In a world where it's possible to augment remembering and memory-making, where does that leave our relationships? Today, we're sitting with "Surviving in Captivity" by Premee Mohamed, from our current issue Room 49.2 Science. Surviving in Captivity by Premee Mohamed...
What if memory was a site of negotiation? What would you preserve, rewrite, re-remember? Today, we're sitting with "Archive Failure: Ethics Board Rejection #924-F" by Abeer Dagher Esber, from our current issue Room 49.2 Science. Archive Failure: Ethics Board Rejection...
These existential crises, these states of emergency. What are we to make of, or in, them? Today, we're sitting with a fiction piece by K.Y. Agbayani from our current issue Room 49.1 No Future For Who?. "Lilah Around Town" by K.Y. Agbayani The air was...
Every Black Futures Month & Black History Month, we republish brilliant works and conversations with Black organizers, writers, and artists from Room's past issues, to live on our site in perpetuity. Today, as we reckon with the world in its current state, we’re...
Due to a confluence of factors, Room Magazine is posting this 2025 Pride Month feature later than planned. What does it mean to inhabit a body that others may not understand? We're revisiting an excerpt of Addie Tsai's Unwieldy Creatures first published in Room 44.1...
What does it mean to labour, and what is our relationship to our labour? For our 2025 Asian Heritage Month feature, we're revisiting Kirti Bhadresa's "Tuesday Girl," first published in Room 45.4 Baby, Baby, Baby!. Tuesday Girl by Kirti Bhadresa She calls...
We dream. We journey. We swim through our futures. Today, we transform with “Definitions for Non-Fish” by Shaheen Virk, from our upcoming Room 48.2 Travellers. Definitions for Non-Fish Shaheen Virk Alevin/Fry/Smolt/Juvenile/Adult: the various names of salmon as...
We live in the past, present, and future, and are constantly travelling across these times in our human ways: reflecting, dreaming, manifesting. Today, we’re journeying with “My Name is Kyle” by Claire Fantus, from Room 48.2 Travellers. “My Name is Kyle”...
Photo credit: Yi Shi Janika Oza (she/her) is a writer, editor, and educator based in Toronto. Her best-selling debut novel, A History of Burning (2023) won the 2024 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and was a finalist for numerous awards including the Carol...
It's time! Here are the winners of the 2024 Short Forms Contest, as chosen by our wonderful judge, Zalika Reid-Benta. Congratulations to these writers on their big success for their short works! --------------- FIRST PLACE: Definitions of Non-Fish, by Shaheen Virk...
ROOM 49.3 NO CANADA
In the new era of CanCon, as feminists and writers it is our task to reject this Canadian exceptionalism, this too-comfortable back-patting. How can we begin to imagine alternative arts economies, Indigenous economies around art, that start with treaty, that align with BDS? What art, what literature, would such a system free us to create?
Seeking members who love literature, events, merchandise, and supporting marginalized creators.
No Canada | 49.3
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Science | 49.2
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No Future For Who? | 49.1
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REST/UNREST | 48.3
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Travellers | 48.2
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Bodies | 47.3
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Utopia | 47.1
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