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

Recipients

Award winners and finalists[2]
Year Author Title Publisher Result Ref.
2006 Mack Friedman Setting the Lawn on Fire University of Wisconsin Press Winner [3]
Charlie Jane Anders Choir Boys Soft Skull Press Finalist
Katia Noyes Crashing America Alyson Books Finalist
2007 Martin Hyatt A Scarecrow’s Bible Suspect Thoughts Press Winner [4]
Alex McLennan The Zookeeper Alyson Books Finalist
Eduardo Santiago Tomorrow They Will Kiss Little, Brown Finalist
2008 Myriam Gurba Dahlia Season Manic C Press Winner [5]
Bob Smith Selfish and Perverse Carroll & Graf Finalist
James Cañón Tales from the Town of Widows HarperCollins Finalist
2009 Evan Fallenberg Light Fell Soho Press Winner [6]
Alistair McCartney The End of the World Book University of Wisconsin Press Finalist
Shawn Stewart Ruff Finlater Quote Editions Finalist
2010 Lori Ostlund The Bigness of the World University of Georgia Press Winner
Elise Moser Because I Have Loved and Hidden It Cormorant Books Finalist
Rakesh Satyal Blue Boy Kensington Finalist
2011 Katharine Beutner Alcestis Soho Press Winner [7]
Catherine Kirkwood Cut Away Arktoi Books Finalist
Michael Alenyikov Ivan and Misha Triquarterly/Northwestern University Press Finalist
2012 Lara Fergus My Sister Chaos Spinifex Press Winner
Garth Greenwell Mitko Miami University Press Finalist
Justin Torres We the Animals Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Finalist
Laurie Weeks Zipper Mouth The Feminist Press Finalist
2013 Lysley Tenorio Monstress Ecco/HarperCollins Winner [8]
Carter Sickels The Evening Hour Bloomsbury Finalist
E. J. Levy Love, in Theory University of Georgia Press Finalist
Monica Trasandes Broken Like This Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Finalist
2014 Sara Farizan If You Could Be Mine[a] Algonquin Young Readers Winner [9][10]
Derek Palacio How to Shake the Other Man Nouvella Finalist [11]
Rick Whitaker An Honest Ghost Jaded Ibis Press Finalist [11]
Sandra Moran Letters Never Sent Bedazzled Ink Finalist [11]
2015 Kim Fu For Today I Am a Boy Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Winner [12]
Alden Jones Unaccompanied Minors New American Press Finalist
Michael Carroll Little Reef and Other Stories University of Wisconsin Press Finalist
Shelly Oria New York 1, Tel Aviv 0 Farrar, Straus and Giroux Finalist
2016 Carellin Brooks One Hundred Days of Rain BookThug Winner [13]
Ioannis Pappos Hotel Living HarperPerennial/HarperCollins Finalist
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Blue Talk and Love Riverdale Avenue Books Finalist
Tanwi Nandini Islam Bright Lines Penguin Books Finalist
2017 Joe Okonkwo Jazz Moon Kensington Winner [14][15][16]
Kathy Anderson Bull and Other Stories Autumn House Press Finalist
Matthew Griffin Hide Bloomsbury USA Finalist
R. J. Hernández An Innocent Fashion HarperPerennial/HarperCollins Finalist
2018 S. J. Sindu Marriage of a Thousand Lies Soho Press Winner [17]
Carmen Maria Machado Her Body and Other Parties Graywolf Press Finalist
Catherine Hernandez Scarborough Arsenal Pulp Press Finalist
Fiona Mozley Elmet Algonquin Books Finalist
2019 Joseph Cassara The House of Impossible Beauties Ecco/HarperCollins Winner [18]
Akwaeke Emezi Freshwater Grove Press Finalist [19]
Ana Simo Heartland Restless Books Finalist [19]
Dan Callahan That Was Something Squares and Rebels Finalist [19]
2020 Téa Mutonji Shut Up You’re Pretty Arsenal Pulp Press Winner [20][21]
Bryan Washington Lot Riverhead Finalist
De'Shawn Charles Winslow In West Mills Bloomsbury Finalist
Kimberly King Parsons Black Light Vintage Finalist
2021 Julia Serano 99 Erics: A Kat Cataclysm Faux Novel Switch Hitter Press Winner [22][23]
Brandon Taylor Real Life Riverhead Finalist [24]
Eddy Boudel Tan After Elias Dundurn Press Finalist
Sophie Yanow The Contradictions Drawn and Quarterly Finalist
2022 Robert Jones Jr. The Prophets G.P. Putnam's Sons Winner [25]
Callum Angus A Natural History of Transition Metonymy Press Finalist
Claire Cox Silver Beach University of Massachusetts Press Finalist
Nawaaz Ahmed Radiant Fugitives Counterpoint Press Finalist
2023 Estela Gonzalez Arribada Cynren Press Winner [26][27]
Alyssa Songsiridej Little Rabbit Bloomsbury US Finalist
David Santos Donaldson Greenland Amistad/HarperCollins Finalist
Eloghosa Osunde Vagabonds! Riverhead Books/Penguin Finalist
Morgan Thomas Manywhere MCD Books/Farrar, Straus Giroux Finalist
2024 Ani Kayode Somtochukwu And Then He Sang a Lullaby Grove Atlantic Winner [28][29]
Selby Wynn Schwartz After Sappho Liveright Finalist [30]
C. E. McGill Our Hideous Progeny HarperCollins Finalist [30]
Chloe Chun Seim Churn: A Novel in Stories Texas Review Press: The University Press of Sam Houston State University Finalist [30]
2025 Jiaming Tang Cinema Love Dutton Finalist [31]
Elliott Gish Grey Dog ECW Press Finalist [31]
Muriel Leung How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster W. W. Norton & Company Finalist [31]
Asha Thanki A Thousand Times Before Viking Finalist [31]

Notes

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

References

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