Publishing Triangle Finalists

The Publishing Triangle this morning announced their finalists in six categories. I just don't see how a nominees list can be meaningful without Colm Toibin's great triumph The Empty Family. Winners will be announced April 19 in a free, public ceremony at the New School. The Bill Whitehead Award for lifetime achievement will be given to Alison Bechdel, whose Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama will be released May 1.

Ferro-Grumley Fiction Award

Shannon Cain, The Necessity of Certain Behaviors

Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger's Child

Suzette Mayr, Monoceros

Rahul Mehta, Quarantine: Stories

Paul Russell, The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov

Bob Smith, Remembrance of Things I Forgot

 

Debut Fiction

Garth Greenwell, Mitko

Laura Fergus, My Sister Chaos

Justin Torres, We the Animals

Laurie Weeks, Zipper Mouth

 

Lesbian Nonfiction

Jeanne Córdova, When We Were Outlaws

Lisa L. Moore, Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes

Gayle S. Rubin, Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader

 

Gay Nonfiction

Michael Bronski, A Queer History of the United States

 Martin Duberman, A Saving Remnant: The Radical Lives of Barbara Deming and David McReynolds

Mark D. Jordan, Recruiting Young Love: How Christians Talk About Homosexuality

Poetry nominees after the jump.

Lesbian Poetry

Cow, by Susan Hawthorne 

Inside the Money Machine, by Minnie Bruce Pratt 

Open Winter, by Rae Gouirand 

The Stranger Dissolves, by Christina Hutchins 

 

Gay Poetry

A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos, by Tim Dlugos

Love-in-Idleness, by Christopher Hennessey 

Motion Studies, by Brad Richard 

Touch, by Henri Cole 

 

Comments

[Bob Smith]

It's possible Colm's book wasn't submitted. I know I had to submit myself. Publishers aren't as helpful as they used to be:)

[Stephen]

Good point, Bob. I'm so glad you did nominate ROTIF. As for publishers... sadly, yes, very much less helpful. *Someone* could write a funny essay about all the ways real publishers make their authors work exactly like the self-published.

[Cynthia]

You know I didn't love it so I'm not upset.