Why is humour sacred and what is its role within literature? Jane: Humour is incredibly important within the storytelling traditions of so many of our communities. It signals shared values and the capacity to break rules, find joy, and expose ethical failings in an...
Photo credit: Georgie Lawson Angela Sterritt is an award-winning investigative journalist and national bestselling author from the Wilp Wiik’aax of the Gitanmaax community within the Gitxsan Nation on her dad’s side and from Bell Island Newfoundland on her maternal...
For National Poetry Month, we're publishing Gitanjali Bal's interview with Poetry Decoded from our latest issue, Room 47.2: Seedpod. A passion project co-created by friends and local multidisciplinary artists, Bisharo Farah, Amana Park and Kasra Kooshafar, Poetry...
Two friends—in verse and in life—sit down to chat about the release of Ellen Chang-Richardson’s much anticipated collection Blood Belies out now with Wolsak & Wynn. ~ Margo LaPierre: Congratulations on the brand-new release of Blood Belies! How was your...
Photo credit: Alice Meikle Sarah Bernstein is a Canadian writer who was born in Montreal and currently lives in Scotland. She has published three books, including a collection of prose poems titled Now Comes the Lightning (2015) and two novels, The Coming Bad Days...
This year’s Short Forms Contest judge is the writer, activist, and award-winning author, Tsering Yangzom Lama. Her debut novel, We Measure the Earth with our Bodies, won the GLCA New Writers Award as well as the Banff Mountain Book Award for Fiction & Poetry. It...
Room 46.3 editor, Rachel Thompson, has been taking writers behind the scenes of creating this ghostly issue all month on the Write, Publish, and Shine Podcast. Listen here…
The Vancouver Writers Festival is once again taking place this October on the shared territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ nations. From October 16th to 22nd, the 36th Annual Festival will celebrate the writing of over 125 authors at 85...
Joining us for an email interview is this year’s Poetry Contest judge, John Elizabeth Stintzi (they/she). Stintzi’s first novel, Vanishing Monuments, was a finalist for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, her second novel, My Volcano, was a Kirkus Reviews “Book of...
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