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10 Feminist Ghost Stories to Share Around the Fire
In celebration of the launching of Issue 46.3: Ghosts, we’ve gathered ten feminist ghost story recommendations we suggest you read (lest they haunt you tomorrow).
Interview with Room’s 2023 Poetry Contest Judge, John Elizabeth Stintzi
Joining us for an email interview is this year’s Poetry Contest judge, John Elizabeth Stintzi (they/she). Stintzi’s first novel, Vanishing Monuments, was a finalist for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, her second novel, My Volcano, was a Kirkus Reviews “Book of...
Fiction Contest 2023: The Winners
We are so excited to bring you the results of this year's Fiction Contest, judged by Heather O'Neill. The wait is finally over: here are this year's winners! ----- FIRST PLACE: "Eggshells" by Rebekah Skochinski Rebekah Skochinski is a writer based in Northwestern...
Seasons Change
“Seasons Change” is the Third Place winner for Room’s 2023 Fiction Contest. Of this piece, judge Heather O'Neill writes: "This story was so elegant and perfect. There was not a spare word. In this small story, a relationship between a man and woman is explored in a...
Earthseed Book Club Session 3: Resilient & Interdependent
Session 3 of Earthseed Book Club focused on the Emergent Strategy principles of Interdependence & Resilience. These principles go hand-in-hand; through mutual reliance and authentic relationships, we are better able to be resilient and adapt to changing...
5 Books and Stories Exploring Utopias That We’re Dreaming About
With ROOM issue 47.1 UTOPIA open for submissions, some of our editorial team for this issue sat down to discuss our thoughts on utopias and what they mean to us. But utopia(s) are nebulous, contested subjects, realms, times.
Review of Ruby Red Skies by Taslim Burkowicz
Ruby Red Skies By Taslim Burkowicz Roseway Publishing 364 Pages, $24.00 In Ruby Red Skies, Taslim Burkowicz’s third novel, the destinies of Ruby and Rubina—two women separated by four centuries of history but united by an eternal quest for love and...
Review of Trailer Park Shakes
Trailer Park Shakes By Justene Dion-Glowa Brick Books 96 pages, $24 Justene Dion-Glowa’s first full-length poetry book, Trailer Park Shakes, considers how one finds strength in grieving a lifetime of injustice, poverty, trauma, family violence, and the loss of a...
Review of brat
brat By Sophie Crocker Gordon Hill Press 76 pages, $20 Mythic, chaotic, and fiercely funny, Sophie Crocker’s brat is an anthology of lovers and creatures, intimate self-portraits, and candid observations about life and the world. From rat kings, riot dogs, and...
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In the new era of CanCon, as feminists and writers it is our task to reject this Canadian exceptionalism, this too-comfortable back-patting. How can we begin to imagine alternative arts economies, Indigenous economies around art, that start with treaty, that align with BDS? What art, what literature, would such a system free us to create?
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