Over the past year, I’ve been working with a team of Digital Media and Journalism students on a special project. It’s called Ask Our Alumni, and its goal is to introduce students to one of Laurier’s most valuable resources—our more than 100,000 alumni. The idea came from my time as…
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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…
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Laurier Teaching Fellow
Late last month, I received a special honour: I was named Wilfrid Laurier University’s 2017 Teaching Fellow. It was exciting news, both in terms of the opportunities the fellowship presents (more on that in a moment) and because I’m the first fellow appointed from the Brantford campus. So, what, you’re…