Pacifique By Sarah L. Taggart Coach House Books 224 pages, $24 Where does the truth lie when the stigma of madness casts doubts on a story? In Sarah L. Taggart’s debut novel Pacifique, Taggart examines love, but more importantly, the complexities of mental illness...
Thick Skin: Field Notes from a Sister in the Brotherhood By Hilary Peach Anvil Press 314 pages, $22.00 Tender-hearted, unflinching, and clever, Thick Skin: Field Notes from a Sister in the Brotherhood explores poet Hillary Peach’s twenty-year career as a transient...
Our 2023 Creative Non-Fiction Contest is judged by Tajja Isen! A writer, editor, and voice actor, Tajja Isen’s first book, Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service, was published in 2022 and was named a Best Book of the Year by Electric Literature, The Globe and Mail, CBC Books, and Daily Hive. Whether you’re looking for inspiration or a good read, enjoy this short excerpt from Isen’s Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service!
Intentional Adaption asks us to question how we respond and adapt to change. This is the heart of Emergent Strategy- being intentional on how we grow and adapt to change impacts the outcomes we see in our lives.
Indigenous Brilliance & Art Ecosystem presents Earthseed Book Club, a youth-led literary project which explores community building and liberation through Black & Indigenous speculative fiction and political theory.
Gearing up for our 2023 Creative Non-Fiction Contest (deadline July 1)? Check out the first-place work from last year’s contest — “Clink Canoe,”
by MƏLIDI (SYDNEY ROBERTS) — featured in ROOM 46.2: Ley Line.
Step into the in-between with a sneak peek from ROOM 46.2: Ley Line.
CONDOLADY By Elisabeth Belliveau Conundrum Press 112 pages, $10 Elisabeth Belliveau’s CONDOLADY is a pocket-sized graphic story that follows her life of social distancing for two years in a 680 square foot condo in Edmonton. Belliveau uses soft grey-scale hues to...
A is for Acholi By Otoniya J. Okot Bitek Wolsak & Wynn 120 Pages, $20 A is for Acholi is a collection deeply connected with the concepts of place and displacement. In the opening stanzas, the poetic voice interrogates the concept of home, nation, and belonging....
Nine Dash Line By Emily Saso Freehand Books 266 pages, $23 Emily Saso’s Nine Dash Line is a tale of survival as, Zi Shan, an exiled Chinese national, and Jess, a US naval officer on a classified covert operation, navigate hostile environments in the South China Sea....
ROOM 49.3 NO CANADA
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?
Seeking members who love literature, events, merchandise, and supporting marginalized creators.
No Canada | 49.3
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Science | 49.2
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No Future For Who? | 49.1
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REST/UNREST | 48.3
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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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Seedpod | 47.2
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Utopia | 47.1
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