Nine finalists for Triangle Awards will read brief excerpts from their nominated works, including fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

The authors of the following nominated books will read at the Bureau on the eve of the Publishing Triangle Awards Ceremony:

Sideways Down the Sky, by Barry Brennessel (MLR Press);finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction)

How a Mirage Works, by Beverly Burch (Sixteen Rivers Press);  finalist for the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry

Little Reef and Other Stories, by Michael Carroll (University of Wisconsin Press); finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction

Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe, by Philip Gefter (Liveright/W.W. Norton); finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction

The End of Eve, by Ariel Gore (Hawthorne Books); finalist for the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction

Unaccompanied Minors, by Alden Jones (New American Press); finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction

I Don’t Know Do You, by Roberto Montes (Ampersand Books); finalist for the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry

New York 1, Tel Aviv 0, by Shelly Oria (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction

When Everything Feels Like the Movies, by Raziel Reid (Arsenal Pulp Press); finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction

The winners for the book awards will be announced at the awards ceremony on April 23, 2015 at the Auditorium of the New School in New York City.

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