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.[1] 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 comes with a cash prize of USD1,000.[1]

Recipients edit

Award winners and finalists[2]
Year Author Title Publisher Result Ref.
2016 Nathanaël The Middle Notebookes Nightboat Books Winner [3]
Corrina Bain Debridement Great Weather for Media Finalist
Jackson Wright Schultz Trans/Portraits: Voices from Transgender Communities Dartmouth College Press Finalist
Maggie Nelson The Argonauts Graywolf Press Finalist
2017 Vivek Shraya Even This Page Is White Arsenal Pulp Press Winner [4][5]
Jay Besemer Chelate Brooklyn Arts Press Finalist
Ma-Nee Chacaby with Mary Louise Plummer A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder University of Manitoba Press Finalist
Qwo-Li Driskill Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory University of Arizona Press Finalist
2018 Reina Gossett, Eric A. Stanley, and Johanna Burton (ed.) Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility The MIT Press Winner [6]
Amir Rabiyah Prayers for My 17th Chromosome Sibling Rivalry Press Finalist
Danez Smith Don’t Call Us Dead Graywolf Press Finalist
Kai Cheng Thom A Place Called No Homeland Arsenal Pulp Press Finalist
2019 Ely Shipley Some Animal Nightboat Books Winner [7]
Gwen Benaway Holy Wild Bookthug Press Finalist [8]
Jordy Rosenberg Confessions of the Fox One World/Random House Finalist [8]
Joy Ladin The Soul of the Stranger Brandeis University Press Finalist [8]
2020 Kai Cheng Thom I Hope We Choose Love Arsenal Pulp Press Winner [9][10]
Arielle Twist Disintegrate/Dissociate Arsenal Pulp Press Finalist [11]
Ellis Martin and Zach Ozma (ed.) We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan, 1961–1991 Nightboat Books Finalist [11]
Hazel Jane Plante The Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) Metonymy Press Finalist [11]
2021 Hil Malatino Trans Care University of Minnesota Press Winner [12][13]
Akwaeke Emezi The Death of Vivek Oji Riverhead Finalist
Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel (ed.) We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetry Nightboat Books Finalist
S. Brook Corfman My Daily Actions, or The Meteorites Fordham University Press Finalist
2022 Ari Banias A Symmetry W. W. Norton Winner [14]
Casey Plett A Dream of a Woman Arsenal Pulp Press Finalist
Torrey Peters Detransition, Baby One World Finalist
Zoë Playdon The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes Scribner Finalist
2023 Wo Chan Togetherness Nightboat Books Winner [15][16]
Cecilia Gentili Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist Little Puss Press Finalist
imogen xtian smith stemmy things Nightboat Books Finalist
Kemi Alabi Against Heaven Graywolf Finalist
2024 Emily Zhou Girlfriends LittlePuss Press Winner [17][18]
Oliver Radclyffe Adult Human Male Unbound Edition Press Finalist [19]
imogen xtian smith On Community Biblioasis Finalist [19]
Talia Bettcher, 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/Feminisms, by

Sinister Wisdom Finalist [19]

References edit

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