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LGBT literary award
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)
Ferro-Grumley Award for Gay Fiction (1997-2007)
Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction (1997-2007)
Ferro Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction (2008-present)
Award winners and finalists[ 1]
Year
Author
TItle
Publisher
Result
|Ref.
2008[ b]
Peter Cameron
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
Frances Foster Books
Winner
[ 6]
Ali Liebegott
The IHOP Papers
Carroll & Graf
Winner
[ 6]
Brian Malloy
Brendan Wolf
Finalist
André Aciman
Call Me by Your Name
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Finalist
Sarah Schulman
The Child
Carroll & Graf
Finalist
Felicia Luna Lemus
Like Son
Akashic Books
Finalist
Armistead Maupin
Michael Tolliver Lives
HarperCollins
Finalist
2009[ c]
Alison Bechdel
The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Winner
[ 7]
Andrew Sean Greer
The Story of a Marriage
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Finalist
Benjamin Taylor
The Book of Getting Even
Steerforth
Finalist
Blair Mastbaum
Us Ones in Between
Running Press
Finalist
David Ebershoff
The 19th Wife
Random House
Finalist
Ellen Wittlinger
Love and Lies
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Finalist
2010
Sebastian Stuart
The Hour Between
Alyson Books
Winner
Barb Johnson
More of This World or Maybe Another
HarperPerennial
Finalist
Eleanor Lerman
The Blonde on the Train
Mayapple Press
Finalist
G. Winston James
Shaming the Devil
Top Pen Press
Finalist
Jill Malone
A Field Guide to Deception
Bywater Books
Finalist
Vestal McIntyre
Lake Overturn
Harper
Finalist
2011
Michael Sledge
The More I Owe You
Counterpoint Press
Winner
[ 8]
Daniel Allen Cox
Krakow Melt
Arsenal Pulp Press
Finalist
Daniel Black
Perfect Peace
St. Martin’s Press
Finalist
David McConnell
The Silver Hearted
Alyson Books
Finalist
Eileen Myles
Inferno
OR Books
Finalist
Lucy Jane Bledsoe
The Big Bang Symphony
University of Wisconsin Press
Finalist
2012
Paul Russell
The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov
Cleis Press
Winner
Alan Hollinghurst
The Stranger's Child
Alfred A. Knopf
Finalist
Bob Smith
Remembrance of Things I Forgot
University of Wisconsin Press
Finalist
Rahul Mehta
Quarantine
HarperPerennial
Finalist
Shannon Cain
The Necessity of Certain Behaviors
University of Pittsburgh Press
Finalist
Suzette Mayr
Monoceros
Coach House Press
Finalist
2013
Trebor Healey
A Horse Named Sorrow
University of Wisconsin Press
Winner
[ 9]
Abdelleh Taïa
An Arab Melancholia
Semiotex[e]
Finalist
Barry Webster
The Lava in My Bones
Arsenal Pulp Press
Finalist
[ 10]
Ellen Ullman
By Blood
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Finalist
Ken Anderson
Sea Change
Starbooks Press
Finalist
Perry Brass
King of Angels
Belhue Press
Finalist
2014
Sara Farizan
If You Could Be Mine
Algonquin Young Readers
Winner
[ 11] [ 12]
Allan Gurganus
Local Souls
Liveright
Finalist
[ 13]
Christopher Castellani
All This Talk of Love
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Finalist
[ 13]
David Leavitt
The Two Hotel Francforts
Bloomsbury USA
Finalist
[ 13]
Sheri Joseph
Where You Can Find Me
Thomas Dunne Books
Finalist
[ 13]
2015
Bernardine Evaristo
Mr. Loverman
Akashic Books
Winner
[ 14]
Barry Brennessel
Sideways Down the Sky
MLR Press
Finalist
Judith Frank
All I Love and Know
William Morrow
Finalist
Raziel Reid
When Everything Feels Like the Movies
Arsenal Pulp Press
Finalist
[ 15]
Tom Spanbauer
I Loved You More
Hawthorne Books
Finalist
2016
Michael Golding
A Poet of the Invisible World
Picador
Winner
[ 16]
Chinelo Okparanta
Under the Udala Trees
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Finalist
[ 17]
Hanya Yanagihara
A Little Life
Doubleday
Finalist
Lori Ostlund
After the Parade
Scribner
Finalist
Mark Merlis
JD
Terrace Books
Finalist
2017
Cathleen Schine
They May Not Mean To, But They Do
Sarah Crichton Books
Winner
[ 18] [ 19]
Alan Lessik
The Troubleseeker
Chelsea Station Editions
Finalist
Darren Greer
Advocate
Cormorant Books
Finalist
[ 20]
Lucy Jane Bledsoe
A Thin Bright Line
University of Wisconsin Press
Finalist
Sjón , trans. by Victoria Cribb
Moonstone
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Finalist
2018
Alistair McCartney
The Disintegrations
University of Wisconsin Press
Winner
[ 21]
Carmen Maria Machado
Her Body and Other Parties
Graywolf Press
Finalist
John Boyne
The Heart's Invisible Furies
Hogarth
Finalist
Matthew Lansburgh
Outside Is the Ocean
University of Iowa Press
Finalist
Paula Martinac
The Ada Decades
Bywater Books
Finalist
2019
John R. Gordon
Drapetomania
Team Angelica
Winner
[ 22]
Andrea Kleine
Eden
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Finalist
[ 23]
John Boyne
A Ladder to the Sky
Hogarth
Finalist
[ 23]
Lucy Jane Bledsoe
The Evolution of Love
Rare Bird
Finalist
[ 23]
Sarah Winman
Tin Man
Putnam
Finalist
[ 23]
2020
Ocean Vuong
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Penguin Press
Winner
[ 24] [ 25]
Bernardine Evaristo
Girl, Woman, Other
Black Cat
Finalist
[ 26]
Elizabeth Earley
Like Wings, Your Hands
Red Hen Press
Finalist
[ 26]
Jacqueline Woodson
Red at the Bone
Riverhead
Finalist
[ 26]
Janice Gould (ed.)
A Generous Spirit: Selected Work by Beth Brant
Sinister Wisdom
Finalist
[ 26]
Philippe Besson ; trans. by Molly Ringwald
Lie with Me
Scribner
Finalist
[ 26]
2021
Juli Delgado Lopera
Fiebre Tropical
Feminist Press
Winner
[ 27] [ 28]
Bishakh Som
Apsara Engine
Feminist Press
Finalist
Bryan Washington
Memorial
Riverhead
Finalist
Joon Oluchi Lee
Neotenica
Nightboat Books
Finalist
Katharina Volckmer
The Appointment
Avid Reader Press
Finalist
2022
Anthony Veasna So
Afterparties
Ecco
Winner
[ 29] [ 30]
Buki Papillon
An Ordinary Wonder
Pegasus Books
Finalist
Eddy Boudel Tan
The Rebellious Tide
Dundurn Press
Finalist
Jeanne Thornton
Summer Fun
Soho Press
Finalist
Melissa Broder
Milk Fed
Scribner
Finalist
2023
James Hannaham
Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
Little, Brown & Co.
Winner
[ 31] [ 32]
Chelene Knight
Junie
Book*hug Press
Finalist
Marcial Gala , trans. by Anna Kushner
Call Me Cassandra
Farrar Straus Giroux
Finalist
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Big Girl
Liveright
Finalist
Rachel M. Harper
The Other Mother
Counterpoint
Finalist
Zain Khalid
Brother Alive
Grove Atlantic
Finalist
2024
Helen Elaine Lee
Pomegranate
Atria Books
Winner
[ 33] [ 34]
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Chain-Gang All-Stars
Penguin Random House
Finalist
[ 35]
Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay , trans. by Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch
Dandelion Daughter
Esplanade Books
Finalist
[ 35]
Emily Zhou
Girlfriends
LittlePuss Press
Finalist
[ 35]
Oksana Vasyakina , trans. by Elina Alter
Wound
Catapult Books
Finalist
[ 35]
Notes
^ Presented a special award for distinguished nonfiction
^ In 2008, seven authors competed for two prizes under a single category.
^ Starting in 2009, 5-6 finalists competed for a single award.
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