EVENTS 2020 — 2022
April 22, 2022
Virtual book Launch of ACCIDENTS, new poetry collection
May 30, 2022
Italian INTERVIEW in L’Edicola Del Sud, BARI
Re: Italian translation of TRACING IRIS
May 29, 2022
Launch of ALLA RICERCA DI IRIS
Flaneurs Edizioni, BARI, Italian translation of TRACING IRIS
August 22, 2022
Italian INTERVIEW in Il Piccolo, TRIESTE
September 5 — October 5, 2022
Italian tour for ALLA RICERCA DI IRIS, the Italian translation of TRACING IRIS
September 5: Libreria "Racconti Ritrovati" – via Val Maira 71/A-73, ROMA, Moderator: Dacia Maraini
September 11: Rassegna “Dillo con un libro” – Cortile Castello, RUTIGLIANO
September 12: Libreria Campus – Via Toma 76, BARI, Moderator: Alessio Rega (Editore)
September 22: Il Giardino Segreto – Area Verde Camollia 85, SIENA, Modera tor: Sabrina Pirri
September 23: Biblioteca Comunale “Lorenzo Quartieri,” FORTE DEI MARMI; Moderator: Laura Failli
September 26: IIS Galilei-Artiglio – Via Aurelia Nord 342, VIAREGGIO, Moderator: Laura Failli
September 28 — October 1: Conference at the Università degli Studi di Torino – Via S.Ottavio 18, TORINO
October 3: Università degli Studi di Udine – Via Palladio 8, UDINE, Moderator: Deborah Saidero
October 4: Libreria “Friuli” – Via dei Rizzani 1, UDINE, various presenters and actors
September 15, 2022
Interview in Italian for Morel Voci Dall’Isola
October 27, 2022
Poetry reading, Granville Island Brewing Room, Vancouver
EVENTS 2021
January 5, 2021
“Birth Stones” nominated for BEST AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITING 2021
January 2021
Translations from Italian of two poems by Ada Donati in subTerrain Issue #87 Tales from the Pandemic
January 27, 2021
Interview in Writers block, All Lit Up
April 27, 2022
Essay “Locating the Traveller: Genni Gunn and Nostalgia on the Move” by Sylvia Terzian and Veronica Austen
in PATTERNS OF NOSTOS IN ITALIAN CANADIAN NARRATIVES (University of Toronto Press)
“Gunn initiates new ways of thinking about return by taking the migrant traveler as its central figure and envisioning home as a “practice of displacement” (Evelein 21) wherein “home” is not achievable through physical return, but through memory…”
May 19, 2021
PERMANENT TOURISTS finalist for ReLit Award
July 26, 2021
Interview in Accenti Magazine
October 25, 2021
Review of PERMANENT TOURISTS in The British Columbia Review
EVENTS 2020
April 2020
“Birth Stones” is a travel essay set in Matera, Italy, a UNESCO Heritage Site.
In Italy, known as I Sassi — the stones. Published in NOWHERE Magazine: People / Place / Time
May 27, 2020
“From the Road to the Writing Desk”: travel in Writing
July 2020
“Erasures” is one of the short stories in the new collection, PERMANENT TOURISTS.
Honourable Mention in the Prairie Fire Fiction Contest. Published in Prairie Fire.
October 28, 2020
Virtual launch of PERMANENT TOURISTS, with host Hal Wake
October 8, 2020
Whistler Festival Blog regarding the origin of one of the stories, “Erasures”
October 16, 2020
Whistler Writers’ Festival Online Literary Cabaret
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