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...
The call for submissions for Utopia issue 47.1 is now open! Our editorial team from both Room Magazine and Augur Magazine sat down across time zones to delve into our thoughts on utopias and what we’re looking for in the issue.
This year’s Fiction Contest judge is the award-winning novelist, poet, short story writer, and essayist, Heather O'Neill. Her novels Lullabies for Little Criminals, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night and Daydreams of Angels, have been shortlisted for the Governor...
Ness Lee is an illustrator and artist based out of Toronto whose work has been featured at the AGO, the Agnes Etherington Art Center, the Gardiner Museum, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, as well as galleries in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Miami and Montreal. Lee is...
ROOM: The subject of climate action reoccurs in your work often, especially in your prize-winning poem "Self Portrait with Polar Bears." The line, "How sick I am with beauty, / how spoiled of light," is a beautiful rendering of the guilt that I think many of us sit...
Alycia Pirmohamed's debut collection, Another Way to Split Water, is an homage to family, the natural world, and storytelling. To celebrate her launch (now out in Canada, the US, and the UK!) here's an interview where she chats with Rebecca Mangra about her...
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