The Blue Metropolis Violet Prize is a Canadian literary award , presented to an established LGBTQ writer to honour their body of work. Created by writer Christopher DiRaddo for Blue Metropolis , a literary festival in Montreal , Quebec , as part of its LGBTQ-themed Violet Metropolis series, the award was first issued in 2018 and alternates between English language and French language writers.
6-536: The award performs as a complement, rather than competition, to the Dayne Ogilvie Prize , which honours emerging Canadian LGBTQ writers. The award's corporate sponsor is Air Canada . This article about Canadian literature is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a literary award is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Dayne Ogilvie Prize The Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers
12-530: Is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Writers' Trust of Canada to an emerging Canadian writer who is part of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer community. Originally presented as a general career achievement award for emerging writers that considered their overall body of work, since 2022 it has been presented to honor debut books. It is one of two literary awards in Canada serving
18-777: The LGBTQ community, alongside the Blue Metropolis Violet Prize for established writers. The award was originally established by artist Robin Pacific as the Dayne Ogilvie Grant in memory of Dayne Ogilvie, a book editor , writer, arts manager and former managing editor of Xtra! who died in October 2006. The award was renamed from a grant to a prize in 2012. Established in 2007, the CA$ 5,000 prize
24-571: The primary award in future years; in 2019, Casey Plett became the first nominee in the award's history to be renominated a second time. In 2022, the Writers' Trust transitioned the award from a general "career achievement" award into a prize to honour specific debut books. The award's scheduling has also been moved so that it no longer takes place in June as part of Pride Month, but in November at
30-454: Was not originally presented for a specific work, although writers must have published at least one book of fiction or poetry to be eligible. The winner was selected by an independent jury of three members, and presented annually; the presentation was normally in June, although the 2020 announcement was postponed to October due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada . In its early years the award
36-427: Was presented in conjunction with Pride Toronto , although in later years it expanded to different venues and cities. Beginning in the prize's second year, the award introduced a preliminary shortlist of two or three writers. The writer or writers not selected as the final winner of the prize are awarded CA$ 500 if one writer is named or CA$ 250 each if two writers are named. Non-winning authors remained eligible for
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