Announcing Room’s new Managing Editor: Chimedum Oh...

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We are thrilled to announce Room‘s new Managing Editor, Chimedum Ohaegbu! Chimedum Ohaegbu (CHIM-ay-doom aw-HAY-boo, she/her) is a three-time Hugo Award winner, and formerly worked as Uncanny Magazine’s managing and poetry editor. She’s a 2021 graduate of UBC’s Creative Writing Program (Bachelor of Fine Arts) and, as a playwright, the 2021 Black Arts Development Program. She loves insect […]

“After ‘listing (v), 2013′”...

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As fall brings us new winds and heralds change, we’re sitting with “After ‘listing (v), 2013′” by Chimwemwe Undi from our upcoming Room 47.4 Full Circle now available for pre-order! “After ‘listing (v), 2013′” by Chimwemwe Undi The trouble is I was nineteen, and no exception, resigned to writing about death: my looming own or […]

“My Sister Sleeps on the Slope of Mount Sina...

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“My Sister Sleeps on the Slope of Mount Sinani” is the Third Place winner for Room’s 2024 Creative Non-Fiction Contest. Of this piece, judge Angela Sterritt writes: “My Sister Sleeps on the Slope of Mount Sinani is a compelling and moving story that encapsulates emotional truths and explores universal themes of love, pain, and loss. […]

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