Photo credit: Rogene Reid Zalika Reid-Benta’s debut novel, River Mumma, has been lauded as one of 2023’s best fiction books on a variety of platforms, including CBC Books, Indigo Books, Kobo Books and The Walrus.It was also the October 2023 pick for the CityLine book...
As Issue 48.2 is still open for Canadian Literary submissions and Art Submissions until the submissions limit is met, we wanted to take some time to get to know the editors of the issue and how they're thinking behind the scenes! The following is Room Magazine Issue...
Photo Credit: Kes Rafeef Ziadah is a Palestinian poet, academic and activist based in London, UK. Her performance of poems like ‘We Teach Life, Sir’ and ‘Shades of Anger’ went viral within days of release. Her live readings offer a moving blend of poetry and music....
Why is humour sacred and what is its role within literature? Jane: Humour is incredibly important within the storytelling traditions of so many of our communities. It signals shared values and the capacity to break rules, find joy, and expose ethical failings in an...
Photo credit: Georgie Lawson Angela Sterritt is an award-winning investigative journalist and national bestselling author from the Wilp Wiik’aax of the Gitanmaax community within the Gitxsan Nation on her dad’s side and from Bell Island Newfoundland on her maternal...
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...
Two friends—in verse and in life—sit down to chat about the release of Ellen Chang-Richardson’s much anticipated collection Blood Belies out now with Wolsak & Wynn. ~ Margo LaPierre: Congratulations on the brand-new release of Blood Belies! How was your...
Photo credit: Alice Meikle Sarah Bernstein is a Canadian writer who was born in Montreal and currently lives in Scotland. She has published three books, including a collection of prose poems titled Now Comes the Lightning (2015) and two novels, The Coming Bad Days...
This year’s Short Forms Contest judge is the writer, activist, and award-winning author, Tsering Yangzom Lama. Her debut novel, We Measure the Earth with our Bodies, won the GLCA New Writers Award as well as the Banff Mountain Book Award for Fiction & Poetry. It...
Room 46.3 editor, Rachel Thompson, has been taking writers behind the scenes of creating this ghostly issue all month on the Write, Publish, and Shine Podcast. Listen here…
ROOM 47.4 FULL CIRCLE
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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