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Category: Literary journalism

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, I’m pleased to welcome Ann…

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Edna Staebler and the Lives of Women

Posted on December 9, 2015January 11, 2016 by Bruce Gillespie

For the past year or so, a lot of my research time has been focused on the magazine writing Edna Staebler did early in her career, mostly for Maclean’s and Chatelaine. As I’ve written before, it’s great stuff with a timeless quality to it; the stories are every bit as engaging and interesting today as…

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Edna Staebler, literary journalist

Posted on June 19, 2015December 9, 2015 by Bruce Gillespie

I’m pleased to share some research I’ve been working on for the past couple of years about Edna Staebler’s legacy as a pioneering female literary journalist in Canada. Most Canadians who know of Staebler probably think of her as a cookbook writer or philanthropist–and rightly so. That’s how I used to think of her, too….

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Shortlist announced for 2014 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction

Posted on August 5, 2014July 30, 2015 by Bruce Gillespie

The shortlist for the 2014 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction was just announced by Wilfrid Laurier University. The three nominees are (in alphabetical order): Arno Kopecky for The Oil Man and the Sea, Allen Smutylo for The Memory of Water and Alison Wearing for Confessions of a Fairy’s Daughter. You can find out more…

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Food for thought

Posted on July 30, 2014 by Bruce Gillespie

I came across this wonderful quotation in Tracy Kidder’s book Among Schoolchildren, about the year he spent in a Grade 5 classroom in Holyoke, Massachusetts (which I’m auditioning for the literary journalism course I’ll be teaching this winter): Many people find it easy to imagine unseen webs of malevolent conspiracy in the world, and they…

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