May 6, 2025
The winners of the 37th annual Publishing Triangle Awards, which honor the year’s best LGBTQ literature published in 2024, were announced at a celebration held at the New School in New York City on April 17.
Charlie J. Stevens, Oregon author and owner of PNBA member store Sea Wolf Books & Community Writing Center, in Port Orford, Oregon, won The Leslie Feinberg Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature for A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest (Torrey House Press).
- The Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ+ Fiction, administered in conjunction with the Ferro-Grumley Foundation, was awarded to Cinema Love, by Jiaming Tang (Dutton).
- The Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction was also awarded to Tang’s Cinema Love.
- The Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction was awarded to Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde, by Alexis Pauline Gumbs (FSG).
- The Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction was awarded to The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham, by Lucy Hughes-Hallet (HarperCollins).
- The Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry was awarded to Your Dazzling Death, by Cass Donish (Knopf).
- The Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry was awarded to Rara Avis, by Blas Falconer (Four Way Books).
- The Leslie Feinberg Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature was awarded to A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest, by Charlie J. Stephens (Torrey House Press).
- The Joseph Hansen Award for LGBTQ+ Crime Writing was awarded to Blessed Water, by Margot Douaihy (Zando/Gillian Flynn Books).
- The Jacqueline Woodson Award for LGBTQ+ Young Adult and Children’s Literature was awarded to Canto Contigo, by Jonny Garza Villa (Wednesday Books).
- The Amber Hollibaugh Award for LGBTQ+ Social Justice Writing was awarded to How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability and Doom, by Johanna Hedva (Zando/Hillman Grad Books).
CONGRATULATIONS, Charlie! We’re big fans.
