April 2026 marks the fourth year since Arab Heritage Month was enacted to the House of Commons of Canada in 2022 under Bill C-232, dedicating the month to acknowledging the histories, cultures, and contributions of Arab Canadians. This Arab Heritage Month, we at Room...
women & roosters by Fenn Stewart Book*hug Press 80 pages $23 Fenn Stewart’s second collection of poetry, women & roosters, unfolds as a single long poem that circles around themes of climate change, loneliness, and our relationships with one another and the...
To Place a Rabbit by Madhur Anand Knopf Canada 240 pages $33 The phrase “to place a rabbit”—poser un lapin—translates as “to commit to doing something but not show up for it.” Doubling as the title of Madhur Anand’s debut novel, the expression at once captures the...
Here by Heidi Wicks Breakwater Books 232 pages $23 In Heidi Wicks’ Here, home is not a person; it is the legacy of those who once inhabited the spaces that shape us, even if we’ve never met them. From a twentieth-century aristocratic couple to a COVID-19-era dance...
The Midnight Project by Christy Climenhage Wolsak & Wynn 294 pages $24 The genetic engineers in Christy Climenhage’s speculative novel The Midnight Project carry enormous guilt over the unintended consequences of their earlier work. Formerly employed in the...
Birdology by Carolyne Van Der Meer Cactus Press 26 pages $10 Comprising 14 works of flash essays and poems, Birdology is Montreal poet Carolyne Van Der Meer’s fifth collection. Using sparrows and their folklore as a starting point, Van Der Meer connects the lives of...
Room Magazine unequivocally condemns the unjust U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, and Canada’s complicity and cowardice. As a feminist organization, Room Magazine is especially concerned with the February 28, 2026 attack, wherein the U.S., using Tomahawk missiles, bombed...
Canadian exceptionalism. “Canlit.” “Cancon.” For Room 49.3 “No Canada,” we are looking for poetry, prose, and art that offers a critical or alternate lens in this time of sentimental patriotism. For local stories, national anxieties, mixed feelings, and alienated...
Every Black Futures Month & Black History Month, we republish brilliant works and conversations with Black organizers, writers, and artists from Room's past issues, to live on our site in perpetuity. This week, we’re sitting with Danielle Douez's "obsidian...
The Fun Times Brigade by Lindsay Zier-Vogel Book*hug Press 362 pages $25 This spring, at the start of my maternity leave, I had the pleasure of reading Lindsay Zier-Vogel’s second novel, The Fun Times Brigade. It wasn’t my first baby, but I’d somehow forgotten so...
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.
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.
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