Join us for a Pride Mixer hosted by the Publishing Triangle and Penguin Random House’s LGBTQ+ Network. @prhlgbtq
Thursday, June 25
5:00–6:30 PM
1745 Broadway, NYC (14th Floor)
An evening of community, conversation, and celebrating LGBTQ+ voices in publishing. Food and drinks will be served, and complimentary books will be available while supplies last.
Free to attend, but registration is required:
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You can also scan the QR code on the flyer.
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Step and repeat moments from the Publishing Triangle Awards.
While things were still coming together behind the scenes, the energy was already building out front. A beautiful start to the evening.
Explore 700+ photos from the night: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjCRF7F
We are pleased to announce that RICHARD SIKEN (@richard_siken ) is the recipient of this year's Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry!
Given out by The Publishing Triangle (@publishingtriangle ), the Thom Gunn Award celebrates LGBTQ+ poetry that shapes culture and community. SIKEN also won the award in 2006 for his first collection, Crush.
Please join us in congratulating RICHARD SIKEN on this well-deserved honor, and get your copy of I DO KNOW SOME THINGS at the link in our bio!
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Congratulations to all the winners of last night’s Publishing Triangle Awards.
A powerful celebration of LGBTQ+ literature, voices, and stories that continue to shape culture and community.
Keep reading. Keep supporting these writers.
Tonight’s the night. A true NYC literary moment.
The Publishing Triangle Awards take over The New School—celebrating LGBTQ+ books, writers, and community.
Be in the room or catch the livestream: https://newschool.zoom.us/j/91362613494
Free. Incredible presenters. Powerful books. Reception to follow.
Let’s show up.
@julierenszer and @jphoward_poet have joined as presenters.
The Publishing Triangle Awards. April 16, 6:30 PM at The New School. Free to attend. Reception to follow.
Scan the QR code or RSVP: https://event.newschool.edu/the2026publishingtriangleawards
The Publishing Triangle Awards are coming up April 16 at The New School, and this lineup is stacked.
Presenters include Charles Busch, Karen Finley, Patricia Spears Jones, and more.
Free to attend. Reception to follow.
Scan the QR code or RSVP here: https://event.newschool.edu/the2026publishingtriangleawards
Show up for LGBTQ+ literature. Show up for the writers.
The finalists and special award recipients for the Publishing Triangle Awards have just been announced.
Join us to celebrate LGBTQ+ books and authors at the 2026 Publishing Triangle Awards on Thursday, April 16 at The New School. @emanuelxavier will be hosting the evening, followed by a reception.
The event is free, but must RSVP. Link in Bio.
EDMUND WHITE DEBUT FICTION AWARD FINALISTS ANNOUNCED
The Finalists for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction are:
• Everything Is Fine Here, by Iryn Tushabe (House of Anansi Press)
• Good Girl, by Aria Aber (Hogarth)
• Lonely Crowds, by Stephanie Wambugu (Little, Brown and Company)
• To the Moon and Back, by Eliana Ramage (Simon & Schuster/Avid Reader Press)
• Woodworking, by Emily St. James (Zando - Crooked Media Reads)
MARIAH RIGG IS NAMED BETTY BERZON EMERGING WRITER
Mariah Rigg is the winner of The Publishing Triangle’s Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award, its prize for an LGBTQ+ writer who has published at least one book but not more than two. She is the author of the short story collection Extinction Capital of the World (Ecco, 2025), winner of the 2026 Asian Pacific American Award for Literature, which was named a best book of 2025 by Esquire, Electric Literature, Debutiful, and Chicago Review of Books. Her hybrid creative nonfiction chapbook All Hat, No Cattle was published by Bull City Press in 2023.
“It is such a pleasure to celebrate the remarkable work and dedication of Mariah Rigg, an accomplished author and scholar,” said Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award judges Crisosto Apache, Robert Fieseler, and Briona S. Jones. “Extinction Capital of the World has already garnered high praise, with Oprah Daily describing the collection as ‘gorgeous’ and ‘compelling.’
Mariah’s talent has been recognized by some of the most prestigious institutions in the arts, including the National Endowment for the Arts and Lambda Literary, where Mariah served as a fully funded fellow.”
The Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award comes with a $1500 prize and is funded by Teresa DeCrescenzo, Ms. Berzon’s widow.
TORCHBEARER AWARD GOES TO THE OTHER SIDE OF SILENCE (TOSOS)
The Publishing Triangle Torchbearer Award for 2026 will be presented to The Other Side of Silence (TOSOS). The award, now in its fourth year, is given to organizations or individuals striving to awaken, encourage, and support a love of reading, or to stimulate an interest in and an appreciation of LGBTQ+ literature.
TOSOS opened its doors in 1974 as New York City’s first gay professional theatre company, founded by a trio of artists: Off-Off-Broadway veteran playwright Doric Wilson, cabaret star Billy Blackwell, and writer-actor-director Peter del Valle, and today is recognized as New York City’s oldest LGBTQ+ theater company. In addition to producing full-length plays, the company curates a free play-reading series, The Doric Wilson Playwrights Project, which not only provides current queer artists a much needed first hearing of original work, but also allows audiences to “re-hear” important pieces of the established literary canon.
The Other Side of Silence (TOSOS) will receive a $1000 prize, which is funded by Rob Byrnes.
CHRYSTOS NAMED BILL WHITEHEAD LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD WINNER
Chrystos is the 2026 recipient of the Publishing Triangle’s Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. This award celebrates the recipient’s lifetime of work and commitment to fostering LGBTQ+ culture. The winner receives $3000, one of the largest cash prizes in LGBTQ+ letters.
Chrystos is a two-spirit writer, teacher, artist, lecturer, and activist whose work explores Native American civil rights, social justice, and feminism. The many awards she has received over the past decades include a National Endowment for the Arts grant, the Sappho Award of Distinction from the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, a Barbara Deming Memorial Fund grant, and the Audre Lorde International Poetry Competition.
Chrystos’s writings focus on issues such as how colonialism and racism affect the lives of women, lesbians, and Indigenous peoples. She has illustrated many of her book covers, and often had her books published in Canada to work around censorious American publishers and lack of support for writers in the United States.
Chrystos will be the 38th recipient of this prestigious award, which was first presented in 1989 to the writer Edmund White.
Note: She will also be in attendance at our awards ceremony on Thursday, April 16. CELEBRATE!
