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Association Italian Canadian Writers

Association Italian Canadian Writers Association Italian Canadian Writers Welcome to the Association of Italian Canadian Writers Web Site! The Association was founded in 1986 in Vancouver, British Columbia, after most of us had met in Rome, Italy, in 1984, at the Canadian Cultural Institue. For your information, past presidents have been Joseph Pivato and Caterina Edwards. The Association's main purpose is to publicize the work of Italian Canadian authors, and to provide a forum for the discussion of issues pertinent and relevant to the membership. This is done through a bi-annual conference that has taken place in Vancouver, York, Winnipeg, Montreal and Toronto. This year, and extra meeting was held in May which proved to be fruitful. The next, normally scheduled conference, is for Vancouver in October 1998. Our local contact Anna Foschi, and the Director of the Italian Cultural Institute, dottoressa Gabriella Bianco, have expressed interest in helping make that conference come true. The 1996 meeting in Toronto was particularly exciting because it was intended to establish a dialogue with similarly situated writers in the Canadian context, that means ethnic/minority writers. And so, a panel was held during part of that conference in which we were able to hear and discuss the work of our Southeast Asian and Caribbean colleagues. This meeting will hopefully result in some sort of joint publication, and mark the beginning of such collaborations. I hope that if you are interested you will take the time to contact me and/or try one of the links below. I'm sure you will find most of them informative.

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