Sonja Larsen

Three memoirs have been shortlisted for this year’s Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-fiction. The $10,000 prize, which is administered by Wilfrid Laurier University, acknowledges writers of a first or second book with a Canadian setting or significance.

• Red Star Tattoo, Sonja Larsen (Random House Canada)
• The Shoe Boy, Duncan McCue (Nonvella)
• The Elephants in My Backyard, Rajiv Surendra (Random House Canada)

The winner will be announced later this month.