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<\/a><\/h1>\nRoom’s Contest<\/span><\/h1>\n <\/p>\n
Fiction & Poetry Contests<\/span><\/h2>\nOpen April 15 – July 15<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/roommagazine.com\/sites\/default\/files\/u7\/Screenshot%202016-01-10%2022.10.42.png\")
<\/span><\/p>\nOur 2016 Fiction and Poetry Contest is now open! Contest winners will be published in\u00a0Room<\/em>\u00a040.2. The judges are\u00a0Marilyn Dumont<\/strong>\u00a0(poetry) and\u00a0Doretta Lau<\/strong>\u00a0(fiction).<\/span><\/p>\nFIRST PRIZE: $1,000 + publication in\u00a0Room<\/em><\/strong><\/span>
\nSECOND PRIZE: $250 + publication in\u00a0Room<\/em><\/strong><\/span>
\nHONOURABLE MENTION: $50 publication on\u00a0Room’<\/em>s\u00a0<\/em>website<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nENTER OUR CONTEST<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/roommagazine.com\/sites\/default\/files\/u732\/marilyn.jpg\")
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\nJudge: Marilyn Dumont<\/span><\/h3>\nMarilyn Dumont’s\u00a0A Really Good Brown Girl<\/em>\u00a0won 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,\u00a0green girl dreams Mountains<\/em>, won the 2001 Stephan G. Stephansson Award from the Writer\u2019s Guild of Alberta. Her third collection,\u00a0that tongued belonging<\/em>, 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. \u00a0She has been faculty at the Banff Centre – Writing with Style and Wired Writing and advised and mentored in the Aboriginal Emerging Writers\u2019 Program.<\/span><\/p>\nRead our\u00a0interview\u00a0<\/a>with Dumont, or\u00a0one of her poems\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Open April 15 – July 15<\/span><\/p>\n Our 2016 Fiction and Poetry Contest is now open! Contest winners will be published in\u00a0Room<\/em>\u00a040.2. The judges are\u00a0Marilyn Dumont<\/strong>\u00a0(poetry) and\u00a0Doretta Lau<\/strong>\u00a0(fiction).<\/span><\/p>\n FIRST PRIZE: $1,000 + publication in\u00a0Room<\/em><\/strong><\/span> ENTER OUR CONTEST<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Marilyn Dumont’s\u00a0A Really Good Brown Girl<\/em>\u00a0won 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,\u00a0green girl dreams Mountains<\/em>, won the 2001 Stephan G. Stephansson Award from the Writer\u2019s Guild of Alberta. Her third collection,\u00a0that tongued belonging<\/em>, 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. \u00a0She has been faculty at the Banff Centre – Writing with Style and Wired Writing and advised and mentored in the Aboriginal Emerging Writers\u2019 Program.<\/span><\/p>\n Read our\u00a0interview\u00a0<\/a>with Dumont, or\u00a0one of her poems\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/span><\/p>\n
\nSECOND PRIZE: $250 + publication in\u00a0Room<\/em><\/strong><\/span>
\nHONOURABLE MENTION: $50 publication on\u00a0Room’<\/em>s\u00a0<\/em>website<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/span>
\nJudge: Marilyn Dumont<\/span><\/h3>\n