The Publishing Triangle has announced the winners of the 2025 Triangle Awards, honoring the best LGBTQ+ books published in 2024. This year's winners are:
The Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ+ Fiction, administered in conjunction with the Ferro-Grumley Foundation, and the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction: Cinema Love by Jiaming Tang (Dutton) [Editor's note: This is only the second time that a book has won both these awards.]
The Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction: Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde by Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
The Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction: The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham by Lucy Hughes-Hallet (HarperCollins)
The Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry: Your Dazzling Death by Cass Donish (Knopf)
The Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry: Rara Avis by Blas Falconer (Four Way Books)
The Leslie Feinberg Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature: A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest by Charlie J. Stephens (Torrey House Press)
The Joseph Hansen Award for LGBTQ+ Crime Writing: Blessed Water by Margot Douaihy (Zando/Gillian Flynn Books)
The Jacqueline Woodson Award for LGBTQ+ Young Adult and Children's Literature: Canto Contigo by Jonny Garza Villa (Wednesday Books)
The Amber Hollibaugh Award for LGBTQ+ Social Justice Writing: How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability and Doom by Johanna Hedva (Zando-Hillman Grad Books)
The Publishing Triangle's four honorary awards, which were announced in March:
Rabih Alameddine was given the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Trans formative Schools was presented with the Torchbearer Award.
David Groff was given the Michele Karlsberg Leadership Award.
Brittany Rogers won the Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award.
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The Donner Canadian Foundation has released a shortlist for the Donner Prize, recognizing "excellence and innovation in public policy writing by Canadians." The winner, who will be named May 15 at a gala dinner in Toronto, receives C$60,000 (about US$43,370), with each of the finalists getting C$7,500 (about US$5,420). This year's shortlisted titles are:
Fiscal Choices: Canada After the Pandemic by Michael M. Atkinson & Haizhen Mou
And Sometimes They Kill You: Confronting the Epidemic of Intimate Partner Violence by Pamela Cross
Constraining the Court: Judicial Power and Policy Implementation in the Charter Era by James B. Kelly
Seized by Uncertainty: The Markets, Media and Special Interests that Shaped Canada's Response to COVID-19 by Kevin Quigley, Kaitlynne Lowe, Sarah Moore, & Brianna Wolfe
Hard Lessons in Corporate Governance by Bryce C. Tingle
Gregory Belton, chair of the Donner Canadian Foundation, said, "The Donner jurors have reviewed a field of over 80 books submitted by a record 47 publishers, in English and French, and have brought forward a shortlist of five books.... These books all contribute to the national debate of headline issues. We thank the jury for bringing these books to our attention."