Edmund White Award


The Edmund White Award is an annual literary award, presented by Publishing Triangle to honor debut novels by writers within the LGBTQ+ community. First presented in 2006, the award was named in honor of American novelist Edmund White.

Recipients

YearAuthorTitlePublisherResult
2006Setting the Lawn on FireUniversity of Wisconsin PressWinner
2006Choir BoysSoft Skull PressFinalist
2006Crashing AmericaAlyson BooksFinalist
2007'Suspect Thoughts PressWinner
2007'Alyson BooksFinalist
2007Tomorrow They Will KissLittle, BrownFinalist
2008Dahlia SeasonManic C PressWinner
2008Selfish and PerverseCarroll & GrafFinalist
2008Tales from the Town of WidowsHarperCollinsFinalist
2009Light FellSoho PressWinner
2009'University of Wisconsin PressFinalist
2009FinlaterQuote EditionsFinalist
2010'University of Georgia PressWinner
2010Because I Have Loved and Hidden ItCormorant BooksFinalist
2010Blue BoyKensingtonFinalist
2011AlcestisSoho PressWinner
2011Cut AwayArktoi BooksFinalist
2011Ivan and MishaTriquarterly/Northwestern University PressFinalist
2012My Sister ChaosSpinifex PressWinner
2012MitkoMiami University PressFinalist
2012We the AnimalsHoughton Mifflin HarcourtFinalist
2012Zipper MouthThe Feminist PressFinalist
2013MonstressEcco/HarperCollinsWinner
2013'BloomsburyFinalist
2013Love, in TheoryUniversity of Georgia PressFinalist
2013Broken Like ThisThomas Dunne Books/St. Martin'sFinalist
2014If You Could Be MineAlgonquin Young ReadersWinner
2014How to Shake the Other ManNouvellaFinalist
2014'Jaded Ibis PressFinalist
2014Letters Never SentBedazzled InkFinalist
2015For Today I Am a BoyHoughton Mifflin HarcourtWinner
2015Unaccompanied MinorsNew American PressFinalist
2015Little Reef and Other StoriesUniversity of Wisconsin PressFinalist
2015New York 1, Tel Aviv 0Farrar, Straus and GirouxFinalist
2016One Hundred Days of RainBookThugWinner
2016Hotel LivingHarperPerennial/HarperCollinsFinalist
2016Blue Talk and LoveRiverdale Avenue BooksFinalist
2016Bright LinesPenguin BooksFinalist
2017Jazz MoonKensingtonWinner
2017Bull and Other StoriesAutumn House PressFinalist
2017HideBloomsbury USAFinalist
2017'HarperPerennial/HarperCollinsFinalist
2018Marriage of a Thousand LiesSoho PressWinner
2018Her Body and Other PartiesGraywolf PressFinalist
2018ScarboroughArsenal Pulp PressFinalist
2018ElmetAlgonquin BooksFinalist
2019'Ecco/HarperCollinsWinner
2019FreshwaterGrove PressFinalist
2019HeartlandRestless BooksFinalist
2019That Was SomethingSquares and RebelsFinalist
2020Shut Up You’re PrettyArsenal Pulp PressWinner
2020LotRiverheadFinalist
2020In West MillsBloomsburyFinalist
2020Black LightVintageFinalist
202199 Erics: A Kat Cataclysm Faux NovelSwitch Hitter PressWinner
2021Real LifeRiverheadFinalist
2021After EliasDundurn PressFinalist
2021'Drawn and QuarterlyFinalist
2022'G.P. Putnam's SonsWinner
2022'Metonymy PressFinalist
2022Silver BeachUniversity of Massachusetts PressFinalist
2022Radiant FugitivesCounterpoint PressFinalist
2023ArribadaCynren PressWinner
2023Little RabbitBloomsbury USFinalist
2023GreenlandAmistad/HarperCollinsFinalist
2023Vagabonds!Riverhead Books/PenguinFinalist
2023ManywhereMCD Books/Farrar, Straus GirouxFinalist
2024And Then He Sang a LullabyGrove AtlanticWinner
2024After SapphoLiverightFinalist
2024Our Hideous ProgenyHarperCollinsFinalist
2024Churn: A Novel in StoriesTexas Review Press: The University Press of Sam Houston State UniversityFinalist
2025Cinema LoveDuttonFinalist
2025Grey DogECW PressFinalist
2025How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable DisasterW. W. Norton & CompanyFinalist
2025'VikingFinalist