Category: Edna Staebler

I’m pleased to share the news that Brett Popplewell is the winner of the 2024 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction. The $10,000 prize recognizes Canadian writers for a first or second book that is written in the genre of creative non-fiction and includes a Canadian locale or significance. As…

Hilary Peach, author of Thick Skin: Field Notes from a Sister in the Brotherhood, is the winner of the 2023 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction. As I’m quoted saying in the news release, “I love a book that surprises me, and in this case, I was very surprised by…

Jillian Horton, M.D., author of We Are All Perfectly Fine: A Memoir of Love, Medicine and Healing is the winner of the 2022 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction. As I say in the news release, “This is a book that offers rich insight into the high-stress lives of physicians…

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….

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.