Award History
Jury Citation
“Sex, drugs, parties, and casual encounters are the ingredients of Scenes from the Underground, written in an impressively effective prose that embraces amusement in all its nuances. Funny, joyful, raw, and accompanied by images as colourful as the situations in which this reckless explorer of pleasure finds himself. This memoir gives us the chance to read about experiences that are totally, unapologetically, and sensually queer. With these explosive fragments, Cholette manages to approach with kindness the consumption of bodies and substances, transforming excess into forms of care and emancipation.”—2023 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Writers Jury (S. Bear Bergman, Nicholas Dawson, and Sharanpal Ruprai)