"We are so similar but we are so different to read. There is so much to reveal in the world." Shani Mootoo was born in Dublin, Ireland, grew up in Trinidad, and moved to Canada more than thirty years ago. She is a visual artist, video maker and fiction...
An interview with our 2015 CNF contest winner. ROOM: First of all, congratulations on winning Room's 2015 Creative Non-Fiction contest! How does it feel to be selected by judge Ayelet Tsabari?SS: Thank you for the cheers. I feel entirely honored and inspired that...
In honour of pride season, here are some books you should read, from Room's past and present contest judges. Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab (Doubleday Canada, 2014), a novel by Shani Mootoo. Shani is judging Room's Fiction Contest this year. The winning story...
Room collective member Jónína Kirton shares her list of Canadian Aboriginal writers whose work she has either come to know and respect or that are on her "to read” list. I was both honoured and delighted when Room asked me to compile a list of Aboriginal women authors...
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,...
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In the new era of CanCon, as feminists and writers it is our task to reject this Canadian exceptionalism, this too-comfortable back-patting. How can we begin to imagine alternative arts economies, Indigenous economies around art, that start with treaty, that align with BDS? What art, what literature, would such a system free us to create?
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