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….
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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.
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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…
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Meet author Sonja Larsen at Laurier Brantford
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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Finalists for 2017 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction
The finalists for the 2017 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction were announced today by Wilfrid Laurier University. They are (in order of the authors’ surnames:): Sonja Larsen’s Red Star Tattoo Duncan McCue’s The Shoe Boy and Rajiv Surendra’s The Elephants in My Backyard. I had the pleasure of being…