Two finalists have been named for the $10,000 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction for 2023 by Wilfrid Laurier University, which administers the prize. The 2023 finalists are authors Cody Caetano for Half-Bads in White Regalia, published by Hamish Hamilton, and Hilary Peach for Thick Skin: Field Notes from a Sister in the Brotherhood ,
Cree poet and professor Billy-Ray Belcourt and Métis author Carleigh Baker will be co-chairs of the English-language prizes, and Francophone scholars Marie-Eve Bradette and Sarah Henzi will be co-chairs for the French-language prizes.