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Excited About Everything: Alicia Elliott

Excited About Everything: Alicia Elliott

A series in which Isabella is excited about everything that is happening at #GrowingRoom2019, so she sat down with some festival authors to hear about their work and what events they are most excited to take part in. A series in which Isabella is excited about...

Excited About Everything: LJ Weisberg

Excited About Everything: LJ Weisberg

A series in which Isabella is excited about everything that is happening at #GrowingRoom2019, so she sat down with some festival authors to hear about their work and what events they are most excited to take part in. A series in which Isabella is excited about...

Excited About Everything: Triny Finlay

Excited About Everything: Triny Finlay

A series in which Isabella is excited about everything that is happening at Growing Room 2019, so she sat down with some festival authors to hear about their work, and what events they are most excited to take part in. A series in which Isabella is excited about...

Excited About Everything: Onjana Yawnghwe

Excited About Everything: Onjana Yawnghwe

A series in which Room's intern, Isabella Wang, is excited about everything that is happening at Growing Room 2019, so she sat down with some festival authors to hear about their work and what events they are most excited to take part in. A series in which Isabella is...

20 Black Writers to Read All Year Round

20 Black Writers to Read All Year Round

Each year when February rolls around there is a sudden influx of content, online, in libraries and elsewhere, featuring black writers, artists, activists and historical moments and figures. Much of the focus looks to the past and while that’s important, we at Room...

Excited About Everything: David Ly

Excited About Everything: David Ly

A series in which Room's intern, Isabella Wang, is excited about everything that is happening at Growing Room 2019, so she sat down with some festival authors to hear about their work and what events they are most excited to take part in. A series in which Isabella is...

Excited About Everything: Alex Leslie

Excited About Everything: Alex Leslie

A series in which Room's intern, Isabella Wang, is excited about everything that is happening at Growing Room 2019, so she sat down with some festival authors to hear about their work and what events they are most excited to take part in. A series in which Isabella is...

Manahil Bandukwala: Emerging Writer Award Winner 2019

Manahil Bandukwala: Emerging Writer Award Winner 2019

The Emerging Writer Award is open to anyone published in a given year in Room, who has not already had a book published. The award comes with a cash prize of $500. Room’s Tamara Jong spoke with our 2019 winner, Manahil Bandukwala, about inspiration for her poems...

Syrus Marcus Ware: Art and Activism

Syrus Marcus Ware: Art and Activism

Syrus Marcus Ware is a Vanier Scholar, visual artist, activist, curator, educator, and the judge for Room’s Annual Cover Art Contest (which closes January 15, 2019). To learn more about Ware's diversity of works, we invited Toronto-based artist Ojo Agi to chat with...

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ROOM 47.4 FULL CIRCLE
Step back with Room into the past, to parents, to childhood homes, and to people once known and loved; dig into themes of grief and healing; and ultimately explore what it means to come full circle in literature.

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