Leslie Feinberg Award

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The Leslie Feinberg Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature (formerly the Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature) is an annual literary award, presented by Publishing Triangle to honour works of literature on transgender themes. [1] The award may be presented for work in any genre of literature; to be eligible, a work of poetry or fiction must be written by a transgender or gender variant author, while a work of non-fiction may be written or cowritten by a cisgender writer as long as it addresses transgender themes.

The award comes with a cash prize of USD1,000. [1]

Recipients

Award winners and finalists [2]
YearAuthorTitlePublisherResultRef.
2016 Nathanaël The Middle NotebookesNightboat BooksWinner [3]
Corrina Bain DebridementGreat Weather for MediaFinalist
Jackson Wright Schultz Trans/Portraits: Voices from Transgender CommunitiesDartmouth College PressFinalist
Maggie Nelson The Argonauts Graywolf PressFinalist
2017 Vivek Shraya Even This Page Is WhiteArsenal Pulp PressWinner [4] [5]
Jay Besemer ChelateBrooklyn Arts PressFinalist
Ma-Nee Chacaby with Mary Louise Plummer A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree ElderUniversity of Manitoba PressFinalist
Qwo-Li Driskill Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit MemoryUniversity of Arizona PressFinalist
2018 Reina Gossett , Eric A. Stanley, and Johanna Burton (ed.)Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of VisibilityThe MIT PressWinner [6]
Amir Rabiyah Prayers for My 17th ChromosomeSibling Rivalry PressFinalist
Danez Smith Don’t Call Us DeadGraywolf PressFinalist
Kai Cheng Thom A Place Called No HomelandArsenal Pulp PressFinalist
2019 Ely Shipley Some AnimalNightboat BooksWinner [7]
Gwen Benaway Holy WildBookthug PressFinalist [8]
Jordy Rosenberg Confessions of the Fox One World/Random HouseFinalist [8]
Joy Ladin The Soul of the StrangerBrandeis University PressFinalist [8]
2020 Kai Cheng Thom I Hope We Choose LoveArsenal Pulp PressWinner [9] [10]
Arielle Twist Disintegrate/DissociateArsenal Pulp PressFinalist [11]
Ellis Martin and Zach Ozma (ed.) We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan, 1961–1991 Nightboat BooksFinalist [11]
Hazel Jane Plante The Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)Metonymy PressFinalist [11]
2021 Hil Malatino Trans CareUniversity of Minnesota PressWinner [12] [13]
Akwaeke Emezi The Death of Vivek Oji RiverheadFinalist
Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel (ed.)We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans PoetryNightboat BooksFinalist
S. Brook Corfman My Daily Actions, or The MeteoritesFordham University PressFinalist
2022 Ari Banias A SymmetryW. W. NortonWinner [14]
Casey Plett A Dream of a WomanArsenal Pulp PressFinalist
Torrey Peters Detransition, Baby One WorldFinalist
Zoë Playdon The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes ScribnerFinalist
2023 Wo Chan TogethernessNightboat BooksWinner [15] [16]
Cecilia Gentili Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My RapistLittle Puss PressFinalist
imogen xtian smith stemmy thingsNightboat BooksFinalist
Kemi Alabi Against HeavenGraywolfFinalist
2024 Emily Zhou GirlfriendsLittlePuss PressWinner [17] [18]
Oliver Radclyffe Adult Human MaleUnbound Edition PressFinalist [19]
Casey Plett On CommunityBiblioasisFinalist [19]
Talia Bettcher , Marci Blackman,  Claudia Sofia Garriga-Lopez, Cecilia Gentili, Kris Grey, Shereen Imayatulla, Nadine Rodriguez, Cassidy Scanlon, Catalina Schliebener Munoz, Red Washburn, Fitch Wilder, and Sarah Youngblood Gregory


Sinister Wisdom 128: Trans/Feminisms, by

Sinister WisdomFinalist [19]

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