Nino Ricci

Award-winning Author

TPL Writer in Residence

Nino Ricci is the Toronto Public Library’s Fall 2025 Writer in Residence. The residency program offers members of the public the chance to receive feedback on their own work and to get first-hand insights into the writer’s craft through public workshops and lectures.

This fall’s residency will focus on historical fiction, with events throughout October and November and the chance for a select number of budding writers to meet one-on-one with Ricci and take part in a four-week workshop in which fellow writers will discuss their work .

Other events include:

  • a talk on the role of research in writing historical fiction
    • Tuesday, October 14, 2025 ~ 6:30 – 8:00 PM
  • a panel discussion with writers Steven Hayward, Kai Thomas and Alissa York on ethical choices in writing historical fiction
    • Tuesday, November 11, 2025 ~ 6:30 – 8:00 PM
  • a talk on language and perspective in writing historical fiction
    • Tuesday, November 18, 2025 ~ 6:30 – 8:00 PM

All events take place at the Toronto Reference Library at 789 Yonge Street, Toronto, one block north of Yonge Street. For more information, visit the Toronto Public Library website.

Italian Week Ottawa

Italian Week Ottawa

Ottawa’s Italian Week hosts an evening of conversation with Nino Ricci, including a sneak peek at his new novel, set in London, England in the months leading up to the Great War. Friday, 13 June 2025.

Italian Week is one of Ottawa’s most iconic annual festivals. Founded in 1975, it is among the city’s longest running arts and cultural festivals and highlights the many contributions of Italian heritage and culture to the city.

Librissimi

Lino Rufo, Dom Fiore, Andrea Ramolo and Nino Ricci open this year’s Librissimi, Toronto’s Italian book festival, with a tribute in music and spoken word to the late poet and novelist Giose Rimanelli.

I Migliori Awards

Nino Ricci has been named one of the recipients of the Pirandello Lyceum’s 2025 I Migliori Awards. This year marks the 40th anniversary of an award that Boston Magazine has called the most prestigious honour to be received by a person of Italian descent. Normally reserved for American citizens, the Lyceum has chosen this year to include a Canadian among its honorees.

The award ceremony will take place on April 12th in Peabody, Massachusetts.

30 Sept 2017 – Lunenberg Lit Fest

 

Saturday, September 30th, 2017
7 PM –Lunenburg School of the Arts

The Lunenberg Lit Fest is back this September 29th & 30th, featuring Jill Martin Boutiellier, Pauline Dakin, Terry Fallis, Stephen Kimber, Vernon Oickle, Nino Ricci, and Patrick Woodcock. Catch Nino Ricci and Vernon Oickle at the Lunenberg School of the Arts on Saturday the 30th, with host Stephen Kimber.

9 Sept 2017 – Dunedin Lit Fest

Words in the Woods – The Dunedin Literary Festival
Saturday, September 9th, 2017
Gates open at 11 AM

Join Nino and the Great Lake Swimmers, along with Alison Pick, Trevor Cole, Roo Borson, Andrew Pyper, Kate Hilton, Antanas Sileika, Michael Fraser, and more.

The Dunedin Literary Festival returns this year promising more of everything: more authors, more music, more discussions, more activities, more vendors, and more walks in the park. An all inclusive, all-ages, one-day family affair that celebrates Canadian arts & literature, music, food, and community in the hopes of inspiring and educating readers of all ages.

This year’s festival will include a stellar line-up of award-winning Canadian authors, musicians, and poets, including Nino Ricci, Claire Cameron, Catherine Bush, Cecily Ross, Alison Pick, Brent Preston, Trevor Cole, Andrew Pyper, and Antanas Sileika.

11 AM – AN ONSTAGE INTERVIEW WITH ANTANAS SILEIKA

Antanas Sileika, author of Underground and, most recently, The Barefoot Bingo Caller, talks with Nino about poker, books, and the writing life. Recently retired as the Director of the Humber School for Writers and a frequent contributor to the literary press, Antanas is equally accomplished as both writer and literary commentator.

 

6 PM – AN EVENING WITH NINO RICCI AND GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS

General admission $25
Doors open at 6:00 PM
Show starts at 6:30 PM
 
Dunedin Community Centre
8994 County Rd 9, Dunedin, ON
 
Tickets are on sale now through ticketscene.ca.
 
An intimate collaboration of words and music, storytelling and songwriting, as Nino Ricci and Tony Dekker’s Great Lake Swimmers take to the stage to read, perform, and discuss. The evening will include readings by Nino Ricci, performances by Tony Dekker and Great Lake Swimmers, and a conversation to discuss inspiration, influences, writing, and music. 
 
 

29 Apr 2017 – Windsor Public Library

NINO RICCI IN WINDSOR IN OCTOBER 2016 FOR WINDSOR BOOKFEST. PHOTO BY JASON KRYK/WINDSOR STAR

Nino Ricci talks about his origins in Essex County and about his award-winning novel Sleep. Find out how the small-town boy from Leamington made it to the Big Time, and the role that Leamington’s world-famous tomatoes played in his rise. 

Saturday, 29 April 2017
Windsor Public Library
2 PM ~ 850 Ouelette Avenue, Windsor

 

 

24 Apr 2017 – TPL eh! List

 

Join IAN HAMILTON and Nino Ricci on Monday, April 24 at 7 pm, in Beeton Hall at the Toronto Reference Library, for The Mafia, Triads and Ava Lee. Ian Hamilton, a former journalist, diplomat and entrepreneur, is the best-selling author of ten novels in the Ava Lee mystery series, currently being adapted for television. He appears as part of the spring 2017 eh List Author Series, Toronto Public Library’s celebration of writers from across Canada. His presentation of the latest installment in the Ava Lee series, The Couturier of Milan, will be followed by an onstage interview by Nino Ricci.

1 Dec 2016 – Next Big Thing

Get a sneak preview of the stars of the next generation as the writers
of Nino Ricci’s Creative Writing I strut their stuff.
7-10 PM on Thursday, December 1st, 2016 @ Mare Nostrum
401 Sunset Ave, Windsor ~ 519-973-7030 ~ Corner of Fanchette and Sunset

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26-30 Oct Ubud Writers’ Festival

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Literary star Hanya Yanagihara on friendship and on writing that which cannot be spoken. Acclaimed novelist and social commentator Lionel Shriver on the power of fiction. Cinema legend Joko Anwar on the rise (and rise) of Indonesian new-wave cinema. Undercover journalist Suki Kim on what lies behind the closed doors of North Korea’s sons. Youth activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied on writing your own story. Pageant Queen Anastasia Lin on beauty with a purpose. Much-loved performer Magda Szubanski on going beyond comedy, to family and a reckoning. Leading foreign correspondent Stan Grant on human dignity and the soul of a nation. Filmmaker and actress Djenar Maesa Ayu on flirting with the chaotic feminine in Indonesia. Artist and musician Jesse Paris Smith on creative activism. The Brothahood on where hip-hop intersects with faith. Stella Award-winner Charlotte Wood on writing darkness to find the light. Novelist and poet Helon Habila on staring into the hard face of the extreme. And Nino Ricci too!

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