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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

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Ferro-Grumley Award for Literary Excellence (1990–1996)

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Award winners[1]
Year Category Author TItle Result Ref.
1990 Men Dennis Cooper Closer Winner
Women Ruthann Robson Eye of the Hurricane Winner
1991 Men Allen Barnett The Body and Its Dangers Winner
Women Cherry Muhanji Her Winner
1992 Men Melvin Dixon Vanishing Rooms Winner
Women Blanche McCrary Boyd The Revolution of Little Girls Winner
1993 Men Randall Kenan Let the Dead Bury Their Dead Winner
Women Dorothy Allison Bastard Out of Carolina Winner
1994 Men John Berendt Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil[a] Winner
Women Jeanette Winterson Written on the Body Winner
1995 Men Mark Merlis American Studies Winner
Women Heather Lewis House Rules Winner
1996 Men Felice Picano Like People in History Winner
Women Sarah Schulman Rat Bohemia Winner [2]

Ferro-Grumley Award for Gay Fiction (1997–2007)

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Award winners and finalists[1]
Year Author TItle Publisher Result |Ref.
1997 Andrew Holleran The Beauty of Men Winner
J. S. Marcus The Captain’s Fire Finalist
Michael Nava The Death of Friends Finalist
1998 Colm Tóibín The Story of the Night Winner
Edmund White The Farewell Symphony Finalist
Richard House Bruiser Finalist
1999 Michael Cunningham The Hours Winner
Keith Ridgway The Long Falling Finalist
Michael Lowenthal The Same Embrace Finalist
2000 Paul Russell The Coming Storm St. Martin’s Press Winner [3]
Matthew Stadler Allan Stein Grove Finalist
Michael Downing Breakfast with Scot Counterpoint Finalist
2001 Edmund White The Married Man Alfred A. Knopf Winner
Bernard Cooper Guess Again: Stories Simon and Schuster Finalist
David Leavitt Martin Bauman; Or, A Sure Thing Houghton Mifflin Finalist
2002 David Ebershoff The Rose City Viking Press Winner
Alexander Chee Edinburgh Welcome Rain Publishers Finalist
JT LeRoy The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things Bloomsbury Finalist
2003 Jamie O’Neill At Swim, Two Boys Scribner Winner
Brian Malloy The Year of Ice St. Martin’s Press Finalist
Michael Lowenthal Avoidance Graywolf Press Finalist
2004 Trebor Healey Through It Came Bright Colors Harrington Park Press Winner
Christopher Bram Lives of the Circus Animals William Morrow Finalist
John Rowell The Music of Your Life Simon and Schuster Finalist
2005 Adam Berlin Belmondo Style St. Martin’s Press Winner
Colm Tóibín The Master Scribner Finalist
Jim Tushinski Van Allen’s Ecstasy Southern Tier Editions Finalist
2006 Barry McCrea The First Verse Carroll & Graf Winner [4]
Darren Greer Still Life with June St. Martin’s Press Finalist
Douglas A. Martin Branwell Soft Skull Press Finalist
2007 Christopher Bram Exiles in America William Morrow Winner [5]
Martin Hyatt A Scarecrow’s Bible Suspect Thoughts Press Finalist
Stephen McCauley Alternatives to Sex Simon and Schuster Finalist

Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction (1997–2007)

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Award winners and finalists[1]
Year Author TItle Publisher Result |Ref.
1997 Persimmon Blackbridge Sunnybrook Winner
Jenifer Levin Love and Death and Other Stories Finalist
Margaret Ehrhart Old Love Finalist
1998 Elana Dykewomon Beyond the Pale Winner
Ann-Marie MacDonald Fall on Your Knees Finalist
Shay Youngblood Soul Kiss Finalist
1999 Patricia Powell The Pagoda Winner
Ali Smith Like Finalist
Jewelle Gomez Don’t Explain Finalist
2000 Judy Doenges What She Left Me Middlebury Press Winner
Elizabeth Stark Shy Girl Farrar, Straus and Giroux Finalist
Sarah Waters Tipping the Velvet Riverhead Finalist
2001 Sarah Waters Affinity Riverhead Winner
Eileen Myles Cool for You Soft Skull Press Finalist
Jane Summer The Silk Road Alyson Books Finalist
2002 Emma Donoghue Slammerkin Harcourt Winner
Achy Obejas Days of Awe Ballantine Finalist
Ann Wadsworth Light Coming Back Alyson Books Finalist
2003 Carol Anshaw Lucky in the Corner Houghton Mifflin Winner
Jane Eaton Hamilton Hunger Oberon Press Finalist
Zoé Valdés Dear First Love HarperCollins Finalist
2004 Nina Revoyr Southland Akashic Books Winner
Alison Bechdel Dykes & Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life-Forms to Watch Out For Alyson Books Finalist
Rebecca Brown The End of Youth City Lights Finalist
2005 Stacey D’Erasmo A Seahorse Year Houghton Mifflin Winner
Emma Donoghue Life Mask Harcourt Finalist
Heather Lewis Notice Serpent’s Tail Finalist
2006 Patricia Grossman Brian in Three Seasons Permanent Press Winner [4]
Brenda Brooks Gotta Find Me an Angel Raincoast Books Finalist
Ivan E. Coyote Loose End Arsenal Pulp Press Finalist
2007 Lisa Carey Every Visible Thing William Morrow Winner [5]
Ivan E. Coyote Bow Grip Arsenal Pulp Press Finalist
Rebecca Brown The Last Time I Saw You City Lights Finalist

Ferro Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction (2008-present)

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Award winners and finalists[1]
Year Author TItle Publisher Result |Ref.
2008[b] Peter Cameron Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You Frances Foster Books Winner [6]
Ali Liebegott The IHOP Papers Carroll & Graf Winner [6]
Brian Malloy Brendan Wolf Finalist
André Aciman Call Me by Your Name Farrar, Straus and Giroux Finalist
Sarah Schulman The Child Carroll & Graf Finalist
Felicia Luna Lemus Like Son Akashic Books Finalist
Armistead Maupin Michael Tolliver Lives HarperCollins Finalist
2009[c] Alison Bechdel The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Winner [7]
Andrew Sean Greer The Story of a Marriage Farrar, Straus and Giroux Finalist
Benjamin Taylor The Book of Getting Even Steerforth Finalist
Blair Mastbaum Us Ones in Between Running Press Finalist
David Ebershoff The 19th Wife Random House Finalist
Ellen Wittlinger Love and Lies Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers Finalist
2010 Sebastian Stuart The Hour Between Alyson Books Winner
Barb Johnson More of This World or Maybe Another HarperPerennial Finalist
Eleanor Lerman The Blonde on the Train Mayapple Press Finalist
G. Winston James Shaming the Devil Top Pen Press Finalist
Jill Malone A Field Guide to Deception Bywater Books Finalist
Vestal McIntyre Lake Overturn Harper Finalist
2011 Michael Sledge The More I Owe You Counterpoint Press Winner [8]
Daniel Allen Cox Krakow Melt Arsenal Pulp Press Finalist
Daniel Black Perfect Peace St. Martin’s Press Finalist
David McConnell The Silver Hearted Alyson Books Finalist
Eileen Myles Inferno OR Books Finalist
Lucy Jane Bledsoe The Big Bang Symphony University of Wisconsin Press Finalist
2012 Paul Russell The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov Cleis Press Winner
Alan Hollinghurst The Stranger's Child Alfred A. Knopf Finalist
Bob Smith Remembrance of Things I Forgot University of Wisconsin Press Finalist
Rahul Mehta Quarantine HarperPerennial Finalist
Shannon Cain The Necessity of Certain Behaviors University of Pittsburgh Press Finalist
Suzette Mayr Monoceros Coach House Press Finalist
2013 Trebor Healey A Horse Named Sorrow University of Wisconsin Press Winner [9]
Abdellah Taïa An Arab Melancholia Semiotex[e] Finalist
Barry Webster The Lava in My Bones Arsenal Pulp Press Finalist [10]
Ellen Ullman By Blood Farrar, Straus and Giroux Finalist
Ken Anderson Sea Change Starbooks Press Finalist
Perry Brass King of Angels Belhue Press Finalist
2014 Sara Farizan If You Could Be Mine Algonquin Young Readers Winner [11][12]
Allan Gurganus Local Souls Liveright Finalist [13]
Christopher Castellani All This Talk of Love Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Finalist [13]
David Leavitt The Two Hotel Francforts Bloomsbury USA Finalist [13]
Sheri Joseph Where You Can Find Me Thomas Dunne Books Finalist [13]
2015 Bernardine Evaristo Mr. Loverman Akashic Books Winner [14]
Barry Brennessel Sideways Down the Sky MLR Press Finalist
Judith Frank All I Love and Know William Morrow Finalist
Raziel Reid When Everything Feels Like the Movies Arsenal Pulp Press Finalist [15]
Tom Spanbauer I Loved You More Hawthorne Books Finalist
2016 Michael Golding A Poet of the Invisible World Picador Winner [16]
Chinelo Okparanta Under the Udala Trees Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Finalist [17]
Hanya Yanagihara A Little Life Doubleday Finalist
Lori Ostlund After the Parade Scribner Finalist
Mark Merlis JD Terrace Books Finalist
2017 Cathleen Schine They May Not Mean To, But They Do Sarah Crichton Books Winner [18][19]
Alan Lessik The Troubleseeker Chelsea Station Editions Finalist
Darren Greer Advocate Cormorant Books Finalist [20]
Lucy Jane Bledsoe A Thin Bright Line University of Wisconsin Press Finalist
Sjón, trans. by Victoria Cribb Moonstone Farrar, Straus and Giroux Finalist
2018 Alistair McCartney The Disintegrations University of Wisconsin Press Winner [21]
Carmen Maria Machado Her Body and Other Parties Graywolf Press Finalist
John Boyne The Heart's Invisible Furies Hogarth Finalist
Matthew Lansburgh Outside Is the Ocean University of Iowa Press Finalist
Paula Martinac The Ada Decades Bywater Books Finalist
2019 John R. Gordon Drapetomania Team Angelica Winner [22]
Andrea Kleine Eden Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Finalist [23]
John Boyne A Ladder to the Sky Hogarth Finalist [23]
Lucy Jane Bledsoe The Evolution of Love Rare Bird Finalist [23]
Sarah Winman Tin Man Putnam Finalist [23]
2020 Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Penguin Press Winner [24][25]
Bernardine Evaristo Girl, Woman, Other Black Cat Finalist [26]
Elizabeth Earley Like Wings, Your Hands Red Hen Press Finalist [26]
Jacqueline Woodson Red at the Bone Riverhead Finalist [26]
Janice Gould (ed.) A Generous Spirit: Selected Work by Beth Brant Sinister Wisdom Finalist [26]
Philippe Besson; trans. by Molly Ringwald Lie with Me Scribner Finalist [26]
2021 Juli Delgado Lopera Fiebre Tropical Feminist Press Winner [27][28]
Bishakh Som Apsara Engine Feminist Press Finalist
Bryan Washington Memorial Riverhead Finalist
Joon Oluchi Lee Neotenica Nightboat Books Finalist
Katharina Volckmer The Appointment Avid Reader Press Finalist
2022 Anthony Veasna So Afterparties Ecco Winner [29][30]
Buki Papillon An Ordinary Wonder Pegasus Books Finalist [31]
Eddy Boudel Tan The Rebellious Tide Dundurn Press Finalist
Jeanne Thornton Summer Fun Soho Press Finalist
Melissa Broder Milk Fed Scribner Finalist
2023 James Hannaham Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta Little, Brown & Co. Winner [32][33]
Chelene Knight Junie Book*hug Press Finalist
Marcial Gala, trans. by Anna Kushner Call Me Cassandra Farrar Straus Giroux Finalist
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Big Girl Liveright Finalist
Rachel M. Harper The Other Mother Counterpoint Finalist
Zain Khalid Brother Alive Grove Atlantic Finalist
2024 Helen Elaine Lee Pomegranate Atria Books Winner [34][35]
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Chain-Gang All-Stars Penguin Random House Finalist [36]
Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay, trans. by Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch Dandelion Daughter Esplanade Books Finalist [36]
Emily Zhou Girlfriends LittlePuss Press Finalist [36]
Oksana Vasyakina, trans. by Elina Alter Wound Catapult Books Finalist [36]

Notes

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  1. ^ Presented a special award for distinguished nonfiction
  2. ^ In 2008, seven authors competed for two prizes under a single category.
  3. ^ Starting in 2009, 5-6 finalists competed for a single award.

References

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