Edmund White Award

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The Edmund White Award is an annual literary award, presented by Publishing Triangle to honour debut novels by writers within the LGBT community. First presented in 2006, the award was named in honour of American novelist Edmund White. [1]

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Recipients

Award winners and finalists [2]
YearAuthorTitlePublisherResultRef.
2006 Mack Friedman Setting the Lawn on FireUniversity of Wisconsin PressWinner [3]
Charlie Anders Choir BoysSoft Skull PressFinalist
Katia Noyes Crashing AmericaAlyson BooksFinalist
2007 Martin Hyatt A Scarecrow’s BibleSuspect Thoughts PressWinner [4]
Alex McLennan The ZookeeperAlyson BooksFinalist
Eduardo Santiago Tomorrow They Will KissLittle, BrownFinalist
2008 Myriam Gurba Dahlia SeasonManic C PressWinner [5]
Bob Smith Selfish and PerverseCarroll & GrafFinalist
James Cañón Tales from the Town of Widows HarperCollinsFinalist
2009 Evan Fallenberg Light FellSoho PressWinner [6]
Alistair McCartney The End of the World BookUniversity of Wisconsin PressFinalist
Shawn Stewart Stewart FinlaterQuote EditionsFinalist
2010 Lori Ostlund The Bigness of the WorldUniversity of Georgia PressWinner
Elise Moser Because I Have Loved and Hidden ItCormorant BooksFinalist
Rakesh Satyal Blue BoyKensingtonFinalist
2011 Katharine Beutner AlcestisSoho PressWinner [7]
Catherine Kirkwood Cut AwayArktoi BooksFinalist
Michael Alenyikov Ivan and MishaTriquarterly/Northwestern University PressFinalist
2012 Lara Fergus My Sister ChaosSpinifex PressWinner
Garth Greenwell MitkoMiami University PressFinalist
Justin Torres We the Animals Houghton Mifflin HarcourtFinalist
Laurie Weeks Zipper MouthThe Feminist PressFinalist
2013 Lysley Tenorio Monstress Ecco/HarperCollinsWinner [8]
Carter Sickels The Evening HourBloomsburyFinalist
E. J. J. Love, in TheoryUniversity of Georgia PressFinalist
Monica Trasandes Broken Like ThisThomas Dunne Books/St. Martin'sFinalist
2014 Sara Farizan If You Could Be Mine [lower-alpha 1] Algonquin Young ReadersWinner [9] [10]
Derek Palacio How to Shake the Other ManNouvellaFinalist [11]
Rick Whitaker An Honest GhostJaded Ibis PressFinalist [11]
Sandra Moran Letters Never SentBedazzled InkFinalist [11]
2015 Kim Fu For Today I Am a Boy Houghton Mifflin HarcourtWinner [12]
Alden Jones Unaccompanied MinorsNew American PressFinalist
Michael Carroll Little Reef and Other StoriesUniversity of Wisconsin PressFinalist
Shelly Oria New York 1, Tel Aviv 0Farrar, Straus and GirouxFinalist
2016 Carellin Brooks One Hundred Days of RainBookThugWinner [13]
Ioannis Pappos Hotel LivingHarperPerennial/HarperCollinsFinalist
Mecca Jamilah Jamilah Blue Talk and LoveRiverdale Avenue BooksFinalist
Tanwi Nandini Nandini Bright LinesPenguin BooksFinalist
2017 Joe Okonkwo Jazz MoonKensingtonWinner [14] [15] [16]
Kathy Anderson Bull and Other StoriesAutumn House PressFinalist
Matthew Griffin HideBloomsbury USAFinalist
R. J. J. An Innocent FashionHarperPerennial/HarperCollinsFinalist
2018 S. J. Sindu Marriage of a Thousand Lies Soho PressWinner [17]
Carmen Maria Maria Her Body and Other Parties Graywolf PressFinalist
Catherine Hernandez Scarborough Arsenal Pulp PressFinalist
Fiona Mozley Elmet Algonquin BooksFinalist
2019 Joseph Cassara The House of Impossible BeautiesEcco/HarperCollinsWinner [18]
Akwaeke Emezi Freshwater Grove PressFinalist [19]
Ana Simo HeartlandRestless BooksFinalist [19]
Dan CallahanThat Was SomethingSquares and RebelsFinalist [19]
2020 Téa Mutonji Shut Up You’re PrettyArsenal Pulp PressWinner [20] [21]
Bryan Washington LotRiverheadFinalist
De’Shawn Charles Charles In West MillsBloomsburyFinalist
Kimberly King King Black LightVintageFinalist
2021 Julia Serano 99 Erics: A Kat Cataclysm Faux NovelSwitch Hitter PressWinner [22] [23]
Brandon Taylor Real Life RiverheadFinalist
Eddy Boudel Boudel After EliasDundurn PressFinalist
Sophie Yanow The ContradictionsDrawn and QuarterlyFinalist
2022 Robert Jones Jones The ProphetsG.P. Putnam's SonsWinner [24]
Callum Angus A Natural History of TransitionMetonymy PressFinalist
Claire CoxSilver BeachUniversity of Massachusetts PressFinalist
Nawaaz Ahmed Radiant FugitivesCounterpoint PressFinalist
2023 Estela Gonzalez ArribadaCynren PressWinner [25] [26]
Alyssa Songsiridej Little RabbitBloomsbury USFinalist
David Santos Santos GreenlandAmistad/HarperCollinsFinalist
Eloghosa Osunde Vagabonds! Riverhead Books/PenguinFinalist
Morgan ThomasManywhereMCD Books/Farrar, Straus GirouxFinalist
2024 Ani Kayode Somtochukwu And Then He Sang a LullabyGrove AtlanticWinner [27] [28]
Selby Wynn Schwartz After SapphoLiverightFinalist [29]
Chloe Chun Seim Churn: A Novel in StoriesTexas Review Press: The University Press of Sam Houston State UniversityFinalist [29]
C. E. McGill Our Hideous ProgenyHarperCollinsFinalist [29]

Notes

  1. ↑ If You Could Be Mine also won the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction.

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  2. ↑ "The Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction". The Publishing Triangle . Archived from the original on 2024-05-16. Retrieved 2024-05-22.
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  4. ↑ "Awards: Publishing Triangle, Ferro-Grumley, Chesley". Shelf Awareness . 2007-05-08. Archived from the original on 2017-10-01. Retrieved 2024-05-20.
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  11. 1 2 3 "Triangle Award Finalists Named". Publishers Weekly . 2014-03-12. Archived from the original on 2023-12-29. Retrieved 2024-05-20.
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