Room’s Contest
Fiction & Poetry Contests
Open April 15 – July 15
Our 2016 Fiction and Poetry Contest is now open! Contest winners will be published in Room 40.2. The judges are Marilyn Dumont (poetry) and Doretta Lau (fiction).
FIRST PRIZE: $1,000 + publication in Room
SECOND PRIZE: $250 + publication in Room
HONOURABLE MENTION: $50 publication on Room’s website
Judge: Marilyn Dumont
Marilyn Dumont’s A Really Good Brown Girl won the 1997 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. This collection is now a Brick Books Classic and in French translation from Les editions Hannenorak Press. Her second collection, green girl dreams Mountains, won the 2001 Stephan G. Stephansson Award from the Writer’s Guild of Alberta. Her third collection, that tongued belonging, won the 2007 McNally Robinson Aboriginal Poetry and Aboriginal Book of the Year. The Pemmican Eaters was published by ECW Press, 2015. Marilyn has been the Writer-in-Residence at the Edmonton Public Library, the Universities of Alberta, Brandon, Grant MacEwan, Toronto-Massey College, and Windsor. She has been faculty at the Banff Centre – Writing with Style and Wired Writing and advised and mentored in the Aboriginal Emerging Writers’ Program.
Read our interview with Dumont, or one of her poems here.
>via: https://roommagazine.com/contests