Wilfrid Laurier University’s Faculty of Arts is now accepting applications for the next Edna Staebler writer-in-residence. Per the news release: The Writer-in-Residence will receive $21,000 for a nine-week in-person residency from January 22 to March 22, 2024. Eight weeks are to be spent on the Waterloo campus, and one week…
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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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Sonja Larsen wins Edna Staebler Award
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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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…