Indigenous History Month Statement and Reading List Due to a confluence of factors, Room Magazine is posting this statement in acknowledgment of Indigenous History Month later than planned. However, Room holds that Indigenous histories, presents, and futures are to be...
Take a quick glimpse into the editing process with Room 48.2 Travellers' Lead Editor, Lena Belova, and get ready for the issue by listening to the a specially-curated vibes playlist. Lena Belova: Choosing pieces for the issue, which were open to any...
What does it mean to survive the many ongoing crises of our times? For our 2025 Asian Heritage Month feature, we're revisiting Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's "Parliaments on the Stoop," first published in ROOM 41.3 Queer. Parliaments on the Stoop by...
Asian Heritage Month Statement and Reading List In 2025, we celebrate 23 years since, following a motion proposed by Senator Vivienne Po in December 2001 and officially declared by the government in 2002, May became a valued time to recognize Asian Heritage Month in...
As we shake off the long winter, we hope your creativity is creeping out of hibernation, too. Here’s a spring list of opportunities, calls for submissions and contests, grants, and more! Calls for submission: Artists ROOM Magazine | Art and photos for...
On April 9, Palestinian journalist Ahmad Mansour was burned alive by the Zionist entity in an airstrike. He joins a infuriatingly long list of Palestinian writers, artists, cultural workers and journalists made martyrs by this latest iteration of “Israel’s” relentless...
Room Magazine invites unpublished writing on any theme for our open issue 48.4, edited by Sadie Graham, Natasha Gauthier, Fran Pacchiano, and Chimedum Ohaegbu. Without prescription or limitation, we want to see your best work. Work that takes risks, with language...
To love is to risk, to be dangerous enough to sigh, cry, laugh, and jest in the most harrowing of conditions, in grief, and in the solemnity of witness. Dreams of love and liberation are filled with laughter, wit, and irreverence or they are not full. In Room’s Wits...
Black History / Black Futures Month Statement 2025 marks 30 years since, following a motion by the Honourable Jean Augustine, the first Black woman elected to Canada’s parliament, the House of Commons recognized Black History Month in Canada. Yet it’s only been 17...
This Black Futures Month & Black History Month, we're republishing brilliant works and conversations with Black organizers, writers, and artists from Room's past issues, to live on our site in perpetuity. Today, we're sitting with this conversation between Syrus...
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?
Seeking members who love literature, events, merchandise, and supporting marginalized creators.
No Canada | 49.3
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Science | 49.2
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No Future For Who? | 49.1
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REST/UNREST | 48.3
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Travellers | 48.2
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Wits End | 48.1
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Full Circle | 47.4
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Bodies | 47.3
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Seedpod | 47.2
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Utopia | 47.1
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