Leslie Feinberg Award
Literary award for books with transgender themes
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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.[2] The award hopes to elevate outstanding trans literary works, especially those that explore themes like gender identity, the diversity of the trans community, and the lives of trans and gender-nonconforming people.[3]
The award comes with a cash prize of USD1,000.[1]
The award was established in 2016 and renamed in 2023 to honor Leslie Feinberg, an activist and author of works like Stone Butch Blues and Transgender Warriors.[3]
Recipients
| Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Nathanaël | The Middle Notebookes | Nightboat Books | Winner | [5][4][6] |
| Corrina Bain | Debridement | Great Weather for Media | Finalist | [4][6] | |
| Jackson Wright Schultz | Trans/Portraits: Voices from Transgender Communities | Dartmouth College Press | Finalist | [4][6] | |
| Maggie Nelson | The Argonauts | Graywolf Press | Finalist | [4][6] | |
| 2017 | Vivek Shraya | Even This Page Is White | Arsenal Pulp Press | Winner | [7][8] |
| 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 | [9] |
| 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 | [10] |
| Gwen Benaway | Holy Wild | Bookthug Press | Finalist | [11] | |
| Jordy Rosenberg | Confessions of the Fox | One World/Random House | Finalist | [11] | |
| Joy Ladin | The Soul of the Stranger | Brandeis University Press | Finalist | [11] | |
| 2020 | Kai Cheng Thom | I Hope We Choose Love | Arsenal Pulp Press | Winner | [12][13] |
| Arielle Twist | Disintegrate/Dissociate | Arsenal Pulp Press | Finalist | [14] | |
| Ellis Martin and Zach Ozma (ed.) | We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan, 1961–1991 | Nightboat Books | Finalist | [14] | |
| Hazel Jane Plante | The Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) | Metonymy Press | Finalist | [14] | |
| 2021 | Hil Malatino | Trans Care | University of Minnesota Press | Winner | [15][16] |
| 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 | [17] |
| 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 | [18][19] |
| Cecilia Gentili | Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist | LittlePuss Press | Finalist | ||
| imogen xtian smith | stemmy things | Nightboat Books | Finalist | ||
| Kemi Alabi | Against Heaven | Graywolf | Finalist | ||
| 2024 | Emily Zhou | Girlfriends | LittlePuss Press | Winner | [20][21] |
| Oliver Radclyffe | Adult Human Male | Unbound Edition Press | Finalist | [22] | |
| Casey Plett | On Community | Biblioasis | Finalist | [22] | |
| 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 |
Sinister Wisdom | Finalist | [22] | |
| 2025 | Charlie J. Stephens | A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest | Torrey House Press | Winner | [23] |
| Julian Carter | Dances of Time and Tenderness | Nightboat Books | Finalist | [24] | |
| Samia Marshy and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch (eds.) | El Ghourabaa: A Queer and Trans Collection of Oddities | Metonymy Press | Finalist | [24] | |
| Joshua Jennifer Espinoza | I Don’t Want to be Understood | Alice James Books | Finalist | [24] | |
| 2026 | Mirha-Soleil Ross (ed.) | Gendertrash from Hell | LittlePuss Press | Finalist | [25] |
| Jzl Jmz | Local Woman | Nightboat Books | Finalist | [25] | |
| Tourmaline | Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson | Tiny Reparations Books | Finalist | [25] | |
| dezireé a. brown | they/she/he: ritual to forget your (un)becoming | Host Publications | Finalist | [25] | |
| Zefyr Lisowski | Uncanny Valley Girls | Harper Perennial | Finalist | [25] |