Here by Heidi Wicks Breakwater Books 232 pages $23 In Heidi Wicks’ Here, home is not a person; it is the legacy of those who once inhabited the spaces that shape us, even if we’ve never met them. From a twentieth-century aristocratic couple to a COVID-19-era dance...
The Midnight Project by Christy Climenhage Wolsak & Wynn 294 pages $24 The genetic engineers in Christy Climenhage’s speculative novel The Midnight Project carry enormous guilt over the unintended consequences of their earlier work. Formerly employed in the...
Birdology by Carolyne Van Der Meer Cactus Press 26 pages $10 Comprising 14 works of flash essays and poems, Birdology is Montreal poet Carolyne Van Der Meer’s fifth collection. Using sparrows and their folklore as a starting point, Van Der Meer connects the lives of...
In times of emergency and crisis, what must we do, and how must we endure? Today, we're sitting with "The family group chat in times of war" by Abu Leila, from our current issue Room 49.1 No Future For Who?. Order Room 49.1 No Future For Who?...
These existential crises, these states of emergency. What are we to make of, or in, them? Today, we're sitting with a fiction piece by K.Y. Agbayani from our current issue Room 49.1 No Future For Who?. "Lilah Around Town" by K.Y. Agbayani The air was...
Every Black Futures Month & Black History Month, we republish brilliant works and conversations with Black organizers, writers, and artists from Room's past issues, to live on our site in perpetuity. This week, we’re sitting with Danielle Douez's "obsidian...
Every Black Futures Month & Black History Month, we republish brilliant works and conversations with Black organizers, writers, and artists from Room's past issues, to live on our site in perpetuity. Today, as we reckon with the world in its current state, we’re...
The Fun Times Brigade by Lindsay Zier-Vogel Book*hug Press 362 pages $25 This spring, at the start of my maternity leave, I had the pleasure of reading Lindsay Zier-Vogel’s second novel, The Fun Times Brigade. It wasn’t my first baby, but I’d somehow forgotten so...
Crohnic by Jason Purcell Arsenal Pulp Press 104 pages $20 In Jason Purcell’s sophomore poetry collection, Crohnic, we are invited into an intimate exploration of the author’s treatment for Crohn’s disease (reflected in the collection’s clever title), alongside...
Parade of Storms by Evelyn Lau Anvil Press 76 pages $18 In her tenth poetry collection, former Vancouver poet laureate Evelyn Lau places weather at the forefront, interweaving reflections on grief, illness, and mortality. Divided into five sections, Lau’s work...
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.
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REST/UNREST | 48.3
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Travellers | 48.2
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Utopia | 47.1
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