Association of Italian-Canadian Writers
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Association of Italian-Canadian Writers is a Canadian organization established in 1986 to promote the publications of Italian-Canadian authors.
The Association of Italian-Canadian Writers (AICW) was founded in September, 1986, in Vancouver during a conference of Italian-Canadian authors at the Italian Cultural Centre. The founding members included: Antonio D'Alfonso, Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, Dino Minni, Mary di Michele, Dore Michelut, Genni Gunn, Pasquale Verdicchio, Marco Micone, Fulvio Caccia, and Joseph Pivato. From the beginning it included authors writing in English, French or Italian and some Italian dialects.[1]
At this founding meeting Joseph Pivato was selected to be president of AICW (1986-1990) and was the editor of the AICW Newsletter from 1986 to 1996, and 2003-5, an important function since the AICW has members scattered across Canada and beyond. The newsletter was trilingual to reflect the working languages for the authors.[2]
Since 1986, the AICW has held biennial conferences in a different city: Toronto (1988), Ottawa (1990), Montreal (1992), Winnipeg (1994), Toronto-Woodbridge (1996), Vancouver (1998), Montreal (2000), Toronto (2002), Udine, Italy (2004), Vancouver (2006), Toronto (2008), Atri, Italy (2010), Halifax (2012), Montreal (2014), and Padula, Italy (2016).[citation needed]
