The finalists for the 2024 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction have been announced by Wilfrid Laurier University.

Established and endowed by the late writer and award-winning journalist Edna Staebler in 1991, the $10,000 prize recognizes Canadian writers for a first or second work of creative nonfiction that includes a Canadian locale or significance.

“As different as this year’s finalists are, they share a commitment to profiling some fascinating people and providing insight into their unique motivations, experiences, and obsessions, ” Gavin Brockett, vice-dean of the Faculty of Arts at Wilfrid Laurier University, said in a press release.

The 2024 finalists are:

• Karen Pinchin for Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna, Obsession, and the Future of Our Seas (Knopf Canada/Penguin Random House Canada)
• Brett Popplewell for Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain, and the Search for a Hidden Past (Collins/HarperCollins)
• Josie Teed for British Columbiana: A Millennial in a Gold Rush Town (Dundurn Press)

The winner will be announced on Nov. 4. An award ceremony will be held at Laurier’s Waterloo campus in the spring.