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sMinh Nguyen of Minneapolis won the
Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry for
his collection Not Here (Coffee House
Press). Ely Shipley of Bellingham, Wash-
ington, won the Publishing Triangle
Award for Trans and Gender-Variant
Literature for his poetry collection
Some Animal (Nightboat Books). Each
winner received $1,000. Julian Randall
of Oxford, Mississippi, won the Betty
Berzon Emerging Writer Award, given
to a LGBTQ writer who has published
one to two books. He received $1,500.
The annual awards honor books of
poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction
by LGBTQ authors, or with LGBTQ
themes, published in the United States
or Canada during the previous year. The
next deadline is December 2.
Publishing Triangle, Literary Awards,
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York, NY 10011.
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BENJAMIN SALTMAN POETRY AWARD
Felicia Zamora of Phoenix won the 2018
Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award for
Body of Render. She received $3,000,collection. The next deadline is Decem-
ber 31.
Press 53, Award for Short Fiction, 560
North Trade Street, Suite 103, Winston-
Salem, NC 27101. (336) 770-5353. Kevin
Morgan Watson, Publisher.
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LITERARY AWARDS
Joseph Cassara of Fresno, California,
won the Edmund White Award for
Debut Fiction for his novel, The House of
Impossible Beauties (Ecco). John R. Gordon
of London won the Ferro-Grumley
Award for LGBTQ Fiction for his
novel Drapetomania (Team Angelica).
Imani Perry of Philadelphia won the Judy
Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction
for her biography, Looking for Lorraine:
The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine
Hansberry (Beacon Press). Alexander Chee
of New York City and Bradford, Ver-
mont, won the Randy Shilts Award for
Gay Nonfiction for his essay collection,
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Margaree
Little of Tucson, Arizona, won the Audre
Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry for her
collection, Rest (Four Way Books). Hieu
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Ryan McFadden of Berkeley, California,
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