Edna Staebler Award

The Edna Staebler Award is an annual Canadian literary award, presented for the year's best published first or second work of creative nonfiction by a Canadian writer. The award was established in 1991 by an endowment from Edna Staebler, an award winning journalist and celebrated author. The award is administered by Wilfrid Laurier University's Faculty of Arts.^[1]

Winners

• 1991 – Susan Mayse, for Ginger ^[2]
• 1992 – Marie Wadden, for Nitassinan ^[3]
• 1993 – Liza Potvin, co-winner for White Lies (for my mother) ^[4]
• 1993 – Elizabeth Hay, co-winner for The Only Snow in Havana ^[5]
• 1994 – Linda Johns, for Sharing a Robin's Life ^[6]
• 1995 – Denise Chong, for The Concubine’s Children ^[7]
• 1996 – George G. Blackburn, for The Guns of Normandy ^[8]
• 1997 – Anne Mullens, for Timely Death ^[9]
• 1998 – Charlotte Gray, for Mrs. King ^[10]
• 1999 – Michael Poole, for Romancing Mary Jane ^[10]
• 2000 – Wayson Choy, for Paper Shadows ^[11]
• 2001 – Taras Grescoe, for Sacré Blues ^[12]
• 2002 – Tom Allen, for Rolling Home ^[13]
• 2003 – Alison Watt, for The Last Island ^[14]
• 2004 – Andrea Curtis, for Into the Blue ^[15]
• 2005 – Anne Coleman, for I'll Tell You a Secret ^[16]
• 2006 – Francis Chalifour, for After ^[17]
• 2007 – Linden MacIntyre, for Causeway ^[18]
• 2008 – Bruce Serafin, for Stardust ^[19]
• 2009 – Russell Wangersky, for Burning Down the House ^[20]
• 2010 – John Leigh Walters, for A Very Capable Life ^[21]
• 2011 – Helen Waldstein Wilkes, for Letters from the Lost ^[22]
• 2012 – Joshua Knelman, for Hot Art ^[23]
• 2013 – Carol Shaben, for Into the Abyss ^[24]

See also

• List of Edna Staebler Award recipients

References

External links

• Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction
• Edna Staebler Laurier Writer-in-Residence