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Normal Women: An Excerpt from Ainslie Hogarth

Normal Women: An Excerpt from Ainslie Hogarth

Room's winter issue 46.4 FEVER DREAM is open for pre-orders until Dec 15th. Gracing this issue is Ainslie Hogarth's commissioned story "Bad Egg," a story about power, obsession, and two characters alone in a mansion during an apocalyptic storm. While you wait for...

“New and Gently Used Hijab,” by  Sahar Mustafah

“New and Gently Used Hijab,” by Sahar Mustafah

First published in ROOM 39.1: WOMEN OF COLOUR, Sahar Mustafah’s fiction is a balm we return to this week. As we continue to amplify Palestinian voices, we urge our readers to demand a ceasefire and learn more about actions to take in solidarity with Palestine.  ...

Making Moccasins

Making Moccasins

“Making Moccasins” is the Third Place Winner for Room’s 2023 Creative Non-Fiction Contest. Of this piece, judge Tajja Isen writes: This is a blazing, deeply felt essay about pregnancy, miscarriage, and family-making. As well as being a moving act of remembrance, the...

Seasons Change

Seasons Change

“Seasons Change” is the Third Place winner for Room’s 2023 Fiction Contest. Of this piece, judge Heather O'Neill writes: "This story was so elegant and perfect. There was not a spare word. In this small story, a relationship between a man and woman is explored in a...

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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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ROOM 47.4 FULL CIRCLE
Step back with Room into the past, to parents, to childhood homes, and to people once known and loved; dig into themes of grief and healing; and ultimately explore what it means to come full circle in literature.

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