Previous Winners

Awarded for the first time in 1991, the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction has recognized compelling books ranging from memoirs to biographies to a personal account of Canadians at War. Many of the recipients have gone on to be highly renowned and well-recognized members of Canada's impressive literary scene.

2020-Present

• 2022: Jillian Horton, We Are All Perfectly Fine
• 2021: Vicki Laveau-Harvie, The Erratics
• 2020: Ann Hui, Chop Suey Nation

2010-2019

• 2019: Kate Harris, Land of Lost Borders
• 2018: Pauline Dakin, Run, Hide, Repeat: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood
• 2017: Sonja Larsen, Red Star Tattoo
• 2016: Ann Walmsley, The Prison Book Club
• 2015: Lynn Thomson, Birding with Yeats: A Memoir
• 2014: Arno Kopecky, The Oil Man and the Sea
• 2013: Carol Shaben, Into the Abyss
• 2012: Joshua Knelman, Hot Art
• 2011: Helen Waldstein Wilkes, Letters from the Lost
• 2010: John Leigh Walters, A Very Capable Life

2000-2009

• 2009: Russell Wangersky, Burning Down the House
• 2008: Bruce Serafin, Stardust
• 2007: Linden MacIntyre, Causeway
• 2006: Francis Chalifour, After
• 2005: Anne Coleman, I'll Tell you a Secret
• 2004: Andrea Curtis, Into the Blue
• 2003: Alison Watt, The Last Island
• 2002: Tom Allen, Rolling Home
• 2001: Taras Grescoe, Sacré Blues
• 2000: Wayson Choy, Paper Shadows

1990-1999

• 1999: Michael Poole, Romancing Mary Jane
• 1998: Charlotte Gray, Mrs. King
• 1997: Anne Mullens, Timely Death
• 1996: George G. Blackburn, The Guns of Normandy
• 1995: Denise Chong, The Concubine's Children
• 1994: Linda Johns, Sharing a Robin's Life
• 1993: Liza Potvin, White Lies (For my Mother)
• 1993: Elizabeth Hay, The Only Snow in Havana
• 1992: Marie Wadden, Nitassinan
• 1991: Susan Mayse, Ginger