Interview

An Interview with Scaachi Koul

An Interview with Scaachi Koul

Scaachi Koul has risen to prominence over the last few years as perhaps the most recognizable young voice in Canadian media. Currently a culture writer at Buzzfeed, Koul has gained a huge following on Twitter for her unique blend of self-deprecating humour and...

Black Women’s Writing: An Interview with Donna Bailey Nurse

Black Women’s Writing: An Interview with Donna Bailey Nurse

I was tagged in a thread on Facebook about the difficulty in naming black Canadian women who had published a novel before the age of forty. I thought about this and began questioning the reason why it was so difficult to come up with even one name. Shortly after...

Chelsea Rooney: Exploring Hope and Truth in Pedal

Chelsea Rooney: Exploring Hope and Truth in Pedal

In the following interview, Rooney discusses some of the inspirations for her work, the need for complexity in conversations about trauma, and how fiction can set us free. Upon reading Pedal and throughout our thread by thread interview, I began to feel closer to...

forgetting urdu: An Interview with Zehra Naqvi

forgetting urdu: An Interview with Zehra Naqvi

Rachel Thompson interviews Zehra Naqvi, winner of Room's 2016 poetry contest. Zehra Naqvi is the winner of Room's 2016 poetry contest. She is a Karachi-born writer and editor residing on unceded Coast Salish Territories (Vancouver). She recently completed...

Family Secrets: An Interview with Rachel Thompson

Family Secrets: An Interview with Rachel Thompson

Rachel Thompson is the founder of Lit Mag Love, an online course that supports writers in their efforts to submit to literary magazines, the former managing editor of Room, and a current member of the editorial board. She will edit our March 2018 issue, "Family...

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