This is a list of short stories written by Alice Munro. It includes stories that were published in single-author collections (books), the first story ever published, "The Dimensions of a Shadow" (1950), and other stories having appeared elsewhere.
Short stories by title (sortable) Some of the data in the list below are still needed in this spreadsheet, e.g., which journal a story was published in.
68 = Dance of the Happy Shades – 1968 71 = Lives of Girls and Women – 1971 74 = Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You – 1974 78 = Who Do You Think You Are? – 1978; also published as The Beggar Maid 82 = The Moons of Jupiter – 1982 86 = The Progress of Love – 1986 90 = Friend of My Youth – 1990 94 = Open Secrets – 1994 98 = The Love of a Good Woman – 1998 01 = Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage – 2001 04 = Runaway – 2004 06 = The View from Castle Rock – 2006 09 = Too Much Happiness – 2009 12 = Dear Life – 2012Compilations s96 = Selected Stories – 1996 s03 = No Love Lost – 2003 s04 = Vintage Munro – 2004 s06 = Alice Munro's Best: A Selection of Stories – Toronto 2006/ Carried Away: A Selection of Stories – New York 2006; both with an introduction by Margaret Atwood s11 = New Selected Stories – 2011, published in 2014 as Lying under the Apple Tree. Selected Stories (Vintage, London) a = in an anthology at about this time f = first published in a collection (most likely a journal publication came later) s = selected again for the compilation of the year given
TitleSee alsoJournal6871747882869094980104060912s96s03s04s06s11A Basket of Strawberries 1953-11 A Queer Streak x A Real Life 1992-02-10 x A Trip to the Coast x A Wilderness Station 1992-04-27 x s s Accident 1977-11 x Age of Faith x Ally and Lizzy x Amundsen (short story)de; 2012-08-27 Web x An Ounce of Cure x At the Other Place 1955-09 Axis 2011-01-31 Baptizing x Bardon Bus x x Before the Change 1998-08-24 x Boys and Girls (Web)de; 1964see title of study by Reingard M. Nischick, (Un-)Doing Gender: Alice Munro, 'Boys and Girls' (1964), in: The Canadian short story. Interpretations. Edited by Reingard M. Nischik, Rochester, NY: Camden House 2007, pp. 203–218. x Carried Away (short story) de; 1991-10-21 x s s s s Chaddeleys and Flemings I: The Connection 1979 x s Chaddeleys and Flemings II: The Stone in the Field 1979-04 x s Chance 2004-06-14 x sChanges and Ceremonies x Characters 1978 Child's Play x Circle of Prayer 1986 x Comfort x Connection 1978-11 Corrie (short story) de; 2010-10-11 Web x Cortes Island 1998-10-12 x Dance of the Happy Shades 1961Bibliographical Note, in: Alice Munro: Selected Stories. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1996, pp. 547–548.x s Day of the Butterfly 1956originally as "Goodbye Myra" x Dear Life (short story) de; 2011-09-19 Web x Deep-Holes 2008-06-30 Web x sDifferently (short story) 1989-01-02 x s s s Dimensions (short story)de; 2006-06-05 Web x sDolly 2012-05-29 x Dulse 1980-07-21 x a s Epilogue: The Photographer x Eskimo 1985-12 x Executioners x Face (short story) 2008-09-08 Web x Family Furnishings x sFathers x Fiction (short story) de; 2007-08 x Fits 1986 x s Five Points 1988-03-14 x Floating Bridge 2000-07-31 x Forgiveness in Families x s Free Radicals (short story) de; 2008-02-11 Web x sFriend of My Youth (short story)de;1990-01-22 x s s Goodbye Myra 1956-07 Goodness and Mercy 1989-03-20 x Gravel (short story)de; 2011-06-27 Web x Half a Grapefruit 1978-05 x Hard-Luck Stories x Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (short story) de; x s s s sHaven 2012-03-05 x Heirs of the Living Body x Hired Girl 1994-04-11 x sHold Me Fast, Don't Let Me Pass 1988-12 x Home Web, 2006 de; 1974 x How Could I Do That? 1956-03 How I Met My Husband 1974-02 x Illinois x Images x s In Sight of the Lake de; 2012-02-22 x Jakarta de; x Jesse and Meribeth x Labor Day Dinner 1981-09-28 x s Leaving Maverley de; 2011-11-28 x Lichen 1985-07-15 x s Lives of Girls and Women x Lying Under the Apple Tree 2002-06-17 x sMarrakesh x Material 1973-11 x s Memorial x Meneseteung de; 1988-01-11 x s s Messenger x Miles City, Montana 1985-01-14 x s s Mischief 1978-04 x s Monsieur les Deux Chapeaux x Mrs. Cross and Mrs. Kidd x My Mother's Dream x sNettles 2000-02-21 x Night (short story) de; 2012-Springhttp://www.granta.com/Archive/Granta-120-Medicine, beginning of the story x No Advantages x Oh, What Avails 1987-11-16 x Open Secrets 1993-02-08 x Oranges and Apples 1988-10-24 x Passion (short story) de; 2004-03-22 Web x Pictures of the Ice 1990-01 x Post and Beam 2000-12-11 x Postcard 1968 x s Powers x Pride 2011-04 x Princess Ida x Privilege x Providence 1977-08 x Prue 1981-03-30 x Queenie (short story) 1998-07-30 Web x Red Dress—1946 /The Red Dress -1973-03 f Rich as Stink x Royal Beatings 1977-03-14 x s Runaway (short story)de; 2003-08-11 Web x s Save the Reaperde; 1998-06-22 x s Silence 2004-06-14 x sSimon's Luck 1978originally as "Emily" x s s Some Women 2008-12-22 x Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You 1974 x s Soon 2005-06-14 x sSpaceships Have Landed x Spelling 1978-06-17 x Story for Sunday 1950-12 Sunday Afternoon x Tell Me Yes or No 1974-03 x Thanks for the Ride x The Albanian Virgin de;1994-06-27 /07-04 x s s s The Bear Came Over the Mountain de; 1999-12-27 /2000-01-03 Web x s s sThe Beggar Maid 1977-06-27 x s The Children Stay 1997-12-22 x s s The Dangerous One 1957-07 The Dimensions of a Shadow 1950-04 The Edge of Town 1955-08 The Eye (short story) de; x The Ferguson Girls Must Never Marry 1982 The Flats Road x The Found Boat x The Idyllic Summer 1954-08 The Jack Randa Hotel 1993-07-19 x The Love of a Good Woman (short story) de; 1996-12-23 x s sThe Moon in the Orange Street Skating Rink 1986-03-31 x The Moons of Jupiter (short story) de; 1978-05-22 x s s s The Office x The Ottawa Valley 1974 x s The Peace of Utrecht x The Progress of Love (short story) de; 1985-10-07 x s s s The Shining Houses x The Spanish Lady x The Ticket x The Time of Death x The Turkey Season 1980-12-29 x s s The View from Castle Rock de; 2005-08-29 x sThe Widower 1951-04 The Wilds of Morris Township x To Reach Japan de; 2012 Web x Too Much Happiness 2009-08 x Train (short story) de; 2012-04 Web x Trespasses x Tricks x Vandals 1993-10-04 x s s Visitors 1982-04 x Voices (short story) de; x Walker Brothers Cowboy 1968 x s Walking on Water x Wenlock Edge (short story) de; 2005-12-05 Web x What Do You Want to Know For? 1994 a x What is Remembered 2001-01-19 x White Dump 1986-07-28 x s Who Do You Think You Are? x Wigtime 1989-09-04 x Wild Swans 1978-04 x s Winter Wind x Wood (short story) (Web, 2009) de; 1980-11-24 x Working for a Living 1981-08 x
Short stories by title
This list contains some extra information compared with the table above. "A Basket of Strawberries" in Mayfair (November 1953), 32–33, 78–80, 82.Alice Munro/Walter Martin reference materials. Finding Aid : GA 85. Special Collections, University of Waterloo Library. Series 1.3 : Works by Alice Munro : Published : Short Stories Published Separately "A Better Place Than Home" in Newcomers (1979), 113–124.Allan Weiss (compiler), A comprehensive bibliography of English Canadian short stories, 1950–1983, Toronto: ECW Press, 1988, "A Queer Streak" in The Progress of Love, 1986 "A Real Life" in The New Yorker, 10 February 1992, 30–40.Carol L. Beran, The Luxury of Excellence: Alice Munro in the New Yorker, in The rest of the story. Critical essays on Alice Munro, edited by Robert Thacker, ECW Press, Toronto 1999, , pp. 204–231, footnote 1, p. 227–228. Extended summary, in Open Secrets, 1994 "A Trip to the Coast" first read on the CBC programme Anthology; in Dance of the Happy Shades, 1968, 172–189; in Evolution of Canadian Literature in English (1973), 201–211. "A Wilderness Station" in The New Yorker, 27 April 1992, 35–46, 48–51 (originally created 1992); Extended summary, in Open Secrets, 1994 (republished in 1996 and 2006/ 2008) "Accident" in Toronto Life (November 1977), 61, 87–88, 90–95, 149–153, 158–160, 162–165, 167, 169–173. (originally created 1977); in The Moons of Jupiter, 1982 "Age of Faith" in Lives of Girls and Women, 1971 "Ally and Lizzy" in Lives of Girls and Women, 1971 "Amundsen" in The New Yorker, 27 August 2012, Web in Dear Life. Stories, 2012, pp. 31–66 (35 p.) "An Ounce of Cure" in The MontrealerAlice Munro, Dance of the Happy Shades and other stories, Published by Vintage 2000, bibliographical notice, backside of the title page. 35 (May 1961), 26–30; in Dance of the Happy Shades, 1968; in Sixteen by Twelve (1970), 103–112; in Singing Under Ice (1974), 147–160; in Sunlight & Shadows (1974), 52–62; in Canadian Humour and Satire (1976), 99–111; in Canadian Stories of Action and Adventure (1978), 51–64. "At the Other Place" in Canadian Forum 35 (September 1955), 131–133, by Alice Laidlaw "Axis" in The New Yorker, 31 January 2011,Ian McGillis found that reading Alice Munro's latest short story Axis, in the January 31 issue of The New Yorker, completely distracted him from the world events (Egypt) that had so absorbed him Summary "Baptizing" in Lives of Girls and Women, 1971 "Bardon Bus" in The Moons of Jupiter, 1982 (republished in 2003) "Before the Change" in The New Yorker, 24 August 1998, Extended summary, in The Love of a Good Woman, 1998 "Boys and Girls", The Montrealer 38 (December 1964), 25–34,Year also given in title of study by Reingard M. Nischick, (Un-)Doing Gender: Alice Munro, 'Boys and Girls' (1964), in The Canadian short story. Interpretations. Edited by Reingard M. Nischik, Rochester, NY: Camden House 2007, pp. 203–218. Web, in Dance of the Happy Shades, 1968; in Sixteen by Twelve, 1970, 112–124; in Four Hemispheres, 1971, 89–101; in Die Weite Reise as "Jungen und Mädchen", translated by Karl Heinrich, 1974, 285–304; in Women in Canadian Literature, 1976, 11–21; in La dance des ombres, as "Garçons et filles", 1979, 143–162; in New Worlds, 1980, 120–132. "Carried Away" in The New Yorker, 21 October 1991, 34–46, 48–58, 60–61 (originally created 1991); Extended summary, in Open Secrets, 1994 (republished in 1996, 2003, 2004 and 2006/ 2008) "Chaddeleys and Flemings I: The Connection" in Chatelaine, 1979 in The Moons of Jupiter, 1982 (republished in 1996) see also "Connection" "Chaddeleys and Flemings II: The Stone in the Field" in Saturday Night, 1979 in The Moons of Jupiter, 1982 (republished in 1996), see also "The Stone in the Field" in Saturday Night 94 (April 1979), 40–45. 1979. "Chance" in The New Yorker, 14 June 2004, Teaser plus beginning only, in Runaway, 2004 (republished in 2011 and in 2014) "Changes and Ceremonies" in Lives of Girls and Women, 1971 "Characters" in Ploughshares (U.S.) 4, no. 3 (1978), 72–82 (originally created 1978); "Child's Play" in Too much happiness, 2009 "Circle of Prayer" in Paris Review 100 (summer/fall 1986), 31–51. in The Progress of Love, 1986 "Comfort" (35 p.) in Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, 2001 "Connection" in Chatelaine 51 (November 1978), 66–67, 97–98, 101, 104, 106 (originally created 1978); see also "Chaddeleys and Flemings I: The Connection" "Corrie" in The New Yorker, 11 October 2010, Web, Dear Life. Stories, 2012, pp. 154–174 (20 p.) "Cortes Island" in The New Yorker, 12 October 1998, Extended summary, in The Love of a Good Woman, 1998 "Dance of the Happy Shades" in The Montrealer, 35 (1961), 22–26; in Dance of the Happy Shades, 1968; in Canadian Short Stories II, 1968, 285–300; in Narrative Voice, 1972, 171–180; in Canadian Century, 1973, 491–501; in Here and Now, 1977, 80–95; in La dance des ombres, as "La dance des ombres", 259–273. (republished in 1996) "Day of the Butterfly" originally published as "Goodbye Myra" in Chatelaine 28 (July 1956), 17, 55–58. in Dance of the Happy Shades, 1968; in Kaleidoscope (1972), 92–102; in Ontario Experience (1976), 201–112; in Crossroads 2 (1979), 52–63; in Inquiry into Literature 4 (1980), 54–63.