We’re waving our rainbow flag in support of our 2017 Publishing Triangle Awards finalists, honoring the best LGBTQ fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as the year’s best trans and gender-variant literature:
Finalists for the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction
ABANDON ME by Melissa Febos
Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry
SOME SAY: Poems by Maureen N. McLane
Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry
DON’T CALL US DEAD by Danez Smith
HALF-LIGHT: Collected Poems, 1965-2016 by Frank Bidart
Finalists for the Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature
DON’T CALL US DEAD by Danez Smith
Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction
HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES by Carmen Maria Machado
Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction
HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES by Carmen Maria Machado
Winners will be announced April 25 at a ceremony in New York City.