Photo: cover art of Room 35.3 Duality Looking for inspiration before submitting to our 2024 Fiction Contest? Check out this fiction piece by our judge Sarah Bernstein, "Vanishing Point," from Room 35.3 Duality. ——— Over coffee, she observes the way the October...
On January 28 at 3:30 pm PST, join Indigenous Brilliance for a virtual winter reading featuring a stellar line-up of Indigenous storytellers! Since 2018, the Indigenous Brilliance Collective has come together with a shared vision of Indigenous resurgence: a resurgence...
“I don’t believe in God but I do believe we should” is the Third Place Winner of Room’s 2023 Poetry Contest, as judged by John Elizabeth Stintzi. You can find the full list of winners, and what John had to say about each winning piece, here. I don't believe in God but...
Agnes, Murderess By Sarah Leavitt Freehand Books 288 Pages, $30.00 Deep in the woods of Northern British Columbia, Agnes McVee makes men disappear. But Sarah Leavitt starts her reimagining of the hair-raising South Cariboo legend far across a continent and an ocean....
Trembling River By Andrée A. Michaud Translated by J.C. Sutcliffe Arachnide 403 Pages, $23.00 Marnie Duchamp’s father and Billie Richard’s father have nothing in common except being tied to people who have seemingly vanished into thin air. August 1979: Micheal...
Sing, Nightingale By Marie Hélène Poitras Coach House Books 180 Pages, $23 Sing, Nightingale, the new novel written by Montreal-based writer Marie-Hélène Poitras and translated by Rhona Mullins, is a gothic fairytale brimming with violence, retribution, and sinister,...
What Remains of Elsie Jane By Chelsea Wakelyn Rare Machines 256 Pages, $25.00 Chelsea Wakelyn’s debut novel, What Remains of Elsie Jane, is a spellbinding portrayal of how grief unravels the human experience, transporting the bereaved into a realm so otherworldly in...
Hellgoing By Lynn Coady House of Anansi 240 Pages, $20.00 Lynn Coady’s collection of short stories takes pleasure in uncertainty, teasing a reader with twisting plots and characters entangled in miscommunications, errors, and snap judgements. These nine stories detail...
Room's winter issue 46.4 FEVER DREAM is open for pre-orders until Dec 15th. Gracing this issue is Ainslie Hogarth's commissioned story "Bad Egg," a story about power, obsession, and two characters alone in a mansion during an apocalyptic storm. While you wait for...
First published in ROOM 39.1: WOMEN OF COLOUR, Sahar Mustafah’s fiction is a balm we return to this week. As we continue to amplify Palestinian voices, we urge our readers to demand a ceasefire and learn more about actions to take in solidarity with Palestine. ...
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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.
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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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