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Author Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood to launch 2016 Alice Munro Festival
Legendary Canadian
author, Margaret Atwood,
will kick-off the 2016 Alice
Munro Festival of the Short
Story with a reading and
conversation at Blyth Festi-
val on Thursday, June 2.
The author will read from
her 2014 short story collec-
tion, Stone Mattress: Nine
Wicked Tales, followed by an
onstage conversation with fel-
low Canadian author Merilyn
Simonds when they will dis-
cuss Atwood's work, many
interests and passions.
Tickets for this evening with
a Canadian arts icon are on
sale now for $25 each, availa-
ble through the Blyth Festival
Box Office - 519-523-9300 or
www.blythfestival.com.
Nine other guest authors will
also take part in this year's Alice
Munro Festival of the Short
Story, June 2-5, including multi-
ple Governor General Award
for Fiction Finalist and 2007
Scotiabank Giller Prize winner
Elizabeth Hay. Ms. Haywill give
the keynote address at the Festi-
val's gala on Saturday, June 4.
Fellow Giller Prize winner (2013
Hellgoing), Lynn Coady, is also
one of the featured authors on
this year's roster. Ms. Coadywill
speak at the Huron County
Museum on Sunday, June 5, on
her latest publication Who
Needs Books?: Reading in the
Digital Age, an examination of
how technology is impacting
literacy.
Both of these authors will
also take part in events geared
towards book clubs who are
invited, along with individuals,
to read either His Whole Life by
Elizabeth Hay or The Antago-
nist by Lynn Coady and
participate in facilitated discus-
sions with the authors.
The Alice Munro Festival of
the Short Story honours the
work of Huron County native
and Nobel Prize winning
author Alice Munro. Fans of
Munro's work will not want to
miss Munro biographer Robert
Thacker's lunchtime talk "Alice
Munro Country." During
another event, the new Cam-
bridge Companion to Alice
Munro will be the subject of an
author panel with two of the
contributing authors: Elizabeth
Hay and Merilyn Simonds. Mr.
Thackerwill moderate.
The Opening Reception on
Friday, June 3 is a unique col-
laboration between the Blyth
Festival and the Alice Munro
Festival of the Short Story.
Blyth Festival artists will read
selections from If Truth Be
Told, a new play by Beverly
Cooper which is premiering at
Blyth this season. The play is a
fictionalized account of a
group that was successful in
having a number of award-
winning books banned in
schools in Ontario in the
1970s. Four guest authors will
read selections from some of
the banned books in-between
scenes from the play.
One of the missions of the
Alice Munro Festival is to nur-
ture emerging writers. The
annual Short Story Contest is an
example of that commitment.
This year's contest solicited over
two hundred entries from
across Canada The winners in
the adult and youth categories
will be announced at the Jubi-
lee Gala on June 4, - 2015 by
Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalist,
Samuel Archibald.
The Festival program
includes a series of master -
classes that allow writers of all
levels to learn from and net-
work with the guest authors.
Author readings also make
up a big part of the program.
New York Times best-selling
author and regularMcSweeny's
contributor, Sheila Heti, will
read a selection of new, yet to
be published, stories at the Fes-
tival. As the only literary festival
in the world to celebrate the
short story format, a panel of
authors will share their favour-
ite short stories at a Books and
Brunch event at the LiveryThe-
atre in Goderich on Sunday,
June 5. Rounding out the list of
2016 guest authors are: Calde-
cott Honour winner and Gover-
nor General Award Nominee,
Mariko Tamaki; 2015 Relit
Award -finalist short -fiction col-
lection Shawn Syms; and 2015
Lambda LiteraryAward finalist,
Vvek Shraya
A new addition to this
year's Festival is the addition
of photography.
The Huron County Library
and Photography Club of Bay-
field have partnered on a
photo exhibit that matches
quotes from Munro's stories to
images of the Huron County
Landscape, demonstrating
the connection between art
and place. Renowned photog-
rapher, Don Martel, will con-
duct a landscape photography
masterclass as part of this
year's Festival as well.
Full program details,
including box office informa-
tion, for the 2016 Alice Munro
Festival of the Short Story can
be found on the website www.
alicemunrofestival.ca
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