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Chelene Knight
Growing Room Literary Festival
CanLit is about to be rewritten, and Room Magazine’s Growing Room Festival curator, Chelene Knight, is ready to shape the new story. But growth isn’t…
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Tin Lorica & Savannah Erasmus
A Personal Take on Comedy
If the whole point of comedy is that it is relatable, how does one make a minority experience funny? For Tin Lorica and Savannah Erasmus,…
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RAHILA’S GHOST: A GROWING FAMILY OF POETS
“looking backwards to forwards on the relationships in my life links the idea of chosen family to the press”
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POETRY IS BAD FOR YOU
MAKING BAD COOL AGAIN
“If someone’s laughing during your poems, it’s cause you tickled them.”
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Poetry for the People: Interview with Verses Festival Co-director Jillian Christmas
Verses Festival of Words is a yearly event series in Vancouver’s East End that includes slam competitions, performances, discussions, and all manner of literary events…
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Story Story Lie
As the host of Story Story Lie, Jo Dworschak has created an interactive storytelling game show and radio show that reflects her love of storytelling…
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Adèle Barclay
Words In The Dark
“I think poetry can hold those weird paradoxical strings, things that don’t fit the normative scripts.”
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