Vicki Laveau-Harvie, a Canadian writer who lives in Australia, has won the 2021 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction for her book, The Erratics. As I’m quoted as saying in the news release, “This short book packs a staggering punch. I’ve never read a work of creative non-fiction like it….
Shortlist announced for 2021 Edna Staebler Award
The shortlist for the 2021 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction (for which I am a judge) has been announced by Wilfrid Laurier University. The finalists are: The winner will be announced in late May. You can read more about the finalists here.
Apply now to be the next Edna Staebler writer-in-residence
Wilfrid Laurier University’s Faculty of Arts is now accepting applications for the next Edna Staebler writer-in-residence. Per the news release: The Writer-in-Residence will receive $21,000 for a nine-week in-person residency from January 22 to March 22, 2024. Eight weeks are to be spent on the Waterloo campus, and one week…
The ethics of remote sports reporting
It’s not often that I’m asked to speak about sports journalism, so I enjoyed the opportunity to talk with Gregory Strong, of The Canadian Press, about the ethical implications of remote sports reporting. You can read the story here. For obvious reasons, this kind of reporting became the norm during…
Pauline Dakin wins Edna Staebler Award
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…