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Join Us for a Special Event:
SPRING FLING

The Publishing Triangle invites you to indulge in a SPRING FLING, celebrating 25 Years of Michele Karlsberg Marketing & Management. mk25yrs
This special event will take place at Poets House, 10 River Terrace in Battery Park City, 10 River Terrace, New York, NY, 10282-1240 on Wednesday, March 19, 2014, from 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
There will be Food and Drink! There is no admission fee, but donations to the Publishing Triangle are welcome.
You must RSVP by Sunday, March 9, 2014, to publishingtriangle@gmail.com. Put the words "SPRING FLING" in the subject line.
For directions, go to http://www.poetshouse.org/about/tour-our-space/visiting.

Awards Update


Submissions for the Triangle Awards, covering LGBT books published in the United States or Canada, are now closed. The judges are now busy reading to determine nominees in six categories: the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction; the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction; the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry; and the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction and the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction.

Finalists will be announced in the first half of March 2014, and the prizes are given out at our awards ceremony on Thursday, April 24, 2014.

If publishers and others who submitted titles have questions or concerns in the meantime, please e-mail PubilshingTriangle@gmail.com. We will get back to you as promptly as we can.


History Is a Story of Change

deJohn D'Emilio, scholar, historian, and activist, won this year's Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. The author of Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin, D'Emilio discussed the evolution of LGBT history in his acceptance speech, which we've put on our website. Click here to read his comments at the Publishing Triangle Awards ceremony on April 25, 2013.



Edmund White Remembers
Award Namesake Bill Whitehead


At our awards ceremony this spring, Edmund White shared some memories of Bill Whitehead,the namesake of our Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. Whitehead was the editor-in-chief of E.P. Dutton in the late 1970s through the mid-1980s; he then worked at Macmillan from late 1985 until shortly before his death, in 1987, from AIDS. He was Edmund White's editor and one of the first out LGBT book publishing executives. Here are White's remarks.

edwBill Whitehead was a sexy, brainy man who had one brown eye and one blue and who'd lost his Southern accent but not his hospitable Southern ways. Although he was very welcoming to gay fiction, he also published lots of other stuff at E.P. Dutton, where he'd also started Obelisk, a quality reprint paperback line. My lover Chris Cox, another brainy Southerner, went to work for him; Chris was an original member of The Violet Quill.

Bill died young from AIDS, but fortunately he took a sabbatical year off before he became ill and toured North Africa and Europe in a trailer. I remember working out with him in my Paris living room and he was so vigorous, while I was exhausted after ten minutes and sore for a week.

Under his tutelage I wrote States of Desire and A Boy's Own Story; the success of Boy's Own startled us both. The beautiful but hateful boy in the original cover photograph sued the publisher of the paperback for a million dollars, which he won since he was only fourteen and not eighteen when he signed the photo release. He claimed that being on the cover of a notorious gay book had ruined his life; fortunately, a federal judge decided a few years ago that being called gay in print is no longer actionable. I mention this abysmal episode only because Bill was forced to testify in a Miami court shortly before he died. Our correspondence was requisitioned. I'd signed my letters to him "Love, Ed" and the prosecution claimed that revealed we were two sinister homosexual lovers plotting to destroy an innocent teen.

At the end of his life, Bill commissioned me to write a biography of the French writer Jean Genet. He was no longer working when I finished the book that preceded it, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, but I so admired him I paid him out of my own pocket to edit it.

Bill was glamorous, charming, and worldly. He always wore his sleeves rolled up to reveal his muscular arms. He lived in the Chelsea Hotel and tricked a lot, but at the end he settled down with the great Balanchine ballet dancer Anthony Blum. I'm delighted this prize is named for him; it will keep his name alive, just as a street in Key West named "Whitehead," recalls one of his ancestors.


Winners Announced for 2012's
Best Lesbian and Gay Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Debut Fiction


The Publishing Triangle proudly announces the winners for its 25th annual Triangle Awards, honoring the best lesbian and gay fiction, nonfiction, and poetry published in 2012. The winners were announced at a ceremony at the New School on April 25, 2013. 

The Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry  

Winner: Song and Spectacle, by Rachel Rose (Harbour Publishing)

  Finalists
  • The Light That Puts an End to Dreams, by Susan Sherman (Wings Press)
  • Port of Call, by Davida Singer (Plain View Press)
  • Wine for a Shotgun, by Marty McConnell (EM Press)

The Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry  


Winner: Looking for the Gulf Motel, by Richard Blanco (University of Pittsburgh Press)  

Finalists
  • Appetite, by Aaron Smith (University of Pittsburgh Press)
  • He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices, by Stephen S. Mills (Sibling Rivalry Press)
  • Slow Lightning, by Eduardo C. Corral (Yale University Press)

The Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction  


Winner: A Horse Named Sorrow, by Trebor Healey (University of Wisconsin Press)  

Finalists
  • An Arab Melancholia, by Abdelleh Taïa (Semiotext[e])
  • By Blood, by Ellen Ullman (Farrar Straus Giroux)
  • King of Angels, by Perry Brass (Belhue Press)
  • The Lava in My Bones, by Barry Webster (Arsenal Pulp Press)
  • Sea Change, by Ken Anderson (Starbooks Press)

The Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction  


Winner: Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)  . Ms. Bechdel is the first repeat winner of the Judy Grahn Award, having been honored in 2007 for Fun Home, her 2006 graphic memoir.  

Finalists
  • My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus, by Kelly Barth (Arktoi/Red Hen)
  • A Queer and Pleasant Danger, by Kate Bornstein (Beacon Press)
  • Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal, by Jeanette Winterson (Grove Press)

The Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction  


Winner: Eminent Outlaws, by Christopher Bram (Twelve/Hachette)  

Finalists
  • Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz, by Cynthia Carr (Bloomsbury)
  • How to Be Gay, by David M. Halperin (Belknap/Harvard University Press)
  • Robert Duncan: The Ambassador from Venus, by Lisa Jarnot (University of California Press)

The Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction  


Winner:
Monstress, by Lysley Tenorio (Ecco/HarperCollins)  

Finalists
  • Broken Like This, by Monica Trasandes (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s)
  • The Evening Hour, by Carter Sickels (Bloomsbury)
  • Love, in Theory, by E. J. Levy (University of Georgia Press)
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Standing, l to r: The Publishing Triangle's Trent Duffy,
Whitehead winner John D'Emilio, Ferro-Grumley winner
Trebor Healey, Leadership Award winner Ira Silverberg,
the PT's Carol Rosenfeld, Ferro-Grumley's Stephen Greco,
and (kneeling) Rachel Rose (l), winner of the Audre Lorde
Poetry Award, and F-G's Sarah Van Arsdale.



NEA Director of Literature Ira Silverberg  Gets Leadership Award

"This is one of the most hopeful times in my 28 years in publishing, because we are able to build things now we couldn't before," Ira Silverberg said, while accepting the Leadership Award, and referring to new technologies and new distribution platforms and systems. Created in 2002, this award recognizes contributions to lesbian and gay literature by those who are not primarily writers--editors, agents, librarians, and institutions.

iraIra Silverberg is currently the Director of Literature for the National Endowment for the Arts, where (among other things) he oversees the NEA's The Big Read, a nationwide reading initiative. Before coming to the NEA, Silverberg was a literary agent and an editor. As an agent, he has managed a client list of award-winning fiction and nonfiction authors including Adam Haslett, Kathy Acker, Wayne Koestenbaum, David Wojnarowicz, Karen Finley, and Dennis Cooper. As editor in chief of Grove Press and U.S. publisher and co-editorial director for Serpent's Tail, he published Sapphire, Gary Indiana, Neil Bartlett, and Herve Guibert, among others. He also handled public relations for William S. Burroughs for many years.

In presenting the award, Amy Hundley, senior editor and subsidiary rights director at Grove/Atlantic, praised Silverberg for, in Wayne Koestenbaum's words, "understanding that 'weird' and 'writing' are necessary bedfellows."


Throughout his career, Silverberg has been a tireless advocate for LGBT books and transgressive authors, making him a worthy honoree for this Leadership Award. The award was presented at the Publishing Triangle's annual awards ceremony, on April 25, 2013 at The New School's Tishman Auditorium, in New York.


Important Email Address Change


We are currently having problems with our email server, and some of you have told us that emails are bouncing back. While we are looking into the problem, please use our alternate email address.
 
Our working alternate email address is publishingtriangle@gmail.com

Please make sure it is "whitelisted" to avoid its going into your spam filters.
 
We apologize for any inconvenience this might have caused. You can also use this new email address for other questions, event submissions, or members' new book announcements.


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Our LGBT Reading List
Do you love LGBT literature and want to know what to read next? Well, then you've landed on the right web page. The Publishing Triangle asked two distinguished panels of judges to come up with The 100 Best Lesbian and Gay Novels and The 100 Best Lesbian and Gay Nonfiction Books of all time.

We also asked fourteen lesbian book reviewers, booksellers, librarians, and/or authors to name the Most Notable Lesbian Books of 2004.

Also be sure to check out new publications by Publishing Triangle members and books that won 2004 Publishing Triangle Awards.

Volunteer Now! Ask Us How!
The Publishing Triangle is a not-for-profit organization that relies on its members and friends to volunteer their services. We could use help with event planning, fund raising, the web site, and coordinating many other activities. If you would like to volunteer, send an e-mail to Volunteer Coordinator with "Publishing Triangle" in the subject line.

For information on lesbian and gay publishing events, visit our Events Calendar page.

Wednesday, March 19, 2014 Join the Publlishing Triangle for a SPRING FLING, Celebrating 25 Years of Michele Karlsberg Marketing and Management at Poets House, 10 River Terrace, New York, NY 10282-1240. Food and drink! Free admission; donations to Publishing Triangle welcome. You must RSVP for this event by email to publishingtriangle@gmail.com, use the SPRING FLING in the subject line. For directions to Poets House, go to For directions, go to http://www.poetshouse.org/about/tour-our-space/visiting.

Saturday, March 29, 2014 The sixth annual Rainbow Book Fair will run from noon to 6 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Midtown, 440 W. 57th St. (btw 9th and 10th Aves), in the general ballroom where more than a 100 authors and publishers will be showing and selling books in all formats. Open to the public; $3 suggested donation. For more information, visit www.rainbowbookfair.org.

Wednesday, April 23, 2014. Finalists Reading at Barnes & Noble, 150 East 86 Street, New York, NY 10028. Finalists for the Publishing Triangle Literary Awards will read excerpts from their nominated works. 7 p.m.; free; books available for purchase.

Thursday, April 24, 2014, The 26th Annual Triangle Awards honor the best in LGBT fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for 2013. At The Auditorium, New School, 66 West 12 Street, New York, NY 10011. 7 p.m.; free.




 
  
  
  
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