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Room at CCWWP this weekend

Room at CCWWP this weekend

Room magazine will be at the Canadian Creative Writers and Writing Program’s annual conference this long weekend at UBC. The book fair runs Friday and Saturday, and is open to the public. Room magazine will be at the Canadian Creative Writers and Writing Program’s...

Room at Toronto Indie Arts Market

Room at Toronto Indie Arts Market

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...

Black History Month: Our Favourite Canadian Writers

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...

#readwomen2014: 14 books to watch out for this year

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...

Books by Canadian Women: What Room’s Editors are Reading

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,...

Can Poetry Go Noir?

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...

A Review of Room Issue 35.2

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

MagScene on Main – Trivia Showdown

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...

Canadian Women in Literary Arts (CWILA)

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...

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ROOM 48.1 WITS END
In times of crisis, we laugh to offer tenderness, to ward off despair— so we can be brave. Gather round ROOM 48.1 WITS END and let humour be a mirror held up to the state of the world as we continue to resist.

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Step back with Room into the past, to parents, to childhood homes, and to people once known and loved; dig into themes of grief and healing; and ultimately explore what it means to come full circle in literature.

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