Bill Whitehead Award

The Bill Whitehead Award is an annual literary award, presented by Publishing Triangle to honour lifetime achievement by writers within the LGBT community. First presented in 1989, the award was named in honour of Bill Whitehead, an editor with E. P. Dutton and Macmillan Publishers who died in 1987.^[1] The award is given to a woman in even-numbered years and a man in odd-numbered years.

Winners

Bill Whitehead Award winners^[2]

Year	Winner	Ref.
1989	Edmund White
1990	Adrienne Rich
1991	James Purdy
1992	Audre Lorde
1993	Samuel R. Delany
1994	Judy Grahn
1995	Jonathan Ned Katz
1996	Joan Nestle
1997	Armistead Maupin
1998	M. E. Kerr
1999	John Rechy
2000	Doris Grumbach
2001	Michael Nava
2002	Jane Rule
2003	Christopher Bram
2004	Lillian Faderman
2005	Edward Field
2006	Karla Jay	[3]
2007	Andrew Holleran	[4]
2008	Katherine V. Forrest	[5]
2009	Martin Duberman	[6]
2010	Blanche Wiesen Cook
2011	Alan Hollinghurst
2012	Alison Bechdel	[7]
2013	John D'Emilio	[8]
2014	Maria Irene Fornes	[9][10]
2015	Rigoberto González	[11]
2016	Eloise Klein Healy	[12]
2017	Michael Bronski	[13]
2018	Sarah Schulman	[14]
2019	Jaime Manrique	[15]
2020	Eileen Myles	[16]
2021	Cheryl Clarke	[17][18]
2022	Cherrie Moraga	[19]
2023	Patrick Califia	[20]
2024	Dorothy Allison	[21][22]
2025	Rabih Alameddine	[23]