Creative Non-Fiction
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Jillian horton named winner of Staebler Award
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On Nov. 9, Author Jillian Horton was named the 2022 winner of Laurier’s Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction. Horton’s winning book is titled, ‘We Are All Perfectly Fine: A Memoir of Love, Medicine and Healing’. Horton, who along with being an author is also a medical doctor, educator, musician and podcaster, focused on feelings…
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Framing the world of micro-budget filmmaking
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When thinking about a career in filmmaking, it’s not surprising that we might think of big-budget Hollywood productions that are unattainable for the majority of us. But local success stories Ava Torres and Helmann Wilhelm are examples of how this is not always true. Torres and Wilhelm are graduates of Cinema Studies at the University…
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Sonja Larsen wins the 2017 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction
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Sonja Larsen’s Red Star Tattoo: My Life as a Girl Revolutionary has been chosen as the winner the 2017 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction which includes a $1000 award. The memoir is coming-of-age story involving the author’s youth in counterculture organizations. “To get [the story] from a first person perspective, and a child’s perspective…
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