Gianfranco Bettin (born in Venice, 1955) is an Italian sociologist and long-time leader of the Greens in Veneto. During his long political career, he was deputy mayor of Venice for Mestre and member of the Regional Council of Veneto. Marilia Mazzeowas born in Ravenna, but has lived in Venice for many years. After studying architecture he decided to change course and devote himself to writing. He has published the collection Acqua alta (Theoria 1997), the novels Paris of the suburbs (EL 1998) and The ballad of the invisible (Frassinelli 1999) and a series of short stories, some translated into English, German and French, for anthologies, newspapers and magazines. Elisabetta Baldisserotto is a psychoanalyst and writer, who lives and works in Venice. In the non-fiction field, in addition to numerous articles in specialized magazines, he has published the monographs Read the feelings. A psychological and literary journey (Moretti & Vitali, 2011) and Figures of passion. Between psychoanalysis and literature (Vivarium, 2014). IAs for fiction, she has published the short stories A casa in M'ama? Mothers, mothers, stepmothers or not (edited by A. Bruni, S. Chemotti, A. Cilento, Il Poligrafo, 2008) and A human case in Ten small ignoble stories (edited by B. Gr Annalisa Bruni is a Venetian writer. She has published four collections of short stories: Storie di libridine (Edizioni della laguna, 2002, finalist at the 2003 Settembrini-Regione Veneto Prize), Other imbalances (Helvetia Edizioni, 2005), Della fortuna womannesca (Nova Charta, 2008), Tipi not to be frequented (Cleup, 2013). She has edited numerous anthologies of short stories, including, in 2008, M'ama. Mothers, mothers, stepmothers or not, with A. Cilento and S. Chemotti, for Il poligrafo editore. She has written radio scripts and radio plays produced and broadcast by RAI, Italian Swiss Radi Cristiano Dorigo has been working as a social worker for more than twenty five years. He has published four books co-written with another author and two of his stories have been selected for collective works published by Marsilio, Einaudi and Prospero. His short stories and texts have been published in Italian and US magazines, newspapers and blogs. He is co-creator and co-writer of the award-winning short film "El mostro" (Studio Liz). Michele Catozzi is an author, journalist and computer scientist born in Mestre but who relocated to Venice in his twenties. He has written several short stories, from various genres. He