The Publishing Triangle Awards have revealed the shortlists for its prizes, given annually to outstanding LGBTQ+ books, and announced that Rabih Alameddine will receive its Bill Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award.
Alameddine’s novels include Koolaids, An Unnecessary Woman, and The Angel of History. He won the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his novel The Wrong End of the Telescope. Julie Enszer, a member of the judging panel for the award, praised Alameddine’s “powerful imagination on the page and his attention to every single word and sentence.”
The finalists for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction are Cinema Love by Jiaming Tang, Curiosities by Anne Fleming, Hart Island by Gary Zebrun, Indian Winter by Kazim Ali, and There is a Rio Grande in Heaven by Ruben Reyes Jr.
Making the shortlist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction were Tang for Cinema Love, Elliott Gish for Grey Dog, Muriel Leung for How To Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster, and Asha Thanki for A Thousand Times Before.
Shortlisted for the Jacqueline Woodson Award for LGBTQ+ Young Adult and Children’s Literature are Jonny Garza Villa for Canto Contigo, Li Charmaine Anne for Crash Landing, NoNieqa Ramos for They Thought They Buried Us, and author Leslie Jay and illustrator Loveis Wise for What I Must Tell the World: How Lorraine Hansberry Found Her Voice.
The Publishing Triangle Awards were established in 1989. Previous winners include Michael Cunningham for The Hours, Ocean Vuong for On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, and Jenn Shapland for My Autobiography of Carson McCullers.
The winners of this year’s award will be announced at a ceremony in New York on April 17. A full list of finalists is available at the Publishing Triangle website.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
