Cameron’s Congratulates Vicki Laveau-Harvie on Winning The Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction

Congratulations to Vicki Laveau-Harvie whose 2019 Stella Prize winning memoir, The Erratics, has been awarded the 2021 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction at Wilfrid Laurier University.  

Established and endowed by writer and award-winning journalist Edna Staebler in 1991, the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction recognizes a Canadian writer of a first or second published book with a Canadian locale or significance. The award is administered by Laurier, the only university in Canada to bestow a nationally recognized literary award.

Laveau-Harvie was shortlisted alongside the following books: Rachel Matlow: Dead Mom Walking: A Memoir of Miracle Cures and Other Disasters and Jessica J. Lee: Two Trees Make a Forest: In Search of My Family's Past Among Taiwan's Mountains and Coasts.

In a statement issued by Wilfrid Laurier University, “the panel of judges were impressed by Laveau-Harvie’s dark humour and deeply engaging read that leaves an indelible, haunting impression.” The prestigious $10,000 award was postponed for two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

 You can view the press release here.