recipient of the Publishing Triangle's Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Hilary Zaid, winner of the Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award and the author of Forget I Told You This: A Novel (Zero Street Books, 2023) and Paper Is White (Bywater Books, 2018).
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The Donner Canadian Foundation has released a shortlist for the Donner Prize, recognizing "the best public policy book by a Canadian." The winner, who will be announced May 8 at a gala dinner in Toronto, receives C$60,000 (about US$43,405), with each of the finalists getting C$7,500 (about US$5,425). This year's shortlisted titles are:
The Legal Singularity: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Law Radically Better by Abdi Aidid and Benjamin Alarie
Pandemic Panic: How Canadian Government Responses to COVID-19 Changed Civil Liberties Forever by Joanna Baron and Christine Van Geyn
Who Owns Outer Space? International Law, Astrophysics, and the Sustainable Development of Space by Michael Byers and Aaron Boley
The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy by Ignacio Cofone
Wrongfully Convicted: Guilty Pleas, Imagined Crimes, and What Canada Must Do to Safeguard Justice by Kent Roach