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2019 Festival PROGRAM Welcome to Alice Munro Country Short Story Contest Awards Luncheon Author Readings: The Art of the Scene with Amy Jones Take a guided bus tour of Alice Munro’s “Jubilee” and with Nino Ricci Mona Awad & Téa Mutonji 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm her family homestead. Bayfield Library, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm 10:00 am – 11:30 am 9:30 am – 10:30 am Wingham Legion Bayfield Town Hall, 18 Main Street N., Bayfield Departs from Wingham Town Hall, 183 Victoria Street W., Wingham 11 The Square, Bayfield 274 Josephine Street, Wingham Author Readings: Anthony De Sa & A is for Author Panel: Mona Awad, The Captive Moment: Ekphrastic K.D. Miller Hearing Voices: Using Voice to Tell Amy Jones, Anakana Schofield writing inspired by the paintings of 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Your Story and Get Your Characters to Bayfield Town Hall, 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm Alex Colville with K.D. Miller Town Hall Heritage Theatre, 11 The Square, Bayfield Come Alive with Mona Awad 10:00 am – 11:30 am 9:30 am – 11:00 am 274 Jospehine Street, Wingham Bayfield Library, Alice Munro Public Library 18 Main Street N., Bayfield Building a Sustainable Writing Practice 281 Edward Street, Wingham Manipulating Sense with with Ian Williams Anthony De Sa Luncheon - If food is poetry, is not 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Bayfield Library, Author Readings: Alicia Elliott and 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm poetry also food? 18 Main Street N., Bayfield Amy Jones Alice Munro Public Library ~Joyce Carol Oates 281 Edward Street, Wingham 11:00 am – 12:30 pm 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Town Hall Heritage Theatre Bayfield Town Hall, 274 Josephine Street, Wingham Short Story Contest Winners Read 11 The Square, Bayfield Aloud Blurring the Lines between Fiction and 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Author Readings: Anakana Schofield & Nonfiction with Téa Mutonji Alice Munro Public Library, SUNDAY Ian Williams 281 Edward Street, Wingham 11:00 am – 12:30 pm 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Alice Munro Public Library Bayfield Town Hall, 281 Edward Street, Wingham SATURDAY 11 The Square, Bayfield 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 Toronto’s Portuguese community. At the Clinton, Howick, and Wingham Public Schools! a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize 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 Alice Munro 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 / Reproduction 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, Lives of the Saints. 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 Robert Kroetsch 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.
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