Author: Room

Can Poetry Go Noir?

Room invites you to arrest us with your unconventional hardboiled-detective manuscripts, thrill us with your feminist-fatale tales, and inspire us to break some laws with your vignettes of crimes big and small. But first, we...

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A Review of Room Issue 35.2

Check out the recent review of Room issue 35.2 on NewPages.com! Check out the recent review of Room issue 35.2 on NewPages.com!http://newpages.com/literary-magazine-reviews/2012/08-15/#Room-V35-N2-2012

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MagScene on Main – Trivia Showdown

Join members of Room and subTerrain for short readings and a literary trivia game August 16th. Win bragging rights and fabulous prizes, including current and back issues of both magazines (Grand Prize: 2-year subscription and...

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Canadian Women in Literary Arts (CWILA)

As a reader of Room you probably have long known there is a bias against women publishing in Canada. It’s part of our very raison d’être here at Room. If any of us had started to imagine gender gaps in the literary...

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ROOM 47.2 Seedpod
“Maple keys are built by nature like helicopter blades, which allows them to propel as far as possible from the mother maple… In these pages, we see the brave, touching, true ways we, too, must embrace the fear and the excitement that comes with leaving where we are rooted.”

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ROOM 47.2 UTOPIA
Join Room and Augur in the gleaming, unwritten future with our utopia issue. Featuring new poetry by Larissa Lai and an interview with Whitney French.

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