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Room Magazine's Annual Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Non-Fiction Contest – 2012

Our annual writing contest is back—with $2250 in prizes! Send us your best fiction, poetry, or creative non-fiction entries by June 15, 2012 for your chance to win! Find all the details here.

Announcing the Winners of Our 2011 Contest!

Room is excited to reveal the winners of our annual Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Non-Fiction Contest! First prize goes to Rhonda Douglas for fiction, Patricia Young for poetry, and Jan Redford for creative non-fiction. Winners will be published in issue 35.2, on newsstands summer 2012. See the complete list of winners here!

September Brings More Room Success Stories

Rebecca Rosenblum's short story "How to Keep Your Day Job," (issue 32.4) was published in the National Post Fall Fiction (http://tinyurl.com/3q6qske). It also features in her new book, The Big Dream, which launches Sept 22nd. We're so happy we could be part of the journey.

Ashley Little (published in Room, 2010) has her first novel PRICK: Confessions of a Tattoo Artist coming out this fall. For more information visit www.ashleylittle.com.

Congratulations, Rebecca and Ashley!

Lots To Celebrate at Room!

April is shaping up to be a busy month at Room magazine with much to celebrate:

• Two stories from Room issue 33.4 All of Us Sacred have been selected to appear in the twenty-third anthology of the Journey Prize Stories. Congratulations go out to Fran Kimmel for "Laundry Day" and Michele Serwatuk for "My Eyes are Dim".
• Clélie Rich, an extremely dedicated member of our collective, has been named MABC 2010 Volunteer of the Year. Congratulations, Clélie! It is thanks to the hard work of collective members like Clélie that Room continues to flourish.
• Collective member Rachel Thompson's debut poetry collection Galaxy launches April 19 at McNally Robinson Booksellers in Winnipeg and April 26 at Café Montmartre in Vancouver.
• Finally, collective member Adrienne Fitzpatrick has won the 2011 John Harris Fiction Award for her story "The Earth Remembers Everything". See the full story here. Congratulations, Adrienne!

CBC Radio Interview with Room Magazine

Room Magazine was recently interviewed on CBC Radio's North by Northwest. Listen to the Podcast here.

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