This World Poetry Day, we’re serving a sneak peek from ROOM 46.1 Around the Table: Asian Voices.

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...
In the final episode of season 2, Art Ecosystem members Lexi and Karmella chat with friend and community member Kílila Raine (Squamish Nation) about transformative justice, harm reduction and accountability processes in the context of self care, community care, renewal and growth.
In preparation for Issue 46.3: Ghosts, the editors of the issue collected a list of ten works of writing currently haunting them.