With the deadline for Room’s Short Forms contest less than two months away (closing on January 15, 2017), Mica Lemiski discusses genre-bending writing and what it means to step outside literary conventions, using Maggie Nelson and Amber Dawn as examples. With the...
We've had so much fun with all you fine folks the last two months, that we just want to keep all this rooftop revelry going . . . so join us on November 18th for a Roomie edition of the Rooftop Reading Series! We've had so much fun with all you fine folks the last two...
I am so pleased to have been given the chance to write this post for Room about some of the talented women behind Canadian picturebooks. Most of my academic and non-academic pursuits revolve around children’s literature, but it’s not often that I get to focus on...
We are getting so excited and inspired (and hungry) watching your submissions roll in for our upcoming Food issue! In the spirit of the food theme, we put together this collection of Roomies’ favourite cookbooks for writers. These books all feature recipes, but also...
Come find us at the AWP Conference in Los Angeles March 30–April 2. Say "hi" at our booth, or drop by for our book (or magazine) signings with Ayelet Tsabari and Doretta Lau. If you're going to the AWP Conference held in Los Angeles (March 30–April 2) this year, drop...
Come celebrate International Women’s Day with Room at the beautiful Joy Kogawa House in South Vancouver. Come celebrate International Women’s Day with Room at the beautiful Joy Kogawa House in South Vancouver. We’ll be launching Room issue 38.4, Fieldwork. The...
Aboriginal women writers, feminist films, great fiction, poetry, and CNF, interviews with authors and more... Aboriginal women writers, feminist films, great fiction and CNF, and interviews with authors and editors were popular reads on our website this year. Check...
At our AGM in early November, the 20 volunteer editorial board and staff members who govern Room decided to scrap the submission fee introduced ten months ago. Dear Writers:At our AGM in early November, the 20 volunteer editorial board and staff members who govern...
Take a look at where Room editorial board member and poet, Jónína Kirton, does her writing.
Comics and graphic novels hit the sweet sweet spot between art and literature. Here, Room editors share a few of our favourites. If you are new to Room, you might not be aware that we publish visual art in all our issues and on our covers (see our Cover Art Contest)....
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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