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."Triangle Awards Finalists Announced" . Publishers Weekly, March 14, 2016.
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 hopes to elevate outstanding trans literary works, especially those that explore themes like gender identity, the diversity of the trans community, and the lives of trans and gender-nonconforming people.
The award comes with a cash prize of USD1,000.
The award was established in 2016 and renamed in 2023 to honor Leslie Feinberg, an activist and author of works like Stone Butch Blues and Transgender Warriors.
Recipients +Award winners and finalists Year Author Title Publisher Result 2016NathanaëlNightboat BooksWinnerDebridementGreat Weather for MediaFinalistTrans/Portraits: Voices from Transgender CommunitiesDartmouth College PressFinalistGraywolf PressFinalist2017Even This Page Is WhiteArsenal Pulp PressWinnerChelateBrooklyn Arts PressFinalist with Mary Louise PlummerUniversity of Manitoba PressFinalistAsegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit MemoryUniversity of Arizona PressFinalist2018, Eric A. Stanley, and Johanna Burton (ed.)Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of VisibilityThe MIT PressWinnerPrayers for My 17th ChromosomeSibling Rivalry PressFinalistDon't Call Us DeadGraywolf PressFinalistArsenal Pulp PressFinalist2019Some AnimalNightboat BooksWinnerHoly WildBookthug PressFinalistConfessions of the FoxOne World/Random HouseFinalistBrandeis University PressFinalist2020I Hope We Choose LoveArsenal Pulp PressWinnerDisintegrate/DissociateArsenal Pulp PressFinalist and Zach Ozma (ed.)We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan, 1961–1991Nightboat BooksFinalistMetonymy PressFinalist2021Trans CareUniversity of Minnesota PressWinnerRiverheadFinalist and Kay Gabriel (ed.)We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans PoetryNightboat BooksFinalistMy Daily Actions, or The MeteoritesFordham University PressFinalist2022W. W. NortonWinnerArsenal Pulp PressFinalistDetransition, BabyOne WorldFinalistScribnerFinalist2023TogethernessNightboat BooksWinnerFaltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn't My RapistLittlePuss PressFinaliststemmy thingsNightboat BooksFinalistAgainst HeavenGraywolfFinalist2024GirlfriendsLittlePuss PressWinnerAdult Human MaleUnbound Edition PressFinalistOn CommunityBiblioasisFinalist, 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/FeminismsSinister WisdomFinalist2025Torrey House PressWinnerDances of Time and TendernessNightboat BooksFinalist and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch (eds.)Metonymy PressFinalistI Don't Want to be UnderstoodAlice James BooksFinalist2026Local WomanNightboat BooksWinner (ed.)Gendertrash from HellLittlePuss PressFinalistTourmalineMarsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. JohnsonTiny Reparations BooksFinalistthey/she/he: ritual to forget your (un)becomingHost PublicationsFinalistUncanny Valley GirlsHarper PerennialFinalist
See also
Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Literature Otherwise Award Stonewall Book Award
References