In a world shaped by profound injustice, how do we create amidst unrest while reclaiming rest that moves us toward justice? Today, we're sitting with a non-fiction piece by our commissioned author for Rayya Liebich, upcoming in Room 48.3 Rest/Unrest. HOW TO F/HOLD ON...
What stories are we told about history, what do we hold as truth, and how do they live in the body? For our 2025 Asian Heritage Month feature, we're revisiting Stephanie R. Lim's "We Have Carried Our Longing," first published in Room 46.1 Around the Table: Asian...
We are thrilled to bring you the results of this year’s Creative Non-Fiction Contest, judged by Angela Sterritt. The wait is over: here are this year’s winners! —- FIRST PLACE: Handful of Her Ashes for the Potter, by Judith Newcomb Stiles Judith Newcomb Stiles Stiles...
"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...
We are so excited to announce the longlist for our 2024 Creative Non-Fiction Contest! A big thank you to our Room collective members for the creation of this longlist, and a big congratulations to these talented writers. --- Room Magazine’s 2024 Creative Non-Fiction...
This sweltering summer, we're sweating it out with "Summer of the Twist" by Kaija Pepper from our upcoming Room 47.3 Bodies, now available for pre-order! One hot August afternoon in 1964, heading to the park for a game of tetherball, we got to talking about the twist,...
“Making Moccasins” is the Third Place Winner for Room’s 2023 Creative Non-Fiction Contest. Of this piece, judge Tajja Isen writes: This is a blazing, deeply felt essay about pregnancy, miscarriage, and family-making. As well as being a moving act of remembrance, the...
Our 2023 Creative Non-Fiction Contest is judged by Tajja Isen! A writer, editor, and voice actor, Tajja Isen’s first book, Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service, was published in 2022 and was named a Best Book of the Year by Electric Literature, The Globe and Mail, CBC Books, and Daily Hive. Whether you’re looking for inspiration or a good read, enjoy this short excerpt from Isen’s Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service!
Gearing up for our 2023 Creative Non-Fiction Contest (deadline July 1)? Check out the first-place work from last year’s contest — “Clink Canoe,”
by MƏLIDI (SYDNEY ROBERTS) — featured in ROOM 46.2: Ley Line.
The Tower Will Not Hold is the third place winner for the 2022 Creative Non-Fiction Contest, as selected by Judge Luna Ferguson. ---- I’m sitting on the rooftop of Venice Suites, enjoying a view of the hot sand, the slate-coloured water, the skinny palm trees,...
ROOM 49.2 SCIENCE
I hope this issue makes you curious and furious, leads to 2 a.m. Wikipedia rabbit holes, fulfills urges to seek out knowledge-keepers. Quickly or slowly, dive in: -ologies of all varieties await you.
ROOM 49.1 No Future for Who?
In Room Magazine 49.1 No Future for Who?, we are really asking. We are coming in hot. We are causing a scene. We are being unreasonable. We are not fucking around. We are not taking “no” for an answer. “No” is the only word we still know. For who? For who? No.
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