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NEWS & EVENTS 2024

November 4, 2024

A fun thing. The Canadian Authors Association is putting out a jigsaw puzzle featuring 50 Canadian authors, including THE CIPHER.

Review by John Calabro upcoming in Italian Canadiana Spring 2025.

“The Cipher is a powerful, cinematic wartime love story destined for the silver screen…

Read the full review here

October 3, 2024

“Adrift,” an excerpt from THE CIPHER, in Accenti Magazine. Read the excerpt here:

September 17, 2024. BC BookWorld

September 9, 2024

THE CIPHER review in The BC Review of Books

Read the full review HERE :

September 4, 2024

All Lit Up — Under the Cover Blog

“We discovered my father had been recruited into Churchill's Secret Army - the Special Operations Executive (SOE) - to fight a clandestine, guerilla war against the German Nazis and Italian Fascists. Definitely novel material, I thought."

Genni Gunn tells us about the process of writing her new novel THE CIPHER (Signature Editions) - one that also involved delving into her father's secret wartime past.”

Read it HERE

Book Trailer

September 1, 2024

New novel —

THE CIPHER (Signature Editions, 2024)

September 10, 2024

Publication of YOURS, BEFANA:: A Letter from the Winter Witch, (Greystone Kids,), the English translation from the Italian of Vostra Befana, by Barbara Cuoghi and Elenia Baretta. A delightful picture book, with the most gorgeous illustrations.

JULY 20, 2024

ACCIDENTS, finalist for the Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society Book Awards.

June 27, 2024

BC Booklook

April 22, 2024

ACCIDENTS on the shortlist

for Di Cicco Poetry Prize.

April 11, 2024

There’s a Poem for That: Genni Gunn + ACCIDENTS

Genni Gunn discusses how she explores the various accidental events that shape lives in her poetry collection ACCIDENTS (Signature Editions), and shares a poem for small victories. INTERVEW here .

EVENTS 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