Reading Room

Review of Making Up the Gods by Marion Agenew

Review of Making Up the Gods by Marion Agenew

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...

“Dearbaby Destroytown” by Gretchen Potter

“Dearbaby Destroytown” by Gretchen Potter

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...

Motherhood, (or the Stranger and the Cave)

Motherhood, (or the Stranger and the Cave)

“Motherhood, (or the Stranger and the Cave)” is the Third Place winner for Room’s 2024 Fiction Contest. Of this piece, judge Sarah Bernstein writes: "This exquisitely-written piece about a being living at the mouth of a mysterious cave has shades of Angela Carter....

Currently on Newsstands

Cover image for Room Magazine Issue 49.2, Science. Art by Candace Cosentino of an old-fashioned computer monitor with a bounty of dandelions growing from it.

ROOM 49.2 SCIENCE

I hope this issue makes you curious and furious, leads to 2 a.m. Wikipedia rabbit holes, fulfills urges to seek out knowledge-keepers. Quickly or slowly, dive in: -ologies of all varieties await you.

Order our previous issue

ROOM 49.1 No Future for Who?

In Room Magazine 49.1 No Future for Who?, we are really asking. We are coming in hot. We are causing a scene. We are being unreasonable. We are not fucking around. We are not taking “no” for an answer. “No” is the only word we still know. For who? For who? No.

Subscribe to our newsletter

Be the first to know about our contests, calls for submissions, and upcoming events.

* indicates required

Join us on Patreon

Become a RoomMate

Seeking members who love literature, events, merchandise, and supporting marginalized creators.


ADVERTISEMENT

Visit our Store