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Ferro-Grumley Award

LGBT literary award

Summary

LGBT literary award

The Ferro-Grumley Award is an annual literary award, presented by Publishing Triangle and the Ferro-Grumley Foundation to a book deemed the year's best work of LGBTQ fiction. The award is presented in memory of writers Robert Ferro and Michael Grumley. It was co-founded in 1988 by Stephen Greco, who continues to direct it as of 2022.

First awarded in 1990, separate awards were presented for gay and lesbian fiction until 2008 when the awards were merged into a single award.

On two occasions, the award has been won by works that were not conventional literary fiction. In 1994, journalist John Berendt won the award for his non-fiction novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, and in 2009, cartoonist Alison Bechdel won the award for her comic strip anthology The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For.

Awards

Ferro-Grumley Award for Literary Excellence (1990–1996)

Year	Category	Author	TItle	Result	1990	Men	Women	1991	Men	Women	1992	Men	Women	1993	Men	Women	1994	Men	Women	1995	Men	Women	1996	Men	Women
	Closer	Winner
	Eye of the Hurricane	Winner
	**	Winner
	Her	Winner
	Vanishing Rooms	Winner
	**	Winner
	Let the Dead Bury Their Dead	Winner
	Bastard Out of Carolina	Winner
	Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil	Winner
	Written on the Body	Winner
	American Studies	Winner
	House Rules	Winner
	Like People in History	Winner
	Rat Bohemia	Winner

Ferro-Grumley Award for Gay Fiction (1997–2007)

Author	TItle	Publisher	Result			1997	1998	1999	2000	2001
		Winner
**		Finalist
**		Finalist
		Winner
		Finalist
Bruiser		Finalist
		Winner
**		Finalist
**		Finalist
	St. Martin’s Press	Winner
Allan Stein	Grove	Finalist
Breakfast with Scot	Counterpoint	Finalist
**	Alfred A. Knopf	Winner
Guess Again: Stories	Simon and Schuster	Finalist
Martin Bauman; Or, A Sure Thing	Houghton Mifflin	Finalist
**	Viking Press	Winner
Edinburgh	Welcome Rain Publishers	Finalist
	Bloomsbury	Finalist
At Swim, Two Boys	Scribner	Winner
**	St. Martin’s Press	Finalist
Avoidance	Graywolf Press	Finalist
Through It Came Bright Colors	Harrington Park Press	Winner
Lives of the Circus Animals	William Morrow	Finalist
**	Simon and Schuster	Finalist
Belmondo Style	St. Martin’s Press	Winner
	Scribner	Finalist
Van Allen’s Ecstasy	Southern Tier Editions	Finalist
**	Carroll & Graf	Winner	date=2006-05-12	title=Awards: The 18th Annual Triangles	url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=209	access-date=2024-05-20	website=Shelf Awareness	archive-date=2023-11-29	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231129211435/https://shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=209	url-status=live }}
Still Life with June	St. Martin’s Press	Finalist
Branwell	Soft Skull Press	Finalist
Exiles in America	William Morrow	Winner	date=2007-05-08	title=Awards: Publishing Triangle, Ferro-Grumley, Chesley	url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=432	access-date=2024-05-20	website=Shelf Awareness	archive-date=2017-10-01	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171001222524/http://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=432	url-status=live }}
**	Suspect Thoughts Press	Finalist
Alternatives to Sex	Simon and Schuster	Finalist

Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction (1997–2007)

Author	TItle	Publisher
Sunnybrook		Winner
Love and Death and Other Stories		Finalist
Old Love		Finalist
Beyond the Pale		Winner
Fall on Your Knees		Finalist
Soul Kiss		Finalist
**		Winner
Like		Finalist
Don’t Explain		Finalist
What She Left Me	Middlebury Press	Winner
Shy Girl	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	Finalist
Tipping the Velvet	Riverhead	Finalist
Affinity	Riverhead	Winner
Cool for You	Soft Skull Press	Finalist
**	Alyson Books	Finalist
Slammerkin	Harcourt	Winner
Days of Awe	Ballantine	Finalist
Light Coming Back	Alyson Books	Finalist
Lucky in the Corner	Houghton Mifflin	Winner
Hunger	Oberon Press	Finalist
Dear First Love	HarperCollins	Finalist
Southland	Akashic Books	Winner
Dykes & Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life-Forms to Watch Out For	Alyson Books	Finalist
**	City Lights	Finalist
**	Houghton Mifflin	Winner
Life Mask	Harcourt	Finalist
Notice	Serpent’s Tail	Finalist
Brian in Three Seasons	Permanent Press	Winner
Gotta Find Me an Angel	Raincoast Books	Finalist
Loose End	Arsenal Pulp Press	Finalist
Every Visible Thing	William Morrow	Winner
Bow Grip	Arsenal Pulp Press	Finalist
**	City Lights	Finalist

Ferro Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction (2008–present)

Year	Author	TItle	Publisher	Result			2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
	Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You	Frances Foster Books	Winner	last=	first=	date=2008-04-29	title=Awards: Winners of Nebula; Triangle; Eric Hoffer	url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=665	access-date=2024-05-20	website=Shelf Awareness	archive-date=2017-10-02	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171002023202/http://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=665	url-status=live }}
		Carroll & Graf	Winner
	Brendan Wolf		Finalist
	Call Me by Your Name	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	Finalist
		Carroll & Graf	Finalist
	Like Son	Akashic Books	Finalist
	Michael Tolliver Lives	HarperCollins	Finalist
	**	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt	Winner
	**	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	Finalist
	**	Steerforth	Finalist
	Us Ones in Between	Running Press	Finalist
		Random House	Finalist
	Love and Lies	Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers	Finalist
	**	Alyson Books	Winner
	More of This World or Maybe Another	HarperPerennial	Finalist
	**	Mayapple Press	Finalist
	Shaming the Devil	Top Pen Press	Finalist
	**	Bywater Books	Finalist
	Lake Overturn	Harper	Finalist
	**	Counterpoint Press	Winner
	Krakow Melt	Arsenal Pulp Press	Finalist
	Perfect Peace	St. Martin’s Press	Finalist
	**	Alyson Books	Finalist
	Inferno	OR Books	Finalist
	**	University of Wisconsin Press	Finalist
	**	Cleis Press	Winner
		Alfred A. Knopf	Finalist
	Remembrance of Things I Forgot	University of Wisconsin Press	Finalist
	Quarantine	HarperPerennial	Finalist
	**	University of Pittsburgh Press	Finalist
	Monoceros	Coach House Press	Finalist
	**	University of Wisconsin Press	Winner
		Semiotex[e]	Finalist
	**	Arsenal Pulp Press	Finalist
	By Blood	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	Finalist
	Sea Change	Starbooks Press	Finalist
	King of Angels	Belhue Press	Finalist
	If You Could Be Mine	Algonquin Young Readers	Winner
	Local Souls	Liveright	Finalist	date=2014-03-12	title=Triangle Award Finalists Named	url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/61398-triangle-award-finalists-named.html	access-date=2024-05-20	website=Publishers Weekly	language=en	archive-date=2023-12-29	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231229060813/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/61398-triangle-award-finalists-named.html	url-status=live }}
	All This Talk of Love	Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill	Finalist
		Bloomsbury USA	Finalist
	Where You Can Find Me	Thomas Dunne Books	Finalist
	Mr. Loverman	Akashic Books	Winner
	Sideways Down the Sky	MLR Press	Finalist
	All I Love and Know	William Morrow	Finalist
	When Everything Feels Like the Movies	Arsenal Pulp Press	Finalist
	I Loved You More	Hawthorne Books	Finalist
	**	Picador	Winner
	Under the Udala Trees	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt	Finalist
		Doubleday	Finalist
	After the Parade	Scribner	Finalist
	JD	Terrace Books	Finalist
	They May Not Mean To, But They Do	Sarah Crichton Books	Winner
	**	Chelsea Station Editions	Finalist
	Advocate	Cormorant Books	Finalist
	**	University of Wisconsin Press	Finalist
Sjón, by Victoria Cribb	Moonstone	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	Finalist
	**	University of Wisconsin Press	Winner
	Her Body and Other Parties	Graywolf Press	Finalist
		Hogarth	Finalist
	Outside Is the Ocean	University of Iowa Press	Finalist
	**	Bywater Books	Finalist
	Drapetomania	Team Angelica	Winner
	Eden	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt	Finalist	last=Reid	first=Calvin	date=2019-03-11	title=Finalists, Achievement Winners Announced for 2019 Triangle Lit Awards	url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/79488-finalists-achievement-winners-announced-for-2019-triangle-lit-awards.html	access-date=2024-05-20	website=Publishers Weekly	language=en	archive-date=2023-09-27	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230927195149/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/79488-finalists-achievement-winners-announced-for-2019-triangle-lit-awards.html	url-status=live }}
	**	Hogarth	Finalist
	**	Rare Bird	Finalist
	Tin Man	Putnam	Finalist
	On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous	Penguin Press	Winner
	Girl, Woman, Other	Black Cat	Finalist	last=Yohannes	first=Samraweet	date=2020-03-23	title=Samra Habib, Kai Cheng Thom and Téa Mutonji among finalists for 2020 Publishing Triangle Awards	url=https://www.cbc.ca/books/samra-habib-kai-cheng-thom-and-t%C3%A9a-mutonji-among-finalists-for-2020-publishing-triangle-awards-1.5506789	access-date=2024-05-20	website=CBC Books	archive-date=2020-03-27	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200327182435/https://www.cbc.ca/books/samra-habib-kai-cheng-thom-and-t%C3%A9a-mutonji-among-finalists-for-2020-publishing-triangle-awards-1.5506789	url-status=live }}
	Like Wings, Your Hands	Red Hen Press	Finalist
	Red at the Bone	Riverhead	Finalist
(ed.)	**	Sinister Wisdom	Finalist
; by Molly Ringwald	Lie with Me	Scribner	Finalist
	Fiebre Tropical	Feminist Press	Winner
	Apsara Engine	Feminist Press	Finalist
	Memorial	Riverhead	Finalist
	Neotenica	Nightboat Books	Finalist
	**	Avid Reader Press	Finalist
	Afterparties	Ecco	Winner
		Pegasus Books	Finalist
	**	Dundurn Press	Finalist
	Summer Fun	Soho Press	Finalist
	Milk Fed	Scribner	Finalist
	Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta	Little, Brown & Co.	Winner
	Junie	Book*hug Press	Finalist
, by Anna Kushner	Call Me Cassandra	Farrar Straus Giroux	Finalist
	Big Girl	Liveright	Finalist
	**	Counterpoint	Finalist
	Brother Alive	Grove Atlantic	Finalist
	Pomegranate	Atria Books	Winner
	Chain-Gang All-Stars	Penguin Random House	Finalist	last=	date=2024-03-18	title=2024 Publishing Triangle Awards Finalists Announced	url=https://publishingtriangle.org/2024/03/2024-publishing-triangle-awards-finalists-announced/	access-date=2024-05-20	website=The Publishing Triangle	language=en-US	archive-date=2024-04-28	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240428141600/https://publishingtriangle.org/2024/03/2024-publishing-triangle-awards-finalists-announced/	url-status=live }}
, by Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch	Dandelion Daughter	Esplanade Books	Finalist
	Girlfriends	LittlePuss Press	Finalist
, by Elina Alter	Wound	Catapult Books	Finalist
	Cinema Love	Dutton	Winner	last=Schaub	first=Michael	date=2025-03-18	title=Finalists for Publishing Triangle Awards Revealed	url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/finalists-for-publishing-triangle-awards-revealed/	access-date=2025-03-19	website=Kirkus Reviews	language=en}}
	Curiosities	Knopf	Finalist
	Hart Island	University of Wisconsin Press	Finalist
	Indian Winter	Coach House Books	Finalist
	There is a Rio Grande in Heaven	Mariner Books	Finalist

Notes

References

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(2012-04-20). "Image of the day: Triangle Winners".
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(2016-04-22). "Awards: Triangle; Orwell; James Tait Black".
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