Finalists have been announced for the C$10,000 (about US$7,600) 2020 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Nonfiction, which recognizes "a Canadian writer of a first or second published book with a Canadian locale and/or significance." The winner will be named later this month. Quill & Quire reported that shortlists for the 2021 and 2022 prizes will be released later this year as Wilfrid Laurier University catches up after a pause for the pandemic. The 2020 shortlisted titles are:
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib
Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada's Chinese Restaurants by Ann Hui
In the Valleys of the Noble Beyond: In Search of the Sasquatch by John Zada