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Becoming

Posted by Room | May 31, 2022 | Poetry, What's New

& the sea turns on itself, cracks the coveted

scales, bait & hook, leaves bones for the hungry

slides its rough back against home

Call for Submissions: Issue 46.1

Posted by Room | May 5, 2022 | Call for Submission, What's New

“Around the Table” will be edited by Michelle Ha, alongside assistant editors Isabella Wang and Asna Shaikh, and shadow Shristi Uprety. The team will be looking for fiction and nonfiction prose, poetry, black-and-white art and photographs, and mixed-genre/hybrid writings, so submit in whichever form you feel tells your story the best.

Interview with Nicola I. Campbell: Issue 45.4 Commissioned Author

Posted by Room | May 5, 2022 | Feature, Interview

I wanted a word in my language that reflected what was inside the book—it’s a collection of stories and events that had taken place in my memory, since childhood, as well as memories spoken by my elders throughout my life.

Applications are now open for Room’s 2022 Mentorship Program!

Posted by Room | Apr 20, 2022 | Announcement, Call for Submission, What's New

Amazing news, friends: jaye simpson is Room’s 2022 mentor-in-residence! jaye simpson is an...

The Breaks

Posted by Room | Mar 31, 2022 | Book Reviews

Julietta Singh’s The Breaks is at once a letter, a memoir, and a work of narration. In addressing her six-year-old daughter, Singh’s storytelling is, for the next generation, “a map of broken things, a recyclable archive that will spur you to fashion other ways of being alive, of living.”