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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...

This International Women's Day, Room had much to celebrate: our 35th volume! We gathered at Joy Kogawa House and were treated to some fantastic readings by authors we recently published. Read Jennifer Irvine's review of the evening on her blog.

Rebecca Rosenblum's short story "How to Keep Your Day Job," (issue 32.4) was published in the National Post Fall Fiction (http://tinyurl.com/3q6qske). It also features in her new book, The Big Dream, which launches Sept 22nd. We're so happy we could be part of the...

April is shaping up to be a busy month at Room magazine with much to celebrate:Two stories from Room issue 33.4 All of Us Sacred have been selected to appear in the twenty-third anthology of the Journey Prize Stories. Congratulations go out to Fran Kimmel for "Laundry...