Join Room at the Toronto Indie Arts Market Join Room at The Toronto Indie Arts Market for their Small Press & Literary Festival! 70 vendors of small press, zines, comics, magazines, books, chapbooks, paper goods and more take over the main floor of the...
Room Magazine will feature Montreal-based poet, editor, and translator Erín Moure as our commissioned writer for issue 38.1, In Translation, edited by Rachel Thompson and due out March 2015. Room Magazine will feature Montreal-based poet, editor, and translator Erín...
In honour of Black History Month, Room highlights some amazing female black Canadian writers. We profile Dionne Brand, Esi Edugyan and others. In honour of Black History Month, Room highlights some amazing female black Canadian writers. This list is certainly not an...
To help you with your #readwomen2014 resolution, Room has compiled a list of fourteen books by Canadian women that we think you should pick up in 2014. #readwomen2014 (started by Joanna Walsh) has been trending for a few days now and several news sites have declared...
Our upcoming issue 36.1, Mythologies of Loss, is so full of reviews of books by Canadian women that we ran out of room to publish this list of what Room's editorial collective (affectionately called Roomies) are reading. So, to help you warm up on a winter evening,...
Room invites you to arrest us with your unconventional hardboiled-detective manuscripts, thrill us with your feminist-fatale tales, and inspire us to break some laws with your vignettes of crimes big and small. But first, we want to know, Can poetry go noir? Room...
Check out the recent review of Room issue 35.2 on NewPages.com! Check out the recent review of Room issue 35.2 on NewPages.com!http://newpages.com/literary-magazine-reviews/2012/08-15/#Room-V35-N2-2012
Join members of Room and subTerrain for short readings and a literary trivia game August 16th. Win bragging rights and fabulous prizes, including current and back issues of both magazines (Grand Prize: 2-year subscription and amazing swag). Join members of Room and...
As a reader of Room you probably have long known there is a bias against women publishing in Canada. It's part of our very raison d'être here at Room. If any of us had started to imagine gender gaps in the literary world were closing, a new accounting of reviews in...
Issue 36.1 editor, Rachel Thompson, discusses the theme for the issue, Mythologies of Loss. "If loss is anything, it is lonely. But perhaps the intimacy of the page shared by writer and reader can make it less so." See the full article for an inside look into what we...
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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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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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