She’s a Lamb! by Meredith Hambrock ECW Books 312 pages $25 In Meredith Hambrock’s She’s a Lamb!, protagonist Jessamyn St. Germain doesn’t just dream of stardom—she demands it, claws at it, deludes herself into believing it’s owed to her. Hambrock shines a spotlight on...
Shadow Price by Farah Ghafoor House of Anansi Press 128 pages $23 Ecopoetry is a field that often explores the boundaries of human, animal, and machine. Shadow Price, the debut collection from Farah Ghafoor, presents a groundbreaking take on ecopoetry, exploring these...
Elseship by Tree Abraham Book*hug Press 282 pages $25 In this dazzling work of creative non-fiction that brings together perceptive prose and mesmerizing visuals, Ottawa-born writer and book designer Tree Abraham theorizes friendship, love, identity, and language by...
Due to a confluence of factors, Room Magazine is posting this 2025 Pride Month feature later than planned. What does it mean to inhabit a body that others may not understand? We're revisiting an excerpt of Addie Tsai's Unwieldy Creatures first published in Room 44.1...
Due to a confluence of factors, Room Magazine is posting this Indigenous History Month feature later than planned. However, Room holds that Indigenous histories, presents, and futures are to be honored year-round, and post this feature now to assert that. What is a...
What does it mean to labour, and what is our relationship to our labour? For our 2025 Asian Heritage Month feature, we're revisiting Kirti Bhadresa's "Tuesday Girl," first published in Room 45.4 Baby, Baby, Baby!. Tuesday Girl by Kirti Bhadresa She calls...
What stories are we told about history, what do we hold as truth, and how do they live in the body? For our 2025 Asian Heritage Month feature, we're revisiting Stephanie R. Lim's "We Have Carried Our Longing," first published in Room 46.1 Around the Table: Asian...
What does it mean to survive the many ongoing crises of our times? For our 2025 Asian Heritage Month feature, we're revisiting Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's "Parliaments on the Stoop," first published in ROOM 41.3 Queer. Parliaments on the Stoop by...
We dream. We journey. We swim through our futures. Today, we transform with “Definitions for Non-Fish” by Shaheen Virk, from our upcoming Room 48.2 Travellers. Definitions for Non-Fish Shaheen Virk Alevin/Fry/Smolt/Juvenile/Adult: the various names of salmon as...
We live in the past, present, and future, and are constantly travelling across these times in our human ways: reflecting, dreaming, manifesting. Today, we’re journeying with “My Name is Kyle” by Claire Fantus, from Room 48.2 Travellers. “My Name is Kyle”...
ROOM 48.3 Rest/Unrest
In Room Magazine 48.3 Rest/Unrest, may you find rest as you engage with profound, necessary unrest.
ROOM 48.2 TRAVELLERS
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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