SATURDAY 281 Edward Wingham Street, Alice MunroPublic Library 11:00 am–12:30pm Nonfiction with Téa Mutonji Blurring theLinesbetween Fictionand Wingham 274 JosephineStreet, Town HallHeritageTheatre 11:00 am–12:30pm Amy Jones Author Readings:AliciaElliottand 281 Edward Wingham Street, Alice MunroPublicLibrary 9:30 am–11:00 Come Alive withMonaAwad Your andGetYour Story Characters to Hearing Voices: UsingVoice to Tell Wingham 274 JosephineStreet, Departs fromWinghamTown Hall, 9:30 am–10:30 her familyhomestead. Take aguidedbustour ofAliceMunro’s “Jubilee” and Welcome to AliceMunro Country 281 Edward Wingham Street, Alice MunroPublicLibrary, 5:00 pm–6:00 Aloud ContestShort Story WinnersRead 281 Edward Wingham Street, Alice MunroPublicLibrary 3:00 pm–4:30 Anthony DeSa Manipulating Sensewith Wingham 274 JospehineStreet, Town HallHeritageTheatre, 3:00 pm-4:30 Amy Jones,AnakanaSchofield A isforAuthor Panel: MonaAwad, 183 Victoria StreetW., Wingham Wingham Legion 1:00 pm–2:30 with NinoRicci ContestShort Story Awards Luncheon

SUNDAY 11 TheSquare, Bayfield Bayfield Town Hall, 2:00 pm–3:30 Ian Williams Author Readings:AnakanaSchofield& 11 TheSquare,Bayfield Bayfield Town Hall, 12:00 pm–1:30 ~Joyce CarolOates also food? poetry isnot Luncheon -Iffoodispoetry, 18 MainStreetN.,Bayfield Bayfield Library, 10:00 am–11:30 Alex Colville withK.D. Miller writing inspiredby thepaintingsof The Captive Moment:Ekphrastic 11 TheSquare,Bayfield Bayfield Town Hall, 10:00 am–11:30 Mona Awad &Téa Mutonji Author Readings: 18 MainStreetN.,Bayfield Bayfield Library, 4:00 pm–5:30 with IanWilliams Building aSustainableWriting Practice 11 TheSquare,Bayfield Bayfield Town Hall, 4:00 pm–5:30 K.D. Miller Author Readings:Anthony DeSa& 18 MainStreetN.,Bayfield Bayfield Library, 2:00 pm–3:30 The ArtoftheScenewithAmy Jones for Kids Mona Awad / Bunny Anthony De Sa / Children on the Moon

May 24, 2019 Mona Awad is the author of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, Anthony De Sa grew up in ’s Portuguese community. At the Clinton, Howick, and Wingham Public Schools! a finalist for the Scotiabank that won the Amazon His short fiction has been published in several North Canada First Novel Award, the Colorado Book Award, and an American literary magazines. Anthony’s first book,Barnacle The Festival of the Short Story’s mission is to nurture emerging Honorable Mention from the Arab American Book Awards. Love, was critically acclaimed and became a finalist for the writers and to celebrate short stories in the landscape that inspired Alice Munro. It was also longlisted for the International Dublin Literary 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the 2009 Toronto Book As part of that mission, we are branched out in 2019 to include a one-day Alice Award and the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. Award. Anthony’s novel, Kicking the Sky, was set in 1977, the Munro Festival 4 Kids. On May 24th six authors visited schools in Clinton, Howick The recipient of an MFA in Fiction from Brown University and year a twelve-year-old shoeshine boy named Emanuel Jaques and Wingham doing readings and discussion with students from Kindergarten to a PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University was brutally raped and murdered in Toronto. His new novel, Grade 12. Special thanks to the authors and schools who took part and to the of Denver, she has published work in Time, VICE, Electric Children of the Moon was be released on April 27, 2019. Foundation for Education for your support and assistance in putting it together! Literature, McSweeney’s, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. Anthony graduated from University of Toronto and did his Featured Authors post-graduate work at Queen’s University. He attended The Saumiya Balasubramanian Her new novel, Bunny will be published by Penguin Random Humber School for Writers and Ryerson University. He is Erin Bow House on June 7. currently a teacher-librarian at Michael Power/St. Joseph Alicia Elliott High School. He lives in Toronto with his wife and three boys. E.K. Johnston www.mona-awad-grou.squarespace.com Ruth Ohi www.anthonydesa.com Heather T. Smith Alicia Elliott / A Mind Spread Open on the Ground Amy Jones / Every Little Piece of Me Andy McGuire / Country Club K.D. Miller / Late Breaking

Alicia Elliott is a Tuscarora writer from Six Nations of the Amy Jones’ first novel, We’re All in This Together, was a Andy McGuire is the author of Country Club. Most recently K.D. Miller is the author of three previous short story Grand River living in Brantford, Ontario with her husband national bestseller, won the Northern Lit Award, and was he collaborated with visual artist Kim Dorland on the artist’s collections All Saints, Give Me Your Answer, Litany on a Time and child. Her writing has been published by The Malahat a finalist for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. Her book Same Old Future. McGuire’s second poetry collection, I of Plague, a novel Brown Dwarf, and an essay collection, Review, The Butter, Room, Grain, The New Quarterly, debut collection of stories, What Boys Like, won the Metcalf- Hate Poems but I Love Poetry, is forthcoming. You can find the Holy Writ. All Saints was shortlisted for the 2014 Rogers CBC, Globe and Mail, Vice, Maclean’s, Today’s Parent and Rooke Award and was a finalist for the ReLit Award. She won Instagram part of his heart @andymcguire. Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and longlisted for the 2014 Frank Reader’s Digest, among others. She’s currently the Creative the 2006 CBC Literary Prize for Short Fiction, was a finalist O’Connor Award. She lives and writes in Toronto. Nonfiction Editor at The Fiddlehead, Associate Nonfiction for the 2005 Bronwen Wallace Award, and is a graduate of Editor at Little Fiction | Big Truths, and a consulting editor the Optional Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Late Breaking is shortlisted for the Ontario trillium Book with The New Quarterly. Her essay, A Mind Spread Out on the the University of British Columbia. Her fiction has appeared Award. Ground won Gold at the National Magazine Awards in 2017, in Best Canadian Stories and The Journey Prize Stories. and another of her essays, On Seeing and Being Seen: Writing Her new novel, Every Little Piece of Me, will be published by www.dawnwriter.com With Empathy was nominated for a National Magazine Award Penguin Random House on June 4th. Originally from Halifax, in 2018. she lived in Thunder Bay for many years before moving to Toronto. She was the 2017-2018 Geoffrey and Margaret Andrew Fellow at UBC, and was chosen by Tanya Talaga to receive the www.amyjonesauthor.com RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Prize in 2018. Her short story Unearth has been selected by Roxane Gay to appear in Best American Short Stories 2018. Alicia is also presently working on a manuscript of short fiction. Téa Mutonji / Shut Up You’re Pretty Nino Ricci Anakana Schofield / Bina Ian Williams /

Téa Mutonji is an award-winning poet and writer. Born in Nino Ricci’s first novel was the internationally acclaimed Anakana Schofield is the author of the 2015 Giller Prize Ian Williams is the author of Reproduction (Random House, Congo-Kinshasa, she now lives and writes in Scarborough, . It spent 75 weeks on the Globe and Mail‘s shortlisted novel Martin John, which was also a finalist for 2019). His poetry collection, Personals, was shortlisted for Ontario where she was named emerging writer of the year bestseller list and was the winner in Canada of the F.G. the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and the (UK) Goldsmiths Prize. the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Poetry Book (2017) by the Ontario Book Publishers Organization. Bressani Prize, the Books in Canada First Novel Award, and Martin John received Editors’ Choice in the New York Times Award. His short story collection, Not Anyone’s Anything, won the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, and in England of and was named on many Best Books of 2015 lists. Schofield’s the Danuta Gleed Literary Award for the best first collection Shut Up You’re Pretty is her first book. the Betty Trask Award and Winifred Holtby Prize. In the U.S. debut novel Malarky (2012) won the 2012 Amazon.ca First of short fiction in Canada. His first book,You Know Who You it was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Novel Award and the 2013 Debut-Litzer Prize for Fiction Are, was a finalist for the ReLit Poetry Prize. CBC named him www.teamutonji.com Award for First Fiction and was a New York Times Notable in the United States and was a finalist for the Ethel Wilson as one of ten Canadian writers to watch. He teaches poetry Book, and in France it was an Oiel de la lettre Selection of Fiction Prize. It was also selected as a Barnes & Noble at UBC and, as of 2018, is a trustee for the Griffin Prize. the National Libraries Association. His most recent novel is Discover Great New Writers Pick. Anakana Schofield has Sleep, winner of the Canadian Authors’ Award for Fiction. appeared at writers festivals all over Canada, the US, Europe www.ianwilliams.ca and Asia, and has written many reviews for newspapers, Ricci holds an honorary doctorate from the University of including The Guardian, The Irish Times, The Globe and Mail, Windsor and is a past president of PEN Canada. In 2011 and theNational Post. She also contributes to the London he was appointed a member of the Order of Canada. He Review of Books blog. She lives in Vancouver. has taught at institutions across North America, including Colorado College and Princeton University, and is currently www.anakanaschofield.com the inaugural holder of Western University’s Alice Munro Chair in Creativity. www.ninoricci.com Alice Munro Festival of the Short Story Sail into history SHORT STORY CONTEST with the BLUEWATER HERITAGE TOURS The richness of Bluewater’s history come to life in these The annual short story contest is open to emerging Walking and Driving tours of our historic villages — Bayfield, Canadian writers not yet professionally published. Hensall and Zurich — as well as Hay and Stanley townships. In 2019, the 15th year for the contest, we received 267 adult category submissions (a record number) Short Story Contest Youth Judge and 48 submissions in the youth category (under the age of 19). One winner and two runners up in Marthe Jocelyn is the award-winning author and illustrator of over thirty-five each category receive cash prizes. books for babies, kids and teens. Her SINCE 1956 illustrated books have been shortlisted Adults for both the Governor General’s Literary $1,500 Prize Award and the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Two additional prizes of $500 each Award. In 2009 she was the recipient of the prestigious Vicky Metcalf Award for Youth her body of work. Originally from Toronto, $500 Prize Ontario, Marthe settled in Stratford after a Two additional prizes of $250 each thirty-year stretch in New York. BOOKS GIFTS TOYS Thank you to everyone who submitted an entry to this year’s contest. For more information, visit www.marthejocelyn.com DOWNTOWN DOWNTOWN The 2019 Short Story Contest was administrated by the GODERICH KINCARDINE Download the tours FREE to your smartphone or tablet at LIBRARY Huron County Library. www.HuronCounty.ca/library 519-524-6901 519-396-7012 www.ExploreBeyondTheShore.ca Huron County Museum Ad Space 4” x 5” 110 North St, Goderich www.HuronCountyMuseum.ca

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