Good Want by Domenica Martinello Coach House Books 109 pages $24 Domenica Martinello’s Good Want lies in the chasms separating good from bad, speech from silence, and faith from disbelief, producing a meditative collection of poems that gets to the core of desire as a...
Splinter & Shard: Stories by Lulu Keating ECW Press 192 pages $25 Splinter & Shard: Stories by Canadian author and award-winning TV and film director, Lulu Keating, is her debut collection of short stories about the human experience, in which she translates...
As the year takes us into a time of long shadows and short days, we're contemplating "Keeping Things Fresh," a new fiction piece by Room 47.4 Full Circle's commissioned writer, Shashi Bhat. "Keeping Things Fresh" by Shashi Bhat Your life, little girl, is an...
As fall brings us new winds and heralds change, we're sitting with "After 'listing (v), 2013'" by Chimwemwe Undi from our upcoming Room 47.4 Full Circle now available for pre-order! "After 'listing (v), 2013'" by Chimwemwe Undi The trouble is I was nineteen, and no...
We are thrilled to bring you the results of this year’s Creative Non-Fiction Contest, judged by Angela Sterritt. The wait is over: here are this year’s winners! —- FIRST PLACE: Handful of Her Ashes for the Potter, by Judith Newcomb Stiles Judith Newcomb Stiles Stiles...
"My Sister Sleeps on the Slope of Mount Sinani" is the Third Place winner for Room’s 2024 Creative Non-Fiction Contest. Of this piece, judge Angela Sterritt writes: “My Sister Sleeps on the Slope of Mount Sinani is a compelling and moving story that encapsulates...
We are so excited to announce the longlist for our 2024 Creative Non-Fiction Contest! A big thank you to our Room collective members for the creation of this longlist, and a big congratulations to these talented writers. --- Room Magazine’s 2024 Creative Non-Fiction...
As we honour this National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and celebrate the sovereignty of all Indigenous peoples worldwide, we turn to writing by and interviews with Indigenous writers and artists from the Room archives and beyond. May these writings guide us to...
This week, we return to Emily Riddle's incredible poem, “Cree Girl Explodes the Political Project called 'Alberta,'” first published in Room 43.4 Twine. May it guide us to work in service of decolonizing efforts always. Cree Girl Explodes the Political Project called...
Cathedral/Grove by Susan Glickman Vehicule Press 80 pages $20 In her newest poetry collection, Susan Glickman provides the reader with a reconstructed world—that is, Cathedral/Grove is a collection full of complex images and themes that contrast and build upon each...
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.
No Canada | 49.3
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Science | 49.2
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No Future For Who? | 49.1
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REST/UNREST | 48.3
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Travellers | 48.2
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Wits End | 48.1
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Bodies | 47.3
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Seedpod | 47.2
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Utopia | 47.1
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