Award-winning Author
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.
Registration is now open for the Summer Workshop in Creative Writing at the Humber School for Writers, running July 9 – 15, 2011 in Toronto at Humber’s Lakeshore Campus.
Since 1992, the Humber School for Writers has distinguished itself as a leading centre for the study of creative writing. Our track record speaks for itself: more than 275 of our graduates have been published, including placements by our in-house agency. Several have been nominated for literary awards, and a few have gone on to win. Alumna Angie Abdou’s The Bone Cage, for instance, was chosen for a prestigious list – one of the five books on this year’s Canada Reads. Sarah Selecky’s This Cake is for the Party was shortlisted for the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Robert Rotenberg had bidding wars in New York, London, and Toronto for his first novel, Old City Hall, and Cathy Marie Buchanan’s The Day the Falls Stood Still sold in Italy, the USA, the UK, and made The New York Times Best Sellers list.
– Antanas Silieka, director of the Humber School for Writers and author of Underground
“One of the best programs of its kind in North America.”
– The Globe and Mail
Who knew there was an Italian Heritage month? Come out and help celebrate it with Domenico Capilongo and Nino Ricci at Chapters Woodbridge, Thursday, June 30th, 2011 at 7 PM.
Domenico Capilongo is the author of I thought elvis was italian, shortlisted for the F.G. Bressani Prize, and holds a Black Belt in karate. Nino Ricci owns a black belt, but knows no karate. Join Ricci and Capilongo for some friendly conversation on matters literary as well as a demonstration of Capilongo’s martial arts skills at Ricci’s expense.
Join renowned Azeri musicians Narmina Afandiyeva and Hassan Anami for a concert of classical music at Trinity St. Paul’s United Church, 427 Bloor Street West, Toronto. Saturday, June 25th, 2011 at 7:30 PM. Admission is free!
The tenth annual Springsong Celebration on Pelee Island features Margaret Atwood and guest authors Nino Ricci and Erika de Vasconcelos, with celebrity birder Trevor Herriot. Readings take place at The Great Banquet, which begins at 6:00 pm on Saturday, May 7th at the Wine Pavillion. Tickets at $65 each can be reserved beginning January 15th, by contacting curator@peleeislandmuseum.ca.
Nino Ricci speaksabout the adaptation of his Lives of the Saints trilogy into a television miniseries in his talk “From the Page to the Screen: How I Sold My Soul to Sophia Loren.” Presented by the Frank Iacobucci Centre of the University of Toronto.
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
6.00 PM
Alumni Hall, Room 100
121 St. Joseph Street, Toronto
(near Wellesley & Bay)
Everyone is welcome and admission is free. A reception will follow.
Colorado College hosts a reading and talk by Nino Ricci on his recent novel The Origin of Species. Sponsored by Colorado College’s Department of North American Studies.
Thursday, April 28th, 2011
7:00 PM
Gates Common Room on the 3rd floor of Palmer Hall
1025 N. Cascade Ave. (east of Tutt Library)
Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado
719-389-6000
This event is open to the general public. Admission is free.
Nino Ricci visits Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey to talk about his biography of Pierre Trudeau and about Trudeau’s role in his most recent novel, The Origin of Species. Wednesday, April 20th, 2011 4:30 – 6 PM. Reception to follow.
Sponsored by the Canadian Studies Program of Princeton University.
The Toronto Writers’ Co-operative hosts Nino Ricci for an afternoon of critique and conversation. Sunday, April 17th, 2011 at 2 PM at the Toronto Reference Library. The Toronto Writers’ Co-operative is a program of the Toronto Public Library.
Barrie North Collegiate’s iDeology Program presents the 4th Annual L3 Writers’ Conference, once again bringing some of Canada’s finest poets, novelists, journalists and activists to Barrie, Ontario.
This year’s evening program, open to the general public, features Romeo Dallaire, Nino Ricci, Charlotte Gray, George Elliott Clarke, and Dr. Bruce Meyer. 7 PM on Thursday, April 14th, 2011 at Barrie North Collegiate Institute.
Tickets available @ Page & Turners’ Book Store, Dunlop St., Barrie, or at the door. $20 for adults, $10 for students.
For more information contact Brian Adduono at badduono@mail.scdsb.on.ca or 705-726-6541.
Join Judy Fong Bates, Antanas Sileika and Nino Ricci for “Between Two Worlds,” a discussion of identity and culture held in conjunction with the Toronto Public Library’s selection of Judy Fong Bates’s Midnight at the Dragon Cafe as Toronto’s 2011 One Book.
Monday, April 4th, 2011 at 7 PM at the Palmerston Library, 560 Palmerston Avenue, Toronto, just north of Bloor Street and just west of Bathurst Station. Tel. (416) 393-7680. Hosted by RoseMarie Spearpoint, Branch Head of Palmerston Library, and moderated by Anne Marie Mediwake.