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.
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!...
Ten writers have made our 2020 Poetry Contest Shortlist.
Here they are: the sixteen longlisted poems from our 2020 Poetry Contest!
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...
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;...
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 48.2 TRAVELLERS
In ROOM 48.2 TRAVELLERS we reflect, dream, manifest. Join us in these human ways of time-travelling, from infancy to the future, through relationships and into surreal realms.
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