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Poetry Contest 2020: The Winners

Poetry Contest 2020: The Winners

We are thrilled to finally share the final results of our 2020 Poetry Contest! Huge congratulations to the following three poets, whose works have been selected by our acclaimed judge, Canisia Lubrin, as the winners and honourable mention for our 2020 Poetry Contest!...

Interview with Sonnet L’Abbé

Interview with Sonnet L’Abbé

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...

BackRoom: Extended Interview with Hush Harbour Press

BackRoom: Extended Interview with Hush Harbour Press

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...

Growing Room Festival 2021 Cancellation

Growing Room Festival 2021 Cancellation

It is with great care and sadness that Room announces the cancellation of Growing Room Literary & Arts festival for March 2021, and until further notice. The cancellation of Growing Room Literary & Arts festival 2020 due to COVID-19 left us all heartbroken;...

Reading Practice: Junie Desil

Reading Practice: Junie Desil

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...

Kalynn Bayron: Author of Cinderella Is Dead

Kalynn Bayron: Author of Cinderella Is Dead

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...

An Interview with stephanie roberts

An Interview with stephanie roberts

Panama born, prize-winning, Quebec-based author stephanie roberts grew up in Brooklyn, NY.  She has lived in and around Montreal before settling in Beauharnois. Widely published in literary journals and magazines across the country and abroad, including Poetry, Event...

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