Photo credit: Hamza Abouelouafaa Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch is one of the rare writers who fluently creates across genres and identities. knot body (Metatron Press, 2020), their debut collection, artfully weaves poetry, essay, and letters throughout to confront how...
How can we envision the future in times of mass crisis and grief? We learn what it means to imagine better worlds ⎯ or if such a thing exists ⎯ as Whitney French speaks to Terese Mason Pierre in Room 47.1 Utopia. This post is part of our 2025 Black Futures Month &...
What is the relationship between translation and resistance? In this interview, former member of Room's collective, Tamara Jong, speaks to author Yilin Wang about translating poetry, celebrating meaning, and more. Yilin Wang 王艺霖 is a writer, poet, editor and...
As Issue 48.2 is still open for Canadian Literary submissions and Art Submissions until the submissions limit is met, we wanted to take some time to get to know the editors of the issue and how they're thinking behind the scenes! The following is Room Magazine Issue...
This year’s Fiction Contest judge is the award-winning novelist, poet, short story writer, and essayist, Heather O'Neill. Her novels Lullabies for Little Criminals, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night and Daydreams of Angels, have been shortlisted for the Governor...
Ness Lee is an illustrator and artist based out of Toronto whose work has been featured at the AGO, the Agnes Etherington Art Center, the Gardiner Museum, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, as well as galleries in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Miami and Montreal. Lee is...
Alycia Pirmohamed's debut collection, Another Way to Split Water, is an homage to family, the natural world, and storytelling. To celebrate her launch (now out in Canada, the US, and the UK!) here's an interview where she chats with Rebecca Mangra about her...
Alix Ohlin is the author of six books, most recently the novel Dual Citizens and the story collection We Want What We Want. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, and many other places. She lives in Vancouver and teaches at the UBC...
All hands are on deck working on Issue 46.2 of Room! Send in your submission by October 15th to be considered for publication alongside our 2022 contest winners and commissioned writer Sydney Hegele, who is the author of the short story collection The Pump. Sydney joined us via Zoom to talk about finding your descriptive style, the resonance of the weird, and forging queer futures.
The judge for Room’s 2022 Fiction Contest is Shashi Bhat! Shashi Bhat is the author of The Most Precious Substance on Earth (McClelland & Stewart, Canada, Fall 2021; Grand Central Publishing, US, Spring 2022) and a short story collection forthcoming from...