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Author: Bruce Gillespie

Bruce Gillespie is an award-winning Canadian writer and editor and an associate professor in the Digital Media and Journalism program at Wilfrid Laurier University's Brantford campus. He is the editor of "A Family By Any Other Name: Exploring Queer Relationships" and co-editor of "Somebody's Child: Stories About Adoption" and "Nobody's Father: Life Without Kids."

Pauline Dakin wins Edna Staebler Award

Posted on November 2, 2018 by Bruce Gillespie

I’m pleased to welcome Pauline Dakin, author of Run, Hide Repeat and winner of this year’s Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction, to Laurier’s Brantford campus next week. On Friday, Nov. 9, from 11:30 am to 1 pm, I’ll be hosting a public conversation with Dakin about her memoir in Read Lounge, on the lower…

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Ask Our Alumni

Posted on May 31, 2018 by Bruce Gillespie

Over the past year, I’ve been working with a team of Digital Media and Journalism students on a special project. It’s called Ask Our Alumni, and its goal is to introduce students to one of Laurier’s most valuable resources—our more than 100,000 alumni. The idea came from my time as a magazine writer and editor,…

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My new textbook: News Writing and Reporting

Posted on January 3, 2018January 3, 2018 by Bruce Gillespie

The timing couldn’t have been better. I came home from my last class of the fall semester to find a box full of the first editions of my new textbook, News Writing and Reporting: An Introduction to Skills and Theory, published by Oxford University Press. There’s nothing like the feeling of seeing your book in…

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Meet author Sonja Larsen at Laurier Brantford

Posted on October 25, 2017 by Bruce Gillespie

Mark your calendars! Please join me in welcoming author Sonja Larsen, winner of this year’s Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction, to Brantford on Friday, Nov. 10. I’ll be hosting a live question-and-answer session with Larsen from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm in the Reid Lounge in the Carnegie Building on Laurier’s Brantford campus. This…

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Sonja Larsen wins Edna Staebler Award

Posted on October 2, 2017 by Bruce Gillespie

Sonja Larsen is the winner of the 2017 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction for her memoir, Red Star Tattoo: My Life as a Girl Revolutionary. As I’m quoted as saying in the news release, “As is the case with lives themselves, all memoirs are unique, but this seems especially true of Sonja Larsen’s Red…

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