![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The jury hailed her for creating "exquisite and highly perceptive portraits of life’s many collisions of identities and desires". Mariko Tamaki (above), a Toronto-based writer of comics, books, and plays, won the $500 Honour of Distinction. She is also the editor of Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear and Queer Desire and coeditor of With a Rough Tongue: Femmes Write Porn. Smith (who won the inaugural award), described her as a "impressive, heart-stopping talent".Īmber Dawn is the author of the Lambda Award–winning novel Sub Rosa, which the jury praised as "fearless in its narrative and rich in its landscape of metaphor" and "a book that refuses to be overlooked". The award, established in 2007 in memory of freelance book editor, writer, and manager Dayne Ogilvie, is presented to an emerging Canadian writer from the queer community who "demonstrates great promise through a body of work of exceptional quality".Īmber Dawn, who is the director of programming at Out on Screen, won the award on June 26 at a Toronto event held during the city's Pride Week.Ī jury, consisting of authors Kamal Al-Solaylee, Ivan E. ![]() Congratulations are in order for Vancouver-based writer, filmmaker, and performance artist Amber Dawn, who won the $4,000 Dayne Ogilvie Prize from the Writers' Trust of Canada. ![]()
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