I had the pleasure of hosting the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction Award presentation last week at Wilfrid Laurier University’s Waterloo campus. It was a great night, and I was glad finally to meet this year’s winner, Joshua Knelman, whose book Hot Art: Chasing Thieves and Detectives through the…
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Joshua Knelman wins the 2012 Edna Staebler Award
It’s my pleasure to announce that Joshua Knelman has won the 2012 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction for his fantastic book Hot Art: Chasing Thieves and Detectives Through the World of Stolen Art (Douglas & McIntyre). As one of the judges for this year’s awards, this is how I…
Edna Staebler Award nominations announced
After a busy summer of reading, the shortlist for this year’s Edna Staebler Award for Creative Nonfiction was announced last week. The nominees are: – Joshua Knelman’s Hot Art: Chasing Thieves and Detectives through the Secret World of Stolen Art (Douglas and McIntyre, 2011), – Robyn Michele Levy’s Most of…
Call for Submissions: Stories about LGBT families
Editor Bruce Gillespie is making a call for submissions for an anthology of personal essays about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and transsexual people and their families. The collection will be part of a series about the changing nature of the family in the 21st century published by TouchWood Editions of…