Daily News Item 2026-04-20 10:58

The winners of the 38th annual Publishing Triangle Awards were recently announced. The following ten titles were selected “as the very best in LGBTQ+ literature published in 2025.” Drought by Scott Alexander Hess (Rebel Satori Press) won the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ+ Fiction; Lonely Crowds by Stephanie Wambugu (Little, Brown) won the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction; Beyond the Lesbian Vampire: Reclaiming the Violent Lesbian in Contemporary Queer Horror by Sam Tabet (University of Wales Press) won the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction; Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) won the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction; The Boy Kingdom / El reino de los varones by Achy Obejas (Beacon Press) won the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry; I Do Know Some Things by Richard Siken (Copper Canyon Press) won the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry; Local Woman by Jzl Jmz (Nightboat Books) won the Leslie Feinberg Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature; Mirage City by Lev AC Rosen (Minotaur Books) won the Joseph Hansen Award for LGBTQ+ Crime Writing; We Can Never Leave by H. E. Edgmon (Wednesday Books) won the Jacqueline Woodson Award for LGBTQ+ Young Adult and Children’s Literature; and What Is Queer Food?: How We Served a Revolution by John Birdsall (Norton) won the Amber Hollibaugh Award for LGBTQ+ Social Justice Writing. Each winner will receive $1,000.