The Publishing Triangle has announced the winners of the 2022 Triangle Awards, honoring the best LGBTQ fiction, nonfiction, poetry and trans literature published in 2021. This year's winners are:
The Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction, presented with the Ferro-Grumley Literary Awards: Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So (Ecco)
The Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction: The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr. (Putnam).
The Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry: Punks: New and Selected Poems by John Keene (The Song Cave).
The Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry: Mama Phife Represents by Cheryl Boyce Taylor (Haymarket Books).
The Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature: A Symmetry by Ari Banias (Norton).
The Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction: Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought, edited by Briona Simone Jones (The New Press).
The Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction: Punch Me Up to the Gods by Brian Broome (Mariner).
The Publishing Triangle's four honorary awards:
Sarah Schulman's Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) is the recipient of a special award for Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction.
Cherríe Moraga was given the Publishing Triangle's Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement.
John Paul Brammer is the winner of the Publishing Triangle's Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award, which honors an LGBTQ writer who has published at least one book but not more than two.
Trent Duffy is the winner of the Michele Karlsberg Leadership Award (formerly the Publishing Triangle Leadership Award).