Test Piece By Sheryda Warrener Coach House Books 80 pages, $23 A test piece, Sheryda Warrener informs her readers near the end of the collection, “is a record of an experiment/ with unconventional materials,” a trial run to see “how they might behave or/ transform...
Modern Fables By Mikka Jacobsen Freehand Books 224 pages, $23 A lie’ is one of three definitions for “fable.” “Fable” can also mean a story that’s intended to convey “a useful truth,” especially if the story involves anthropomorphic animals. Or it can describe a story...
This World Poetry Day, we’re serving a sneak peek from ROOM 46.1 Around the Table: Asian Voices.
The Chipmunk is the Third Place Winner of Room’s 2022 Short Forms Contest, as judged by Alix Ohlin. You can find the full list of winners, and what judge Alix Ohlin had to say about each winning piece, here. ___ The Chipmunk At the campsite, my sister and I knot...
We are so very pleased to announce the winners of our 2022 Short Forms Contest. A huge congratulations to the following three writers whose works were handpicked by our amazing judge, Alix Ohlin. We won’t keep you waiting any longer: here they are! ____ First Place:...
Can’t wait to get your hands on ROOM 46.1 Around the Table: Asian Voices? Neither can we. Dive into an exclusive sneak peek of the issue with “Such Good Girls” by K. Quyen Pham.
Wonder World By K.R. Byggdin Enfield & Wizenty 183 pages, $21.95 Isaac Funk is a character many of us know. This is not to say he’s generic—he’s anything but—but he feels familiar, at least within certain communities or subcultures. We find Funk, a wildly dressed...
PLACE By Alexei Perry Cox Noemi Press 122 Pages, $24 In the author’s second full-length prose poetry collection, Perry Cox’s inquisitive nature shines through. In PLACE, the disciplines of language, anthropology, philosophy, history, and geography converge. Perry Cox...
Remnants By Céline Huyghebaert Translated by Aleshia Jensen Book*hug Press 259 pages, $23 Remnants, the English translation of Céline Huyghebaert ’s 2019 Governor General’s Award-winning autofictional novel Le drap blanc, is full of holes. A bookworm infestation in...
Slow Reveal By Melanie Mitzner Inanna Publications 304 pages, $22.95 Melanie Mitzner’s ambitious novel, Slow Reveal, grapples with questions of desire, intimacy, and the intrinsic human drive to create art through the unraveling of a dysfunctional, wealthy family of...
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.
Seeking members who love literature, events, merchandise, and supporting marginalized creators.
Travellers | 48.2
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Wits End | 48.1
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Full Circle | 47.4
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Bodies | 47.3
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