From 150 entrants, here are the 10 still in contention to win Congratulations to the shortlisted writers of Room's 2015 Creative Non-Fiction Contest. Our thanks to more than 150 writers who submitted their work and to our judge, Ayelet Tsabari, who had to make the...
Pat Lowther Poetry Award and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize winner Jen Currin shares her secrets to generating great poetry Originally from Portland, Oregon, Jen Currin has lived in East Van for thirteen years. She rides her bike nearly everywhere and has gotten...
We talk to the founder of QueerofGender.com, an online project dedicated to celebrating the various experiences of gender within LGBTTQQ2SIAP+ Black, Indigenous & People of Colour communities. Lynx Sainte-Marie is the founder of QueerofGender.com, an online project...
An extended version of our RoomMate profile of Bonnie Nish from Room 38.2. Meet Bonnie Nish, founder and Executive Director of Pandora’s Collective Outreach Society, and editorial board member at Room.ROOM: Tell us about your book, Love and Bones. What was your...
An interview with our 2014 fiction contest winner, Lisa McLean. Lisa McLean is a freelance writer and communications professional specializing in agriculture. Her short fiction has appeared in The Antigonish Review and This Magazine. She lives in...
Lauren Carter is the author of the poetry collection Lichen Bright and the novel Swarm. Her poem, “Island Clearances”, won Room's 2014 poetry contest, judged by Sonnet L’Abbé. Lauren Carter is the author of the poetry collection Lichen Bright and the novel Swarm,...
An interview with author, poet, activist, and educator Carmen Rodríguez, originally published in Room 38.1 In Translation. Author, poet, activist, and educator Carmen Rodríguez was born in Chile and moved to Vancouver after the Chilean Coup of 1973. Her writing is...
From issue 37.4 Claiming Space, Room editor Christina Cooke talks with poet Cecily Nicholson. From Issue 37.4 Claiming Space, December 2014Cecily Nicholson’s work, both creative and social, engages conditions of displacement, class, and gender violence. She is the...
Room editorial board member and Pandora's Collective executive director Bonnie Nish interviews Chelene Knight about her debut book of poetry, Braided Skin. Chelene Knight was born in Vancouver and is a graduate of The Writer’s Studio at SFU. She has been published in...
Poet Lucas Crawford (published in Room issue 37.2 Expanding The Voice) talks with Room editor Bonnie Nish about transgender literature, writing, and his recent appointment as CWILA's 2015 Critic In Residence. Poet Lucas Crawford (published in Room issue...
ROOM 49.1 NO FUTURE FOR WHO?
We are really asking. We are coming in hot. We are not fucking around. These existential crises, these states of emergency. The poetry, prose, and art in this issue ask: what are we to make of, or in, them?
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