The Alice Munro Festival of the Short Story has unanimously decided to bring the festival to a close in 2025.
The committee would like to share their sincere appreciation to the community, volunteers, and funders for their many years of support and to the authors who continued to bring exceptional programming to the event. The remaining funds will be donated to community charities supporting women and youth.
The festival website will continue to host the archive of authors and short stories for an undetermined amount of time on this website. The Short Story Contest will continue through
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Author Reading with Annahid Dashtgard
Bones of Belonging
Sunday, June 9, 2024
12 Noon at the Bayfield Community Centre, 4 Jane Street, Bayfield
In a series of deft interlocking stories, this national bestseller shares experiences of searching for, and teaching about, belonging in our deeply divided world. A critically acclaimed racialized immigrant writer and recognized diversity and inclusion leader, Annahid writes with wisdom, honesty and a wry humour as she considers what it means to belong—to a country, in a marriage, in our own skin—and what the impact is when belonging is absent. Like the bones of the human body, these stories and vignettes knit together a remarkable vision of what wholeness looks like as a racial outsider in a culture still dominated by whiteness.
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AUTHOR BIO:
Annahid is an author and CEO of international inclusion company Anima Leadership, devoted to using her voice towards a more just future. Alongside writing for various publications and serving on award juries (including the Hilary Weston non-fiction prize), she’s author of the national best-seller Bones of Belonging and memoir Breaking the Ocean which Ms. Magazine prophesied “may change you”. A leading voice on race, trauma and immigration, she also hosts the podcast Soundwaves of Belonging, featuring intimate and irreverent conversations with fellow bridge-builders. Having grown up in three different countries—Iran, England and Canada—on three different continents, Annahid is a citizen of the world, a lover of stories and a truth speaker for a more just future (@Annahid).
Masterclass: Digging for Truth in Memoir Writing
Saturday, June 8, 2024 - 11:30am - 1:30pm
What do great memoirs have in common? In this workshop, bestselling non-fiction author Annahid Dashtgard guides writers through steps in the process of committing one’s life to the page, what to do with people in your life, and how to know when you arrive at the most truthful and impactful version of events.
This event is included with your All Access Writer's Pass and with an ASaturday Day Pass for Writers. For Single tickets -