Amber Dawn wins $4,000 prize

Amber Dawn, a writer, filmmaker, and performance artist based in Vancouver, has won the $4,000 Dayne Ogilvie Prize from the Writers’ Trust of Canada. 

The prize was established in 2007 in memory of Dayne Ogilvie, managing editor of Xtra magazine and is given annually to an emerging gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender writer who demonstrates great literary promise.