Michele Karlsberg brings a unique combination of skills to effectively carry out publicity/marketing campaigns for authors, organizations and film/theater
Michele Karlsberg brings a unique combination of skills to effectively carry out publicity/marketing campaigns for authors, organizations and film/theater professionals. She has also worn many hats in her 34-year book Publishing career. Michele was one of the founders of Amethyst Press. As curator of Outspoken, a nationwide LGBTQ Literary series, she helps new and established voices reach a wider
audience. Michele also served as Publisher of Bywater Books and published many award winning authors in those years. In 1989 along with the Publishing Triangle Michele launched Le***an and Gay Book Month. She was recently presented with the Publishing Triangle Leadership Award which along with Michael Denneny was the first co-chairs of the Triangle. She worked with David Rosen and The Book Of The Month Club/Quality Paperback Books on their GLBT Book Club Insight/Out along with the Triangle Classic series. She was also inducted in the Saints and Sinners Literary Hall of Fame in New Orleans, LA. She produced Holland America cruise lines first BOOK EXPO along with Olivia Travel. In 2010 she produced BACK 2 BACK at the St George Theater in NY with Lily Tomlin and Kate Clinton She is the author of Self Publishing GLBT Books (1989) and is the co-editor of To Be Continued and To Be Continued: Take Two (1998). Her non-fiction piece entitled The Isle Of Staten will appear in the book Love, Christopher Street. (Chelsea Street Editions). Her column WORDS appears in the San Francisco Bay Times. Michele has won the Publishing Triangle Leadership Award, Community Health Action Advocacy Award, Lambda Literary Foundation Publishing Professional Award, One Island/One Pride Award. The Publishing Triangle established its Leadership Award in 2002, specifically to honor contributions to LGBTQ literature by those who are not primarily writers, such as editors, agents, booksellers, and institution. As of 2023 tis award will now be known as the Michele Karlsberg Leadership Award,
Her activism includes working with many organizations but not limited to CHASI, Lambda Literary Foundation, Soulforce, The Publishing Triangle, GLAAD, New York City GLBT Center, Gay Men's Health Crisis, Project Hospitality, SAGE, Helping Our Women and God's Love We Deliver. She is most proud of her dedication to building community.
11/24/2024
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11/03/2024
What’s Next for Scribd After Ending Everand’s Unlimited Ebook Subscription?
After negotiating wider catalog access with the Big Five, Scribd pivots Everand's unlimited reading model to a credit-based system.
11/03/2024
Pearson Sees Growth in Part to Increasing AI Capabilities
Pearson’s Q3 2024 update reports 5% growth, driven by advancements in AI-integrated tools, Higher Education products, and key enterprise partnerships. With new deals in workforce skills, such as ServiceNow, and innovations like Teaching Pal, Pearson is focused on delivering comprehensive education...
11/03/2024
Yu + Me Bookstore Owner, Lucy Yu Redefining the Power of a Bookstore
Yu & Me Books, located in the heart of Manhattan's Chinatown, has become a literary haven for immigrant authors and writers of color.
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Celebrity Novel? Who Ya Gonna Call- Ghostwriters!
10/26/2024
NOW IS THE TIME! Award Submissions for The Publishing Triangle
CEREMONY is 4/17/2025 at The New School!
The Publishing Triangle presents several awards annually, tied to a calendar year. Winners of our previous awards, honoring the best LGBTQ+ literature published, can be found here, or by clicking on the name of the award below. A full list of finalists can be found here.
We present nine awards for the best books of the year. They are The Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction; The Judy Grahn Award for Le***an Nonfiction; The Audre Lorde Award for Le***an Poetry; The Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry; The Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction; The Leslie Feinberg Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature; The Joseph Hansen Award for LGBTQ Crime Writing; The Jacqueline Woodson Award for LGBTQ+ Children’s/YA Literature; and, in conjunction our longtime partner the Ferro-Grumley Foundation, The Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction. Each of the winners receives $1,000.
In addition, we honor one LGBTQ+ author annually with the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement (a $3,000 prize) and we also present the Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award ($1,500).
The Michele Karlsberg Leadership Award is given to a person or group that has done outstanding work on behalf of LGBTQ literature and letters. This award is specifically designed as not intended for writers; honorees have included editors, literary agents, booksellers, and archives. The winner receives $500.
In 2023, The Publishing Triangle began awarding The Publishing Triangle Torchbearer Award, which is presented to a non-publishing entity with a connection to the literary world. The recipient of the award receives $1,000.
Finally, from time to time, the board of directors bestows special awards. There is no formal submission process for such prizes, which have been awarded in the past as a result of discussions between the judges and the board.
For many years, the Robert Chesley Playwriting Awards were also presented at our annual awards ceremony, and for historical purposes we maintain a list of winners.
The submissions period for awards is generally late September through early December—the specific dates vary each year. A call for submissions, including guidelines, instructions, and links to the online submission system, is posted on our website early in the fall. If you have questions about the awards program, please email [email protected].
The Publishing Triangle presents several awards annually, tied to a calendar year. Winners of our previous awards, honoring the best LGBTQ+ literature published, can be found here, or by clicking on the name of the award below. A full list of finalists can be found here.
An Inside Look at Political Books During an Election Season
Every election season, American readers cling to buzzy political books. But how do publishers make plans despite an uncertain outcome, and how do their decisions influence the national conversation? Insiders take Esquire behind the scenes.
10/26/2024
Have You Noticed a Difference in Your Paperbacks?
I work as the bookstore manager for a bookstore in the Hudson Valley and one of the things that means is that I handle not only the ordering of most of our books, but the unboxing of them as well. …
Join event co-sponsors Sinister Wisdom and the Jewish Women's Archive on the 50th anniversary of Elana Dykewomon's Riverfinger Women for a fabulous panel discussion exploring the genealogies of Jewish le***an novels.
Judith Katz, Ellen Galford, Sarah Schulman, and Sam Cohen will share their insights about Jewish le***an literature in a conversation moderated by Sinister Wisdom’s Julie R. Enszer.
Register for the Zoom event on October 29, 2024, at 7 P.M. ET at sinisterwisdom.org/events.
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AAP Statshot for July Reports Uptick in US
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Rosalie Stewart Speaks on Her Role in Helping Publishers Fight Book Bans
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Report Finds More Than Half of Diverse Characters are Written by White Authors
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10/10/2024
BREAKING NEWS
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”
한 강 Han Kang was born in 1970 in the South Korean city of Gwangju before, at the age of nine, moving with her family to Seoul. She comes from a literary background, her father being a reputed novelist. Alongside her writing, she has also devoted herself to art and music, which is reflected throughout her entire literary production.
Han Kang began her career in 1993 with the publication of a number of poems in the magazine 문학과사회 (‘Literature and Society’). Her prose debut came in 1995 with the short story collection 여수의 사랑 (‘Love of Yeosu’), followed soon afterwards by several other prose works, both novels and short stories. Notable among these is the novel 그대의 차가운 손 (2002; ‘Your Cold Hands’), which bears obvious traces of Han Kang’s interest in art. The book reproduces a manuscript left behind by a missing sculptor who is obsessed with making plaster casts of female bodies. There is a preoccupation with the human anatomy and the play between persona and experience, where a conflict arises in the work of the sculptor between what the body reveals and what it conceals. “Life is a sheet arching over an abyss, and we live above it like masked acrobats” as a sentence towards the end of the book tellingly asserts.
Han Kang’s major international breakthrough came with the novel 채식주의자 (2007; ‘The Vegetarian’, 2015). Written in three parts, the book portrays the violent consequences that ensue when its protagonist Yeong-hye refuses to submit to the norms of food intake.
Han Kang’s work is characterised by a double exposure of pain, a correspondence between mental and physical torment with close connections to Eastern thinking.
In her oeuvre, Han Kang confronts historical traumas and invisible sets of rules and, in each of her works, exposes the fragility of human life. She has a unique awareness of the connections between body and soul, the living and the dead, and in her poetic and experimental style has become an innovator in contemporary prose.
Anders Olsson
Chair of the Nobel Committee
The Swedish Academy
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Michele Karlsberg shows how ordinary people make extraordinary contributions to their communities. Her philosophy is simple: “It is our giving that makes us strong, not our receiving.” Bottom line, she loves what she does. She is grateful for her beloved mentors, some of whom are Nancy Bereano, Sasha Alyson, Barbara Grier, Richard Labonte, Carol Seajay, Roz Parr who helped her gain knowledge and confidence in the book publishing industry.
She has worn many hats in her twenty-nine year career.
As a publicist, she brings a unique combination of skills to effectively carry out publicity/marketing campaigns for authors, organizations, events, comedians, musicians and film/theater professionals. Her list of clients has included Katherine Forrest, Felice Picano, Kate Clinton, Stephen Fry, Jewelle Gomez, Assotto Saint, Dorothy Allison, Martin Duberman, Judy Grahn and Minnie Bruce Pratt to name a few. From her home office stateside, Michele represented many International Publishing companies: Spinifex Press (Australia), Second Story Press (Canada), Bruno Gmunder (Germany) and Creation Books (UK). She generously speaks at many conferences about the business of publishing, publicity and marketing. When she gets to share what she knows about marketing and publicity in the world of publishing, she is one happy woman.
She is one of the founders/publishers of Amethyst Press, home of groundbreaking authors Dennis Cooper, Kevin Killian, Mark Ameen, Stan Leventhal and Patrick Moore. She is a strong advocate for independent booksellers and worked with Carol Seajay on the Feminist Bookstore Network. She is a curator of Outspoken, a nationwide LGBTQI literary series that helps new and established voices reach a wider audience. As publisher at Bywater Books, she published many award winning authors.
She is an innovator and in 1989 along with the Publishing Triangle, Michele launched Le***an and Gay Book Month. Along with Michael Denneny she was the first co-chair of the Publishing Triangle and is still active today. She worked with The Book Of The Month Club/Quality Paperback Books to launch their LGBT Book Club InsightOut along with the Triangle Classic series.
She is a passionate advocate for the Pride Center on Staten Island, whether it was to help supply books to build their library, participate in the LGBTQI Pride celebrations, helping build visibility for the Pride Center or helping other LGBTQI people in need. In 1991 she was part of the team that opened the Pat Parker/Vito Russo Library at the NYC LGBTQI Community Center. For many years she also worked with the Astraea Writers Awards and The Le***an Herstory Archives.
She is a producer:she produced Holland America Cruise Lines’ first BOOK EXPO along with Olivia Travel. In 2010 she produced BACK 2 BACK at the St George Theater in NY with Lily Tomlin and Kate Clinton. She is most proud of producing events to honor the passing of Audre Lorde, Melvin Dixon, Stan Leventhal and John Preston.
As literary executor for Assotto Saint, Roy Gonsalves and Stan Leventhal, Michele manages their creative works for publication today.
Michele is a planner; she has been instrumental in planning the programming of many conferences and festivals such as OUTWRITE, Saints and Sinners, San Francisco Book Festival, BookExpo America, In Our Own Write, Behind Our Masks, GCLS, Readers and Writers and the Gay Games Cultural Festival.
She is an author; her non-fiction piece entitled The Isle Of Staten appears in the book Love, Christopher Street (Chelsea House Editions). Her WORDS column appears monthly in the San Francisco Bay Times. She wrote Self Publishing LGBTQI Books and is the co-editor of the Lambda Literary Award finalist To Be Continued and To Be Continued: Take Two (Firebrand Books).
She is an awardee: Publishing Triangle Leadership Award. Community Health Action Advocacy Award. Saints and Sinners Literary Hall Of Fame. One Island/One Pride Award from the S.I. LGBT Community Center.
When Michele is not focusing on the visibility of the LGBTQI community she persists to resist the current administration.
