C.E. Gatchalian accepts the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT Emerging Writers. Photo by Katrina Afonso.

Vancouver playwright C.E. Gatchalian was named the recipient of this year’s Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT Emerging Writers on June 26.  The prize is administered by the Writers’ Trust of Canada.

In his acceptance speech he dedicated the award to “difference.” “As artists and as people who identify as Queer,” he said, “we must resist sameness whenever and wherever possible.”

Read the story in the National Post