How can we be artists in community? Chimedum Ohaegbu interviews Brianna Bernard, who works as a technician for Neworld Theatre, a performing arts centre centring voices confronting systemic injustice, and Unbound Reading Series, a local collective and partner of Room...
Hope Lauterbach is a writer, poet, and founder of the Unbound Reading Series. Today, our Managing Editor Chimedum Ohaegbu interviews her on Unbound’s most memorable moments, six years since its inception, the notion of rest in cultural work, and dreams for the...
Kai Cheng Thom is above all a storyteller whose distinctive, mythopoetic voice channels something deep, ancient, and wise, all while staying grounded in our present moment and the specificities of her life. We turn to Thom’s writing when everything, including our...
Photo of Leila Chatti by Marcus Jackson. Photo of Rebecca Mangra by Brittany Carmichael. Named one of Electric Literature's Best Poetry Collections of 2025, Leila Chatti's poetry collection Wildness Before Something Sublime deftly navigates the imbrications of...
Photo credit: Hamza Abouelouafaa Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch is one of the rare writers who fluently creates across genres and identities. knot body (Metatron Press, 2020), their debut collection, artfully weaves poetry, essay, and letters throughout to confront how...
"Wherever you are, whatever sand you can throw on the gears of genocide, do it now," Palestinian poet rasha abdulhadi tweeted, in October 2023. Over the last few years, cultural workers have taken up various tactics, engaged in grassroots organizing, and created...
Photo of Adora Nwofor by Shannon Johnston. Photo of Taylor McNallie by Taylor McNallie. In a time of increased surveillance and suppression of activists, Room Magazine wanted to chat with some of those on the ground who have long been fighting for racial justice and...
Photo credit: Blair Marie Photography Amy Lin’s work doesn’t just evoke an array of emotions—it demands it. In Here After, her debut memoir, she tackles the overwhelm that comes with deep love and unexpected loss. Lin recounts the events following the sudden death of...
In February, Room opened for Issue 48.4. We asked you to take risks for this unthemed issue and named our topics of interest: urgency, complicity, past & present, Afrosurrealism, Indigenous futurism, a free Palestine, & more. Our issue editors, Sadie Graham,...
Photo credit: Yi Shi Janika Oza (she/her) is a writer, editor, and educator based in Toronto. Her best-selling debut novel, A History of Burning (2023) won the 2024 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and was a finalist for numerous awards including the Carol...
ROOM 49.2 SCIENCE
I hope this issue makes you curious and furious, leads to 2 a.m. Wikipedia rabbit holes, fulfills urges to seek out knowledge-keepers. Quickly or slowly, dive in: -ologies of all varieties await you.
ROOM 49.1 No Future for Who?
In Room Magazine 49.1 No Future for Who?, we are really asking. We are coming in hot. We are causing a scene. We are being unreasonable. We are not fucking around. We are not taking “no” for an answer. “No” is the only word we still know. For who? For who? No.
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