Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli (Toronto chapter) attended the May 1st Montreal launch of A Literary Harvest: Canadian Writing About Wine and Other Libations, and read an excerpt of her story “Deception and Damnation” from the anthology along with several other authors. She continued on to Toronto for Librissimi, the Italian Book Festival held May 2 – 4, where she read in a panel featuring the same anthology, with contributors Giovanna Riccio and Damiano Pietropaolo, and moderated by George Elliott Clarke. Rosanna will be guest author at WEN, Writers and Editors Network, on June 21. Rosanna’s fiction collection Pigeon Soup & Other Stories (Inanna Publications, 2021) was honoured as a Finalist in the 2022 International Book Awards in the “Fiction: Short Story” category, a Finalist in the 2021 American BookFest Best Book Awards.