The winners of the 37th annual 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. The winners in 10 competitive categories include:

  • 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).

In addition to the competitive categories, the organization also celebrated honorees in special award categories, including:

  • Rabih Alameddine was the recipient of the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement, which honors the winner’s “lifetime of work and commitment to fostering queer culture.”
  • Trans formative Schools was presented with the Publishing Triangle Torchbearer Award, given to organizations or individuals who “strive to awaken, encourage, and support a love of reading,” or to “stimulate an interest in and an appreciation of LGBTQ+ literature.”
  • David Groff received the Michele Karlsberg Leadership Award, which honors contributions to LGBTQ literature by those who are not primarily writers, such as editors, agents, booksellers, and other institutions, with an emphasis on members of the LGBTQ+ writing community.
  • Brittany Rogers won the Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award, which honors an LGBTQ writer who has published at least one book but not more than two.