Social Media Giveaway!

Collage includes the covers of the 20 giveaway books

To celebrate the forth Growing Room Literary & Art Festival, we’re giving away books by our festival authors on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram! Three winners—one for each platform—will be picked at random at the end of the giveaway period. Every winner will receive at least four books, and we’ll ensure winners can pick at least three of them.

Giveaway deadline: March 10, 2020 (Winners will be contacted on March 12.)

General Rules:

  • Open to anyone with an address in Canada.
  • Giveaway participants can post on more than one social media platform to increase their chances of winning but we will not pick the same winner more than once for this giveaway.
  • Room staff and editorial board members are not eligible to enter.

To take part on Twitter:

  • Share any #GrowingRoom2020 events on your Twitter.
  • You must include either an Eventbrite link or the event link from our festival site in your post.
  • Tag us @roommagazine and use the #GrowingRoom2020 hashtag.
  • Your account must be public so the posts are visible to us.
  • Please do not share the same event more than once a day.

This giveaway is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with Twitter.


To take part on Instagram:

  • Share any #GrowingRoom2020 events on your Instagram feed or story.
  • You must include either an Eventbrite link or the event link from our festival site in your post.
  • Tag us @roommagazine and use the #GrowingRoom2020 hashtag.
  • Your account must be public so the posts are visible to us.
  • Please do not share the same event more than once a day.

This giveaway is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with Instagram.


To take part on Facebook:

  • Tag a friend and leave a comment on our giveaway post with the name of the Growing Room event you’re most excited about.
  • Please do not tag the same person more than once.

This giveaway is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with Facebook.


Just some of the books we are giving away:

I Hope We Choose Love by Kai Cheng Thom
Hustling Verse, edited by Amber Dawn and Justin Ducharme
Frying Plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta
Daughters of Silence by Rebecca Fisseha
In My Own Moccasins by Helen Knott
The Candle and the Flame by Nafiza Azad
Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent by Liz Howard
Dunk Tank by Kayla Czaga
Beauty in a Box by Cheryl Thompson
I Have to Live by Aisha Sasha John
ON/Me by Francine Cunningham
Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens by Tanya Boteju
Re-Origin of Species by Alessandra Naccarato
Quarrels by Eve Joseph
Blood Sport and We Are the Catalyst by Tash McAdam
Little Blue Encyclopedia (For Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante
Renaissance Normcore by Adèle Barclay
Stereoblind by Emma Healey
All Day I Dream About Sirens by Domenica Martinello
Everything is a Deathly Flower by Maneo Mohale

and more