Join nine of the best LGBT writers of 2017 on Wednesday, April 25, at 7 PM, at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division as they read from their work, all of which are finalists for the prestigious Publishing Triangle and Ferro-Grumley awards to be announced on Thursday, April 26, at the Publishing Triangle Awards Ceremony & Reception, at New School’s Tishman Auditorium, 63 Fifth Avenue, in Greenwich Village, New York.
 
Copies of the nominated books are available for purchase at the Bureau. To reserve a copy of one or more of the books please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. Please support the Bureau by buying books from us. Thank you!
 
Featuring:
 

Frank Bidart, Half-Light: Collected Poems, 1965-2016, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Finalist for the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry

Frankie Edozien, Lives of Great Men (Team Angelica Publishing), Finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction

Peter Gajdics, The Inheritance of Shame (Brown Paper Press), Finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction

Catherine Hernandez, Scarborough (Arsenal Pulp Press), Finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction

Matthew Lansburgh, Outside is the Ocean (University of Iowa Press), Finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction

Paula Martinac, The Ada Decades (Bywater Books), Finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction

Maureen N. McLane, Some Say (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Finalist for the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry

Alistair McCartney, The Disintegrations (University of Wisconsin Press), Finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction

Charif Shanahan, Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing (Southern Illinois University Press), Finalist for the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry