BTW News Briefs

WNBA Announces Pannell Winners

On Wednesday, May 11, the Women's National Book Association announced the winners of this year's Lucile Micheels Pannell Award. This year's award for a general bookstore goes to BookPeople in Austin, Texas, which is also the recipient of this year's Publishers Weekly Bookseller of the Year Award. The winner in the children's specialty category is Reading Reptile Books and Toys for Young Mammals in Kansas City, Missouri.

The Pannell Awards will be presented at BookExpo America in New York City at the Children's Book and Author Breakfast on Friday, June 3. Each winner will receive a check for $1,000 and a framed piece of original art created by a children's book illustrator. Artists Barbara Lavallee and Ed Young contributed this year's art. In addition to the award winners, the jury selected Wonderland Books and Toys in Rockford, Illinois for an honorable mention in the children's specialty store category.

Look for more information on the Pannell Award and this year's winners in an upcoming issue of Bookselling This Week.

The Publishing Triangle's 17th Annual Triangle Awards

On May 10, the 17th Annual Triangle Awards, honoring the best lesbian and gay fiction, nonfiction, and poetry published in 2004, were presented at the Tishman Auditorium of the New School for Social Research. Edward Field was named the 2005 recipient of the Publishing Triangle's Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement, named in honor of a legendary editor of the 1970s and 1980s.

• The Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry winner was Carl Phillips for The Rest of Love (FSG);
• The Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry winner was Maureen Seaton for Venus Examines Her Breast (Carnegie Mellon University Press);
• The Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction winner was Alison Smith for Name All the Animals (Scribner);
• The Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction winner was David K. Johnson for The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Prosecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government (University of Chicago Press);
• The Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction winner was Stacey D'Erasmo for A Seahorse Year (Houghton Mifflin); and
• The Ferro-Grumley Award for Gay Fiction winner was Adam Berlin for Belmondo Style (St. Martin's Press).