The Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature is an annual

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, presented by

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to honour works of literature on

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themes."Triangle Awards Finalists Announced"
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'', March 14, 2016. 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

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author, while a work of non-fiction may be written or cowritten by a

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writer as long as it addresses transgender themes. The award comes with a cash prize of

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1,000.

Winners

*2016 —

Nathanaël Nathanaël (born 1970 in Montreal) is a Canadian writer, literary translator and educator. Some of her works have been published under her legal name ''Nathalie Stephens''. She lives in Chicago.

, ''The Middle Notebookes'' *2017 —

Vivek Shraya Vivek Shraya (born February 15, 1981) is a Canadian musician, writer, and visual artist. She currently lives in Calgary, Alberta, where she is an assistant professor in the creative writing program at the University of Calgary. As a trans woman of ...

, ''even this page is white'' *2018 —

Reina Gossett Tourmaline (born 1983; formerly known as Reina Gossett) is an American artist, filmmaker, activist, editor, and writer. She is a transgender woman who identifies as queer. Tourmaline is most notable for her work in transgender activism and econo ...

, Eric A. Stanley and Johanna Burton, eds., ''Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility'' *2019 — Ely Shipley, ''Some Animal'' *2020 —

Kai Cheng Thom Kai Cheng Thom is a Canadian writerBritni de la Cretaz"Author Kai Cheng Thom on Writing a New Kind of Transgender Memoir" ''Teen Vogue'', April 15, 2017. and former social worker. Thom, a non-binary trans woman, has published four books, including ...

, ''I Hope We Choose Love'' *2021 — Hil Malatino, ''Trans Care'' *2022 —

Ari Banias Ari Banias is an American poet whose work has been featured in ''Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics'', ''American Poetry Review'', ''Boston Review'', and ''POETRY.'' Early life and education Banias was born in Los An ...

, ''A Symmetry''"Anthony Veasna So wins posthumous award for LGBTQ fiction"
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'', May 11, 2022.

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