Ferro-Grumley Award Explained

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 LGBT 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! scope="col" width="10%"
CategoryAuthorTItleResult
1990MenCloserWinner
WomenEye of the HurricaneWinner
1991MenWinner
WomenHerWinner
1992MenVanishing RoomsWinner
WomenWinner
1993MenLet the Dead Bury Their DeadWinner
WomenBastard Out of CarolinaWinner
1994MenMidnight in the Garden of Good and EvilWinner
WomenWritten on the BodyWinner
1995MenAmerican StudiesWinner
WomenHouse RulesWinner
1996MenLike People in HistoryWinner
WomenRat BohemiaWinner[1]

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

Year! scope="col" width="20%"
AuthorTItlePublisherResult||- style="background:lightyellow"! rowspan="3" |1997||||Winner||-||||Finalist||-||||Finalist||- style="background:lightyellow"! rowspan="3" |1998||||Winner||-||||Finalist||-||Bruiser||Finalist||- style="background:lightyellow"! rowspan="3" |1999||||Winner||-||||Finalist||-||||Finalist||- style="background:lightyellow"! rowspan="3" |2000|||St. Martin’s Press|Winner|[2] |-||Allan Stein|Grove|Finalist||-||Breakfast with Scot|Counterpoint|Finalist||- style="background:lightyellow"! rowspan="3" |2001|||Alfred A. Knopf|Winner||-||Guess Again: Stories|Simon and Schuster|Finalist||-||Martin Bauman; Or, A Sure Thing|Houghton Mifflin|Finalist||- style="background:lightyellow"! rowspan="3" |2002|||Viking Press|Winner||-||Edinburgh|Welcome Rain Publishers|Finalist||-|||Bloomsbury|Finalist||- style="background:lightyellow"! rowspan="3" |2003||At Swim, Two Boys|Scribner|Winner||-|||St. Martin’s Press|Finalist||-||Avoidance|Graywolf Press|Finalist||- style="background:lightyellow"! rowspan="3" |2004||Through It Came Bright Colors|Harrington Park Press|Winner||-||Lives of the Circus Animals|William Morrow|Finalist||-|||Simon and Schuster|Finalist||- style="background:lightyellow"! rowspan="3" |2005||Belmondo Style|St. Martin’s Press|Winner||-|||Scribner|Finalist||-||Van Allen’s Ecstasy|Southern Tier Editions|Finalist||- style="background:lightyellow"! rowspan="3" |2006|||Carroll & Graf|Winner|[3] |-||Still Life with June|St. Martin’s Press|Finalist||-||Branwell|Soft Skull Press|Finalist||- style="background:lightyellow"! rowspan="3" |2007||Exiles in America|William Morrow|Winner|[4] |-|||Suspect Thoughts Press|Finalist||-||Alternatives to Sex|Simon and Schuster|Finalist||}

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

Year! scope="col" width="20%"
AuthorTItlePublisherResult|
|- style="background:lightyellow"! rowspan="3" |1997||Sunnybrook||Winner||-||Love and Death and Other Stories||Finalist||-||Old Love||Finalist||- style="background:lightyellow"! rowspan="3" |1998||Beyond the Pale||Winner||-||Fall on Your Knees||Finalist||-||Soul Kiss||Finalist||- style="background:lightyellow"! rowspan="3" |1999||||Winner||-||Like||Finalist||-||Don’t Explain||Finalist||- style="background:lightyellow"! rowspan="3" |2000||What She Left Me|Middlebury Press|Winner||-||Shy Girl|Farrar, Straus and Giroux|Finalist||-||Tipping the Velvet|Riverhead|Finalist||- style="background:lightyellow"! rowspan="3" |2001||Affinity|Riverhead|Winner||-||Cool for You|Soft Skull Press|Finalist||-|||Alyson Books|Finalist||- style="background:lightyellow"! rowspan="3" |2002||Slammerkin|Harcourt|Winner||-||Days of Awe|Ballantine|Finalist||-||Light Coming Back|Alyson Books|Finalist||- style="background:lightyellow"! rowspan="3" |2003||Lucky in the Corner|Houghton Mifflin|Winner||-||Hunger|Oberon Press|Finalist||-||Dear First Love|HarperCollins|Finalist||- style="background:lightyellow"! rowspan="3" |2004||Southland|Akashic Books|Winner||-||Dykes & Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life-Forms to Watch Out For|Alyson Books|Finalist||-|||City Lights|Finalist||- style="background:lightyellow"! rowspan="3" |2005|||Houghton Mifflin|Winner||-||Life Mask|Harcourt|Finalist||-||Notice|Serpent’s Tail|Finalist||- style="background:lightyellow"! rowspan="3" |2006||Brian in Three Seasons|Permanent Press|Winner||-||Gotta Find Me an Angel|Raincoast Books|Finalist||-||Loose End|Arsenal Pulp Press|Finalist||- style="background:lightyellow"! rowspan="3" |2007||Every Visible Thing|William Morrow|Winner||-||Bow Grip|Arsenal Pulp Press|Finalist||-|||City Lights|Finalist||}

Ferro Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction (2008-present)

Year! scope="col" width="20%"
AuthorTItlePublisherResult||- style="background:lightyellow"! rowspan="7" |2008||Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You|Frances Foster Books|Winner|[5] |- style="background:lightyellow"|||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||- style="background:lightyellow"! rowspan="6" |2009|||Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|Winner|[6] |-|||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||- style="background:lightyellow"! rowspan="6" |2010|||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||- style="background:lightyellow"! rowspan="6" |2011|||Counterpoint Press|Winner|[7] |-||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||- style="background:lightyellow"! rowspan="6" |2012|||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||- style="background:lightyellow"! rowspan="6" |2013|||University of Wisconsin Press|Winner|[8] |-|||Semiotex[e]|Finalist||-|||Arsenal Pulp Press|Finalist|[9] |-||By Blood|Farrar, Straus and Giroux|Finalist||-||Sea Change|Starbooks Press|Finalist||-||King of Angels|Belhue Press|Finalist||- style="background:lightyellow"! rowspan="5" |2014||If You Could Be Mine|Algonquin Young Readers|Winner|[10] [11] |-||Local Souls|Liveright|Finalist|[12] |-||All This Talk of Love|Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill|Finalist||-|||Bloomsbury USA|Finalist||-||Where You Can Find Me|Thomas Dunne Books|Finalist||- style="background:lightyellow"! rowspan="5" |2015||Mr. Loverman|Akashic Books|Winner|[13] |-||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|[14] |-||I Loved You More|Hawthorne Books|Finalist||- style="background:lightyellow"! rowspan="5" |2016|||Picador|Winner|[15] |-||Under the Udala Trees|Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|Finalist|[16] |-|||Doubleday|Finalist||-||After the Parade|Scribner|Finalist||-||JD|Terrace Books|Finalist||- style="background:lightyellow"! rowspan="5" |2017||They May Not Mean To, But They Do|Sarah Crichton Books|Winner|[17] [18] |-|||Chelsea Station Editions|Finalist||-||Advocate|Cormorant Books|Finalist|[19] |-|||University of Wisconsin Press|Finalist||-|Sjón, by Victoria Cribb|Moonstone|Farrar, Straus and Giroux|Finalist||- style="background:lightyellow"! rowspan="5" |2018|||University of Wisconsin Press|Winner|[20] |-||Her Body and Other Parties|Graywolf Press|Finalist||-|||Hogarth|Finalist||-||Outside Is the Ocean|University of Iowa Press|Finalist||-|||Bywater Books|Finalist||- style="background:lightyellow"! rowspan="5" |2019||Drapetomania|Team Angelica|Winner|[21] |-||Eden|Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|Finalist|[22] |-|||Hogarth|Finalist||-|||Rare Bird|Finalist||-||Tin Man|Putnam|Finalist||- style="background:lightyellow"! rowspan="6" |2020||On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous|Penguin Press|Winner|[23] [24] |-||Girl, Woman, Other|Black Cat|Finalist|[25] |-||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||- style="background:lightyellow"! rowspan="5" |2021||Fiebre Tropical|Feminist Press|Winner|[26] [27] |-||Apsara Engine|Feminist Press|Finalist||-||Memorial|Riverhead|Finalist||-||Neotenica|Nightboat Books|Finalist||-|||Avid Reader Press|Finalist||- style="background:lightyellow"! rowspan="5" |2022||Afterparties|Ecco|Winner|[28] [29] |-|||Pegasus Books|Finalist||-|||Dundurn Press|Finalist||-||Summer Fun|Soho Press|Finalist||-||Milk Fed|Scribner|Finalist||- style="background:lightyellow"! rowspan="6" |2023||Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta|Little, Brown & Co.|Winner|[30] [31] |-||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||- style=background:lightyellow! rowspan="5" |2024||Pomegranate|Atria Books|Winner|[32] [33] |-||Chain-Gang All-Stars|Penguin Random House|Finalist|[34] |-|, by Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch |Dandelion Daughter|Esplanade Books|Finalist||-||Girlfriends|LittlePuss Press|Finalist||-|, by Elina Alter|Wound|Catapult Books|Finalist||}

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2018-03-12 . Awards: Publishing Triangle Finalists . 2024-05-20 . . 2022-10-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221027163322/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3202 . live .
  2. Web site: 2012-04-20 . Image of the day: Triangle Winners . 2024-05-20 . . 2024-05-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240510232929/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1721 . live .
  3. Web site: 2006-05-12 . Awards: The 18th Annual Triangles . 2024-05-20 . . 2023-11-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231129211435/https://shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=209 . live .
  4. Web site: 2007-05-08 . Awards: Publishing Triangle, Ferro-Grumley, Chesley . 2024-05-20 . . 2017-10-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171001222524/http://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=432 . live .
  5. Web site: 2008-04-29 . Awards: Winners of Nebula; Triangle; Eric Hoffer . 2024-05-20 . . 2017-10-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171002023202/http://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=665 . live .
  6. Web site: 2009-05-08 . Awards: Triangle; Irish Book . 2024-05-20 . . 2022-10-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221014185508/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=918 . live .
  7. Web site: 2011-05-02 . Awards: L.A. Times Book Prizes; BTBA; Triangle . 2024-05-20 . . 2022-03-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220316192018/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1453 . live .
  8. Web site: Bookey . Seth J. . 2013-05-08 . Going for the Silver – Gay City News . 2024-05-20 . . en-US . 2022-02-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220205161648/https://gaycitynews.com/going-for-the-silver/ . live .
  9. Web site: 2013-05-04 . Barry Webster: The Lava in My Bones . 2024-05-20 . . 2023-12-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231202100502/https://www.cbc.ca/allinaweekend/books/2013/05/04/barry-webster-the-lava-in-my-bones/ . live .
  10. Web site: 2014-04-25 . Triangle Award Winners Revealed . 2024-05-20 . . en . 2020-08-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200809054603/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/62008-triangle-award-winners-revealed.html . live .
  11. Web site: 2014-04-25 . Awards: Cervantes Winner; Triangle Winners; Orwell Shortlist . 2024-05-20 . . 2024-05-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240518232333/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2237 . live .
  12. Web site: 2014-03-12 . Triangle Award Finalists Named . 2024-05-20 . . en . 2023-12-29 . 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 . live .
  13. Web site: 2015-04-24 . Awards: Triangle; Thwaites Wainwright; CrimeFest . 2024-05-20 . . 2022-07-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220719231717/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2493 . live .
  14. Web site: Robertson . Becky . 2015-03-10 . Kim Fu and Raziel Reid finalists for U.S. Triangle Awards . 2024-05-20 . . en . 2023-12-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231227005510/https://quillandquire.com/awards/2015/03/10/kim-fu-and-raziel-reid-finalists-for-u-s-triangle-awards/ . live .
  15. Web site: 2016-04-22 . Awards: Triangle; Orwell; James Tait Black . 2024-05-20 . . 2024-04-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240422044547/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2738 . live .
  16. Web site: 2017-03-14 . Awards: Publishing Triangle; Yale Younger Poets . 2024-05-20 . . 2024-02-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240223210844/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2956 . live .
  17. Web site: 2017-05-01 . Vivek Shraya wins Publishing Triangle Award for even this page is white . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20170601173622/http://www.cbc.ca/books/2017/05/vivek-shraya-wins-publishing-triangle-award-for-even-this-page-is-white.html . 2017-06-01 . 2024-05-19 . CBC Books.
  18. Web site: 2017-04-28 . Awards: Edgars; Publishing Triangle; Chicago Tribune YA; Dewdney Read Together . 2024-05-20 . . 2023-12-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231203164514/https://shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2990#m36324 . live .
  19. Web site: Carter . Sue . 2017-03-13 . Vivek Shraya, Ma-Nee Chacaby, Darren Greer nominated for Publishing Triangle Awards . 2024-05-20 . . en . 2023-12-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231227005013/https://quillandquire.com/awards/2017/03/13/vivek-shraya-ma-nee-chacaby-darren-greer-nominated-for-publishing-triangle-awards/ . live .
  20. Web site: 2018-04-27 . Awards: Edgars; Publishing Triangle . 2024-05-20 . . 2022-09-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220920163719/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3237 . live .
  21. Web site: Maher . John . 2019-04-26 . This Year's Triangle Award Winners Announced . 2024-05-20 . . en . 2019-05-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190505215255/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/79885-2018-triangle-award-winners-announced.html . live .
  22. Web site: Reid . Calvin . 2019-03-11 . Finalists, Achievement Winners Announced for 2019 Triangle Lit Awards . 2024-05-20 . . en . 2023-09-27 . 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 . live .
  23. Web site: Yohannes . Samraweet . 2020-05-01 . Téa Mutonji and Kai Cheng Thom among winners of 2020 Publishing Triangle Awards for LGBTQ literature . 2024-05-19 . . 2020-05-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200504090335/https://www.cbc.ca/books/t%C3%A9a-mutonji-and-kai-cheng-thom-among-winners-of-2020-publishing-triangle-awards-for-lgbtq-literature-1.5552236 . live .
  24. Web site: 2020-05-04 . Awards: Triangle, Wolff Translator's Winners . 2024-05-20 . . 2022-09-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220921231546/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3731 . live .
  25. Web site: Yohannes . Samraweet . 2020-03-23 . Samra Habib, Kai Cheng Thom and Téa Mutonji among finalists for 2020 Publishing Triangle Awards . 2024-05-20 . . 2020-03-27 . 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 . live .
  26. Web site: May 12, 2021 . 2021 Triangle Award Winners Announced . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210519135207/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=3254 . May 19, 2021 . May 19, 2021 . Publishers Weekly.
  27. Web site: 2021-05-13 . Awards: Triangle Winners; Firecracker Finalists . 2024-05-20 . . 2023-12-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231203175401/https://shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3985 . live .
  28. Web site: 2022-05-11 . Anthony Veasna So wins posthumous award for LGBTQ fiction . 2024-05-20 . . en . . 2024-05-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240520023736/https://www.thestar.com/life/anthony-veasna-so-wins-posthumous-award-for-lgbtq-fiction/article_9d06de7a-b6fb-5475-b72a-be0d9be7b0f6.html . live .
  29. Web site: 2022-05-12 . Awards: Triangle Winners . 2024-05-20 . . 2023-06-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230601062507/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4231 . live .
  30. Web site: April 28, 2023 . 2023 Publishing Triangle Award Winners Announced . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230429131754/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=4189 . April 29, 2023 . May 3, 2023 . . en.
  31. Web site: 2023-05-01 . Awards: Publishing Triangle Winners . 2024-05-20 . . 2023-12-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231224151850/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4470 . live .
  32. Web site: Albanese . Andrew . 2024-04-18 . Helen Elaine Lee, Joseph Plaster Among 2024 Publishing Triangle Award Winners . 2024-05-20 . . en . 2024-05-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240515222113/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/94849-helen-elaine-lee-joseph-plaster-among-2024-publishing-triangle-award-winners.html . live .
  33. Web site: 2024-04-18 . Awards: Publishing Triangle Winners; Donner Shortlist . 2024-05-20 . . 2024-05-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240508012448/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4708#m63518 . live .
  34. Web site: 2024-03-18 . 2024 Publishing Triangle Awards Finalists Announced . 2024-05-20 . . en-US . 2024-04-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240428141600/https://publishingtriangle.org/2024/03/2024-publishing-triangle-awards-finalists-announced/ . live .

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