Room is thrilled to announce that the 2021 Mentor-in Residence is the lovely and brilliant author of Shut Up You're Pretty, Téa Mutonji! Téa will work with six mentees this year to help them navigate the publishing world and develop their manuscripts-in-progress....
Welcome to our first interview feature for Black History Month with Indigenous Brilliance! In response to a lack of accessible education around the history of Hogan’s Alley and Black history in so-called “Vancouver,” Lexi Mellish-Mingo and Karmella Cen Benedito De...
Tansi, hello! Welcome to our online celebration of Black History Month with the Indigenous Brilliance Collective and Room Magazine. For the month of February, we will be sharing weekly content on the @indigenousbrilliance Instagram page, as well as over here on the...
Youth poets Meghan Romano, Alex Masse, Divyanshi Dash, Peace Akindate, Lu Godfrey and Hailey Orrange are some of the poets that have come together to form the new Flaming Balloon Collective. A youth poetry collective that wants to embrace self-love, forgiveness, queerness and healing through poetry.
Tansi hello! We are so thrilled to share the development of the Indigenous Brilliance issue 44.3. Our commissioned artist appearing in the issue is Whess Harman, a Carrier Wit’at multidisciplinary artist, an interview with the brilliant Cheyenne Wyzzard-Jones, a Black...
I am, I think like any sane person, a Dionne Brand fan. I adore her word choices. I think that every time she speaks I learn something new[…]She’s so generous with her words and I feel that every time I put my pen down to paper or start writing on my keyboard, that I have to be as generous as she is.
Sonnet L'Abbé is the author of two previous poetry collections, A Strange Relief and Killarnoe, and is a professor at Vancouver Island University. In her latest collection Sonnet’s Shakespeare, she breaks open William Shakespeare’s sonnets, engulfing his words with...
ROOM: Hello Alannah and Whitney! Thank you so much for taking the time out to talk with me today. First off, I wanted to send my congratulations, for seeing Hush Harbour Press off its feet! Would you like to begin by telling me about your initial visions of this...
Poet Junie Désil shares her infectious love of books, and not-so-guilty reading pleasures. [This interview was conducted via email.] ROOM: What books did you read as a kid? JD: Oh wow, I mean I read and devoured everything. Often in secret. At home when I was bored my...
Every industry has been impacted by COVID-19, but what are the implications for a debut author? In this interview, Kalynn Bayron, the Black, queer author of Cinderella Is Dead, shares what it was like to promote her book this summer, against the backdrop of the...
ROOM 44.2, City Rhythms
Edited by Isabella Wang
In This Issue: Yulia Aleynikova, Adèle Barclay, Cayenne Bradley, Chrissy Brett, Jewel Cao, Ellen Chang-Richardson, Zoë Dagneault, Pamela Dillon, Leanne Dunic, sophie anne edwards, Yabome Gilpin-Jackson, PhD, Sahar Golshan, Sarah Hamill, Alannah Johnson, Micah Killjoy, Hege Anita Jakobsen Lepri, Annick MacAskill, Heather Simeney MacLeod, Melanie Mah, Ngwatilo Mawiyoo, Loretta Miauw, Masha Nova, Lue Palmer, Sha’teiohserí:io Patton, Melissa Peacock, Amanda Proctor, Sindhu Rajasekaran, Lorraine Robson, Jessica Rose, Nedda Sarshar, Asna Shaikh, Sonali Singh, Nadia Siu Van, Grace Q. Song, Anna Swanson, Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang, Lauren Turner, Isabella Wang, Cara Waterfall, Yu-Sen Zhou
ROOM 44.3, Indigenous Brilliance
Edited by Karmella Cen Benedito De Barros, Emily Dundas Oke, Jessica Johns, Patricia Massy & Jaye Simpson
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