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AUTHOR PANEL<br />
PARTICIPATING<br />
WRITERS<br />
Elizabeth<br />
Hay<br />
Merilyn<br />
Simonds<br />
MODERATED BY<br />
Robert<br />
Thacker<br />
AUTHOR PANEL<br />
9:00 – 10:30am<br />
St. Andrew’s<br />
Presbyterian<br />
Church<br />
281 Josephine<br />
Wingham, ON<br />
$15<br />
Saturday, June 4, 2016<br />
Cambridge<br />
Companion<br />
to Alice Munro<br />
Moderated by Robert Thacker,<br />
author Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives (2011)<br />
and Reading Alice Munro (1973-2013, 2016)<br />
The new Cambridge Companion to Alice Munro,<br />
2016 is a thorough introduction to the writings<br />
of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro. Uniting<br />
the talents of distinguished creative writers and<br />
noted academics, editor David Staines has put<br />
together a comprehensive, exploratory account<br />
of Munro’s biography, her position as a feminist,<br />
her evocation of life in small-town Ontario, her<br />
non-fictional writings as well as her short stories,<br />
and her artistic achievement. Considering a wide<br />
range of topics including Munro’s style, life writing,<br />
her personal development, and her use of Greek<br />
myths, Celtic ballads, Norse sagas, and popular<br />
songs. This volume will appeal to keen readers of<br />
Munro’s fiction as well as students and scholars of<br />
literature and Canadian and gender studies.<br />
Join two of the contributing authors, Elizabeth<br />
Hay and Merilyn Simonds, for a wide-ranging<br />
discussion of Munro’s style, her personal<br />
development, her place in Canadian literature, and<br />
her evocation of place and motherhood.<br />
COFFEE BREAK:<br />
10:30 - 11:00am<br />
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