Rooms: Women, Writing, Woolf

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• A reconsideration of Virginia Woolfs groundbreaking A Room of Ones Own through a very modern lens, revisiting Woolfs now archaic politics and mining the text for lessons on how to be a writer.
• The central message of A Room of Ones Own is that, to write, women must have money and a room of their own. The context of this has changed, so Queyras is asking what the contemporary version of that room is.

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"Using Virginia Woolfs 'A Room of Ones Own' as a touchstone text, this book blends memoir, poetry and criticism to offer a glimpse into the formative spaces that Queyras navigated on the way to life as a queer writer in the public eye." The New York Times

"Queyras Rooms suggests that, in a world where creative expression is mediated by material constraints, what many writers are actually after is the right amount of noise and silence, care without confinement: somewhere between retreat and community, there is space.' Aishwarya Singh, Montreal Review of Books

Author Bio

Sina Queyras a Montreal/Tiohti:ke-based writer, professor, editor, and literary organizer. They are the author of seven poetry collections, a novel, and a book of essays, as well as the founder of the blog Lemon Hound, which was for many years the digital hub of the Canadian poetry scene. Their latest collection, My Ariel (Coach House, 2017), riffs on Sylvia Plaths Ariel, reimagining, queering, and inhabiting its iconic poems.