In times of emergency and crisis, what must we do, and how must we endure? Today, we're sitting with "The family group chat in times of war" by Abu Leila, from our current issue Room 49.1 No Future For Who?. Order Room 49.1 No Future For Who?...
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. This week, we’re sitting with Danielle Douez's "obsidian...
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...
The Fun Times Brigade by Lindsay Zier-Vogel Book*hug Press 362 pages $25 This spring, at the start of my maternity leave, I had the pleasure of reading Lindsay Zier-Vogel’s second novel, The Fun Times Brigade. It wasn’t my first baby, but I’d somehow forgotten so...
Crohnic by Jason Purcell Arsenal Pulp Press 104 pages $20 In Jason Purcell’s sophomore poetry collection, Crohnic, we are invited into an intimate exploration of the author’s treatment for Crohn’s disease (reflected in the collection’s clever title), alongside...
Parade of Storms by Evelyn Lau Anvil Press 76 pages $18 In her tenth poetry collection, former Vancouver poet laureate Evelyn Lau places weather at the forefront, interweaving reflections on grief, illness, and mortality. Divided into five sections, Lau’s work...
Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community by Maggie Helwig Coach House Books 176 pages $25 In Encampment, a hard-hitting, soft-spoken melee of memoir, homily, and exposé, Maggie Helwig lays bare Toronto’s homelessness crisis and the systems underpinning...
Endsickness by Sofia Alarcon Conundrum Press 150 pages $25 The cover of Endsickness, Sofia Alarcon’s debut collection of graphic stories, pays homage to Frida Kahlo’s 1938 painting What the Water Gave Me, often considered to be her first surrealist work. In Kahlo’s...
Creative Non-Fiction Contest 2025: The Winners It’s time! Here are the winners of the 2025 Creative Non-Fiction Contest, as chosen by our fantastic judge, Amy Lin. Congratulations to these writers on their big success for their works! FIRST PLACE: This Essay is a Hug...
ROOM 49.1 NO FUTURE FOR WHO?
We are really asking. We are coming in hot. We are not fucking around. These existential crises, these states of emergency. The poetry, prose, and art in this issue ask: what are we to make of, or in, them?
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In Room Magazine 48.3 Rest/Unrest, may you find rest as you engage with profound, necessary unrest.
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