Carole Giangrande is an award-winning author of over ten books, ranging from novels, short story collections, children’s books, to poetry. Her latest collection, this may be the year, is a wonderful exploration of the connection between human emotion and nature.

Lyricalmyrical Books is an independent publishing house based in Toronto. Its founder, the late Luciano Iacobelli, published works of poetry by over 100 Canadian poets. Today, Giuliano Iacobelli is following in his father’s footsteps, with a focus on the works of Canadian and Italian visual artists.

Years in the making, A Literary Harvest: Canadian Writing About Wine and Other Libations includes exciting writing from 42 Canadian writers who explore the making, drinking, and symbolism of this age-old beverage.

John Calabro's latest novella, Laura's Uncovering, gives us the stunning story of Laura and her husband, Sal; a couple struggling to make sense of their future, whilst living in a city overflowing with undiscovered history.

Licia Canton is an editor, instructor, mentor, and writer. Most recently, she edited Here & Now Volume 2: An Anthology of Queer Italian-Canadian Writing.

For many years, I never read or saw stories about Italian-Canadians. I would say they are still a rarity. So many of the stories that we see as “Italian-something” are actually Italian-American stories or based on Mafia stereotypes. I like a good gangster story as much as the next person, but it’s getting to be a lazy, tired stereotype. Yes, Cold City is a crime story, but it’s also a story about people: immigration, desperation and redemption, not another version of The Godfather. It’s time to tell other stories and I’m very happy to tell them.

Carmelo Militano's latest novel, The Patina of Melancholy, is very compelling and sensual, with all the elements of a detective literary thriller and the passion of a love story, intertwined into one.

To date I have published seven poetry books, three novels, one children’s fantasy novel, two drama books and two works of non-fiction, one of which, Italy Revisited, was translated into French and Italian. Which form do I find the most challenging? They are equally challenging and fun. Writing itself does not require much effort. Finding publishers does.

The writing of the book was a long process. When I started, I didn't see what I saw when I came to the final version of this manuscript. When I started writing this, I saw myself only as a failure of a scholar. When I finished, I saw that everything I strove for was meaningless in the new decolonized academy. I still think the academy is a colonizers project, a relic of King Arthur's round table of knights, a world of landed gentry, so the decolonizing project is not complete… and also the academy is being taken over by a market economy, degrees are monetized, students purchase credentials as clients. So on the one hand we have decolonization of academic elitism and on the other, a kind of capitalist revision of education.

After close to eighty years of poems, short stories, novels, and essays, readers have the right to ask what is an Italian Canadian writer if there is no legal justification for such an ID. There are three possibilities: you own the Italian passport, you own the Canadian passport, or you own both. Only if you have both passports, have you the right to consider yourself an Italian and a Canadian. Otherwise you are either an Italian or a Canadian. Nonetheless, at some point, a few writers of my generation brought together both identities, and in so doing cracked open our conception of personal testimony. I needed to delve into what had been posited by this agglutination.

Domenico Capilongo’s latest book of poems is a blast-to-the-past, more specifically the 1970s. It’s a series of prose poems based on words added in the dictionary the year the poet was born.