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In the lead-up to Room’s food issue we feature an interview with dee Hobsbawn-Smith, award-winning writer, poet, and local food advocate, whose first published poem debuted in Room in 2007. In the lead-up to Room’s food issue we feature an interview with dee...

We’re willing to talk about how snowflakes are unique, and we’re way more complicated than snowflakes. Eufemia Fantetti’s collection of short stories,  A Recipe for Disaster & Other Unlikely Tales of Love (Mother Tongue, 2013), was runner-up for the 2013...

Joyce Fossella is the Executive Director of the Warriors Against Violence Society (WAVS), where she co-facilitates group sessions, working with men and women addressing family violence. She is a member of the Lil'wat nation in British Columbia. Terri Brandmueller...

"I read once that to be born Indigenous is to be born an activist – just the state of being and existing is a form of resistance to oppression. It’s unfair pressure to put on people, but as an artist I can transform that injustice into something larger than myself....

"Writing has saved my emotional, spiritual, and intellectual life in a country where I wasn’t supposed to exist, let alone thrive. It allows me to sort out the mess of structural inequity, bureaucratic obfuscation, colonial racism, and sexism. It allows a space for my...

"Be brave and honest. Sure, we’re making things up when we write fiction, but the thing that makes me fall in love with a piece is emotional honesty. Whatever scares you—go there." Doretta Lau is Room’s 2016 fiction contest judge. Her story “Best Practices for Time...

In the following interview, d'bi young anitafrika discusses diversity, performance, Sorplusi, and more. d’bi young anitafrika is reknowned globally for her performances. She is a poet and founder of the Watah Theatre located in Toronto where she teaches the Sorplusi...