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 me by...
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...
How do we live as ourselves with courage, and what does courage ask of us? We spend time with francesca ekwuyasi's "Na Condition Make Crayfish Bend," first published in ROOM 45.1 Ancestors. This post is part of our 2025 Black Futures & Black History Month feature,...
As we consider the role of humour in revealing life's absurdities and challenging power, we’re sitting with "The Durian Demon," a new fiction piece by Room 48.1 Wits End's commissioned writer, Lydia Kwa. The Durian Demon Lydia Kwa It could use a decent...
As the year takes us into a time of long shadows and short days, we're contemplating "Keeping Things Fresh," a new fiction piece by Room 47.4 Full Circle's commissioned writer, Shashi Bhat. "Keeping Things Fresh" by Shashi Bhat Your life, little girl, is an...
This National Indigenous Peoples Day, we return to Gretchen Potter's tremendous fiction piece "Dearbaby Destroytown," first published in Room 44.3 Indigenous Brilliance. May it guide us to stand in solidarity with and uplift Indigenous peoples, and to work in service...
This June is both National Indigenous History Month and Pride. We're thinking of Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya's recent words in Autostraddle: "Pride this year will take place during the eighth month of an ongoing genocide against Palestinian people by Israel. This cannot...
ROOM 48.2 TRAVELLERS
In ROOM 48.2 TRAVELLERS we reflect, dream, manifest. Join us in these human ways of time-travelling, from infancy to the future, through relationships and into surreal realms.
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