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Save Room Magazine: A Fundraiser

Save Room Magazine: A Fundraiser

SAVE ROOM MAGAZINE: A FUNDRAISER Room is Canada’s oldest feminist literary magazine, running since 1975. For over 50 years, our small nonprofit has carved out a space in Canadian literary publishing where underrepresented voices can thrive. Three to four times a year,...

Room’s Statement on the Lapu-Lapu Day Tragedy

On Saturday, April 26, 2025, an individual drove their car through a crowd at the Lapu-Lapu Day Block Party, killing at least 11 people, injuring dozens, and impacting thousands. Those attending the Lapu-Lapu Day Block Party included friends and families, elders and...

Circulation and Shipping Delays

Circulation and Shipping Delays

Room is experiencing a temporary delay in circulation affecting orders of issues 47.4 Full Circle, 48.1 Wits End, and back issues ordered before March 2025. Room’s operations are carried out by a small staff team. Our Publisher is working to ship out delayed issues...

Poetry Contest 2024: The Winners

Poetry Contest 2024: The Winners

Drumroll, please! We are thrilled to announce the winners of our 2024 Poetry Contest. A huge congratulations to the following three poets whose works were handpicked by esteemed judge, Rafeef Ziadah. Enough waiting: here are the three winners! -------------- FIRST...

Room is hiring a new Managing Editor!

Room is hiring a new Managing Editor!

Room magazine is seeking to hire a new Managing Editor. The ideal candidate will have previous work experience in literary, grassroots, scholarly, or academic magazine or book publishing, especially in the selection of material for publication and with knowledge of...

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ROOM 49.3 NO CANADA

In the new era of CanCon, as feminists and writers it is our task to reject this Canadian exceptionalism, this too-comfortable back-patting. How can we begin to imagine alternative arts economies, Indigenous economies around art, that start with treaty, that align with BDS? What art, what literature, would such a system free us to create?

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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

Welcome to the Science issue of Room Magazine, where we privilege questions: questions about how to construct better worlds; questions about how to destroy hyper-capitalistic, necropolitical systems; questions that beget questions and new questions.

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