Edna Staebler Award

The Edna Staebler Award is an annual Canadian literary award, presented to the year's best work of creative nonfiction. The award was established in 1991 by writer Edna Staebler, and is administered by Wilfrid Laurier University.^[1]

Winners

1991 - Susan Mayse, Ginger
1992 - Marie Wadden, Nitassinan
1993 - (tie) Liza Potvin, White Lies (For My Mother) and Elizabeth Hay, The Only Snow in Havana
1994 - Linda Johns, Sharing a Robin's Life
1995 - Denise Chong, The Concubine’s Children: Portrait of a Family Divided
1996 - George G. Blackburn, The Guns of Normandy: A Soldier's Eye View, France 1944
1997 - Anne Mullens, Timely Death: Considering Our Last Rights
1998 - Charlotte Gray, Mrs. King: The Life and Times of Isabel Mackenzie King
1999 - Michael Poole, Romancing Mary Jane: A Year in the Life of a Failed Marijuana Grower
2000 - Wayson Choy, Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood
2001 - Taras Grescoe, Sacré Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec
2002 - Tom Allen, Rolling Home: A Cross-Canada Railroad Memoir
2003 - Alison Watt, The Last Island: A Naturalist's Sojourn on Triangle Island
2004 - Andrea Curtis, Into the Blue: Family Secrets and the Search for a Great Lakes Shipwreck
2005 - Anne Coleman, I'll Tell You a Secret
2006 - Francis Chalifour, After
2007 - Linden MacIntyre, Causeway: A Passage from Innocence
2008 - Bruce Serafin, Stardust
2009 - Russell Wangersky, Burning Down the House: Fighting Fires and Losing Myself
2010 - John Leigh Walters, A Very Capable Life: The Autobiography of Zarah Petri^[2]
2011 - Helen Waldstein Wilkes, Letters from the Lost: A Memoir of Discovery

Helen Waldstein Wilkes has won the 2011 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction for Letters from the Lost: A Memoir of Discovery