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Awarded for the first time in 1991, the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction has recognized compelling books ranging from memoirs to biographies to a personal account of Canadians at War. Many of the recipients have gone on to be highly renowned and well-recognized members of Canada's impressive literary scene.

2010-Present

  • 2019: Kate Harris, Land of Lost Borders
  • 2018: Pauline Dakin, Run, Hide, Repeat: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood
  • 2017: Sonja Larsen, Red Star Tattoo
  • 2016: Ann Walmsley, The Prison Book Club
  • 2015: Lynn Thomson, Birding with Yeats: A Memoir
  • 2014: Arno Kopecky, The Oil Man and the Sea
  • 2013: Carol Shaben, Into the Abyss
  • 2012: Joshua Knelman, Hot Art
  • 2011: Helen Waldstein Wilkes, Letters from the Lost
  • 2010: John Leigh Walters, A Very Capable Life

2000-2009

  • 2009: Russell Wangersky, Burning Down the House
  • 2008: Bruce Serafin, Stardust
  • 2007: Linden MacIntyre, Causeway
  • 2006: Francis Chalifour, After
  • 2005: Anne Coleman, I'll Tell you a Secret
  • 2004: Andrea Curtis, Into the Blue
  • 2003: Alison Watt, The Last Island
  • 2002: Tom Allen, Rolling Home
  • 2001: Taras Grescoe, Sacré Blues
  • 2000: Wayson Choy, Paper Shadows

1990-1999

  • 1999: Michael Poole, Romancing Mary Jane
  • 1998: Charlotte Gray, Mrs. King
  • 1997: Anne Mullens, Timely Death
  • 1996: George G. Blackburn, The Guns of Normandy
  • 1995: Denise Chong, The Concubine's Children
  • 1994: Linda Johns, Sharing a Robin's Life
  • 1993: Liza Potvin, White Lies (For my Mother)
  • 1993: Elizabeth Hay, The Only Snow in Havana
  • 1992: Marie Wadden, Nitassinan
  • 1991: Susan Mayse, Ginger

Contact Us:

Award for Creative Non-Fiction

E: staebleraward@wlu.ca
T: 519.884.1970 x3361

Writer-in-Residence Program

E: staeblerWIR@wlu.ca
T: 519.884.0710 x4669

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