is in mid-July, while the deadline for the creative non-fiction contest is currently on 8 March, which is also International Women's Day. The creative non-fiction contest was originally added to the other two genres in 2008, and moved to the March deadline starting in 2015. In 2016, Room launched their first Short Forms Contest, a multi-genre / genre-blending contest for flash fiction, flash CNF, and prose poetry of 500 words and under, with an inaugural deadline of 15 January 2017. In addition to offering contests, Room presents one contributor each year with a $500 Emerging Writer Award. Cover art contest In 2015, Room introduced a cover art contest with a deadline of 30 November. Making Room: Forty Years of Room Magazine In 2017, Room published the anthology, Making Room: Forty Years of Room Magazine. The anthology contains a selection of works featured in Room between 1975 and 2016. The anthology is broken up chronologically and follows Canadian feminist writing throughout different eras of feminism. 80 pieces are featured in Making Room. The Making Room project was coordinated by Meghan Bell. Anthology contributors Carmen Aguirre Najwa Ali Gail Anderson-Dargatz Elizabeth Bachinsky Marie Annharte Baker Juliane Okot Bitek Monique Bosco Kate Braid Nicole Brossard Cyndia Cole Ivan Coyote Lucas Crawford Su Croll Lynn Crosbie Lorna Crozier Danielle Daniel Amber Dawn Junie Désil Sandy Frances Duncan Dorothy Elias Christine Estima Tanya Evanson barbara findlay Cynthia Flood Chantal Gibson Leona Gom Jane Eaton Hamilton Wasela Hiyate Nancy Holmes Anna Humphrey Mindy Hung Carole Itter Amy Jones Helen Kuk Matea Kulić Naoko Kumagai Fiona Tinwei Lam Doretta Lau Evelyn Lau Jen Sookfong Lee Tracey Lindberg Dorothy Livesay Annabel Lyon Vera Manuel Daphne Marlatt Robin Blackburn McBride Carmelita McGrath Cara-Lyn Morgan Erín Moure Susan Musgrave Alessandra Naccarato Kellee Ngan Monica Pacheco M. NourbeSe Philip Helen Potrebenko Sina Queyras Eden Robinson Constance Rooke Rebecca Rosenblum Devyani Saltzman Sigal Samuel Nilofar Shidmehr Carol Shields Serena Shipp Carolyn Smart Susan Stenson Anna Swanson Souvankham Thammavongsa Audrey Thomas Ayelet Tsabari Chimwemwe Undi Eleanor Wachtel Betsy Warland jia qing wilson-yang Growing Room Festival Room launched Growing Room: A Feminist Literary Festival in 2017. The first festival was planned to celebrate both Room's 40th anniversary and International Women's Day and ran from 8 to 12 March in Vancouver, British Columbia. Growing Room features panels and from female and genderqueer Canadian writers as well as dancing and music. The 2018 iteration of Growing