We are thrilled to announce Room‘s new publisher, Katie Stobbart! Katie Stobbart is a queer non-binary writer and painter living on unceded lands known as New Westminster with their sweet cat companion She-ra. They have a BA in Creative Writing from the University of...
This summer, stay juicy with these very cool calls for submissions! Calls for submission: Artists Room Magazine | Black-and-white art about Humour | Ongoing Filling Station | Art | Ongoing The Walrus | Illustration and Photography | Ongoing Maisonneuve |...
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...
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...
Why is humour sacred and what is its role within literature? Jane: Humour is incredibly important within the storytelling traditions of so many of our communities. It signals shared values and the capacity to break rules, find joy, and expose ethical failings in an...
It’s finally here! Congrats to the following six writers who were shortlisted by our judge, Sarah Bernstein, for our 2024 Fiction Contest! --- Room Magazine’s 2024 Fiction Contest Shortlist Grief, by Jaclyn Desforges We, Fleeting, by Jody Chan Apple Cake, by...
ROOM 47.3 BODIES
Join Room in a deep dive on the body: touch and isolation, trans and queer embodiment, fat liberation, chronic illness and disability, brutality, sensuality, and other meditations on the bones and muscles you inhabit every day.
ROOM 47.2 Seedpod
“Maple keys are built by nature like helicopter blades, which allows them to propel as far as possible from the mother maple… In these pages, we see the brave, touching, true ways we, too, must embrace the fear and the excitement that comes with leaving where we are rooted.”
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