The Edmund White Award is an annual literary award, presented by Publishing Triangle to honor debut novels by writers within the LGBTQ+ community. First presented in 2006, the award was named in honor of American novelist Edmund White.
Recipients
+Award winners and finalists Year Author Title Publisher Result 2006Setting the Lawn on FireUniversity of Wisconsin PressWinnerChoir BoysSoft Skull PressFinalistCrashing AmericaAlyson BooksFinalist2007Suspect Thoughts PressWinnerAlyson BooksFinalistTomorrow They Will KissLittle, BrownFinalist2008Dahlia SeasonManic C PressWinnerSelfish and PerverseCarroll & GrafFinalistTales from the Town of WidowsHarperCollinsFinalist2009Light FellSoho PressWinnerUniversity of Wisconsin PressFinalistFinlaterQuote EditionsFinalist2010University of Georgia PressWinnerBecause I Have Loved and Hidden ItCormorant BooksFinalistBlue BoyKensingtonFinalist2011AlcestisSoho PressWinnerCut AwayArktoi BooksFinalistIvan and MishaTriquarterly/Northwestern University PressFinalist2012My Sister ChaosSpinifex PressWinnerMitkoMiami University PressFinalistWe the AnimalsHoughton Mifflin HarcourtFinalistZipper MouthThe Feminist PressFinalist2013MonstressEcco/HarperCollinsWinnerBloomsburyFinalistLove, in TheoryUniversity of Georgia PressFinalistBroken Like ThisThomas Dunne Books/St. Martin'sFinalist2014If You Could Be MineAlgonquin Young ReadersWinnerHow to Shake the Other ManNouvellaFinalistJaded Ibis PressFinalistLetters Never SentBedazzled InkFinalist2015For Today I Am a BoyHoughton Mifflin HarcourtWinnerUnaccompanied MinorsNew American PressFinalistLittle Reef and Other StoriesUniversity of Wisconsin PressFinalistNew York 1, Tel Aviv 0Farrar, Straus and GirouxFinalist2016One Hundred Days of RainBookThugWinnerHotel LivingHarperPerennial/HarperCollinsFinalistBlue Talk and LoveRiverdale Avenue BooksFinalistBright LinesPenguin BooksFinalist2017Jazz MoonKensingtonWinnerBull and Other StoriesAutumn House PressFinalistHideBloomsbury USAFinalistHarperPerennial/HarperCollinsFinalist2018Marriage of a Thousand LiesSoho PressWinnerHer Body and Other PartiesGraywolf PressFinalistScarboroughArsenal Pulp PressFinalistElmetAlgonquin BooksFinalist2019Ecco/HarperCollinsWinnerFreshwaterGrove PressFinalistHeartlandRestless BooksFinalistThat Was SomethingSquares and RebelsFinalist2020Shut Up You're PrettyArsenal Pulp PressWinnerLotRiverheadFinalistIn West MillsBloomsburyFinalistBlack LightVintageFinalist202199 Erics: A Kat Cataclysm Faux NovelSwitch Hitter PressWinnerReal LifeRiverheadFinalistAfter EliasDundurn PressFinalistDrawn and QuarterlyFinalist2022G.P. Putnam's SonsWinnerMetonymy PressFinalistSilver BeachUniversity of Massachusetts PressFinalistRadiant FugitivesCounterpoint PressFinalist2023ArribadaCynren PressWinnerLittle RabbitBloomsbury USFinalistGreenlandAmistad/HarperCollinsFinalistVagabonds!Riverhead Books/PenguinFinalistManywhereMCD Books/Farrar, Straus GirouxFinalist2024And Then He Sang a LullabyGrove AtlanticWinnerAfter SapphoLiverightFinalistOur Hideous ProgenyHarperCollinsFinalistChurn: A Novel in StoriesTexas Review Press: The University Press of Sam Houston State UniversityFinalist2025Cinema LoveDuttonWinnerGrey DogECW PressFinalistHow to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable DisasterW. W. Norton & CompanyFinalistVikingFinalist2026Lonely CrowdsLittle, Brown and CompanyWinnerEverything Is Fine HereHouse of Anansi PressFinalistGood Girl HogarthFinalistTo the Moon and BackSimon & Schuster / Avid Reader PressFinalistWoodworkingZando – Crooked Media ReadsFinalist
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