Nino Ricci

Award-winning Author

Amnesty International Human Rights Day

Write a letter and help save a life. Join Amnesty International on Human Rights Day for Write for Rights and be part of the world’s largest human rights event.

Date: December 10th, 2011
Time: 12:00pm-7:00pm
Location: Bram & Bluma Appel Salon, Toronto Reference Library, 2nd floor, 789 Yonge Street, Toronto (1 street north of Bloor)

Amnesty International invites you, your family, friends, and colleagues to be part of Write for Rights. Enjoy an afternoon and evening of mingling, letter writing, and inspirational words from guest speakers. Nino Ricci speaks about his own involvement with Amnesty International at 4 PM.

For more information visit www.amnesty.ca/writeathon or contact Nancy Cameron at 416.363.9933 ext. 328 or ncameron@amnesty.ca.

Toronto Writers’ Co-op Interview

John Miller of the Toronto Writers’ Co-operative talks to Nino Ricci as part of his ongoing series of literary interviews. Following the interview, two authors from the Toronto Writers’ Co-operative will read from their work.

2 PM on Saturday, December 10th, 2011 in the Toronto Reference Library’s Elizabeth Beeton Auditorium East. 789 Yonge Street, Toronto, just north of Bloor Street. Telephone 416-395-5577.

Vancouver International Writers Festival

75th ANNIVERSARY OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL’S AWARDS

Join Joan MacLeod,John Pass, John Vaillant, and Nino Ricci for the Vancouver International Writers Festival’s Governor General’s Award Party, hosted by Hal Wake. Sunday, October 23, 2011 at 8:00pm at the Waterfront Theatre.

For decades the most significant recognition a writer can receive in Canada has been a Governor General’s award. On the 75th anniversary of the awards the festival brings together four acclaimed writers who will read from the books that won the prize, and talk about what the reward has meant for their careers. They’ll also offer their frank opinions about literary prizes in general and what they contribute to our literary culture and whether we have relied too heavily on prizes to tell us what to read. Two-time winner for fiction Nino Ricci will be joined by John Pass (poetry), Joan MacLeod (drama) and John Vaillant (non-fiction). Come celebrate the GG’s and the end of the Festival with cake and conversation.

Round Table with Clark Blaise

Steven Hayward and Nino Ricci join Clark Blaise in a conversation about mentoring and the teaching of creative writing. Monday, October 10th, 2011 at Colorado College in Colorado Springs.

In addition to his renown as a teacher, novelist andwriter of non-fiction, Clark Blaise is a longtime master of the short story. His most recent collection is The Meagre Tarmac, published by Biblioasis.

Colorado College


This October Nino Ricci is the Maclean Distinguished Visiting Professor at the esteemed Colorado College in Colorado Springs, home of NORAD and the U.S. Air Force Academy as well as command central for the U.S. evangelical movement, boasting the headquarters of some eight-one right-wing Christian groups.

Nino will be teaching creative writing to anyone who dares to listen.

Extraordinary Canadians TV

PMA Productions presents Extraordinary Canadians, an innovative series of portraits pairing Canada’s most distinguished writers with great Canadians who have shaped our thinking. Based upon Penguin Canada’s Extraordinary Canadians collection of books edited by John Ralston Saul, the series gives personal takes on the lives of eminent Canadians, capturing the relationship between writer and subject that lies at the heart of the biography process.

Airing on City TV, Biography, and Omni starting October 2011. For more information, visit Extraordinary Canadians.

 

 

Eden Mills 2011

Eden Mills Writers’ Festival

Sunday, 18 September 2011

The 23rd Eden Mills Writers’ Festival takes place this September in lovely Eden Mills, Ontario, with events that run from September 16th to 19th. On Sunday, September 18th, join Nino and more than thirty other authors reading from their work, signing their books, and being generally witty and entertaining, in a bucolic setting reminiscent of the world as it was before Google and social media. A good time is promised for all.

Bridging the Digital Divide

Ricci Website Earns First Comment on Origin of Species

Almost three years after Nino Ricci’s novel The Origin of Species was first published, its webpage has finally garnered its first reader comment.

“I am at a point in this book where I am not sure I want to finish reading it,” wrote Linda Anderson Stewart, going on to describe the book as “one of the most depressing ” she had read in a long time.

Ricci was ecstatic when the comment showed up on his website dashboard.

“Never mind the Governor General’s Award, never mind the Order of Canada. As far as I’m concerned, this is what counts. Contact. Bridging the digital divide.”

Ricci says he hopes Ms. Anderson Stewart’s comment will spur other readers to post their opinions of his novel.

“I am no Polly Anna,” Ms. Anderson Stewart ended her post, “but I don’t find any of these characters worth reading about, other than to confirm all my worst opinions of human nature.”

Tim Hortons to Take Over Toronto Libraries

Photo by mjb84In an historic union of public and private sector interests, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has inked a deal to have the Tim Hortons coffee empire take over management of the Toronto Public Library system.

“It’s a natural fit,” said Ford, who credited his brother Doug with the inspiration for the scheme. “I mean, the only difference between a library and a Tim Hortons is the coffee. You’ve basically got a lot of lowlifes sitting around effing the dog all day.”

“Mind you, the coffee might actually make libraries worth the trip,” added Doug, who will be quitting his position as a city councillor to take up a senior management position with Tim Hortons. “From where I’m sitting, Roll Up The Rim has done a lot more for literacy than any commie-pinko novelist ever has.”

Tim Hortons president Paul House says he has big plans for Toronto’s libraries, including a massive sell-off of old inventory to make room for retail space.

“We just want to even the balance a bit,” said House. “At the end of the day, your average Joe isn’t going to miss Plato or Joyce or any of those guys.  But don’t take away his double-double!”

Tim Hortons founder Tim Horton could not be reached for comment.

PHOTO BY MJB84

Humber School Correspondence Program

This fall, Nino Ricci joins the stellar faculty of The Humber School for Writer’s renowned Correspondence Program in Creative Writing.

Got a masterpiece mouldering in a drawer that needs just a little bit of expert polish? Sitting just a few comma splices short of a New York Times bestseller? Looking for that bit of alchemy that might turn your leaden dialogue into gold? Then look no further. Visit The Humber School website for details.

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