The Michele Karlsberg Leadership Award, established in 2022 as the Publishing Triangle Leadership Award, is an annual literary award presented by The Publishing Triangle to editors, literary agents, and others who help quality books with LGBT+ content is published. Since 2016, winners have received a $500 prize.
In 2022, the award was named to honor Michele Karlsberg, one of Publishing Triangle's first co-chairs ands co founder of Amethyst Press.
Recipients +Award winnersYearWinner2002 (1943–2023): American editor and author, known as one of the first openly gay editors at a major publishing house2003 (1952–2003): American literary agent who advocated for LGBT literature2004 (1932–2007): American librarian and LGBT rights activist 2005Lesbian Herstory Archives: American archive, community center, and museum dedicated to preserving lesbian history2006Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop: American bookshop focused on LGBT works2007 (born 1942): American editor and publisher who founded Firebrand Books, a lesbian feminist press2008: American activist and former bookseller who founded Feminist Bookstore News (1949–2022): Canadian writer and editor, who edited numerous LGBT anthologies200920102011Gay and Lesbian Review: Magazine of history, culture, and politics for LGBT people and their allies2012 (1924–2020): American housing rights activist and literary agent 2013 (born 1963): American literary agent and editor2014Sinister Wisdom: American lesbian quarterly of art and literature2015— 2016Christopher Street: American gay-oriented magazine 2017201820192020In Her Words: 20th Century Lesbian Fiction, a documentary by Project Legacies202120222023 and Greg Newton, co-founders of the Bureau of General Services – Queer Division2024, owner of Left Bank Books 2025, poet, writer, and Publishing Triangle co-founder 2026, "literary editor, publisher, and documentary filmmaker"
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