Ferro-Grumley 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[edit]

Gay male fiction[edit]

• 1990 — Dennis Cooper, Closer
• 1991 — Allen Barnett, The Body and Its Dangers
• 1992 — Melvin Dixon, Vanishing Rooms
• 1993 — Randall Kenan, Let the Dead Bury Their Dead
• 1994 — John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
• 1995 — Mark Merlis, American Studies
• 1996 — Felice Picano, Like People in History
• 1997 — Andrew Holleran, The Beauty of Men
• 1998 — Colm Tóibín, The Story of the Night
• 1999 — Michael Cunningham, The Hours
• 2000 — Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
• 2001 — Edmund White, The Married Man
• 2002 — David Ebershoff, The Rose City
• 2003 — Jamie O'Neill, At Swim, Two Boys
• 2004 — Trebor Healey, Through It Came Bright Colors
• 2005 — Adam Berlin, Belmondo Style
• 2006 — Barry McCrea, The First Verse
• 2007 — Christopher Bram, Exiles in America
• 2008 — Peter Cameron, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

Lesbian fiction[edit]

• 1990 — Ruthann Robson, Eye of the Hurricane
• 1991 — Cherry Muhanji, Her
• 1992 — Blanche McCrary Boyd, The Revolution of Little Girls
• 1993 — Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina
• 1994 — Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
• 1995 — Heather Lewis, House Rules
• 1996 — Sarah Schulman, Rat Bohemia
• 1997 — Persimmon Blackbridge, Sunnybrook
• 1998 — Elana Dykewomon, Beyond the Pale
• 1999 — Patricia Powell, The Pagoda
• 2000 — Judy Doenges, What She Left Me
• 2001 — Sarah Waters, Affinity
• 2002 — Emma Donoghue, Slammerkin
• 2003 — Carol Anshaw, Lucky in the Corner
• 2004 — Nina Revoyr, Southland
• 2005 — Stacey D'Erasmo, A Seahorse Year
• 2006 — Patricia Grossman, Brian in Three Seasons
• 2007 — Lisa Carey, Every Visible Thing
• 2008 — Ali Liebegott, The IHOP Papers

Merged award[edit]

• 2009 — Alison Bechdel, The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For
• 2010 — Sebastian Stuart, The Hour Between
• 2011 — Michael Sledge, The More I Owe You
• 2012 — Paul Russell, The Unreal Life of Sergei Nabokov
• 2013 — Trebor Healey, A Horse Named Sorrow^[1]
• 2014 — Sara Farizan, If You Could Be Mine
• 2015 — Bernardine Evaristo, Mr Loverman
• 2016 — Michael Golding, A Poet of the Invisible World
• 2017 — Cathleen Schine, They May Not Mean To, But They Do^[2]
• 2018 — Alistair McCartney, The Disintegrations
• 2019 — John R. Gordon, Drapetomania^[3]
• 2020 — Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous^[4]
• 2021 — Juli Delgado Lopera, Fiebre Tropical^[5]
• 2022 — Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties^[6]
• 2023 — James Hannaham, Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta^[7]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Publishing Triangle Awards