The shortlist has been announced for the C$10,000 (about US$8,020) Edna Staebler Award for Creative Nonfiction, which is administered by Wilfrid Laurier University and acknowledges writers of a first or second book with a Canadian setting or significance, CBC reported. The winner will be named in October. This year's shortlisted titles are:
Red Star Tattoo by Sonja Larsen
The Shoe Boy by Duncan McCue
The Elephants in My Backyard by Rajiv Surendra