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    Run, Hide, Repeat by Pauline Dakin receives the 2018 Edna Staebler award

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    Run, Hide, Repeat by Pauline Dakin receives the 2018 Edna Staebler award

    The Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction has been announced, and the winner is Pauline Dakinโ€™s Run, Hide, Repeat. A memoir of her childhood, Dakin recalls a time in her life she had not yet come to terms with in this novel. โ€œIt recounts my childhood and young adulthood, when there were some odd things…

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  • Shortlist for the Edna Staebler 2018 Award announced

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    Shortlist for the Edna Staebler 2018 Award announced

      Earlier this month, Wilfrid Laurier University released the shortlist for the 2018 Edna Staebler Award for creative non-fiction. The award, established by the award-winning journalist, writer and philanthropist Edna Staebler herself, has been presented annually by Laurier since 1991. The award, being the only award of its unique genre in Canada, is presented to…

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    Sonja Larsen wins the 2017 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction

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    Sonja Larsen wins the 2017 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction

    Sonja Larsenโ€™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 authorโ€™s youth in counterculture organizations. โ€œTo get [the story] from a first person perspective, and a childโ€™s perspective…

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