Triangle Awards Presented to LGBT Authors

The book awards season is in full swing, and the annual ceremonies for both the Nebula Awards honoring the best in science fiction and fantasy and the Triangle Awards for top gay and lesbian writing recently were held.

Triangle Awards

The Publishing Triangle also presented its annual prizes for the best in gay and lesbian writing. This year’s crop of winners are:

Thom Gunn Poetry Award for Gay Poetry: Steve Fellner, Blind Date with Cavafy (Marsh Hawk); and Daniel Hall, Under Sleep (Univ. of Chicago)
The Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry: Joan Larkin, My Body (Hanging Loose)
The Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction: Janet Malcolm, Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice (Yale Univ.)
The Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction: Michael Rowe, Other Men's Sons (Cormorant Books)
The Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction: Myriam Gurba, author of Dahlia Season (Manic D Pr.)
The Ferro-Grumley Awards for LGBT Fiction: Peter Cameron, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (Frances Foster Books/FSG); and Ali Leibegott, The IHOP Papers (Carroll & Graf)
The Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement: Katherine V. Forrest

Nebula and Triangle Awards Presented
Library Journal, NY