Edna Staebler Writer-in-Residence
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Thea Lim named Edna Staebler writer in residence
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Each year, Laurier welcomes a writer in residence who spends ten weeks at the university working with students and the greater community. On Jan. 22, Thea Lim will begin her residency as the 2025 Edna Staebler writer in residence. Lim is a novelist and her most recent work, An Ocean of Minutes, has been critically acclaimed.…
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Nationally bestselling, award-winning author Donna Morrissey joins Laurier community for winter 2023
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Acclaimed writer, Donna Morrissey, is Laurier’s Edna Staebler Writer-in-Residence for the winter 2023 term. “She’s kind of a force of nature, this funny and fascinating kind of woman who has emerged on the Canadian Literature writing scene like she was shot out of a cannon,” said Tanis MacDonald, Associate Professor in the faculty of English…
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Ali Bryan will be Laurier’s remote Writer-in-Residence for the winter term
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Wilfrid Laurier University has announced author Ali Bryan will be the Edna Stabler Writer-in-Residence for the winter term. The Writer-in-Residence program is run by the Faculty of Art and allows students to talk directly with an experienced author. This winter will be the first time the position is held virtually. It was left absent last…
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Gary Barwin named winter 2019 semester Writer-in-Residence
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Wilfrid Laurier University has recently released their author selection for the upcoming winter term’s Edna Staebler Writer-in-Residence. Canadian novelist Gary Barwin will be joining the school on campus from Jan. 14 to Mar. 22, 2018 to share his expertise as a multidisciplinary author, poet and composer with the study body. On Oct. 22, Laurier will…
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