Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction 1991-2002

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.