“Making Moccasins” is the Third Place Winner for Room’s 2023 Creative Non-Fiction Contest. Of this piece, judge Tajja Isen writes: This is a blazing, deeply felt essay about pregnancy, miscarriage, and family-making. As well as being a moving act of remembrance, the...
Drumroll, please! Here are the three winners of our 2023 Creative Non-Fiction Contest, as chosen by judge Tajja Isen. A big congratulations to these three writers! --- FIRST PLACE: our brothers started dying, by Natalie Appleton Natalie Appleton is a graduate of the...
The Creative Non-Fiction Shortlist has arrived! A big congratulations to the five writers whose submissions have been shortlisted by our esteemed judge, Tajja Isen! — Room Magazine 2023 Creative Non-Fiction Contest: The Shortlist The Train, by Murgatroyd Monaghan Holy...
The Vancouver Writers Festival is once again taking place this October on the shared territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ nations. From October 16th to 22nd, the 36th Annual Festival will celebrate the writing of over 125 authors at 85...
Alien Boys‘ Sarin on their experiences living in a place full of ghosts and hauntings—the city.
We are so thrilled to bring you this year's Creative Non-Fiction Contest longlist! Congratulations to these writers, and a heartfelt thank you to all those who submitted their work to this year’s contest. Without further ado, here is our longlist! --- Room Magazine’s...
Joining us for an email interview is this year’s Poetry Contest judge, John Elizabeth Stintzi (they/she). Stintzi’s first novel, Vanishing Monuments, was a finalist for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, her second novel, My Volcano, was a Kirkus Reviews “Book of...
We are so excited to bring you the results of this year's Fiction Contest, judged by Heather O'Neill. The wait is finally over: here are this year's winners! ----- FIRST PLACE: "Eggshells" by Rebekah Skochinski Rebekah Skochinski is a writer based in Northwestern...
We are so excited to announce the 2023 Fiction Contest shortlist! Many thanks, again, to all those who entered, and to our wonderful judge, Heather O'Neill, for her care and consideration with the longlisted works. Congratulations to these five writers! ----- Room...
Session 3 of Earthseed Book Club focused on the Emergent Strategy principles of Interdependence & Resilience. These principles go hand-in-hand; through mutual reliance and authentic relationships, we are better able to be resilient and adapt to changing...
ROOM 48.1 WITS END
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