Established in 2007 from an endowment established by artist Robin Pacific, the $4,000 Dayne Ogilvie Prize annually rewards emerging writers who identify themselves as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender [glbt] , and who have published at least one title are eligible. The 2012 winner is writer, filmmaker and performance artist Amber Dawn, of the author of the Lambda Award-winning novel Sub Rosa (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2010), editor of Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear and Queer Desire (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2009) and co-editor of With a Rough Tongue: Femmes Write Porn (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2005). Currently, director of programming for the Vancouver Queer Film Festival, Amber Dawn has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. A jury composed of authors Kamal Al-Solaylee, Ivan E. Coyote, and Michael V. Smith wrote: "Amber Dawn is an impressive, heart-stopping talent. Her debut novel, Sub Rosa, is a clear-eyed myth exploring the lives of young women at risk. Both fearless in its narrative and rich in its landscape of metaphor, Sub Rosa is a book that refuses to be overlooked. Dawn's story is not just an attempt to hold the world's darkness, but to find it some comfort too."; Past winners are Michael V. Smith, Zoe Whittall, Debra Anderson, Nancy Jo Cullen, and Farzana Doctor.