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Review of Wonder World by K.R. Byggdin
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...
Review of PLACE by Alexei Perry Cox
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...
Review of Remnants by Céline Huyghebaert
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...
Review of Slow Reveal by Melanie Mitzner
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...
Indigenous Brilliance Podcast – Season 2 Ep. 3: Intentional composting is creative community care process
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.
10 Books and Stories That Haunt Us From Room Magazine’s Ghost-issue Editors
In preparation for Issue 46.3: Ghosts, the editors of the issue collected a list of ten works of writing currently haunting them.
Poetry Contest 2022: The Longlist
We are thrilled to announce the longlist for our 2022 Poetry Contest! A big thank you to our Room collective members, and a big congratulations to these talented poets! ---- Room Magazine’s 2022 Poetry Contest Longlist Viewer Commiseration is Contrived, by Vironika...
The Detectives: An Excerpt from 2022 Short Forms Judge Alix Ohlin
Our 2022 Short Forms Contest is judged by Alix Ohlin! Alix Ohlin is the author of six books, mostly recently the novel Dual Citizens and the story collection We Want What We Want. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, and many other...
Review of The Bear Woman in Translation
How had Marguerite ended up on that phantom island, the Île des Démons, crawling inside a dark cave surrounded by wild wolverines and hungry, snarling bears? What scandalous affair aboard the ship had led to her abandonment? These insatiable curiosities fill the writer’s mind, and she is swept away in research, trying to escape her own time by imagining life in the 16th century.
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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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