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Indigenous Brilliance presents Earthseed Book Club Session 2: Adaptive & Non-Linear

Jun 2, 2023 | Indigenous Brilliance, What's New

Intentional Adaption asks us to question how we respond and adapt to change. This is the heart of Emergent Strategy- being intentional on how we grow and adapt to change impacts the outcomes we see in our lives.

Indigenous Brilliance presents Earthseed Book Club: Fractals!

May 31, 2023 | Indigenous Brilliance, What's New

Indigenous Brilliance & Art Ecosystem presents Earthseed Book Club, a youth-led literary project which explores community building and liberation through Black & Indigenous speculative fiction and political theory.

2022 Creative Non-Fiction Contest First Place: “Clink Canoe,” by MƏLIDI (SYDNEY ROBERTS)

May 31, 2023 | Contest Winners, Creative Non-Fiction, Feature, Reading Room, What's New

Gearing up for our 2023 Creative Non-Fiction Contest (deadline July 1)? Check out the first-place work from last year’s contest — “Clink Canoe,”
by MƏLIDI (SYDNEY ROBERTS) — featured in ROOM 46.2: Ley Line.

What does “utopia” mean to you?: An Interview with the Editors of Room 47.1 UTOPIA

May 31, 2023 | Interview, What's New

The call for submissions for Utopia issue 47.1 is now open! Our editorial team from both Room Magazine and Augur Magazine sat down across time zones to delve into our thoughts on utopias and what we’re looking for in the issue.

Keep Room Magazine Going: A Fundraiser

May 24, 2023 | Announcement

We'll be in danger this October if we can't meet our fundraising goal. Room is one of the most integrally diverse spaces in Canadian literary publishing today, and we need your help to keep it that way. Room is Canada’s oldest feminist literary magazine, running since...

46.2 Letter from the Editor: Ley Line

May 15, 2023 | What's New

Creating this issue has been a lesson in hope. Hope because as the editor of a contest issue, I knew much of the content, as well as the cover, would be chosen for me and my team. And while I hold great trust in the eyes of others, judges do not read and choose pieces...

Call for Submissions: 47.1 UTOPIA, A ROOM x Augur issue

May 15, 2023 | Call for Submission, What's New

Who is the future for? Room and guest editors from Augur Magazine seek artists of marginalized genders for fiction, creative nonfiction, visual art, and poems of utopic exploration. Is Utopia possible, and for whom? What are the DIY steps to craft beauty from...

Interview with Room’s 2023 Fiction Contest Judge, Heather O’Neill

Apr 26, 2023 | Contest, Interview, What's New

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...

Cover Art Contest 2022: The Winners

Apr 11, 2023 | Announcement, Contest, Uncategorized, What's New

The results are in. A big congrats to the three winners of our 2022 Cover Art Contest! --- FIRST PLACE: ghost no more, by semillites hernandez velasco semillites hernández velasco (he/him) is a trans and brown visual artist and printmaker based in vancouver, on the...

Cover Art Contest 2022: Third Place

Apr 11, 2023 | Contest

This piece is the third place winner for the 2022 Cover Art Contest, as judged by ness lee. THIRD PLACE: Interiors, by Danielle Klebes "Around the beginning of Covid, I rented a furnished apartment for a few months from a Hemingway-type-artist-man. It had taxidermy of...