The Publishing Triangle has announced the winners of the 2026 Triangle Awards, honoring the best LGBTQ+ books published in 2025. This year's winners are:
The Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ+ Fiction, administered in conjunction with the Ferro-Grumley Foundation: Drought by Scott Alexander Hess (Rebel Satori Press)
The Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction: Lonely Crowds: A Novel by Stephanie Wambugu (Little, Brown)
The Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction: Beyond the Lesbian Vampire: Reclaiming the Violent Lesbian in Contemporary Queer Horror by Sam Tabet (University of Wales Press)
The Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction: Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
The Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry: The Boy Kingdom / El reino de los varones: Poems by Achy Obejas (Beacon Press)
The Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry: I Do Know Some Things by Richard Siken (Copper Canyon Press)
The Leslie Feinberg Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature: Local Woman by Jzi Jmz (Nightboat Books)
The Joseph Hansen Award for LGBTQ+ Crime Writing: Mirage City by Lev AC Rosen (Minotaur Books)
The Jacqueline Woodson Award for LGBTQ+ Young Adult and Children's Literature: We Can Never Leave by H.E. Edgmon (Wednesday Books)
The Amber Hollibaugh Award for LGBTQ+ Social Justice Writing: What Is Queer Food?: How We Served a Revolution by John Birdsall (W.W. Norton)
A special Publishing Triangle Community Legacy Recognition award was also presented to Greg Newton and Donnie Jochum, owners of Manhattan's last remaining queer bookstore, Bureau of General Services--Queer Division, for more than a decade. Newton and Jochum are relocating to the West Coast. The Bureau of General Services--Queer Division was the recipient of the Publishing Triangle's 2023 Michele Karlsberg Leadership Award. [Editor's note: Hive Mind Books, Brooklyn, N.Y., has raised more than $50,000 via a GoFundMe campaign and is buying the bookstore and preventing its closure.]
The Publishing Triangle's four honorary awards, which were announced in March:
Chrystos was given the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement.
The Other Side of Silence (TOSOS) was presented with the Torchbearer Award.
Amy Scholder was given the Michele Karlsberg Leadership Award.
Mariah Rigg won the Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award.