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Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction The Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction is the only such award in Canada. The $3,000 annual award was established by the writer and literary journalist Edna Staebler in 1991 to encourage and recognize the Canadian writer of a first or second published book. The book must have a Canadian locale or a particular Canadian significance.Creative non-fiction is literary rather than journalistic. The writer does not merely give information, but intimately shares an experience with the reader by telling a factual story with the devices of fiction, original research, well-crafted interpretive writing, personal discovery or experience, the creative use of language or approach to the subject matter, dialogue, and narrative. Winners of the Edna Staebler
Award The Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction is
sponsored and administered by Wilfrid Laurier University. Each
year's entries should be postmarked no later than April 30. Deadline for 2007 is May 31. Details of
the shortlisted titles are announced in August and the winner in
September. For more information, please contact:
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