We know that rest is essential for our well-being and for staying grounded in the vital work of resistance and transformation, yet it’s easy to get caught in the whirlwind of constant motion. Room staff and editors shared the following practices to support you in...
We continue to honour and stand alongside the Palestinian people, who resist the ongoing colonization of their lands, apartheid, and genocide perpetuated by “Israel”. In this moment of crucial conversations in “CanLit,” we find it instructive to look to movements like...
As fall brings us new winds and heralds change, we're sitting with "After 'listing (v), 2013'" by Chimwemwe Undi from our upcoming Room 47.4 Full Circle now available for pre-order! "After 'listing (v), 2013'" by Chimwemwe Undi The trouble is I was nineteen, and no...
As we honour this National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and celebrate the sovereignty of all Indigenous peoples worldwide, we turn to writing by and interviews with Indigenous writers and artists from the Room archives and beyond. May these writings guide us to...
As we enter the eleventh month of the ongoing genocide against Palestine, we continue to honour and stand alongside the Palestinian people, who resist the ongoing colonization of their lands, apartheid, and genocide perpetuated by “Israel”. We continue to witness and...
This summer, stay juicy with these very cool calls for submissions! Calls for submission: Artists Room Magazine | Black-and-white art about Humour | Ongoing Filling Station | Art | Ongoing The Walrus | Illustration and Photography | Ongoing Maisonneuve |...
For National Poetry Month, we're publishing Gitanjali Bal's interview with Poetry Decoded from our latest issue, Room 47.2: Seedpod. A passion project co-created by friends and local multidisciplinary artists, Bisharo Farah, Amana Park and Kasra Kooshafar, Poetry...
This National Poetry Month, we continue to honour and stand alongside the Palestinian people, who resist the ongoing colonization of their lands, apartheid, and genocide perpetuated by Israel. Literature and art are cultural testimonies, and Palestinian writing...
Spring is here, and everything's slowly blooming into life ⎯ we hope your creativity is creeping out of hibernation, too. Here's a list of opportunities, calls for submissions and contests, grants, and more! Calls for submission: Artists Filling Station | Art |...
Room and Augur put together our Utopia issue in a world where dystopia is always happening somewhere, as Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki wrote for Uncanny in 2022. Rewriting the future is critical work. It also happens in the living rooms, public buses, bomb shelters,...
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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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