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Announcing the Line-Up for Growing Room 2019

Announcing the Line-Up for Growing Room 2019

We're thrilled to announce the 100+ authors, journalists, and activists who will appear in Vancouver from March 8 - 17, 2019 for #GrowingRoom2019. Visit festival.roommagazine.com to learn more! Please visit festival.roommagazine.com/authors to see the full line-up!...

An Interview with Room 41.4 Commission Kim Fu

An Interview with Room 41.4 Commission Kim Fu

Kim Fu is a Canadian-born writer, living in Seattle, Washington. Her most recent novel, The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore, was published in February 2018, and her previous novel, For Today I Am a Boy, won the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and was a finalist...

What’s up, Room’s Short Forms Contest Winners?

What’s up, Room’s Short Forms Contest Winners?

When Room decided to launch a Short Forms Contest a few years ago, we wanted to create an avenue for writers who write flash fiction, non-fiction, and/or prose poems—and perhaps writers who experiment with blending and bending genres—to submit their work. (Contest...

An Interview with Billy-Ray Belcourt

An Interview with Billy-Ray Belcourt

Room was excited to have the opportunity to sit down with Billy-Ray Belcourt to chat about obsessions, long form poetry, and struggle at the edge of language. Billy-Ray Belcourt appears at this year’s Vancouver Writer’s Festival in several events including The Poetry...

An Interview with Dionne Brand

An Interview with Dionne Brand

We were beyond thrilled to have an opportunity to chat with Dionne Brand about her latest novel Theory. Dionne Brand will be at this year’s Vancouver Writer’s Festival in a number of events including Fresh Fiction on Thursday, October 18th at Revue Stage. Dionne...

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