Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community by Maggie Helwig Coach House Books 176 pages $25 In Encampment, a hard-hitting, soft-spoken melee of memoir, homily, and exposé, Maggie Helwig lays bare Toronto’s homelessness crisis and the systems underpinning...
Endsickness by Sofia Alarcon Conundrum Press 150 pages $25 The cover of Endsickness, Sofia Alarcon’s debut collection of graphic stories, pays homage to Frida Kahlo’s 1938 painting What the Water Gave Me, often considered to be her first surrealist work. In Kahlo’s...
Creative Non-Fiction Contest 2025: The Winners It’s time! Here are the winners of the 2025 Creative Non-Fiction Contest, as chosen by our fantastic judge, Amy Lin. Congratulations to these writers on their big success for their works! FIRST PLACE: This Essay is a Hug...
We are so thrilled to announce the shortlist for our 2025 Creative Non-Fiction Contest! A big congratulations to these talented writers! ⎯ Room Magazine’s 2025 Creative Non-Fiction Contest Shortlist Totality, by Caitlin Stall-Paquet The Discovery, by Clea Roberts...
We are so thrilled to announce the longlist for our 2025 Creative Non-Fiction Contest! A big thank you to our Room collective members for selecting our longlist. These submissions will now be reviewed by 2025's Non-Fiction Contest judge, Amy Lin. A big congratulations...
Fiction Contest 2025: The Winners It’s time! Here are the winners of the 2025 Fiction Contest, as chosen by our wonderful judge, Janika Oza. Congratulations to these writers on their big success for their works! ————— FIRST PLACE: Georgie Millionaire, by Camille...
Wellwater by Karen Solie House of Anansi Press 112 pages $23 Sardonic, perceptive, and unrelenting, the poems in Karen Solie’s Wellwater carry the same attention to the materiality of everyday life that define much of her earlier works. This timely sixth collection...
Blockade by Christine Lowther Caitlin Press 210 pages $26 “The title of the book in your hands is meant as a verb,” declares poet and activist Christine Lowther of her recent memoir, Blockade. In this, her second memoir, Lowther details her experiences with the...
Naomi's Houses by Rosalie I. Tennison Heritage House 288 pages $27 Naomi’s Houses, the first full-length publication by agricultural journalist Rosalie I. Tennison, reads as a clear-eyed love letter to her mother, the eponymous Naomi. The story opens during the...
Buzzkill Clamshell by Amber Dawn Arsenal Pulp Press 128 pages $20 Amber Dawn’s third poetry collection, Buzzkill Clamshell, is a raw and hypnotic excavation of queer desire, memory, and chronic pain. Lush with bodily imagery and shifting temporalities, the collection...
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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No Future For Who? | 49.1
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Utopia | 47.1
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