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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 Read Lounge, on the lower…
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 on Laurier’s Brantford campus. This…
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 true of Sonja Larsen’s Red…
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 one of the judges for…
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, I’m pleased to welcome Ann…