This late summer, we're sitting with "Heat, Body, Horror" by Dina Abdulhadi from our upcoming Room 47.3 Bodies, now available for pre-order! Heatwaves in spring, deathfalls in autumn marathons. I fry eggplant in its skin, baked again with tomato, breaking down...
This sweltering summer, we're sweating it out with "Summer of the Twist" by Kaija Pepper from our upcoming Room 47.3 Bodies, now available for pre-order! One hot August afternoon in 1964, heading to the park for a game of tetherball, we got to talking about the twist,...
When My Ghost Sings by Tara Sidhoo Fraser Arsenal Pulp Press 184 pages $23 Memoir, by definition, is a genre of literature based on memory. So, what happens when a writer’s memories, their primary source material, are erased? In When My Ghost Sings, writer Tara Sidhoo...
Wifehood by Caitlin McKenzie Ethel Micropress 32 pages $10 Deceptively simple, beautifully balanced, and structurally near-infinite: Barrie, Ontario poet Caitlin McKenzie’s first chapbook charts what it means to be a wife after growing up within a shattered parental...
People You Know, Places You've Been by Hana Shafi Book*hug Press 132 pages $23 “We’re all just animals searching for dopamine,” writes Hana Shafi in her journey to find beauty in the mundane and every day. The bold statement is accompanied by one of many colourful,...
Making Up the Gods by Marion Agnew Latitude 46 Publishing 376 pages $24 Agnew weaves together in a tender fashion her three narrators’ shared experiences—all people who share separate loneliness, grief, and a childhood with only one parent. Agnew’s writing is simple...
Ukrainian Portraits: Diaries from the Border by Marina Sonkina Guernica Editions 100 pages $20 Journalist Marina Sonkina’s Ukrainian Portraits is a timely collection documenting her experiences at the Ukraine-Poland border in the spring of 2022. Sonkina, herself a...
This National Indigenous Peoples Day, we return to Gretchen Potter's tremendous fiction piece "Dearbaby Destroytown," first published in Room 44.3 Indigenous Brilliance. May it guide us to stand in solidarity with and uplift Indigenous peoples, and to work in service...
This June is both National Indigenous History Month and Pride. We're thinking of Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya's recent words in Autostraddle: "Pride this year will take place during the eighth month of an ongoing genocide against Palestinian people by Israel. This cannot...
We are so excited to bring you the results of this year’s Fiction Contest, judged by Sarah Bernstein. The wait is finally over: here are this year’s winners! ---- FIRST PLACE: Sad Robot, by Camie Kim Camie Kim's work has appeared in Books in...
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.
Seeking members who love literature, events, merchandise, and supporting marginalized creators.
Travellers | 48.2
$15.00 – $25.00
Wits End | 48.1
$15.00 – $25.00
Full Circle | 47.4
$15.00 – $25.00
Bodies | 47.3
$15.00 – $25.00
Seedpod | 47.2
$12.00 – $25.00
Utopia | 47.1
$12.00 – $25.00
Sponsor a Contributor
$250.00
Sponsor a Writer
$100.00
Sponsor a Poet
$50.00
Fever Dream | 46.4
$12.00 – $25.00