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Bruce Gillespie

Writer • Editor • Educator

Category: Brantford

Books

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…

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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…

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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…

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Author Ann Walmsley in Brantford

Posted on October 24, 2016November 3, 2016 By Bruce Gillespie

Please note: this event has been cancelled. We welcome you to join us for the official award ceremonies in Waterloo on Nov. 3 instead. One of the highlights of my year is hosting an event in Brantford with the winner of the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction. This year,…

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Brantford

Brantford is awesome

Posted on January 26, 2016 By Bruce Gillespie

Something I often hear from my students is that living and studying in Brantford is nothing like they expected–essentially, it’s better. But many of them admit to having misgivings about the city before they got here. As many of them come from the Greater Toronto Area, or other major metropolitan…

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