# Edmund White Award

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

## Recipients

Award winners and finalists :
| Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Result |
| 2006 | Mack Friedman | Setting the Lawn on Fire | University of Wisconsin Press | Winner |
| 2006 | Charlie Jane Anders | Choir Boys | Soft Skull Press | Finalist |
| 2006 | Katia Noyes | Crashing America | Alyson Books | Finalist |
| 2007 | Martin Hyatt | A Scarecrow’s Bible | Suspect Thoughts Press | Winner |
| 2007 | Alex McLennan | The Zookeeper | Alyson Books | Finalist |
| 2007 | Eduardo Santiago | Tomorrow They Will Kiss | Little, Brown | Finalist |
| 2008 | Myriam Gurba | Dahlia Season | Manic C Press | Winner |
| 2008 | Bob Smith | Selfish and Perverse | Carroll & Graf | Finalist |
| 2008 | James Cañón | Tales from the Town of Widows | HarperCollins | Finalist |
| 2009 | Evan Fallenberg | Light Fell | Soho Press | Winner |
| 2009 | Alistair McCartney | The End of the World Book | University of Wisconsin Press | Finalist |
| 2009 | Shawn Stewart Ruff | Finlater | Quote Editions | Finalist |
| 2010 | Lori Ostlund | The Bigness of the World | University of Georgia Press | Winner |
| 2010 | Elise Moser | Because I Have Loved and Hidden It | Cormorant Books | Finalist |
| 2010 | Rakesh Satyal | Blue Boy | Kensington | Finalist |
| 2011 | Katharine Beutner | Alcestis | Soho Press | Winner |
| 2011 | Catherine Kirkwood | Cut Away | Arktoi Books | Finalist |
| 2011 | Michael Alenyikov | Ivan and Misha | Triquarterly/Northwestern University Press | Finalist |
| 2012 | Lara Fergus | My Sister Chaos | Spinifex Press | Winner |
| 2012 | Garth Greenwell | Mitko | Miami University Press | Finalist |
| 2012 | Justin Torres | We the Animals | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Finalist |
| 2012 | Laurie Weeks | Zipper Mouth | The Feminist Press | Finalist |
| 2013 | Lysley Tenorio | Monstress | Ecco/HarperCollins | Winner |
| 2013 | Carter Sickels | The Evening Hour | Bloomsbury | Finalist |
| 2013 | E. J. Levy | Love, in Theory | University of Georgia Press | Finalist |
| 2013 | Monica Trasandes | Broken Like This | Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's | Finalist |
| 2014 | Sara Farizan | If You Could Be Mine | Algonquin Young Readers | Winner |
| 2014 | Derek Palacio | How to Shake the Other Man | Nouvella | Finalist |
| 2014 | Rick Whitaker | An Honest Ghost | Jaded Ibis Press | Finalist |
| 2014 | Sandra Moran | Letters Never Sent | Bedazzled Ink | Finalist |
| 2015 | Kim Fu | For Today I Am a Boy | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Winner |
| 2015 | Alden Jones | Unaccompanied Minors | New American Press | Finalist |
| 2015 | Michael Carroll | Little Reef and Other Stories | University of Wisconsin Press | Finalist |
| 2015 | Shelly Oria | New York 1, Tel Aviv 0 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Finalist |
| 2016 | Carellin Brooks | One Hundred Days of Rain | BookThug | Winner |
| 2016 | Ioannis Pappos | Hotel Living | HarperPerennial/HarperCollins | Finalist |
| 2016 | Mecca Jamilah Sullivan | Blue Talk and Love | Riverdale Avenue Books | Finalist |
| 2016 | Tanwi Nandini Islam | Bright Lines | Penguin Books | Finalist |
| 2017 | Joe Okonkwo | Jazz Moon | Kensington | Winner |
| 2017 | Kathy Anderson | Bull and Other Stories | Autumn House Press | Finalist |
| 2017 | Matthew Griffin | Hide | Bloomsbury USA | Finalist |
| 2017 | R. J. Hernández | An Innocent Fashion | HarperPerennial/HarperCollins | Finalist |
| 2018 | S. J. Sindu | Marriage of a Thousand Lies | Soho Press | Winner |
| 2018 | Carmen Maria Machado | Her Body and Other Parties | Graywolf Press | Finalist |
| 2018 | Catherine Hernandez | Scarborough | Arsenal Pulp Press | Finalist |
| 2018 | Fiona Mozley | Elmet | Algonquin Books | Finalist |
| 2019 | Joseph Cassara | The House of Impossible Beauties | Ecco/HarperCollins | Winner |
| 2019 | Akwaeke Emezi | Freshwater | Grove Press | Finalist |
| 2019 | Ana Simo | Heartland | Restless Books | Finalist |
| 2019 | Dan Callahan | That Was Something | Squares and Rebels | Finalist |
| 2020 | Téa Mutonji | Shut Up You’re Pretty | Arsenal Pulp Press | Winner |
| 2020 | Bryan Washington | Lot | Riverhead | Finalist |
| 2020 | De'Shawn Charles Winslow | In West Mills | Bloomsbury | Finalist |
| 2020 | Kimberly King Parsons | Black Light | Vintage | Finalist |
| 2021 | Julia Serano | 99 Erics: A Kat Cataclysm Faux Novel | Switch Hitter Press | Winner |
| 2021 | Brandon Taylor | Real Life | Riverhead | Finalist |
| 2021 | Eddy Boudel Tan | After Elias | Dundurn Press | Finalist |
| 2021 | Sophie Yanow | The Contradictions | Drawn and Quarterly | Finalist |
| 2022 | Robert Jones Jr. | The Prophets | G.P. Putnam's Sons | Winner |
| 2022 | Callum Angus | A Natural History of Transition | Metonymy Press | Finalist |
| 2022 | Claire Cox | Silver Beach | University of Massachusetts Press | Finalist |
| 2022 | Nawaaz Ahmed | Radiant Fugitives | Counterpoint Press | Finalist |
| 2023 | Estela Gonzalez | Arribada | Cynren Press | Winner |
| 2023 | Alyssa Songsiridej | Little Rabbit | Bloomsbury US | Finalist |
| 2023 | David Santos Donaldson | Greenland | Amistad/HarperCollins | Finalist |
| 2023 | Eloghosa Osunde | Vagabonds! | Riverhead Books/Penguin | Finalist |
| 2023 | Morgan Thomas | Manywhere | MCD Books/Farrar, Straus Giroux | Finalist |
| 2024 | Ani Kayode Somtochukwu | And Then He Sang a Lullaby | Grove Atlantic | Winner |
| 2024 | Selby Wynn Schwartz | After Sappho | Liveright | Finalist |
| 2024 | C. E. McGill | Our Hideous Progeny | HarperCollins | Finalist |
| 2024 | Chloe Chun Seim | Churn: A Novel in Stories | Texas Review Press: The University Press of Sam Houston State University | Finalist |
| 2025 | Jiaming Tang | Cinema Love | Dutton | Finalist |
| 2025 | Elliott Gish | Grey Dog | ECW Press | Finalist |
| 2025 | Muriel Leung | How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster | W. W. Norton & Company | Finalist |
| 2025 | Asha Thanki | A Thousand Times Before | Viking | Finalist |