The (Not So) Nice Italian Girls & Friends: Launch of Giovanna Riccio's Vittorio

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Launch of Giovanna Riccio's Vittorio

(Not So) Nice Italian Girl Giovanna Riccio launched her new book of poetry Vittorio at supermarket on July 13, 2010 ...

Luciano Iacobelli, publisher of Lyricalmyrical and emcee for the night.

Friend Diane Bracuk introduces Giovanna and Vittorio.

Poet Giovanna Riccio

Friend Damino Pietropaolo listens attentively to the reading.

Luciano Iacobelli manning the book table.

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Until 2015, Michelle Alfano (also known as A Lit Chick) served as an Associate Editor with the literary quarterly Descant. She is the co-organizer of the Love Poetry Festival honouring Milton Acorn and Gwen MacEwen.

Her personal memoir The Unfinished Dollhouse (Cormorant Books, 2017) was selected as one of The Globe 100 Best Books of the Year in 2017.

Her novella, Made Up Of Arias, was the 2010 winner of the Bressani Award for Short Fiction. Her short story “Opera”, on which the novella was based, was a finalist for a Journey Prize anthology.

Her fiction and non-fiction work has been widely published in Canada in major literary publications including Descant, Prairie Fire, The Capilano Review, The Antigonish Review, Event, A Room of One’s Own and in six anthologies published respectively by: Prentice Hall, Quarry Press, Italian Canadiana, Guernica Editions, Red Deer Press and Legas Publishing.

She is currently at work on a novel entitled Destiny, think of me while you sleep.