The finalists of the 27th annual Publishing Triangle Awards have been revealed.
According to the press release, the winners will be announced on April 23rd. An awards ceremony will take place at New School University in New York City.
Editor Rigoberto González has been named the winner of this year’s Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. For the full list of finalists, follow the jump below.
Finalists for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction
- Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity by Robert Beachy (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Hold Tight Gently by Martin Duberman (The New Press)
- The Prince of Los Cocuyos by Richard Blanco (Ecco/HarperCollins)
- Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe by Philip Gefter (Liveright/W.W. Norton)
Finalists for the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction
- Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: 40 Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith, written by Barbara Smith; edited by Alethia Jones and Virginia Eubanks (SUNY Press)
- A Cup of Water Under My Bed by Daisy Hernandez (Beacon Press)
- Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger by Kelly Cogswell (University of Minnesota Press)
- The End of Eve by Ariel Gore (Hawthorne Books)
Finalists for the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry
- How a Mirage Works by Beverly Burch (Sixteen Rivers Press)
- Last Psalm at Sea Level by Meg Day (Barrow Street Press)
- Like a Beggar by Ellen Bass (Copper Canyon Press)
- Tiger Heron by Robin Becker (University of Pittsburgh Press)
Finalists for the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry
- I Don’t Know Do You by Roberto Montes (Ampersand Books)
- The New Testament by Jericho Brown (Copper Canyon Press)
- Prelude to Bruise by Saeed Jones (Coffee House Press)
- The Selected Poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Bilingual Edition edited and translated by Stephen Sartarelli (University of Chicago Press)
Finalists for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction
- For Today I Am a Boy by Kim Fu (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- Little Reef and Other Stories by Michael Carroll (University of Wisconsin Press)
- New York 1, Tel Aviv 0 by Shelly Oria (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- Unaccompanied Minors by Alden Jones (New American Press)
Finalists for The Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction
- All I Love and Know by Judith Frank (William Morrow/HarperCollins)
- I Loved You More by Tom Spanbauer (Hawthorne Books)
- Mr. Loverman by Bernardine Evaristo (Akashic Books)
- Sideways Down the Sky by Barry Brennessel (MLR Press)
- When Everything Feels Like the Movies by Raziel Reid (Arsenal Pulp Press)