Ness Lee is an illustrator and artist based out of Toronto whose work has been featured at the AGO, the Agnes Etherington Art Center, the Gardiner Museum, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, as well as galleries in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Miami and Montreal. Lee is...
ROOM: The subject of climate action reoccurs in your work often, especially in your prize-winning poem "Self Portrait with Polar Bears." The line, "How sick I am with beauty, / how spoiled of light," is a beautiful rendering of the guilt that I think many of us sit...
Alycia Pirmohamed's debut collection, Another Way to Split Water, is an homage to family, the natural world, and storytelling. To celebrate her launch (now out in Canada, the US, and the UK!) here's an interview where she chats with Rebecca Mangra about her...
Alix Ohlin is the author of six books, most recently the novel Dual Citizens and the story collection We Want What We Want. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, and many other places. She lives in Vancouver and teaches at the UBC...
Unbound is a growing collective that celebrates and nurtures Black creative voices. Founded in 2020, the Unbound Reading Series is an annual reading event that features emerging and established Black authors and poets. Unbound also provides a monthly virtual drop-in...
All hands are on deck working on Issue 46.2 of Room! Send in your submission by October 15th to be considered for publication alongside our 2022 contest winners and commissioned writer Sydney Hegele, who is the author of the short story collection The Pump. Sydney joined us via Zoom to talk about finding your descriptive style, the resonance of the weird, and forging queer futures.
The Audacity Issue, 45.3, is almost here! To celebrate, here’s an interview with issue commission, Marlowe Granados, where she talks with Jasmine Sealy about her acclaimed debut novel Happy Hour, measures of success, and the power of fashion.
This year's Poetry Contest judge is the prolific Lillian Allen. A leading Canadian poet and an international exponent of dub poetry, Lillian Allen was acclaimed a foremother of Canadian poetry by the League of Canadian Poets. She is a two-time Canadian Juno award...
There’s a lot of plot in this book. The idea of a woman, the ground shifts beneath her, and suddenly she is looking at everything and everybody in her life with suspicion—that was always the starting point, that was the impetus for it.
As I was writing, it occurred to me that this is exactly how it would happen—climate change makes this disease harder to deal with, and the disease makes climate change harder to deal with, and neither of them gets solved. That’s how you end up with the situation in the “Annual Migration of Clouds.”
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