Maskalyk Shortlisted for Edna Staebler Award

By Westwood Creative ArtistsSeptember 14, 2018September 20th, 2018News

Congratulations to humanitarian doctor and activist James Maskalyk whose book Life on the Ground Floor: Letters from the Edge of Emergency Medicine has been shortlisted for the 2018 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction. Maskalyk, deemed “A master of the medical memoir,” by the Toronto Star, won the 2017 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction.

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Maskalyk Shortlisted for Edna Staebler Award

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