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Gay Book Lovers Unite! An Interview with Metonymy Press

Gay Book Lovers Unite! An Interview with Metonymy Press

Metonymy Press is a Montreal-based press that publishes literary fiction and nonfiction by emerging writers. They try to reduce barriers to publishing for authors whose perspectives are underrepresented in order to produce quality materials relevant to queer,...

In Conversation with  Betsy Warland

In Conversation with Betsy Warland

Jónína Kirton in conversation with Betsy Warland, from issue 39:4 "This Body's Map." For this interview I met with Betsy in her home. We are steps away from Stanley Park, surrounded by trees. Her home, like her writing, is uncluttered yet warm. No “walls of words” or...

#LitMagLove: Brick

#LitMagLove: Brick

Brick's Managing Editor, Liz Johnston talks #LitMagLove with Room editor, Rachel Thompson. In our continuing series, #LitMagLove, Brick's Managing Editor, Liz Johnston talks with Room editor, Rachel Thompson.Who are your first readers of unsolicited work at Brick and...

40.1 Food: Interview with Terri Brandmueller Part 2

40.1 Food: Interview with Terri Brandmueller Part 2

Terri Brandmueller is Room’s former poetry submissions co-ordinator, and a great lover of food. A skilled baker, Terri has written about food for Women's Day, Fresh Ideas Magazine, and Eating Well. Her family is equally passionate about all things culinary—her father...

Food 40.1: An Interview with Heather Giles Part 2

Food 40.1: An Interview with Heather Giles Part 2

Heather Giles is a Vancouver-based cook who has been working in kitchens since she was seventeen. She graduated from the Culinary Institute of Canada in 2009 and has worked as a cook at notable Vancouver restaurants Crow Bar, The Acorn, and Wild Rice, where she...

Sarah Kabamba: Emerging Writer Award Winner 2017

Sarah Kabamba: Emerging Writer Award Winner 2017

After being shortlisted for Room's Annual CNF Contest in 2015, Sarah Kabamba won the Fiction Contest in the same year with “They Come Crying.” Subsequently, the writer was published again in Room—this time with her poetry, “Dust”, in the Women of Colour issue. Room's...

#LitMagLove: The Offing’s Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

#LitMagLove: The Offing’s Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

The Offing is an online literary magazine that publishes "work that pushes literary and artistic forms and conventions" and seeks out and supports work by and about those often marginalized in literary spaces. Their new editor-in-Chief, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein,...

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