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The Alice Munro <strong>Festival</strong> has been around in one form or another since<br />
2001. It originated with a desire by the local community to celebrate and<br />
honour Wingham, Ontario native, Alice Munro. The <strong>Festival</strong> and accompanying<br />
short story contest had a resurgence in 2013 when Alice Munro<br />
won the Nobel Prize for Literature. In 2014, a comprehensive plan was<br />
developed to expand the scope and scale of the event and the <strong>Festival</strong>’s<br />
name was changed to the Alice Munro <strong>Festival</strong> of the Short Story to reflect<br />
this new vision and mandate. In 2015, we presented Canadian authors: Lisa<br />
Moore, Heather O’Neil, Caroline Adderson, Andrew Kaufman and Merilyn<br />
Simonds.<br />
Our goal for this year remains the same: to nurture emerging writers and<br />
to celebrate short stories in the rural landscape that inspired Alice Munro.<br />
In 2016, we have doubled the number of authors featured, and expanded<br />
the scale of our programming with the intention of producing a Canadian<br />
literacy event that is intimate, stimulating, and hopefully a little surprising, for<br />
writers and readers alike.<br />
MEET THE COMMITTEE<br />
Chair - Rick Sickinger<br />
Sharlene Bolen | Nancy Fisher | Gil Garratt<br />
Connie Goodall | Alison Lobb Shannon Kammerer<br />
Judy Lyons | Yolanda Ritsema-Teeninga | Colleen Schenk<br />
Verna Steffler | Karen Stewart | Amy Zoethout<br />
JOIN US ON SOCIAL MEDIA<br />
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www.alicemunrofestival.ca
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