Interview

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...

Genus and Species: An Interview with Leslie Beckmann

Genus and Species: An Interview with Leslie Beckmann

An interview with Room's 2016 fiction contest winner, Leslie Beckmann.  Leslie Beckmann is an environmental biologist and a Master’s candidate in UBC’s Creative Writing program. Her work has been shortlisted in the Canada Writes competition, has appeared in the...

Ruth Ozeki: On Writing for  Answers and Money

Ruth Ozeki: On Writing for Answers and Money

Ruth Ozeki received a Kiriyama Prize for her first novel, My Year of Meats (1998), an American Book Award for All Over Creation (2003), and the L.A. Times Book Prize for A Tale for the Time Being (2013), which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In the...

Whose Story is it? In Conversation with Alicia Elliott

Whose Story is it? In Conversation with Alicia Elliott

Our managing editor Chelene Knight spoke with Alicia Elliott about what it’s like being an Indigenous writer in the CanLit world, and her thoughts on authenticity when telling an experience that isn’t your own. Our managing editor Chelene Knight spoke with Alicia...

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Step back with Room into the past, to parents, to childhood homes, and to people once known and loved; dig into themes of grief and healing; and ultimately explore what it means to come full circle in literature.

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