Search Results by tag: Room

Ijeoma Oluo, Casey Plett, Silvia Moreno-Garcia among lineup for second annual Growing Room festival

Growing Room, the Vancouver-based feminist literary festival organized by Room magazine, is returning for a second year this March. The lineup features more than 50 authors, including Amber Dawn, Caroline Adderson, Carleigh Baker, Gurjinder Basran, ... Read More »

January 8, 2018 | Filed under: Events

Sneak Peek: Emma Donoghue’s forthcoming middle-grade title‚ The Lotterys Plus One

By Becky Robertson

Entertainment Weekly has revealed the cover and a first chapter excerpt from Room author Emma Donoghue's first book for young people‚ The Lotterys Plus One‚ forthcoming from HarperCollins Canada and Scholastic U.S. in March. The ... Read More »

September 19, 2016 | Filed under: Authors

Awards: Emma Donoghue wins 2016 Ireland Fund Literary prize

By Becky Robertson

Room novelist Emma Donoghue has been granted this year's AWB Vincent American Ireland Fund Literary Award, a $25,000 prize recognizing excellent literary achievement. Donoghue received the honour at Dublin's Mansion House on June 23, later donating the full prize to ... Read More »

June 27, 2016 | Filed under: Awards

Brie Larson wins Oscar for film adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s Room

By Becky Robertson

Emma Donoghue's Room received more acclaim on Feb. 28 when Brie Larson, star of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and Commonwealth Writers' Prize-winning novel's film adaptation – for which Donoghue wrote the screenplay – ... Read More »

February 29, 2016 | Filed under: Awards, Book news

Cover and excerpt released for Emma Donoghue’s The Wonder

By Becky Robertson

The cover has been released for the new novel by Room author Emma Donoghue. The Wonder, appearing from HarperCollins on Sept. 27, follows Anna, a young girl in 1850s rural Ireland, and Lib, the nurse ... Read More »

February 19, 2016 | Filed under: Authors, Book news

Emma Donoghue nominated for best adapted screenplay Oscar

By Becky Robertson

Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue has been nominated for an Academy Award for her screenplay adaptation of her 2010 novel, Room. The film's star, Brie Larson, won a Golden Globe earlier this week for her performance. ... Read More »

January 14, 2016 | Filed under: Awards, Book news

Brie Larson wins Golden Globe for Room performance

By Becky Robertson

Actress Brie Larson won a Golden Globe Award on Jan. 10 for her role in the film adaptation of Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue's 2010 novel, Room. The actress thanked Donoghue, who also wrote the film's ... Read More »

January 11, 2016 | Filed under: Awards, Book culture

Q&A: Emma Donoghue on writing the film adaptation for Room

By Alexander Huls

It should come as no surprise to anyone who has read Emma Donoghue’s international bestselling novel Room that it would eventually find its way to the big screen. What’s particularly exciting about the movie version ... Read More »

September 15, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture

Alternative markets: why publishers are turning to zine fairs to woo new readers

By Jason Spencer

Canzine, the country's largest festival dedicated to zines and independent culture, happens this Sunday in Toronto (the Vancouver edition is scheduled for Nov. 17). Following the success of last year's event, writer Jason Spencer spoke ... Read More »

October 19, 2012 | Filed under: Events

New Innisfree library serves rural Alberta population of 220

By Natalie Samson

Innisfree, Alberta, has opened its first permanent public library. The 220 residents of the rural village now have access to free DVDs, CDs, e-readers, books (about 2,600 books have been catalogued so far, with another ... Read More »

July 18, 2012 | Filed under: Libraries

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